{"id":16057,"date":"2026-08-28T09:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/centers\/?page_id=16057"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:50:45","slug":"leadership-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/centers\/cref\/about\/leadership-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership &amp; staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head>  <section class=\"featured-profiles featured-profiles--condensed  section-heading--wrap bg--clear\">\n    \n    \n    <div class=\"section-heading__content\">\n      <div class=\"grid-container text-margin-reset global-spacing--4x\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li>\n              <article class=\"profile profile--featured \">\n    <figure class=\"aspect-ratio-frame\" style=\"--aspect-ratio: 7\/5\">\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.business.cornell.edu\/faculty-research\/faculty\/photo\/jmv59\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Photo of Jeanne Varney\">\n                        <\/figure>\n\n    <h3><a class=\"stylized-link--dark\" href=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/profiles\/jmv59\/\">Jeanne Varney<\/a><\/h3>\n        <span>Teaching Professor; 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