Cornell students by day, entrepreneurs by night
For entrepreneurial Cornell students, the 168 entrepreneurship classes offered on campus prepare them for a business future -- but many students don't wait until graduation to start a business. (Dec. 18, 2008)

Alumni survey: Entrepreneur courses shape attitudes
A survey of alumni from the Cornell Entrepreneur Network found that taking even one entrepreneurship class made a graduate's attitude toward entrepreneurship much more positive. (Dec. 16, 2008)

Kyle calls for 'stimulus shock and awe' for U.S. economy
One week after the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed that the U.S. economy has been mired in a yearlong recession, economist Steven Kyle predicted that the financial tumult would continue well into 2009. (Dec. 10, 2008)

Men help stop domestic violence
An ILR School program called 'Stand Up Guys' focuses on how men can help stop domestic violence against women. (Nov. 19, 2008)

MBA students manage $14 million Cayuga Fund
Between 40 and 50 investors have $14 million invested in the Cayuga Fund, a market-neutral equity hedge fund managed by second-year Johnson School MBA students. (Nov. 18, 2008)

Online receipt idea wins Elevator Pitch Contest
A business idea that would allow people to manage their receipts online was the top winner in the Oct. 29 Cornell Entrepreneur Organization's Elevator Pitch Contest. (Nov. 18, 2008)

Financial engineering students spend semester in N.Y.
Master of financial engineering students are putting theory into practice during their third and final semester of coursework at Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan. (Nov. 10, 2008)

Maple expert campaigns to boost state's syrup production
A Cornell researcher is trying to promote greater maple production in the Northeast; in New York, for example, less than 1 percent of the tappable trees are being used for maple syrup production. (Nov. 4, 2008)

Students and alumni find career help at Cornell
Despite the grim economy, campus career experts emphasize that a Cornell degree still holds value in the marketplace. Nonetheless, many are ramping up their efforts to help job-seeking Cornellians. (Oct. 30, 2008)

Securities Law Clinic provides free services to investors
A new Securities Law Clinic has opened at the Cornell Law School to provide free legal services to investors in central New York who have suffered losses due to fraud or other improper conduct. (Oct. 28, 2008)

Entrepreneurship interns play vital role in small companies
Fifty-eight Cornell students had summer internships through Entrepreneurship@Cornell, working with small- to mid-sized companies where they played a vital role in their company's operations. (Oct. 28, 2008)

Edid receives community development award
Maralyn Edid in Cornell's ILR School has been selected for the 2008 David J. Allee and Paul R. Eberts Community and Economic Vitality Award from Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute. (Oct. 23, 2008)

New program assists entrepreneurial engineers
The College of Engineering is offering a select group of students the chance to learn how to make their technological innovations into working businesses, thanks to a gift from Andrew J. Kessler '80. (Oct. 21, 2008)

CU Food Venture Center helps develop squash oil
A farmer with surplus butternut squash waste turned to the New York State Food Venture Center at Cornell, which helped develop a new, nutty-tasting butternut squash seed oil. (Oct. 21, 2008)

Executive MBA program ranked No. 7 by WSJ
Published in the Sept. 30 issue, the report on the top 25 best executive MBA programs was based on surveys of thousands of students and hundreds of companies. (Oct. 9, 2008)

ILR alumni give career advice to students
More than 100 students gathered in small groups Sept. 12 to talk with ILR graduates, who gave such advice as take jobs abroad, learn languages and build relationships. (Oct. 3, 2008)

ILR professor provides tips on retaining top talent
Why do employees leave? What motivates good employees to stay? How skilled an employee's supervisor is plays a major role, a new study shows. (Oct. 2, 2008)

Student starts foundation to plug 'brain drain'
Graduate student Kevin McAvey has launched the Upstate Foundation to give grants to college graduates to encourage them to stay in the upstate New York region. (Oct. 1, 2008)

ILR School issues 'green jobs' report for U.N.
Millions of jobs could be created to tackle global climate change, according to an ILR School report unveiled at United Nations headquarters Sept. 24. (Oct. 1, 2008)

Johnson School panel ponders the financial crisis
Rich Marin, former chairman and CEO of Bear Stearns Asset Management, and Johnson School professors Bob Jarrow and Maureen O'Hara, examined the roots of the nation's financial meltdown, Sept. 24. (Sept. 30, 2008)

Mortgage crisis: Lessons learned the hard way
To kick off the new Applied Economics and Management Current Event series, a group of alumni, all financial experts, discussed the mortgage and financial crisis, Sept. 25. (Sept. 30, 2008)

How high oil prices could help U.S. manufacturing
In a Cornell Perspectives piece, Johnson School Dean L. Joseph Thomas discusses the silver lining of high oil prices for U.S. manufacturing. (Sept. 29, 2008)

Johnson School students get a taste of leadership
Nearly the entire incoming class of Johnson School students attended this year's Johnson Outdoor Experience, organized and facilitated by second-year students. (Aug. 26, 2008)

Goldstock to head NY harbor commission
Ronald Goldstock '66, Cornell adjunct professor of law, will direct the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor for a three-year term. (Aug. 13, 2008)

University of Colorado to honor Alfred Kahn
The University of Colorado Law School will host a conference Sept. 5 honoring Cornell Professor Emeritus Alfred Kahn. Thirty years ago, Kahn spearheaded the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. (Aug. 13, 2008)

MBA student makes finals of 'Apprentice Africa'
Eunice Omole was a finalist on the reality show that aired throughout the African continent from February through June. (July 28, 2008)

Hillary Clinton praises CU green energy initiative
The senator visited Syracuse's City Hall July 2 for an alternative energy forum featuring exhibits by the Cornell University Renewable Bioenergy Initiative and other sustainable energy projects. (July 3, 2008)

Creating business opportunities with the world's poor
The Johnson School's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise is helping to alleviate poverty by partnering multinational corporations with local communities in poor areas of the world. (June 25, 2008)

Study shows NBA star players make winning coaches
Star players in the NBA make winning coaches, finds a study out of Cornell and the University of Warwick, England. The results indicate that experts in a field make the best leaders. (June 13, 2008)

Multidisciplinary project builds green community in Hawaii
CU Green, a project team designing a sustainable community in Hawaii, includes engineering, architecture and business students. (May 22, 2008)

Cornell marketing students take on alum's wine for charity
Students are helping alumnus and former lacrosse player Joseph Lizzio '88 market his new wine, Rusty Red. All profits from the wine will go to a lacrosse-focused charity for underprivileged children. (May 7, 2008)

Cornell startup company wins entrepreneurship prize
Ithaca-based Mezmeriz Inc., founded by Shahyaan Desai '00 and led by Bradley Treat, MBA 2002, won for most innovative and growth-oriented emerging business in central New York state. (May 7, 2008)

Firefighting has alarmingly too few women, study finds
Fewer than 4 percent of the nation's firefighters are women, and more than half of paid fire departments have never hired a female firefighter, finds a new report issued by the ILR School's Institute for Women and Work. (May 5, 2008)

Five receive Provost's Awards for Distinguished Scholarship
The $30,000 awards recognize outstanding tenured faculty early in their careers for distinguished research and scholarly achievements, combined with their continuing commitment to Cornell. (April 17, 2008)

Scrimple.com wins 'Big Idea' business competition
Matt Ackerson '09 won $2,500 as the winner of Entrepreneurship@Cornell's 'The Big Idea' contest for his Web site that offers college students downloadable coupons for discounts at local businesses. (April 15, 2008)

Milstein champions entrepreneurial thinking in keynote address
There are always ways to improve a situation and do things better than they've been done before, said Howard Milstein '73, the 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year, at the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration. (April 14, 2008)

Cornell can do well by doing good, tech transfer leader says
Alan Paau, vice provost for technology transfer, says Cornell's technology transfer strategy is but about building the local economy and getting the results of research out into the world. (April 9, 2008)

'Gold rush' of food stores in India has led to many failures
Domestic companies scrambling to carpet the country with modern grocery stores before foreign retailers can get a foothold don't have the food-retailing skills, says Cornell food marketing expert. (April 7, 2008)

American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault visits Cornell
In an interview with USA Today reporter David Lieberman on campus April 3, American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault shared thoughts on success, leadership and business strategies. (April 4, 2008)

Undergrad entrepreneurs ready their pitches for Big Idea finals
Ten undergraduates are vying for prize money in the second Big Idea Competition for their creative business ideas. Watch their pitches and help determine the winners April 11, 4-5:30 p.m., in 196 Beck Center, Statler Hall. (April 3, 2008)

Business incubator opens for entrepreneurial undergraduates
The Student Agencies eLab will help Cornell undergraduates develop business ideas into action with access to a network of successful alumni mentors and investors and a suite of professional services. (April 3, 2008)

Engineering school uses entrepreneurial approach
Sixteen student project teams in the College of Engineering hone their entrepreneurial skills by building vehicles and other projects to enter national competitions. (April 3, 2008)

Joe Thomas takes helm of the Johnson School
Joe Thomas, a noted scholar, dynamic teacher and proven academic administrator, has been named dean of Cornell's world-renowned Johnson School. Thomas has been serving as interim dean since June 2007. (March 27, 2008)

Q and A with Joe Thomas
Dean Joe Thomas sat down this week with Cornell Chronicle writer Anne Ju to discuss some of his ideas and goals as he takes over leadership of the Johnson School. (March 27, 2008)

New course tackles how best to help the world's problems
In the fall, students in the four-credit course, Social Entrepreneurs, Innovators and Problem Solvers, will learn about innovators who successfully campaigned for social justice. (March 24, 2008)

Gender gap persists in New York's boardrooms, CU study finds
Women still comprise less than 15 percent of the total board director and executive officer positions in the 100 largest public companies headquartered in the state, according to the study. (March 19, 2008)

Professor's eco-friendly company draws skateboard firm to Ithaca
Thanks to innovative research by Cornell's Anil Netravali, Comet Skateboards is making completely biodegradable boards. The company has since moved its manufacturing operation to Ithaca. (March 19, 2008)

Alumnae are key players in BITTEN clothing line
Tiffany Todo '06, Susan Dauber '06 and Juliana Eisner '05 work as designers, and Jessy Curro '05 is a merchandise manager at Steve & Barry's, the clothing retailer that launched the Sarah Jessica Parker clothing line BITTEN last summer. (March 11, 2008)

New courses teach leadership to food science and business majors
Two new courses for food science and undergraduate business majors teach leadership and team-building skills with help from Cornell's Team and Leadership Center. (March 4, 2008)

ILR documents the battle against alcoholism in the workplace
The video testimonies of four recovering alcoholics, all pioneers in the field of alcohol abuse prevention in the workplace, lend an authentic voice to the ILR School's Oral History Project. (Feb. 29, 2008)

Milstein gets $100K to study U.S. military economic development
To study the U.S. military's approaches toward promoting economic development in conflict zones, Johnson School professor Mark Milstein was recently awarded $100,000 from the Social Equity Venture Fund. (Feb. 26, 2008)

Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration 2008, April 10-11
It is not too early to register for the Third Annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration, slated for April 10-11 on the Cornell campus. (Feb. 18, 2008)

Cornell, Columbia collaborate on workshop for fledgling companies
Cornell will partner with the Columbia University Center for Advanced Information Management to help six promising technologies get a boost toward commercialization at a March workshop in NYC. (Feb. 14, 2008)

Howard Milstein named 2008 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year
Howard P. Milstein '73, co-chairman, president and CEO of Emigrant Savings Bank and its holding company, New York Private Bank and Trust, and managing partner of Milstein Properties, has been named the 2008 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year. (Feb. 4, 2008)

Likable Super Bowl ads can boost stock prices, researchers find
Super Bowl commercials that TV viewers like can lead to increases in stock purchases and stock prices, according to a study by Cornell and University of Buffalo researchers. (Feb. 1, 2008)

CU researchers connect violence and business climate in Colombia
Wesley Sine and Shon Hiatt have spent the last few years studying the impact of violence on the small-business climate of Colombia, concluding that instability directly affects entrepreneurs' ability to prosper. (Jan. 10, 2008)