Tip Sheets

Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Autoworker strike entering escalation phase—what’s next?

September 21, 2023

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

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Industrial and Labor Relations

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

Calculating corporate carbon emissions fraught with confusion, difficulty

September 13, 2023

John Tobin, professor of practice at Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business and a former Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainability at Credit Suisse and Glen Dowell, a corporate sustainability researcher and professor of management and organizations at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, comment on a measure in California that would require corporations to disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Economics and Business
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Law, Government & Public Policy

Cornell experts available to discuss UAW contract impasse, strike implications

September 11, 2023

Alex Colvin, dean of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), is an expert on issues related to collective bargaining, arbitration and dispute resolution.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Labor Relations & Human Resources
Industrial and Labor Relations

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

As ADA turns 33, more work remains to protect disability access

July 24, 2023

Jennifer Perry is an access specialist at the Yang-Tan institute where she focuses on how the human built environment can best include people with disabilities and how to follow the law when building or remodeling.  

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Labor Relations & Human Resources
Law, Government & Public Policy

UPS-Teamsters deal a victory for labor, collective bargaining

July 25, 2023

Art Wheaton serves as director of labor studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and says the deal amounts to a big win for labor.

Industrial and Labor Relations
Law and Policy
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

May Day strikes: French far-right gains ground as working people’s party

May 1, 2023

Mabel Berezin is a professor of sociology at Cornell University and an expert on international populism and fascism, she says the French right wing is the real beneficiary from Macron’s sliding approval ratings.

International
Labor Relations & Human Resources
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Law, Government & Public Policy

Despite Q1 profit, Meta has ‘tremendous’ task to remain relevant

April 27, 2023

John Blevins, guest lecturer in Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business, focuses on technology-driven market changes, strategic management and leadership in the tech sector.

International Reach
Economics and Business
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Computing & Information Sciences

Silicon Valley Bank ‘first major victim’ of Fed’s interest rate hikes

March 10, 2023

Robert Hockett, is a professor of law and public finance at Cornell Law School, where he focuses on financial and monetary law and economics, he says the Fed's current interest rate strategy may need to be reigned in.

Economics and Business
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship