Top corporate strategist Orit Gadiesh to speak at Cornell Sept. 7

Orit Gadiesh, an international expert on management and corporate strategy, will give a talk on that topic at Cornell on Thursday, Sept. 7, at 5 p.m. The talk is part of the Johnson Graduate School of Management Park Leadership Speakers Series and is free and open to the public.

Three Cornell Park fellows open the doors to college for urban teens

A new program developed by three Cornell University students promises to help more of Ithaca's urban teens get into college. The 16 Leadership Service Projects developed by Park Fellows at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Cornell women learn how to succeed on Wall Street from alumnae and other mentors

Six Cornell University seniors, all women, went to New York City this past summer hoping to learn how to crack Wall Street's infamous glass ceiling — that invisible, impermeable surface their mothers merely scratched.

Their confidence high, average investors still lose out consistently to the professionals, Cornell study finds

Their confidence high, average investors still lose out consistently to the professionals, Cornell study finds. Theory aside, efficient markets fail to protect the "little guy."

John O. McClain named president of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society

John O. McClain, professor of production and quantitative analysis at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named the president of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.

Cornell marketing professor analyzes corporate game plans for Super Bowl ads

Prestige and worldwide attention, in addition to a desire to increase sales, may be a chief reason to advertise during the Super Bowl, according to a Cornell professor. Douglas M. Stayman, associate professor of marketing at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.

International Deal Making: First Comprehensive Guide to Cross-Border

International M&A, Joint Ventures and Beyond: Doing the Deal -- the first U.S. book dealing exclusively with cross-border deals -- is set to be published by John Wiley & Sons on Nov. 28.

European economist at Cornell will deliver Einaudi Lecture Oct. 23

Pierre Pestieau, professor of economics at the University of Lige in Belgium, will present the 1997 Einaudi Lecture Oct. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White Houseat Cornell.

Robert Swieringa, a Yale University professor and former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, will become the ninth dean of the Johnson School

Robert J. Swieringa, a professor in the practice of accounting at the School of Management at Yale University and a former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, has been named the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.