Insights

With playful, self-deprecating humor and pithy lessons from his successful career, Will Guidara ’01, co-owner of Eleven Madison Park, a restaurant ranked among the best in the world, gave the keynote address at the 93rd Hotel Ezra Cornell.

This week we were presenting our potential leveraged buyout case—and we had a special guest: Christina Park, MBA ’02, managing director in leveraged finance at RBC Capital Markets.

Low milk prices have devastated farmers financially and emotionally across New York state. Dyson professor Andrew Novaković offers expert insight into the agricultural economics of milk.

Authored by alumnus David Desta, this in-depth editorial examines the landscape of the Ethiopian hospitality industry and proposes solutions by way of on-the-job academic coursework to help build up a reliable, qualified workforce within Ethiopia.

Robert H. Frank, economics professor at Johnson, writes about exactly why the repeal of the Obamacare mandate that required people to buy insurance “poses a serious long-term threat.”

Eric Ricaurte ’01 discusses an international effort to collect sustainability data from hotels around the globe and delivers a progress report.

Corporate professionals gathered with students at the Cornell Business Impact Symposium, “Unleashing the Hidden Power of Sustainability,” at the Breazzano Family Center for Business Education.

At restaurants across America, servers calculate how far is too far, weighing harassing behavior against the tips they need to make a living wage. Professor Michael Lynn comments on service and tipping in this New York Times piece.

Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at the Dyson School, provides insight into the U.S. share of global production of steel, and why the industry is under threat from steelmakers in China and other competing countries.