Welcome back to Campus Chronicles! This week we’ll take a look at Cornell Johnson’s student newspaper, the Cornell Business, to see what’s been going on for b-school students at the Johnson campus.
Sixteen Johnson students recently returned from the 2009-2010 India Trek, in which they were tasked with completing a consulting project alongside local MBA students from Somaiya’s Institute of Management Studies and Research in Mumbai. Students divided into groups and worked on different projects, including consulting with a bio-diesel company, a university on its strategic plan, and an entrepreneur/inventor on his new exercise machine. In addition, students were able to visit local companies in fields such as bio-tech, venture capital, private equity investment, and pharmaceutics, ultimately meeting with the Governor or the Reserve Bank of India with whom they discussed India’s financial situation. The students also traveled to Bangalore, the Indian information technology hub, where they visited the IM-Bangalore campus, an IT firm, a silk factory, a tractor factory, and the hospital that performs the greatest number of heart operations throughout the world. During their free time, the students enjoyed riding in tuk-tuks, visiting the beaches of Goa, seeing the Taj Mahal.
Meanwhile, other Johnson students spent their winter break on the Hong Kong Trek, where the focus was finding internships and networking for post-grad job opportunities. On the week-long trip, students had the chance to visit 16 companies, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Citi, Nomura (formerly Lehman), Bain, and other banks, buy-side firms, consulting firms, and private equity shops. During these visits, students had the chance to attend information sessions, and there was also the occasional on-the-spot job interview invite. Students also had the chance to meet with Johnson graduates based on Hong Kong during a planned social event.
India or Hong Kong – which Trek interests you most? Feel free to comment below!
Both of these Treks are great, as Asia is definitely The Future. But the Hong Kong interests me more, since it has a focus on finding internships — getting a step up in the job-finding game sounds good to me!