Accounting professor Mark Nelson honored as a top teacher

Mark Nelson, the Eleanora and George Landew Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, won the Cook Prize for excellence graduate accounting teaching.

Dean Dutta promotes women in business at White House

At an Aug. 5 White House event, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management Dean Soumitra Dutta joined leaders of elite business schools in committing to producing more women executives.

Johnson program will be tenant in Collegetown building

Johnson's Executive Education Center will become the tenant in a six-story office/classroom building to rise at 209-215 Dryden Road in Collegetown because it has outgrown its Sage Hall space.

Graduating students soak up final hours at Cornell

Under brilliant blue sky peppered with wispy clouds and comfortable temperatures, Cornell University graduated its 147th class May 24, sending about 6,000 accomplished women and men into the future.

Message to Johnson, Cornell Tech grads: Make business better

The Johnson Graduate Recognition Ceremony May 23 recognized six Ph.D. and 380 M.B.A. candidates, including 39 students who in May 2014 entered the inaugural one-year M.B.A. program.

Book ranks emerging markets by risk to investors

In his new book, Andrew Karolyi, Cornell professor of finance, uses a scoring system that ranks countries on several dimensions of risk to potential investors.

Sprouting student startup wins $100,000 business contest

Germinating from a campus incubator, Uma Bioseed – a startup business developed by Cornell MBA students – has won the 2015 New York Business Plan Competition, winning a $100,000 grand prize.

Dog tail tracker, circuit printer win $10K prizes

A dog emotion tracker and a desktop circuit printer took this year's ECE Innovation Award prizes of $10,000. The competition challenges students to develop technology and demonstrate the idea’s business potential.

Behavioral economists discuss their emerging field

Behavioral economics takes into account such things as how questions are framed, according to panelists at as well as the initial allocation of resources according to panelists speaking April 26.