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12/03/2014 Professor Lourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer and Academic Director of the Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, was recently named one of the 50 Most Influential Intellectuals in Iberoamerica. IberoAmerica comprises the countries in the Americas that are former colonies of Spain and Portugal. The digital magazine on international relations esglobal said […]

EMI Research Assistant, Sukriti Jain highlights Lourdes Casanova’s work on innovation in Latin America. by Sukriti Jain, Research Assistant, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management The case of innovation in Latin America is analyzed with key recommendations in a book chapter, written with Prof. Lourdes Casanova et al. By Sukriti Jain, Research Assistant, Samuel […]

  Issue NO. 26 By Heloisa Menezes*Three months out from the Brazilian presidential inauguration, the explicit priorities, made evident by the proposals sent to the Congress in the first forty days, are security and fiscal adjustment. As investors warned, the brutal fiscal crisis is expected to prompt massive cuts in public expenditures and a deepening […]

CIHLER director David Sherwyn joined attorneys from the firm of Epstein Becker Green, which hosted a roundtable and webinar on “Strategies for Tip and Service Charge Compliance for the Hospitality Industry.” Epstein Becker Green is a national law firm serving clients in such industries as health care, financial services, retail, hospitality, and technology. The session […]

Time magazine’s analysis of the NLRB ruling included a comment from Richard Hurd, professor and associate dean for external relations at the ILR School, and associate director of the center. The ruling involves the relationship between McDonald’s and its franchisees with regard to who is the employer. Although the NLRB ruled that McDonald’s is a co-employer […]

CIHLER member Jones Day hosted the spring semester Chicago Regional Roundtable, which brought together some 20 representatives of management and labor, including vice presidents, owners, and corporate counsel. Participants examined key topics in industry labor relations, including the 2016 changes in overtime rules, the EEOC’s new digital charge processing system, issues relating to NLRB’s joint employer […]

The Cornell Institute for Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations held its first Regional Area Roundtable on May 18, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. The event was hosted by the institute’s partners—Michael Gray of Jones Day, and David Ritter of Barnes & Thornburg—at the Barnes & Thornburg Chicago office. Regional roundtables are a forum to disseminate reach […]

In addition to sponsoring events, CIHLER’s presence is also spread wide and can be seen in its outreach to industry events. Most recently these outreach activities included: CIHLER Associate Director Richard Hurd, along with faculty member Rachel Aleks, led a session on “Young Workers and Collective Action: Views from the Hospitality Sector,” at the 68th annual […]