Five Johnson School alumni have committed to give the school $27 million and a new Innovation Challenge seeks to raise another $23 million by June 20, 2015.
Blue-collar training without a strong college-preparatory focus leads to blue-collar jobs for men but penalizes women in the labor market, says April Sutton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell Population Center.
Finalists in Grow-NY, a business competition for innovative food and agriculture startups, are fanning out through upstate New York to meet with potential business partners as they vie for $3 million in prizes.
Alumni can best support Cornell by promoting the new College of Business’ excellence in hospitality, agriculture, sustainability and technology, said Provost Michael Kotlikoff, in an online alumni forum.
Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell C. McAdam '76 will speak on campus Sept. 19 as the 32nd Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education on “Tackling the World's Biggest Challenges: The Future of Communications Technology.”
The positive economic momentum from 2016 will benefit the U.S. economy in the first half of 2017, but the country will likely feel the effects of policy changes from President Trump and Congress.
While much attention is focused on the founders of startups, business professors from Cornell University and Georgia Tech wanted to know more about "joiners" – people attracted to working in startups as employees.
As one of 30 Kauffman fellow finalists selected this year, Aaron Holiday, MBA '12, will aim to work for two years for a leading venture capital firm. (April 11, 2012)
President Elizabeth Garrett formed the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group last November to focus on improving climate trends by spurring cross-disciplinary solutions on campus and globally.
Professor Tapan Mitra has established annual prizes benefiting students in the Department of Economics with a $100,000 endowment, as a “concrete expression of my continuing attachment to this great institution of learning.”