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[AUDIO LOGO] JOSEPH ZIELINSKI: Good morning. My name is Joseph Zielinski, and I'm an Associate Director of Student Services for the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in the SC Johnson College of Business. It is my great pleasure to welcome you here today. Our ceremony will begin in a few minutes, so we would invite you to please take your seats.
We would like to acknowledge that Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogoho:no, the Cayuga Nation. The Gayogoho:no are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign nations with historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York State, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of the Gayogoho:no dispossession and honor the ongoing connection of the Gayogoho:no people, past and present, to these lands and waters.
Before the procession begins, a few items to be mindful of. Please note the locations of the exits nearest you. Please take a moment to silence all cell phones and other electronic devices. Please keep the aisles clear during this ceremony. And finally, please enjoy this ceremony and don't feel stressed about getting the perfect photo. We have professional photographers here who will take photos of each graduate and those photographs will be made available. Friends and family, please join me in welcoming and congratulating the Class of 2024.
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And now please rise and welcome the Johnson faculty led by Dean Vishal Gaur, Dean Andrew Karolyi, and Doctor Eric Lewis.
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You may all take your seats.
To begin our celebration of the Specialized Master's Degree Students of 2024, please join me in welcoming the Cornell a cappella group, The Hangovers.
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[THE HANGOVERS, "GIVE MY REGARDS TO DAVY"] Give my regards to Davy
Remember me to Tee Fee Crane
Tell all the pikers on the Hill
That I'll be back again
Tell them just how I busted
Lapping up the high highball
We'll all have drinks at Theodore Zinck's
When I get back next fall
Give my regards to Davy
Remember me to Tee Fee Crane
Tell all the pikers on the Hill
That I'll be back again
Glory, I'll be back and
Tell them just how I busted
Lapping up the high highball
We'll all have drinks at Theodore Zinck's
When I get back next fall
When I get back next fall
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[THE HANGOVERS, "YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME HIGHER AND HIGHER"] Doo doo doo doo
Da da
Doo doo doo doo
Da da
Doo doo doo doo
Da da
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Ba dow
Da da
Doo doo doo doo
Ba dow
Da da
Doo doo doo doo
Ba dow
Da da
Doo doo doo doo.
Ba dow
Your love keeps lifting me higher
Than I've ever been lifted before
So keep it up
And quench my desire
And I'll be at your side forever more
That's right
Your love
Your love keeps lifting
Keeps on lifting me
Keeps on lifting me
Lifting me higher and higher
And higher
That's right, your love
Keeps on
Keeps on lifting me
Lifting me higher and higher
Higher
Once I was downhearted
Disappointment was my closest friend
But then you came
Soon he departed
And he never showed his face again
That's right, your love
Your love keeps lifting me
Keeps on lifting me
Keeps on lifting me
Lifting me higher and higher
And higher
That's right, your love
Your love keeps lifting me
Keeps on
Keeps on lifting me
Lifting me higher and higher
Higher
Doo doo doo doo
Ba dow
Da da
Doo doo doo doo
Ba dow
Da da
Doo doo doo doo
Ba dow
Da da
Doo doo doo doo
Ba dow
Oh, and somehow
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(SINGING) And when I wrap my loving arms around you
I can stand up and face the world
That's right, your love
Your love keeps lifting me
Keeps on lifting me
Keeps on lifting me
Lifting me higher and higher
Higher
That's right, your love
Your love keeps lifting me
Keeps on
Keeps on lifting me
Lifting me higher and higher
Higher
Keeps on lifting
Lifting me so high
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JOSEPH ZIELINSKI: Thank you very much to The Hangovers. As we enter the formal part of our program, I would like to introduce the people on the stage to my right. Dean Andrew Karolyi, Harold Bierman Junior Distinguished Professor of Management, and Charles Field Knight Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Doctor Eric Lewis, Professor of Practice--
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Professor of Practice and Faculty Director of the MPS programs who has the privilege of reading the graduates' names today. Dean Vishal Gaur.
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Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Glen Dowell.
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Senior Director of MBA and NPS programs and Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management. And Savannah Bao.
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Director of eCornell Master's Programs. Now, please join me in welcoming Dean Gaur, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Emerson Professor of Manufacturing Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. An award-winning teacher and researcher at Johnson since 2007, Dean Gaur assumed the Johnson deanship in 2023. Please join me in welcoming Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean Vishal Gaur.
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VISHAL GAUR: Thank you, Joseph. Members of the Class of 2024, families and friends, on behalf of the Johnson faculty and staff colleagues, I am honored to welcome you to the graduation recognition ceremonies for the 77th Graduating Class of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
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This weekend, we come together to celebrate the accomplishments of 159 candidates from our Master of Professional Studies or MPS Management program, 94 of whom specialized in accounting and 66 candidates from our Master of Science of Business Analytics program who will be completing their degree requirements in August. Today, we celebrate your achievements and all that it took to get to this point. We celebrate you. Yeah.
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Your effort and dedication have been remarkable. Those of you in the MPS program have taken a year off from work to pursue advanced training in the Management and Accounting disciplines. Those in the MSBA program are excelling at your full-time job commitments while simultaneously training yourselves in the complexities of business analytics.
Few of us have arrived here without help from others. So candidates, let's show appreciation for those who have provided support along the path to this achievement, families and friends who supported us in so many ways. Let's thank them.
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I would also like to highlight my faculty and staff colleagues who have worked tirelessly with you, the faculty directors of your programs, Professors Jamie Hintlian and Eric Lewis put in huge effort and care throughout the year to deliver these innovative degree programs. Our outstanding faculty, who are not only dedicated to your success, demonstrating that every day, both inside and outside the classroom, but are also world renowned for their scholarship in business disciplines and for the impact of their work.
Our staff have supported you throughout your journey at Johnson, including admissions, registration, student events, courses, and job search, and up to and including today. We all know that an event like this does not occur without many people working behind the scenes in ways that we can only imagine. So please join me in thanking the faculty and staff for all they have done and continue to do to support you and support Johnson.
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Now, let's talk about you. I would like to highlight some aspects that have defined your Johnson experience. First, going with the MPS graduates. Our MPS graduates have taken their courses shoulder to shoulder with MBA students and across the college interacting with graduate students and faculty from not only Johnson, but also our sister schools, Dyson and Nolan, in the College of Business. Four MPS accounting students joined the law school practicum on their Alaska service trip this year. Using the skills they have learned through tax work to fly bush planes, assess the rural Alaskan population filling their 2023 taxes, and saving a lot of money in tax refunds for Native Alaskans.
One of the MPS students, Lucas Xu, teamed with an MBA student for a Big Red microenterprises project with Dish Truck, a local veteran-owned small business that provides durable dishes to replace disposable dishware. I also want to highlight the outstanding work of MPS students Patrick Steven and Sawanee Chitale as emerging markets fellows in their final case study about InDrive, a ridesharing service in Indonesia. As EMI Fellows, they worked with graduate students across our MPS, MBA, and Executive MBA and MSBA programs.
Now turning to our MSBA students. Our student-run MSBA Data Science Club, which is now in its second year, just concluded a week-long competition where Professor Mani Sethuraman gave the students a massive data set collated from several streaming video services and challenged them to establish insights and inferences. It was wonderful to see the creativity and variety of ideas demonstrated by the students for their analysis and the interactive visualizations in their finished product.
Importantly, they also demonstrated the expert skills of business problem formulation and technical analysis from the coursework and tools they are learning at Cornell. And I should note that Anna Smith, MSBA 2024, who will be speaking next on behalf of our class at this ceremony, placed in the top three.
Even as you have excelled at academics, collaboration, and teamwork, the hallmarks of a Johnson experience, you've built a strong community of working together and helping each other. The MPS students joined together for a hockey game outing. Yes, you can't graduate from Cornell without that. And this MSBA class gets together frequently with program leads Savannah Bao and Jamie Hintlian and has established such tight bonds that you couldn't tell that their degree program is delivered mostly online. They are completing this challenging program while working full-time at companies that include Amazon, Bloomberg, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, and many others, with some getting promotions during their MSBA journey.
I would also like to highlight another way in which you've already made an impact. Each generation of Johnson students benefits from those who came before. Think of the many ways in which alumni have helped you as class s, mentors, and partners in the recruiting process. They have also helped Johnson financially in ways that benefit our school today and over time, just as so many of you contributed to your class campaign and Johnson's annual fund.
Everyone in our community should be very grateful for all you have done. So would everyone please join me in applauding the achievements, generosity, and dedication of this wonderful class.
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Now as the dean of the school, here's my ask. You knew it was coming. As deans before me have said, whenever you let a dean speak, there is an ask. But this one is pretty painless, and it's very simple.
Please, just keep it up. Keep engaging with this community and keep seeking to make your unique impact as you continue on your career.
From a community standpoint, you're now joining an alumni community of over 15,000 Johnson graduates, more than 40,000 college graduates, and well over 250,000 proud Cornellians, all bleeding Cornell red, and now all part of your extended family. When I speak with an alum who graduated 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago, they tell me of their professors and fellow classmates and the impact that Johnson had on their careers.
I encourage you to resolve to stay engaged with your class, with your programs, and with the school. Life will take us in different directions, but these ties are strong. These are the ties that bind. Attend at least one alumni event next year. Be there for your fellow alumni, as you have for your fellow students in your degree program. My pledge is that we'll be here for you as well.
From an impact standpoint, I don't have to encourage you to excel. I know you will. The world faces big problems, but you've already shown that you can make a difference with your compassion, your caring, and your drive for excellence. You are leaders and you are at an amazing stage of your life and career. When a big challenge occurs, rise to meet it. You have proven that you can succeed.
Your Johnson degree will help you on your journey and you will honor that degree with all that you achieve. I can't wait to see, along with my faculty and staff colleagues, what amazing success awaits you. We are all immensely proud of you. All in attendance, please help me congratulate the Class of 2024.
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JOSEPH ZIELINSKI: Thank you. Thank you very much, Vishal. Thank you, Dean Gaur. It is now my pleasure to introduce the student speakers for today's recognition ceremony. I would first like to welcome Anna Smith.
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Anna will be representing the Masters of Business Analytics program. Please welcome Anna.
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ANNA SMITH: What an honor it is to be standing before you today. Thank you to the MSBA program professors and faculty, including Savannah Bao, for helping keep our ducks in a row through all the chaos, for Jamie Hintlian for his dedication to ensuring this program was everything we wanted and more, and to Vishal Gaur, who poured an immense amount of love and heart into building the MSBA program.
Thank you to my family who traveled almost 3,000 miles to be here. Thank you for your sacrifices to ensure that I had opportunities at my fingertips that you were never given. Thank you for teaching me to dream. Thank you for never letting me settle. Thank you for celebrating my accomplishments as if they were your own.
On behalf of all my classmates, thank you to all the family and friends who single-handedly kept our lives afloat while we juggled a full-time job, all our coursework, and the many demands that did not stop, regardless of how many hours we had worked that week. While it may be cliche to say that we couldn't have done it without you, for a program like this, it is especially true that we couldn't have done it without you.
When faced with the task of writing a speech worthy of the Cornell MSBA Class of 2024, I did not know where to begin. But in true Cornell student fashion, I did my homework. And in true business analytics student fashion, I turned to machine learning. I completed a comparative analysis of each of the major large language models' ability to capture the MSBA experience, which I will share with you.
And according to Anthropic's Claude model, we are more than just analysts. We are catalysts for transformation, translators between computers and businesses, and masters of harnessing information to shape a better future. Claude seems to think pretty highly of us. I'll take that.
OpenAI's GPT model stated, beyond the technical prowess, our journey has been shaped by resilience, collaboration, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. I can't say I disagree with that, and I will now be adding technical prowess to my resume.
Mistral's LLM urged me to warn you all that as you wield the power of data, remember that with great power comes great responsibility. It seems Mistral may have been trained on the Spider-Man comics.
So it seems I may not have yet perfected the art of using large language models for speech writing, but hey, I'm only halfway through our machine learning class. We haven't gotten to fine tuning or prompt engineering yet. That being said, I switched from artificial intelligence to human intelligence.
I watched countless commencement speeches from all the great speakers of our time, JK Rowling, Oprah Winfrey, Tim Cook, Taylor Swift, Elle Woods, which has inspired a few insights which I will share with you today. In the past year, I have learned statistics, coding languages, and the fundamentals of data science. I have learned how to view data from a business lens and how to translate our analysis to drive decision making in accounting, finance, operations, marketing, and more. And I've learned how to properly present that data to the necessary stakeholders.
But above all else, I have learned that I can do hard things. We can do hard things. Tim Cook perfectly captured the sentiment when he said, "there's a saying that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. At Apple, I learned that's a total crock. You'll work harder than you ever thought possible, but the tools will feel light in your hands."
As you go out into the world, don't waste time on the problems that have been solved. Look for the problems, look for the rough spots, the problems that seem too big, the complexities that other people are content to work around. It's in those places that you will find your purpose. It's there that you can make your greatest contribution.
In our time in the MSBA program, we have experienced how to work harder than we ever thought possible, and we have learned how to make the tools feel light in our hands. We have proven to ourselves that we can tackle the big problems. And we can work through the complexities instead of work around them. And we can do it all while being fathers, mothers, friends, spouses, employees, managers, and so much more. We are perfectly positioned to find our purpose, and I can't wait to hear about all of your greatest contributions.
Which leads me to my next key point, which is inspired by Taylor Swift's NYU commencement speech, where she said, "there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of unbothered ambivalence. This outlook perpetuates the idea that it's not cool to want it. That people who try hard are fundamentally more chic than people who do. And I wouldn't know because I've been a lot of things, but I have not been an expert on chic. But I'm the one who's up here, so you have to listen to me when I say this, never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth."
I think we can all agree that there is nothing effortless about what we have accomplished, not only in the MSBA program, but in everything leading up to it and everything outside of it. We can be proud to say that we did, in fact, try. We tried really hard. And we will not hide our enthusiasm.
So join me in congratulating the MSBA Class of 2024 for all we have accomplished and all we have yet to achieve. To quote Elle Woods, "we did it." Well, mostly done it. 75% of it. But we'll leave that in the fine print.
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JOSEPH ZIELINSKI: Thank you, Anna. Next, I would like to introduce Yug Jung Karki, who will be representing the Master's of Professional Studies Management Cohort. Please welcome Yug.
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YUG JUNG KARKI: Good morning distinguished guests, esteemed faculty, parents, and fellow graduates. My name is Yug Jung Karki, and I'm honored to address you today as the student commencement speaker for the MPS in Management Program for the Class of 2024.
Today, as we stand at the summit of our academic journey at the Johnson School, I'm reminded of the landscapes of my home country in Nepal, the place of Mount Everest, the roof of the world. Just as the mighty peaks of the Himalayas rise boldly against the sky, we too have risen to our own distinct challenges at the MPS in Management Program at Cornell University. It's a privilege to stand before such a distinguished gathering. A group made up of brilliant educators, supportive family members, and the Class of 2024.
Together, we have built an incredible academic community here at Cornell. And today we come together to celebrate our hard work and our dedication.
And of course, a heartfelt thank you to our parents and family members who have been the base camp of our climb, the secure foundation from which we have embarked on this climb. Your support, your dedication, and your belief in us have pushed us closer to our dreams.
So in Nepal, climbing a mountain begins with a single step in a small village amidst the beauty of nature. It is a journey of perseverance, of enduring the harshest conditions, and of doing something we thought was impossible. Similarly, our journey at Johnson started right here with tentative steps. It started right here where we all are seated today. It started one year ago.
We all were nervous. We all were excited. Our bonds grew stronger the next day in the Hoffman Challenge Course, where we navigated through physical and mental challenges, learning the value of teamwork. And we also started to build friendships that would last a lifetime.
As we move forward, these initial encounters grew into more complex challenges and collaborations. Group projects taught us to blend diverse perspectives. Exams tested our ability to apply knowledge under pressure. Deadlines taught us time management. Critiques improved our resilience. And job interviews developed our ability to clearly articulate our skills.
With each semesters, our knowledge deepened, our skills sharpened, and our confidence grew. These experiences, much like climbing a steep trail, have prepared us to face the professional world with determination and adaptability. We have been fortunate enough to learn from amazing professors whose mentorship has prepared us to tackle any challenges with integrity and excellence, reflecting Johnson's deeply held values.
In the tapestry of our academic journey, the thread of inclusion has been woven by Professor Barbara E. Mink from our Communication classes, and Jess Ramtahal, our MPS Student Services Coordinator, who enveloped us with a sense of belongingness that transcends boundaries. Excellence was not just a concept, but a constant practice with Professor Eric Lewis's Mastery in Data Analytics. Professor Glen Dowell's insight into sustainable development were not just academic discourse, but a call to action for shared prosperity, a mission we are all ready to undertake.
The MBA level courses we undertook were not just lessons in management, but masterclasses in transformation. They were designed not only to impart knowledge, but to challenge our perspectives, encouraging us to think strategically and act smartly for our future endeavors.
I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Professor Eric Lewis and his team for bringing together this remarkable Class of 2024 of the MPS in Management Program. Here I've found friends who have turned into family, making the distance from my own feel less significant. It felt like only yesterday we were sharing at Cornell games, collaborating on projects together, planning trips together, and embracing new traditions.
My first Thanksgiving turkey. I also celebrated my first Eid with my friends, rang in the festivities of the Chinese New Year, shared the joy of an American Christmas, and also lit candles for my first Diwali. Time has indeed flown by, and now here we are.
From the highest peaks I've learned that while the summit offers breathtaking views, the real beauty lies in the journey, the people we meet, the challenges we overcome, and the lessons we learn. As we move forward, let's embrace our new challenges as opportunities to reach new heights. And now, as graduates of the Johnson School, we are poised to build a future deeply committed to sustainable and shared prosperity, aiming to create an impact that will resonate generations to come.
Today we gather to celebrate not just our academic achievements, but our journey of growth and perseverance. We have supported each other through challenges, climbing mountains together. Thank you, Cornell, for being our mountain guide. And thank you, classmates, for being my fellow climbers.
As our Alma mater overlooks our town, let us carry forward its vision, noble and inspiring. Thank you all for being part of this incredible journey as we look towards future horizons with renewed hope and ambition. Thank you so much and congratulations Class of 2024.
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JOSEPH ZIELINSKI: Thank you, Yug. It is now my honor to introduce Dean Andrew Karolyi, the Charles Field Knight Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and Harold Biermann Junior Distinguished Professor of Management. In addition to serving as dean since 2021, Dean Karolyi has published extensively in journals and is a scholar in investment management. Please join in welcoming the Charles Field Knight Dean, Andrew Karolyi, to the podium.
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Thank you, Andrew.
ANDREW KAROLYI: I'm feeling a wonderful, wonderful spirit of community here. Isn't this wonderful? Are you feeling it? Are you guys feeling it? Yes.
Congratulations to the Class of 2024. Congratulations on the achievement we celebrate today. And welcome to the newest stage of your relationship with your Alma mater.
As most valued alumni, you will remain critical members of our community. And we will continue to rely on your participation. And we will value your voices. How do we do this?
Well, each year, we invite alumni from all around the world at various events to join our faculty and our staff in defining a particular theme for what we set up as our signature alumni events. This particular year, we chose the theme "deeply responsible leadership." You may have seen me talk about this at various events on campus over the past year.
What is this? Well, for decades now, business leaders have been told that their responsibility was to the bottom line, to elevate profits and returns to investors above all else. Embodied most eloquently in one of my favorite quotes from Professor Milton Friedman. Quote, "there is one and only one responsibility of business, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits, so long as it stays within the rules of the game."
Now, in actual fact, that last phrase that I said is often left off, I think, shortchanging the subtlety of Professor Friedman's meaning. But that's another story for another day. The truth is that businesses and business leaders have struggled in their understanding of their ultimate responsibilities, at least for a couple of hundred years.
What we're seeing today is that society is challenging us to rethink the fundamental responsibilities of business leaders. And honestly, it's quite hard to pin down. In a 2022 book, "Deeply Responsible Leadership," by business historian Geoffrey Jones, what he does in that book is ask us to reflect on the history of deeply responsible leaders. And he does this through a series of case studies going back into the 1800s all around the world. Careful research.
He concludes the following. He concludes that deeply responsible leaders are agile, with a mindset that can quickly understand opportunities when they arise. They assess situations. They use data as discipline. They formulate strategies. They make decisions and they take bold action.
They have a growth mindset. And they strive to remove roadblocks. They are people-centered leaders who value inclusivity and belonging. Why? Because organizations make better decisions harnessing collective wisdom.
They always consider communities in which they operate and the implications of their operations for the natural environment. And they think about all stakeholders, not just shareholders.
Now is it easy to be a deeply responsible leader? Hardly. Jones points out that balancing conflicting stakeholder concerns are exacerbated when you face turbulent geopolitical circumstances, not dissimilar to what we're experiencing today, uneven, unexpected legal risks, too hard to comply with inconsistent regulatory regimes. They just all make for a few more complex and forced competing priorities.
So these are pretty lofty expectations, aren't they, to be a deeply responsible leader? With your newly minted degrees from the Johnson School, I believe you, each of you, are up to the task. At Cornell and throughout the SC Johnson College of Business, our complex, nuanced, and much debated understanding of what constitutes deeply responsible corporate leadership, what drives deeply responsible leaders, and honestly, why all of this, any of it, matters in the end, it's embedded in our core mission.
And you've heard both of our student speakers emphasize this in their remarks. To develop the responsible business leaders of tomorrow, agile, people-centered, data disciplined, broadly stakeholder motivated.
Now, perhaps not surprisingly, I have a uniquely Cornellian spin on that mission and the concept of deeply responsible leadership directly from Ezra Cornell himself. In a too often overlooked 1840 letter that Ezra Cornell wrote to his son, Alonzo. Just a reminder, 1840 is 25 years before he founded this university, well before he amassed his great fortune that allowed us to create this university, he wrote this to his son.
To consider the virtue in establishing what he calls, and here's the quote, "a character upon a fixed principle, to do right because it is right for the sake of right, and nothing else. Every act should be measured by that rule. Is it right? Let a pure heart prompt an honest conscience to answer the question and all will be well." 1840, Ezra Cornell.
Let's all live up to Ezra Cornell's lofty founding principles for our university and his pragmatic advice to his own son. We develop business leaders who are here to do the greatest good. So now, you graduates, I encourage you to continue to bring that advice forward wherever you go in a true Cornellian fashion. Put people first. Draw on the DNA of Cornell in thinking about the ultimate responsibilities of business for people, for society at large, as well as the natural environment.
Cornellians are first and foremost community-minded. So think about collaboration and engagement more, and zero-sum gains less. Courageously experiment with new ideas and approaches. Develop entrepreneurial solutions to pressing global problems, reducing inequality, advancing climate action. Building sustainable cities championing responsible consumption and production. Prioritize good health, decent work, well being.
Number four, be inclusive and bring this ethos to the organizations you will lead. As principled business leaders, think deeply about your responsibilities and your impact. So as your time at Cornell draws to a close and you embark on the next phase of your journey, remember that you're joining, as Dean Gaur mentioned not a few minutes ago, an incredible global community of nearly 50,000 living alumni of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. 250,000 living Cornell alumni worldwide. You'll find them everywhere.
Take every opportunity to engage, connect, and continue to strengthen that network that makes Cornell, our college, and our incredible Johnson School so, so powerful. Congratulations to you. And go Big Red.
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JOSEPH ZIELINSKI: Thank you, Dean Karolyi. If we could have a moment of applause for all of our speakers this morning.
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I would now like to invite Professor Lewis to the podium for the recognition of graduates.
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ERIC LEWIS: It is an honor and my great pleasure to recognize individually the candidates for the Degrees of Master of Science in Business Analytics, Master of Professional Studies in Management, and Master of Professional Studies in Management Accounting Specialization.
SPEAKER: You know, you'd think, though, right? [INAUDIBLE]
ERIC LEWIS: Yeah, I got it.
SPEAKER: And if you could just pop the cards in there when we're all done.
ERIC LEWIS: OK.
SPEAKER: Thank you.
ERIC LEWIS: Congratulations. Anna Smith.
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Yug Jung Karki.
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[READING NAMES]
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Congratulations to all of our graduates.
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You going to invite him up?
JOSEPH ZIELINSKI: I would like to take a moment. I would like to take a moment to thank all the family and friends in attendance today, many of whom traveled a great distance to be here. To those of you joining us via live stream, you are included in the tremendous support system of our graduates. Your support cannot be overstated, and their accomplishments are also your accomplishments. We thank and honor you as well.
At this point in time, the faculty in attendance are joining our stage party for our Alma mater. As a reminder, immediately following this ceremony, we will adjourn to a reception across the street in Sage Hall. Food and drinks will be served in the atrium and tents in the Wee Stinky Glen. We hope you enjoy us.
Before we break, please join us in singing the Cornell Alma Mater. Words can be found on the back of your program. Please rise. Dean Gaur, will you lead us?
VISHAL GAUR: We're ready.
[SINGING "FAR ABOVE CAYUGA'S WATERS"] Far above Cayuga's waters
With its waves of blue
Stands our noble Alma Mater
Glorious to view
Lift the chorus
Speed it onward
Loud her praises tell
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater
Hail, all hail, Cornell
Far above the busy humming
Of the bustling town
Reared against the arch of heaven
Looks she proudly down
Lift the chorus
Speed it onward
Loud her praises tell
Hail to thee, Our Alma Mater
Hail, all hail, Cornell
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JOSEPH ZIELINSKI: Again, congratulations to the Class of 2024.
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Please remain standing during the recessional until the faculty members have left the auditorium.
[THE HANGOVERS, "STRIKE UP A SONG TO CORNELL"] Strike up a song to Cornell
And let the swelling chorus rise before us
Strike up a song to Cornell
And set the campus ringing with our singing
Fill the glasses with a song
And drink the magic music spell
We will sound the joy of life intense
In a rousing toast to Cornell
Strike up a song to Cornell
And let the swelling chorus rise before us
Strike up a song to Cornell
And set the campus ringing with our singing
Fill the glasses with a song
And drink the magic music spell
We will sound the joy of life intense
In a rousing toast to Cornell
Strike up a song to Cornell
Come let us strike up a song to Cornell
Strike up a song to Cornell
