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“Is it sustainable?” COVID-19 points to the value of asking big questions to inform planning resilience and social justice
COVID-19 underscores firms’ need for planning resilience, disproportionate impacts on poorer populations, and our interconnectedness.

Rudd Family Professor of Management Lin William Cong named to Poets&Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 Professors list
Lin William Cong, associate professor of finance at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named to top MBA faculty list.

Two MBA programs at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business receive STEM designation
The Johnson Graduate School of Management announces it will add two Ithaca-based Management Science MBA programs with classification as STEM-designated by the federal government.

Present Value: Perspectives on COVID-19
Faculty members Andrew Karolyi, Lynn Wooten, Li Chen, Vishal Gaur, and Kaitlin Woolley discuss business impacts of COVID-19.

Plan now for a new, post-COVID-19 world, urges top Bain executive Hernan Saenz III, MBA/MILR ’98
Senior leaders need to both manage through the COVID-19 crisis and redefine business models and strategy for a post-pandemic world.

The Business of Coffee: Not the regular grind
The Business of Coffee: From Farm to Cup, developed by SHA assistant professor Jacob Chestnut, is Cornell’s first-ever course about coffee.

Present Value: Ryan Guggenmos and Kristina Rennekamp discuss the human side of accounting
Professors Guggenmos and Rennekamp discuss behavioral accounting research and analyze the impact of diverse investment communications.

Student perspective: Managing assets in a time of uncertainty and volatility
Cayuga Fund student asset managers quickly adapted to work virtually when COVID-19 and resulting economic disruption hit the markets.

Edward McLaughlin named interim dean of the Dyson School
Edward McLaughlin, Robert G. Tobin Professor of Marketing, emeritus, will become interim dean of Cornell’s Dyson School July 1.