Cornell (Johnson)

Students in the two-year MBA program complete the bulk of the Core MBA coursework during their first semester. In the second semester of their first year, most choose an immersion learning experience, plunging them into electives, site visits, and live cases aimed at getting them up to speed in their area of interest.

Our unique immersion program is an intense, hands-on semester in a specific industry or career interest. The experience combines:

• integrated cutting-edge coursework and fieldwork
• outstanding faculty
• coaching by leading business practitioners
• problem solving under actual business conditions
• optional consulting focus

Other schools may tout similar programs, but they don’t come close to ours. At Johnson, you can choose from the following immersion programs. Click to learn more about each.

• Strategic Marketing
• Semester in Strategic Operations
• Investment Banking
• Managerial Finance
• Entrepreneurship and Private Equity
• Capital Markets and Asset Management
• Sustainable Global Enterprise
• Customized Program
• Consulting Focus

In addition to the immersion programs describe above, Johnson offers many other opportunities for “Performance Learning.”

• Cayuga MBA Fund – one of the largest student-managed hedge funds
• BR Ventures – funds real new growth businesses
• BR Consulting – provides critical business consulting to real start-ups
• BR Legal – ensures delivery of legal advice to entrepreneurs through Cornell Law
• Business Idea Competition
• Stock Pitch Event
• Park Fellows

Our 32-seat Robert S. Boas Trading Room is the focal point of the Parker Center. A virtual trading room and classroom, it features real-time stock quotes, international data feeds, and financial analysis software and data valued at more than $1.8 million per year in licensing fees.

In 2005, Marjorie Boas Levins generously renewed her support of the Parker Center by sponsoring the purchase of 25 new computers for the facility to replace the existing set. In 2008, Intel Corporation generously sponsored the purchase of 33 new Dell computers for the Trading Room, doubling the number of workstations.

See the complete list of our software and data feeds

A unique feature of the Johnson Team Leadership Experience is that every Johnson student is required to lead a Core team, to receive and process feedback on his or her team leadership, and to provide that feedback to others on his or her team. Through this performance learning approach, Johnson students better understand and develop their leadership capabilities and prepare themselves to guide and positively influence the teams and organizations of which they are a part.

• Leadership Model
• Leadership Skills Program Workshops
  
  • Leadership and Creative Problem-Solving
  • Leadership Communication and Teamwork
  • Making the Case for Change
  • Personal Mastery
  • Personal Style
  • The Leadership Challenge
• Managerial Skills Program Workshops

Is Cornell considered "general management" school, despite having excellent finance & investment management program?

Where is the free Veritas report for Johnson? I am unable to find it in your guide's link.

I’ve gotten a few pm requests for help with this essay So I thought I might share a little more of my personal thoughts if they might be of help to others. I’m by no means a professional writer, I had just as much of a hard time on this essay as anyone else, but I’m starting to realize just how lucky I was to have five incredible essay reviewers to help me along the process. Thought I should pass it on to everyone still going for R4 or next year.

The problem I first game across in this TOC essay is that I wanted my chapter headings to include all of my details from work (promotion received, money saved, project completed, etc.) my chapter titles were super long and loaded with details (mostly because I wanted to avoid being vague)

However in my first essay revision I was told that I missed the point completely.

This essay was for me to show creativity and be unique. The adcom already has my resume and a few other essays, they are not looking for another resume here, and they probably have hundreds of applicants who turned this table of contents into a second resume, so make sure it is different, don’t become one of those.

Also write it like a table of contents, avoid the outline format (III, A, 1, i, etc), having chapters 1-30 makes it clean, concise, and easy to read

I think this essay is a great place to talk about influential people who helped you in your life, and anything else you didn’t get to mention in your other essays and resume. My grandfather said to focus on who you are and what made you this person, talk about a life changing event from boy scouts or something, things that happened to you, people who taught you, something your parents did, and personal feelings, reflections on your own past, things you've learned, people you've helped.

Think about how a professional writer would see your life, they would try to turn every event into a compelling story that catches the reader’s attention. To make my story engaging I had to set aside a lot of my work details. I wanted to write chapter headings that would be memorable and pique the interest of my interviewer. I wanted to show up to interview and have him/her to say "hey tell me about that time you drove across 13 countries with only a tent to sleep in, that sounds crazy!".

I also think adcoms see plenty of essays that are simply brag sheets, I think it would be refreshing for an adcom to see something else, so really use this time to be unique. Your chapter headings can definitely still show leadership, ambition, decication etc. but write about who you are, not what you think the adcom wants you to be, they can see right through that.

finally, be yourself. :D


These are just my opinions on this essay in general, most of which came from feedback and critiques I received. I hope this advice helps someone get going in the right direction. This is definitely one of the toughest essays in my opinion, I had a good amount of writers bloc on this one.

Feel free to PM me with more questions, or if you want another set of eyes to read a draft, I’m happy to help wherever I can. I’ve definitely had a lot of help from others in the process, so hopefully I can pass it on.