Cornell Business News archive
Cornell Business News showcases the college’s transformative educational outcomes, meaningful research and courage to tackle societal challenges. This archive is a collection the articles that feature research, insights and leadership across the college from the past several years.
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Research Reveals Cybersecurity Confidence Gap in Retail, Restaurant and Hospitality Sectors
New data released by the Center for Hospitality Research and FreedomPay reveals that while nearly all surveyed retail, restaurant, and hospitality stakeholders are confident in their companies’ internal risk assessment processes, their satisfaction in the security of their systems is misaligned with reality.
Cornell Hotel Indices: Third Quarter 2021 Pole Vaulting to a New High
The hospitality industry is bouncing back. Hotels are seeing a rebound and some hotels are rising above the pre-pandemic average.
What Happens to Service When You Raise the Minimum Wage?
A study co-authored by Professor Vrinda Kadiyali finds that higher pay is positive for at least one group—customers.
Left, right agree selling bodies is wrong – but reasons differ
Both liberals and conservatives consider bodily markets morally wrong, but they do so for different reasons, according to new research.
Electric Uprising: EVgo charges forward to create a network of EV charging stations
The U.S. has more than 150,000 gas stations but only 43,000 EV charging stations. EVgo aims to change that, says VP Nell Oliver ’88, MBA ’93.
Electric uprising: How American companies are accelerating the drive to EVs
EVs should make up 50% of all car sales by 2030 to help achieve Paris Agreement decarbonization goals. Cornell faculty weigh in on what it will take.
Electric Uprising: Factorial Energy—New lightning, new bottles
Factorial Energy’s new battery mitigates range anxiety by increasing EVs’ driving range says CEO and founder Siyu Huang ’11, PhD ’13, MBA ’14.
Electric Uprising: GM—Transforming an industry
Vinod Kumar, MBA ’08, says GM wants to put everyone in an EV. GM will invest $35 billion and launch more than 30 all-new EV models by the end of 2025.
Electric Uprising: Schneider Electric—EVs’ starring role in an all-electric world
Schneider Electric envisions EVs, with their large batteries, becoming components of electricity generation and storage grids.
‘Future of Money’ economist says the end of cash is coming—here’s what could replace it
“For many consumers and businesses that made the switch to digital payments, there is probably no going back, even if the pandemic-related concerns about the tactile nature of cash were to recede,” says Professor Eswar Prasad.
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