Team $UPERMARKETers wins first Battle of the Brands

The winners of the first annual Johnson School Marketing Challenge: Battle of the Brands, in which teams of Johnson students developed and executed marketing plans for specific products, won $1,000. (Nov. 9, 2010)

Kate Griffith named first Proskauer Rose professor

The Proskauer Rose Employment and Labor Law Assistant Professorship has been established for an ILR assistant professor who engages in scholarly work in conflict resolution and collective bargaining. (Nov. 3, 2010)

Elevator pitch contest includes ideas for campus umbrella kiosks and shoes with adjustable heels

After 15 students briefly pitched their business ideas to a panel, the judges and audience chose three winners Oct. 27 for their viability and uniqueness. (Nov. 1, 2010)

Digital age transformed marketing, says CNN's Scot Safon

Scot Safon, MBA '84, CNN Worldwide's chief marketing officer, talked about how the the digital revolution has transformed the field of marketing, in his Oct. 21 talk on campus. (Oct. 29, 2010)

Course examines contemporary Mexico in light of its revolutionary past

The ILR School's Maria Lorena Cook is teaching a course titled The Mexican Revolution at 100: Politics, Economy and Society, which examines the nation's present and past. (Oct. 28, 2010)

ILR School faculty to discuss new book on social movements Oct. 27

Faculty members Lance Compa and Rebecca Givan, an editor of the new book 'The Diffusion of Social Movements: Actors, Mechanisms, and Political Effects,' will have a discussion Oct. 27 in the Cornell Store. (Oct. 26, 2010)

CU-led team aims to develop $100M eastern broccoli industry

The project aims to develop a more sustainable industry that produces broccoli locally, reduces emissions from cross-country trucking and conserves scarce western U.S. irrigation water. (Oct. 25, 2010)

Retail expert stresses that businesses will need to push goods 'pre-emptively and perpetually'

Retail consultant and author Robin Lewis said that retailing is undergoing a virtual revolution, where consumers have the power, in an Oct. 21 lecture. (Oct. 25, 2010)

Knight family still supports business-minded engineers

For the 30th anniversary of the Knight Scholars program, Cornell hosted an Oct. 19 luncheon in honor of the late Lester Knight's son, Chuck Knight '57.