Managers are increasingly asking their employees to rate each other’s work in a practice known as peer evaluation. How well those evaluations work, and whether bias plays a role, depends on a surprising factor, according to new Cornell research: when the peers evaluate each other.
New research out of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business shows that paper business telephone directories – similar to the Yellow Pages – in Tanzania boosted sales revenue by 104% for listed businesses and increased sales.
Researchers in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business found that consumers tend to overestimate fractional star ratings and underestimate fractional Arabic numerals. In either case, the ratings can be misleading.
Two teams of students in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management worked with Whirlpool to place refurbished refrigerators on campus and in high need areas around the region.
CEO and co-founder of Kalibri Labs, a hospitality platform that increases hotel value by identifying the most profitable revenue mix and driving smarter hotel real estate investments, to be honored.
Hotel administration students raised nearly $5,000 for Make-A-Wish Central New York - with help and inspiration from an alumna who was a wish-kid herself and founded, in 1994, the first college "wish-makers" group in the country.
