Centers & Institutes
Exciting things are happening within our centers, institutes, and special program initiatives. Here’s a collection of recent stories and updates.

Emerging markets speaker Hausmann presents his Scrabble theory of economic development
Gaurav Trivedi, MBA ’19, reflects on guest speaker Ricardo Hausmann’s lecture about connections between technological advancement and income growth.

19th Annual Labor & Employment Law Roundtable: Session 3
The third session of the 19th Annual Labor & Employment Law Roundtable focused on the plaintiffs’ perspective.

Improving learning outcomes of 50 million students in Indonesia
Johnson’s Social Impact Internship Fund enabled Amanda Srishima to pursue a summer internship with the Ministry of Education and Culture in Indonesia.

Webinar Review: Bipartisanship in the Biden Era
A new president means a new, union-friendly General Counsel more favorably inclined toward organized labor and its point of view.

MBAs launch high-growth startups in deep tech through radical collaboration
Big Red Tech Strategy partners MBAs with Cornell Engineering Commercialization Fellows to launch businesses based on their technological innovations.

Profit through purpose: Building long-term shareholder value
Former CEO of Unilever Paul Polman joined students via Zoom to discuss the changing business landscape of a post-COVID-19 world.

Roundtable Recap: Sustainability in the era of COVID-19
Participants from around the world gathered virtually for the Center for Hospitality Research’s 11th Annual Sustainability Roundtable to discuss sustainability in the era of COVID-19.

Mark Nasr ’07 and Industry Panel Discuss Managing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Air Travel
The airline industry has been rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic. With fewer people willing or able to travel by air, demand has drastically decreased—and as a result, so have the […]

19th Annual Labor and Employment Law Roundtable- Session 2
19th Annual Labor and Employment Law roundtable focuses on perspectives and practical responses of hospitality human resources (HR) professionals to the pandemic