Cornell University The Parker Center at the Johnson School at Cornell University
Cornell University The Johnson School at Cornell University

List of Firms

We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of these firms:


Advantage Data
Advantage Data provides the Parker Center and the Johnson School MBA students with access to cutting-edge fixed-income data and analytics.

Avocent Corporation
Avocent Corporation, supplier of the flat-screen monitors located in the Parker Center, made a substantial donation in honor of Bill McAleer (Cornell Hotel '73, MBA '75), managing director of Voyager Capital and a member of the Johnson School dean's advisory council.

Barclays Global Investors
BGI provides support for the Center's research activities and is a sponsor of the school's annual MBA Stock Pitch Competition.

BARRA, Inc.
BARRA provides a complete suite of analytical modeling and portfolio-management software that helps student Cayuga Fund managers monitor the return, risk and cost characteristics of their portfolios.

Capital IQ
Capital IQ provides its clients with deep information on companies, markets, and people, along with Web and Excel-based tools that greatly simplify their workflow. Capital IQ's innovative features have created tremendous value for their clients and include: "click through" auditable financials, integrated public and private capital market database, robust event-driven screener, buyer targeting engine, Relationship Tree™, Relationship Paths™, and many others.

FactSet Research Systems Inc.
The world's premier on-line investment research service, FactSet provides the Center with integrated access to a vast array of financial databases.

Jack M. Ferraro, MBA '70, Private Investor
A distinguished alumnus, Mr. Ferraro retired in 2000 from Neuberger & Berman, LLC. His significant contributions of both expertise and funding have been and remain instrumental to the Parker Center's educational mission. He is the lead sponsor of the MBA Stock Pitch Competition.

Intel Corporation
As part of a major campus-wide grant, Intel provided the Center with Pentium Pro, Dual Pentium Pro, and Dual Processor Pentium IIs for the Trading Room and Research Studio.

Interactive Data Corporation
Interactive Data Corporation provides the Center with real-time quotes and analytics via the Internet through eSignal™ a product of one of DBC's subsidiaries - Capital Management Sciences.

Reuters
Reuters provides the Center with real-time quotes displayed on the Center's ticker and datawalls. It also sponsors MultexInvestor and StockVal for the Center.

Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation provides the Center with various powerful financial tools such as FirstCall and Street Events.