Faculty
Noteworthy: Sell or Airbnb? Lutz Finger says online tool created by Cornell students can help decide
Real Estate Advisor predicts the potential selling price of your house and compares that to the potential revenue you could make on Airbnb.
Noteworthy: Ed McLaughlin’s food retail Q&A with FreshFruitPortal.com
McLaughlin discusses the changing food retail landscape and what its future might look like—discount retailers, Wal-Mart, and the Amazon/Whole Foods merger.
Research Recap: Possible unintended consequences of energy efficiency improvements
Research co-authored by Cynthia Lin Lawell finds that improvements in energy efficiency may actually increase rather than decrease energy use.
Noteworthy: The New Food Economy features Harry Kaiser’s co-authored research on food labeling
Food labeling affects what products consumers buy, for better or worse, according to research co-authored by Dyson School’s Harry Kaiser.
Beyond Ithaca: Johnson’s Ithaca-based MBAs can take classes at Tech campus, NYC
Innovative coursework is being offered for Ithaca MBA students who wish to spend weekends or an entire spring semester in NYC at the Cornell Tech campus.
Noteworthy: Drew Pascarella gives tips on choosing an MBA program for finance, banking
Recruiting relationships and conversion rates are important factors to consider, according to the Johnson School’s Drew Pascarella.
Noteworthy: Dana Radcliffe on firearms industry’s moral responsibility
“These are powerful industries, but they’re not behaving responsibly,” says Dana Radcliffe, Day Family Senior Lecturer of Business Ethics.
Johnson School congratulates Richard Thaler on Nobel Prize win in economics
Thaler, former economics professor at Johnson, is recognized with a Nobel Prize for his research in the field of behavioral economics.
Margin and mission: The economic impacts of farm to school
Is the farm to school movement economically feasible? Professor Todd Schmit previews an upcoming webinar that gives practitioners the resources to find out.