Tip Sheets

Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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California Forever plans prove ‘colonizing spirit’ still exists

September 6, 2023

Silicon Valley elites have unveiled their vision for the utopian city they hope to build on 55,000 acres in Solano County in California.

Economics and Business

Law and Policy

Will the summer of strikes spread to the Detroit Three?

August 9, 2023

Art Wheaton serves as director of labor studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR).

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Economics and Business

UPS labor contract outcome will set tone for logistics sector workers

July 13, 2023

Patricia Campos-Medina is an expert on workplace and labor issues and the executive director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She says contract talks with UPS could have spillover effects with other workers in the logistics sector.

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

Menlo Micro’s plans have ‘terrific synergy’ with Cornell semiconductor research

July 11, 2023

Krystyn Van Vliet, vice president for research and innovation at Cornell University, says Menlo Micro's plans to move into Tompkins County align well with Cornell’s commitments to the goals of the CHIPS and Science Act.

New York State

Economics and Business

iPhone standardization: EU regulations benefit US consumers

September 12, 2023

Apple is likely to announce its latest iPhone models will have a USB-C port instead of the standard Lightning connector. The change follows legislation in the European Union requiring the use of USB-C on all smartphones with a physical port sold in member countries.

Economics and Business

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

White House supply chain council faces difficult task

November 28, 2023

Nick Fabrizio, senior lecturer in health policy at Cornell University, says the council has its work cut out for them as it’s very hard to anticipate what the population needs, how much to produce and how quickly products will arrive to consumers.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

Law, Government & Public Policy

World Bank reforms central to Biden’s G20 trip

September 8, 2023

Richard T. Clark is a political scientist who studies policymaking at the World Bank. He describes the objectives as bolstering the Bank’s budget, reorienting lending to tackle climate change, and competing with China on infrastructure spending.

International Reach

International

Economics and Business

NLRB reverses Trump-era workplace rules, but creates loophole for employers

August 3, 2023

Desirée LeClercq is a professor of labor law at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and says the reversal is a step in the right direction, but still does not make it safe for workers to organize.

Economics and Business

UAW bargaining leverage different from UPS-Teamsters negotiations

August 23, 2023

Harry Katz is a professor of collective bargaining in Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He says the UAW’s position is different from other recent contract negotiations such as the UPS-Teamsters deal.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business