Dean's Welcome

Judi Byers

Executive Director of Admissions & Financial Aid

Johnson

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Judi Byers is the Executive Director of the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid at Johnson and has been in this position for over four years. She leads a team of 13 admissions professionals, many of whom have individually interacted with you as you moved through the application process, and she directs both the overall strategy and the day-to-day operations of the office. Judi has been instrumental in fashioning a dynamic, customer-oriented experience for our applicants.

Mark W. Nelson

Anne & Elmer Lindseth Dean

Johnson

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Mark W. Nelson is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell. He received his BBA degree from Iowa State University and his MA and PhD degrees from The Ohio State University.

Nelson’s teaching focuses on corporate financial reporting and intermediate financial accounting at the MBA and undergraduate levels. He has received ten teaching awards, including Cornell’s Apple Award for Teaching Excellence, the Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, and the inaugural Cook Prize for Graduate Teaching presented by the American Accounting Association. He is a coauthor (with Spiceland, Sepe, and Thomas) of a leading textbook, Intermediate Accounting.

Nelson’s research examines psychological and economic factors that influence how people make decisions, interpret and apply accounting, auditing, and tax regulations, and trade in financial markets. His research has been published in scholarly journals in accounting and psychology, including the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Organizations and Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. His research has been honored with the AAA’s Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, the Deloitte Wildman Medal for research that is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of public accountancy, AJPT’s inaugural Best Paper Award for research that makes an outstanding contribution to auditing research, and the Johnson's Faculty Research Award.

Nelson served for four years on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). He also served three terms as an area editor of The Accounting Review and as a member of the editorial boards of many accounting journals. He was Johnson's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2007–2010, overseeing the tenure-track faculty and research functions of the school.

Hernan J.F. Saenz, III, MBA/MILR ÔÇÖ98

Bain & Company

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Hernan Saenz is the head of the Global Performance Improvement Practice of Bain & Company — a top management consulting firm that advises leaders on strategy, marketing, organization, operations, IT, and M&A, across all industries worldwide. Formerly, he served as Managing Partner of the firm’s Dallas, Houston, and Mexico offices. Saenz has more than 20 years of consulting experience and specializes in corporate transformations, full potential programs, cost and operational turnarounds, and large-scale change efforts. He has completed over 100 assignments across a number of sectors, including airlines, retail, healthcare, consumer and industrial products and services, distribution, and telecommunications.

Prior to joining Bain & Company, Saenz was as a faculty member in economics at INCAE in Latin America and also served as a principal at a consulting firm for Latin American financial institutions. Saenz earned an MBA at Johnson and an MILR from the ILR School, as well as an MS in economics from Stanford University. He is also a graduate of Harvard University, where he received a BA in economics. A proud Johnson alumnus, Saenz currently shares his knowledge and expertise with Johnson students as a visiting Senior Lecturer in Management and Organizations.

Harrison Jobe MBA '19

Student Council Co-Chair

Johnson School

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Symone Williams MBA '19

Student Council Co-Chair

Johnson School

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