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Student Work

For BBC World, Larry Madowo, '20 M.A. Business, reported on how Jumia, the start-up dubbed "the Amazon of Africa," is still trying to deliver on that promise.

Jumia: The e-commerce start-up that fell from grace

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Daniel Avis and Vidhi Choudhary, both '20 M.A. Business, found a lack of training, guidance and access to tests impeded a plan to make New York City pharmacies COVID-19 test sites.

Cuomo’s Pharmacy COVID Testing Prescription Remains Unfilled

For the Fall Business Seminar, Shant Shahrigian, '19 M.A. Business, wrote about a New York City politician who returned donations from oil interests.

Green New Deal champion Costa Constantinides accepts Oil Heat PAC cash, gives it up when called out

Orion Jones, '20 M.A. Business, wrote about Democratic candidates' plans to overhaul Social Security for Forbes in a piece that originated in Prof. Winnie O'Kelley's M.A. Business Fall Seminar.

Olivia Carville worked as an investigative reporter for the biggest newspapers in Canada and New Zealand before enrolling in the M.A. program in Business and Economics. Her thesis reporting led to this story about an activist investor taking on the gun industry, which ran in The New York Times. Olivia is now a reporter at Bloomberg News.

Shortly after graduation, Daniel Flatley, '17 M.A. Business, published his Master's Thesis about the coal business in West Virginia. He's now covering regulation in Washington, D.C. for Bloomberg.

An American Bankruptcy

Sara Jerving, '14 M.A. Business, wrote her thesis on how Liberians thought Ebola was a government scam.

Read her article published in The Nation.

For her Master's Thesis, Khadeeja Safdar, '13 M.A. Business, investigated the Facebook IPO - and showed that it wasn't disastrous for everyone. Her piece was published by The Atlantic.

Watch as she explains how the story unfolded.

Davide Casati, ’14 M.A. Business, followed a story about an arrest of an accountant at The Vatican for his thesis and published it in The New York Times.

Read how his thesis got published in The New York Times.