A combination of hard work, revisions of earlier writings, coincidence and swift turnarounds in publication led to Shawkat Toorawa's remarkable coup of four books in one academic year (November 01, 2005)
Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management won the Brillante award from the National Society of Hispanic MBAs for its efforts to attract and support Hispanic students.
A student team from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management was the first-place winner April 2 in the second MBA Stock Pitch Challenge. The team from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, which hosted the competition, came in second. The two winning teams competed for two days against teams from nine other top U.S. business schools and were judged by a blue-ribbon panel of Wall Street stock analysis experts on the buy and sell sides. The Kellogg team won a cash prize of $3,000, and the Johnson School team won $1,500. (April 9, 2004)
Despite the latest electronic, ergonomic and timesaving devices to aid housework, the most tiring household tasks are still scrubbing and mopping the floors, just as they were more than 60 years ago.
Most hotels made no changes to safety and security staffing or procedures in the year following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, possibly because they already were in good shape. Exceptions: modest improvements to staffing and procedures were made at hotels in New York, New Jersey and the central southwest. The news is from a national survey of hotel managers conducted at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. (April 30, 2003)
Raymond V. Gilmartin, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Merck & Co., will deliver the Hatfield Address on "America's Leadership in Pharmaceutical Research: How Can We Keep Winning?" on Sept. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall.
The cost of illness is much higher for many large businesses that self-insure their employees' health care than would be indicated by medical bills alone.
The period of Jan. 1 through Sept. 30 was the wettest for the Northeast in 102 years of records, according to climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
President David Skorton detailed accomplishments, new initiatives and challenges as he led Cornell's leadership on virtual tours of the university in the present day and in 2015 during his first State of the University Address.
Chad Walter has made it to victory lane twice in the Daytona 500 -- the Super Bowl of NASCAR -- not behind the wheel of a winning stock car but on the team that engineered it.