Faculty

Lateral moves may ultimately benefit career trajectory, study
Professor Michael Waldman has found important links between lateral job moves in relation to promotions, wage dynamics, and education.

Roundtable Recap: Finding the Balance Between Driving Revenue & Managing Costs
The CHR Roundtable, Finding the Balance Between Driving Revenue & Managing Costs, addressed three key aspects of the issue: People, Process, and Technology.

Study examines if US firms are becoming more short-term oriented
Yuan Shi has found intriguing data that provides new details around the active debate among managers, investors, researchers, and policymakers.

Low self-esteem leads to low-quality purchases
Study proposes that low self-esteem consumers gravitate toward inferior products because those products confirm their pessimistic self-views.

Lessons for managers in the exploration for breakthrough innovation
Study highlights important implications for managers who wish to encourage a more exploratory search for breakthrough innovation.

Background Noise? TV Advertising Affects Real-Time Investor Behavior
What influences retail stock investing? Advertising–that’s according to Dyson Professor Jura Liaukonyte and her co-researchers.

Mish and Lai win initial graduate, professional teaching prize
Professor Risa Mish receives Cornell University’s inaugural Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in Graduate and Professional Degree Programs.

How much? Knowing appetizer, entrée calories impacts food choices
A study found calorie labels on menus resulted in a reduction in calories ordered, but with a catch.

When it comes to marketing, customers must watch the information gap
Research shows that consumers fail to differentiate between deliberate and nondeliberate missing information, and marketers can take advantage.