A student team that devised a plan to sell certain public tweets to Google and Microsoft has won first prize in the university’s second annual Stephen S. J. Hall Ethics Case Competition held March 7 at the School of Hotel Administration.
Very few successful people would have succeeded if they hadn't been lucky, too, economist Robert H. Frank says in his book, "Success and Luck." He calls on policymakers to create the conditions that put luck on everyone's side.
Entrepreneur and business turnaround specialist Peter Cuneo, speaking at Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s Celebration April 16, said poor leadership is a problem facing family businesses.
Young people leave upstate New York at typical rates, but the rate of young people moving here is extraordinarily low. A panel discussion Dec. 2 looked at ways to change that scenario.
Kim Beazley, the Australian ambassador to the United States, spoke on campus Sept. 10 about U.S. diplomatic efforts in Southeast Asia. He says they are succeeding.
Political scientist Jamila Michener expands the "broken windows theory" - used by social scientists to explain bad behavior in bad neighborhoods: criminals feel comfortable there - to show how some people's discomfort with bad neighborhoods inspires good behavior.