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in the SC Johnson College of Business at

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, a private

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located in

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. It was founded in 1946 and renamed in 1984 after Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of S.C. Johnson & Son, following his family's $20 million endowment gift to the school in his honor—at the time, the largest gift to any business school in the world. The school is housed in Sage Hall and supports 58 full-time faculty members. There are about 600

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(MBA) students in the full-time two-year (2Y) and Accelerated MBA (1Y) programs and 375 Executive MBA students.Thirty Ph.D students enrolled in the Cornell Graduate School are supervised by Johnson School faculty. The school counts over 15,200 alumni and publishes the academic journal ''

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History

The Johnson School traces its beginnings to the university's founding in 1865. University co-founder

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proposed a ''Department of Trade and Commerce'' for the new university, which was "a radical departure from the day's conventional notions about higher education," as this proposal was made "sixteen years before Joseph Wharton endowed the nation's first collegiate business school at the

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." At a university faculty meeting on October 2, 1868, Cornell co-founder and first president

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, suggested the creation of a professorship in

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in the context of a larger proposal: the creation of a "commercial college." In the meantime, the Agriculture College continued to have a Department of Agricultural Economics and the Arts College continued to have a Department of Economics. Formal movements towards a business school began in 1914 when faculty in the NYS College of Agriculture (which today offers an undergraduate business major) convened the first meeting of the "Committee on a Commercial College." Led by economics professor Allyn Young, the committee recommended the creation of a "two-year graduate course leading to the Master's degree" in both business and public administration. Young had been trained at

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, and the influence on the committee's discussion of its business school's creation only six years prior was apparent, as the committee's recommendations included instruction for graduate students only, selectivity in admissions, and integration into the larger university community. The idea of a business school took a backseat to

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and its effects on the Cornell population. Following the Armistice of 1918, third university president Jacob Gould Schurman called for the establishment of such a school, which he estimated would require $1 million of initial funding. However, financial difficulties surrounding the Great Depression would further delay its creation. In 1941, the university faculty recommended the creation of a School of Business and Public Administration, and it was unanimously approved on December 10, 1941, three days after the

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. Cornell courted Paul M. O'Leary, who earned his doctorate at Cornell and was a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's " brain trust," to be dean of the new school. O'Leary leveraged an offer to be dean of the business school at the

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in negotiations for the Cornell position, ultimately signing for a salary of $9,000. In 1946,

opened the ''School of Business and Public Administration'', holding classes in McGraw Hall and charging $200 for tuition for the first year. The school awarded two degrees—MBA and MPA—and its primary national recruiters included the Guaranty Trust Company of New York,

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, DuPont,

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, and IBM. In 1950 it gained acceptance of the

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. O'Leary stepped down as dean of the business school in 1951 to become dean of the

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was appointed acting dean until 1954, when Edward H. Litchfield became dean. Under Lichfield's tenure, a Ph.D. program was established, the academic journal ''

'' was created, a joint JD/MBA program with the

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was organized, and the school was renamed the ''Graduate School of Business and Public Administration''. Litchfield left three years later for the chancellorship at the

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and was replaced by

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in 1957, followed by William D. Carmichael in 1962. In 1964, the school was relocated to Malott Hall, which was specifically designed to house it. During this period faculty divisions began to emerge, with three distinct groups vying for resources: business management, public administration, and healthcare administration (the Sloan Program). In 1983, the faculty voted to end instruction in the latter two fields and to change the school's name to the ''Graduate School of Management''. The public administration program moved to the NYS College of Human Ecology. That same year, the school began offering a dual-degree MBA/MA in Asian Studies with Cornell's FALCON (Full-year Asian Language Concentration) program, to produce American MBAs with some knowledge of the Japanese language and culture gained through coursework in Ithaca and a required summer internship in Japan. The school also created an MBA/MEng, originally called the Program in Manufacturing Management (PIMM). At the same time,

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was appointed the dean of the school. In 1984,

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and his family donated $20 million to the school, which was renamed the ''S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management'' in honor of Johnson's grandfather,

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, the founder of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. The endowment gift to the university was, at the time, the largest gift to any business school in the world. In 1989,

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was appointed dean of the Johnson School. The year 1995 saw the creation of the Johnson School's first website, as well as the launch of its first 12-month option class. Merten left in 1996 to be President of

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. In 1998, the school was relocated to the newly renovated Sage Hall which had previously served as a dormitory, the school started the student-managed Cayuga MBA Fund, and the Parker Center for Investment Research was established. In 1999, the JGSM began offering an

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. In 2004, the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise was established.

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was appointed interim dean in 2007 and eventually the official dean in 2008. In Fall 2010, the school was rebranded in logo and in name: the ''Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University'', or simply ''Johnson at Cornell University'' or ''Johnson''. In 2010, the Emerging Markets Institute was established. In 2011, Johnson hosted

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-sponsored ''3-Day Startup'' (3DS), an event where participants worked to start a technology company over the course of three days. Later that year, a Johnson team consisting of student portfolio managers in the school's $10 million Cayuga MBA Fund won second place in

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's "MBA Face-Off" edition of its ''Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge'', a nine-week, real-time fantasy stock and currency trading competition. In 2012, Soumitra Dutta became dean of the school, followed by Mark W. Nelson in 2016 after Dutta became dean of the new Cornell College of Business. In 2016, the Johnson School was placed under the same umbrella as other Cornell schools - the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in the NYS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the

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- in the newly created College of Business that boasts nearly 3,000 students and 220 faculty - creating the country's third-largest business school faculty. In January 2017, Herbert Fisk Johnson III of S. C. Johnson & Son committed $150 million for the newly formed College of Business. In recognition of this gift, the college was named the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

Campus

Johnson is housed entirely in Sage Hall, a 19th-century

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building which was originally built as a women's dormitory. It is located near the center of Cornell's main campus, across the street from the

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and the four-diamond Statler Hotel. Inside Sage are a management library, a café, an atrium, classrooms, an executive lounge, a trading floor, student and faculty lounges, and a parlor. There are 38 breakout rooms and two phone booths. The building also has showers, shoe shining, and out-service dry cleaning. Offices are provided for all faculty and doctoral students, and MBA students are all assigned a locker. The Boas Trading Room has technology providing 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 2015, the City of Ithaca's Planning board approved the construction of a six-story office/classroom building to rise at 209-215 Dryden Road in Collegetown, Ithaca that will house the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management upon completion. The business school will also utilize classrooms and offices at Cornell's Roosevelt Island campus upon completion of construction.

MBA program

Johnson offers a two-year full-time MBA program, which consists of one semester of mandatory courses (core), one semester in immersion, and an optional second-year concentration. Unlike other MBA programs whose mandatory courses occupy the entire first year, Johnson utilizes an intense first-semester core model, allowing students to engage in an immersion (concentration) and specialize before interviewing for summer internships. Students who do not have a business background before matriculating at Johnson may attend a week-long MBA math boot camp to get up to speed, and orientation consists of a two-week leadership course that culminates in the ''Johnson Outdoor Experience'' (JOE), a two-day adventure-based activity in the

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foothills. For the Class of 2018, the number of applications jumped from 1,704 to 1,960, a 13.1% increase over the previous year. Overall, the program enrolled 284 students, up from 274 for the previous class. Despite this increase, the program is harder to get into, with the acceptance rate dropping from 32.4% to 27.3%. Entrance statistics for the Class of 2018 include an average score of 700 on the

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and a median of five years of work experience. The student body is international and diverse, with 38% of students holding citizenship outside the United States. Women comprise 31% of the Class of 2018. The core curriculum consists of one semester, divided into two halves. The first half focuses primarily on the internal aspects of the company and includes the courses Managing and Leading in Organizations 1, Microeconomics for Management, Financial Accounting, and Marketing Management. The first half then culminates in the ''Marketing Case Competition'', sponsored by S.C. Johnson & Son. The second semester focuses on the external aspects and includes the courses Statistics for Management, Managerial Finance, and Strategy. This half culminates each year in the ''Integrative Case Competition'', sponsored by

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. The elective curriculum can be chosen from over 80 courses within Johnson and over 4,000 offered across the Cornell campus. Within Johnson, the diverse selection includes courses such as Applied Portfolio Management, Behavioral Finance, Estate Planning, Power and Politics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategy & Tactics of Pricing, Entrepreneurship & Private Equity, Six-Sigma Quality & Process Implementation, and International Mergers and Acquisitions. Johnson students are allowed to matriculate in graduate-level courses in any Cornell college, including

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, NYS School of Industrial & Labor Relations, and Cornell College of Engineering. Elective curriculum students can also complete a field study or independent student research project instead of a class. Field studies allow students to work together in a team closely with faculty members to launch a product, develop new businesses, or research a real-world issue. Independent student research projects provide an opportunity for a student to work with a faculty member to develop deep insights on a particular topic of interest. These options allow students to create a second-year curriculum that is aligned with their personal and professional interests. MBA students at Johnson are graded on a curve, with fixed

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s set at 3.3 for core courses and 3.5 for electives. In most courses, the grade consists of roughly 10% class participation, 10 percent individual case assignments, 40 percent exams, and 40 percent team presentations or papers. To graduate, students must have grade point averages of at least 2.7 overall and 2.5 in core courses. If a student drops below or near these thresholds, he or she receives an academic warning. The student is offered help in the form of academic counseling and tutors to improve academic performance. For the Class of 2016, 94 percent of students had job offers at graduation, with compensation packages including a $121,000 annual salary and a $30,000 signing bonus, on average.

Immersion learning & Concentrations

A unique aspect of the Johnson MBA experience is a completion of an intense, hands-on semester of an integrated course and fieldwork in a specific industry or career interest, before setting out for a mid-MBA summer internship. Immersions consist of interrelated electives, several site visits to regional companies, and live cases. The Johnson curriculum offers 8 immersions: *Capital Markets and Asset Management (CMAM) *Digital Technology (DTI) *Investment Banking (IBI) *Managerial Finance (MFI) *Semester in Strategic Operations (SSO) *Strategic Marketing (SMI) *Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) *Customized Students may also choose to pursue up to two optional academic concentrations, in Depth or Breadth, during their second year of the program. For Depth, these include consulting, entrepreneurship, leadership & ethics, global business management, and sustainable global enterprise. For Breadth, these are corporate finance, financial investing, financial analysis, marketing analytics, marketing management, private equity, and strategy.

Accelerated, joint, and exchange programs

* Accelerated MBA (AMBA) * Joint program with Cornell College of Engineering (MBA/MEng) * Joint program with

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(MBA/MD) * Joint program with Cornell School of Industrial & Labor Relations (MBA/MILR) * Joint program with

(MBA/JD) * Joint program with Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (MBA/MPS) * Joint program with Cornell Institute for Public Affairs in the NYS College of Human Ecology (MBA/MPA) For those with advanced science or technical degrees, Johnson offers a one-year Accelerated MBA. AMBAs begin in May and graduate in May of the following year. AMBAs finish their core in the summer and join the second year MBAs in the fall. About 12 percent of the student body chooses to enroll in a dual degree program. The MBA/JD program has 3- and 4-year tracks, and the MBA/MPS program is for those who want to specialize in real estate. The MBA/MILR is a 2 1/2 program and has been termed the "crown jewel for aspiring

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professionals." Johnson also has MBA exchange programs with 21 universities in

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, and

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Doctoral program

Johnson offers a

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in the field of management, with primary concentrations in five areas: *Accounting *Finance *Marketing *Management and Organizations *Production and Operations management Doctoral students select two minor areas of concentration in addition to their primary field. Secondary fields offered by Johnson include behavioral science, managerial economics, and quantitative analysis; however, students may select a minor concentration outside of Johnson if desired. The program is small, with about 40 students in residence at any given time. Students are provided a full tuition waiver, a stipend, and health insurance. The doctoral program takes at least four years to complete, and the average time spent is five years. Students' first examination, admission to candidacy, is taken at or near the conclusion formal course work (typically following year three). This examination ascertains competence in students' chosen field and is administered in written and oral components. The second examination is a thesis defense, which is administered once the dissertation is complete. For 2010, Johnson's Ph.D. program was ranked #1 for experimental financial accounting. For finance, Johnson's Ph.D. program was ranked #6 according to a 2006 study.

Executive MBA

Johnson has three off-campus Executive MBA programs: * Cornell Executive MBA in Metro NY * Cornell Executive MBA Americas * Cornell Executive MBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership Established in 1999, the Cornell Executive MBA in Metro NY is based in

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. This program uses a traditional classroom setting at the Cornell Tech campus located on Roosevelt Island. Classes are held every other weekend, all day Saturday and Sunday morning, in addition to four residential sessions on the Cornell University campus. The program duration is 22 months. For 2010, Johnson's Executive MBA program was ranked #24 worldwide by ''

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''. In 2005, Johnson launched the Cornell Executive MBA Americas program (originally called the Cornell-Queens Executive MBA program) in partnership with

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. This program organizes participants into teams of 6-8 people in cities across the US, Canada, and Latin America, linking these teams via multi-point, interactive video conferencing for class sessions. Classes are typically held three Saturdays per month, in addition to three residence sessions on the Cornell and Queen's university campuses. Graduates earn two MBAs, one from each institution, and the program duration is 17 months. In September 2016, Weill Cornell Medicine and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management announced a new dual-degree program that will provide the next generation of health care leaders with a broad set of skills for success in a rapidly changing environment. Students participating in the two-year Healthcare Leadership program will receive a Master of Science degree from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and an MBA from Johnson. The program will focus on health care throughout the United States, in particular, health care systems that are experiencing vast changes in structure, payment, and regulatory requirements. Program duration is 20 months (with breaks), consisting of two semesters per year (fall and spring). You will take courses for ten weekends per semester at the Weill Cornell Medicine campus in New York City. In addition to formal education programs, Johnson offers tailored executive education training sessions, both on- and off-campus.

Organization, research, and programs

Johnson courses are organized under nine academic departments: accounting, communications, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, global business, management and organizations, marketing, operations management, and technology. Johnson's interdisciplinary centers include the Center for Leadership, the Center for Manufacturing Enterprise, the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and the Parker Center for Investment Research. The Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise promotes various sustainability issues and enables students to have greater insights and knowledge in working for sustainability developments and causes. The

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was founded in 2010 to investigate the role of emerging markets in the global economy, and to educate current and future business leaders in this area. The Institute brings together preeminent practitioners and academics from around the world to develop the next generation of global business leaders and create the premier research center on the role of emerging markets in the global economy. Johnson publishes top-tier academic journal ''

'' (ASQ). For 2007, ASQ had the highest "article influence score" according to ''

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'', and it was ranked as the #16 academic journal in business by ''

''. Since 2001, Johnson has also hosted its annual ''MBA Stock Pitch Challenge'' (SPC), a 12-hour competition in which teams of finance students from twelve top MBA programs prepare and present buy/hold/sell recommendations and vigorously defend them. The names of the winning schools are inscribed on the Jack M. Ferraro Trophy. The winningest school is Kellogg, which has claimed first place three times (2004, 2005, 2006). The most recent winner is

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(2010).

People

Faculty

Professors at Johnson include former school dean

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, member of the board of directors for

; author and ''

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'' columnist Robert H. Frank;

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, who was the first female president of the American Finance Association; and Robert Jarrow, co-author of the Heath–Jarrow–Morton (HJM) framework for pricing interest rate derivatives.

Alumni

The school's graduates have served in executive leadership positions for numerous corporations. Alumni include

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Irene Rosenfeld ( Ph.D. '80),

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CEO Mark Bertolini (MBA '84), Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mary Meeker (MBA '86), Ocean Spray CEO Randy Papadellis ( MBA), co-founder of

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(MBA '62), Strategy& Middle East Chairman

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(MBA '83), former Chevron CEO Ken Durr (MBA '60), former

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CEO Warren Staley (MBA '67), former CEO of Emerson

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(MBA '59), former Applied Materials CEO James C. Morgan (MBA '63),

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), sometimes simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie. The museum documents the history of rock music an ...

President Terry C. Stewart (MBA '72),

Sprint Nextel Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. Before it Merger of Sprint Corporation and T-Mobile US, merged with T-Mobile US on April 1, 2020, it was the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United States, serving 54.3 ...

CEO Dan Hesse (MBA '77), BP CFO Byron Grote (Ph.D. '81),

Comcast Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...

CIO CIO may refer to: Organizations * Central Imagery Office, a predecessor of the American National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency * Central Intelligence Office, the national intelligence agency of the former Republic of Vietnam * Central Intellige ...

Andrew Baer (MBA '82), S.C. Johnson & Son CEO Fisk Johnson (MBA '84), Nancy Schlichting (MBA '79), CEO of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, Brett Keller (MBA '97), CEO of Priceline.com and Anne Chow ( MBA '90), 1st female CEO of

Business. Johnson graduates are represented in academia and government by

Robert S. Kaplan Robert Samuel Kaplan (born 1940) is an American accounting academic, and Emeritus Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is known as co-creator of Balanced Scorecard. together with David P. Norton. Biography Ka ...

(Ph.D. '68), HBS professor, former Dean of the

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at Carnegie Mellon, and co-creator of the

balanced scorecard A balanced scorecard is a strategy performance management tool – a well structured report, that can be used by managers to keep track of the execution of activities by the staff within their control and to monitor the consequences arising from ...

; Robert Sullivan (M.S. '68), Dean of the Rady School of Management at

UC San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is th ...

;

Ned C. Hill Ned Cromar Hill (born 1945) is the American National Advisory Council professor of business management and was dean of the Marriott School of Business (MSB) at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1998 to 2008. From 2011 to 2014, he served as presi ...

(Ph.D. '76), 7th Dean of the Marriott School of Management at

Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

; and John Hillen (EMBA '04), former Assistant Secretary of State. Fictional alumni include Christina Pagniacci, portrayed by

Cameron Diaz Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress. With a variety of works in film, she is widely recognised for her work in romantic comedies and animation. Diaz has received various accolades, including nominations for ...

, in '' Any Given Sunday'' and Alicia Mendoza in Grand Hotel.

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