Expanding broccoli production on the East Coast and outside of California can help stabilize fresh produce supply chains that are vulnerable to water shortages.
Marx will establish and serve as inaugural director of the Cornell Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, to boost university efforts to commercialize breakthrough scientific discoveries.
While MBA job prospects are expected to remain stable in the near future, new hires will be held to higher standards inside rapidly evolving workplaces.
Cornell Atkinson hosted its first executive education program – the Resilient Futures Leadership Program: Financing Sustainable Agriculture – with partner Field to Market. The successful program will be offered twice more over the next two years.
A research team led by Shreya Kankanhalli of the SC Johnson College found that supporting merchants during and after installation of digital payment devices resulted in significantly greater uptake of the technology.
Andrew Karolyi, dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and colleagues found that even the least-successful U.S. serial acquirers will continue to make deals, persisting in spite of less-than-stellar announcement-day returns.
Cornell Atkinson has awarded $900k to support six new research projects that seek to protect coral reefs, improve greenhouse agriculture and understand whether wildfires affect disease spread.