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Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Oscar newcomers benefit from lower expectations

February 6, 2020

Heeyon Kim, an expert in how social status, reputation and market identity affect the behavior of people in creative industries, says newcomers don't need to beat industry giants to reach Oscar status, they just need to beat expectations. 

Social & Behavioral Sciences
Heeyon Kim

Cornell experts on coronavirus - Impact on the economy and industries

May 12, 2020

Experts at Cornell University are available to discuss the coronavirus in terms of its many impacts on economic productivity, inequalities as well as specific disruptions to various industries. 

Alexander Colvin
Mary Jo Dudley
professor of history at Cornell University
Miguel Gómez
senior research associate at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Visiting senior scholar at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Louis Hyman
Heeyon Kim
Kevin Kniffin
Associate Professor of Economics at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Jamila Michener
Douglass Miller
Andrew Novakovic
Richard Stup
Alex Susskind
Mildred E. Warner
Art Wheaton
Nicolas Ziebarth

Oscar love curse: Male actors’ divorce rates up after nomination, win

February 20, 2019

Heeyon Kim, assistant professor of strategy and management and organization at Cornell University, studies how social status, reputation and market identity affect the behavior of people in creative industries. In her research, Kim found that the Hollywood myth of the Oscar curse – that careers of actors or their personal lives can be negatively impacted by winning the Oscar – actually existed, but just for men.

Heeyon Kim