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He just spent $69 million on a digital piece of art. It’s not his first Beeple.
“Think about how traditional art pieces are hard to trade,” Professor Will Cong tells the Washington Post. “That is solved after the ownership can be easily divided and traded.”

Student Voices: Meet Yifan Wu, Two-Year MBA Class of 2022
A marketing production executive and a musician who is pursuing a career in consulting, learn why Yifan Wu joined the Two-Year MBA Class of 2022.

How Barbara Novick ’82 helped grow BlackRock from startup to asset management giant
BlackRock co-founder Barbara Novick outlined eight key lesson she deems critical to BlackRock’s success.

Opinion: Flying is safer than driving, even during the pandemic. These statistics show why.
If you choose to travel during the pandemic, flying is the still the safest option, writes Dyson Professor Garrick Blalock and Johnson Professor Vrinda Kadiyali in their Washington Post op-ed.

Market Manipulation Chatter Rises as Digital Art Scene Explodes
“Fraud detection is hard,” Professor William Cong tells Bloomberg. “Even if they are all non-fungible, they’re still anonymous and it would be hard to track down market manipulators.”

19th Annual Labor and Employment Roundtable – Session 4
Hospitality labor and employment roundtable assembles different perspectives on election and pandemic effects

Johnson Cornell Tech MBA Alumni Startups Tackle COVID-19 Challenges
Enroute and Tangle–two startups launched by 2020 Cornell Tech MBA graduates–are tackling the challenges of COVID-19.

Student Entrepreneurship Fuels Business Growth And Learning
Professor Chris Marquis authors a Forbes Q&A article featuring Nick Bayer ’00, founder and CEO of Saxbys.

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.