Insights

One of my favorite speakers this month was Ben Alden ’06, a fintech legal authority general counsel at Betterment. I could not have been more impressed by the quality, openness, and insightfulness of Ben’s presentation at Cornell Tech.

Raymond Martz ’93 writes about the concerning decline in international visitation to America in Hotel News Now.

Senior Lecturer Susan Fleming discusses the need for more gender diversity in hospitality leadership and how women can take matters into their own hands.

Providing commentary alongside other experts, Karolyi makes clear that when Wall Street’s weather forecast calls for clear skies, consumers can’t help but spend a pocketful of sunshine.

In an interview with Hotels Magazine, Dean Kate Walsh discusses how hotels can embrace the #MeToo movement and better retain and promote women.

Cornell undergraduate students had the opportunity to interact with leading industry experts in a roundtable hosted by the Cornell Institute for Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations.

Economist Andrew Novakovic talks to Dairy Herd Management about milk prices and dairy margin predictions for 2018.

Steven Kyle, associate professor, made his annual assessment of the current national economy and predictions for the coming year at the 2018 Agricultural and Food Business Outlook Conference.

Professor David Just tells Vox that new research from NYU and Tufts lays the groundwork for a federal junk food tax when the U.S. has a Congress that’s open to the idea.