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Matchmaking Strategies Enhance Hiring in Volatile Labor Markets

Leveraging “acqui-hiring,” boomerang hiring, poaching, “liftouts” and other practices benefit employers, according to new ILR research.
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Matchmaking Strategies Enhance Hiring in Volatile Labor Markets

Malcomb Wins Social Justice Award

The 2023 Cornell Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Awards winners include Claire Malcomb, an ILR Ph.D. student and ILR WIDE fellow in the Department of Organizational Behavior.
Claire Malcomb
Malcomb Wins Social Justice Award

Student Passionate About Education Reform

At ILR, Tofunmi Olabode ’24 is building on educational equity and justice interests that began in high school.
Tofunmi Olabode ’24
Student Passionate About Education Reform

Lipsky Professorship Extends Legacy of ILR School Leader

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The new David and Alexandra Lipsky Professorship in Dispute Resolution, endowed by the estate of David B. Lipsky ’61, a former dean and the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor Emeritus, and his wife, Sandy, will extend the legacy of one of the ILR School’s most beloved and inspirational leaders.
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Lipsky Professorship Extends Legacy of ILR School Leader

IZA, Princeton Featuring Kahn

Lawrence M. Kahn, the Braunstein Family Professor and Professor of Economics, shared his expertise in productions hosted by the IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) and Princeton University.
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IZA, Princeton Featuring Kahn

ILRie Elected as Student Trustee

J.P. Swenson ’25 will begin his two-year term in the fall semester.
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ILRie Elected as Student Trustee

Packman Named to Sustainability, Climate Justice Commission

Senior Research & Policy Development Associate Iris Packman of ILR’s Climate Jobs Institute will share her expertise with the Ithaca community.
Iris Packman
Packman Named to Sustainability, Climate Justice Commission

Exhibit Celebrates Union Icon and Power of Collective

The “Norma Rae” movie immortalized unionizing efforts of southern textile workers that grew into a national boycott of cotton goods manufactured by a union-busting manufacturer. Kheel Center curators tell the deeper story.
Sally Field and Crystal Lee Sutton
Exhibit Celebrates Union Icon and Power of Collective

ILR Connects with Amazon Labor Union Leaders

The 2023 Union Days’ labor leaders in residence first learned of the school through Alejandra Quintero, MILR ’23 and have been inviting students.
Alejandra Quintero - Union Days
ILR Connects with Amazon Labor Union Leaders

Data Science Minor Opening Doors for ILRies

Students’ career readiness and quantitative literacy are supported by a new minor that complements the new ILR curriculum with courses offering a deeper dive into data analysis.
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Data Science Minor Opening Doors for ILRies

Amazon Labor Organizers Encourage Solidarity

For more than 300 days, Amazon workers talked with their peers to build relationships, trust and, ultimately, a union that many thought would never be possible, Amazon Labor Union leaders said at ILR during Union Days.
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Amazon Labor Organizers Encourage Solidarity

Q&A with Yiran Zhang

Get to know more about one of ILR’s four new faculty members.
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Q&A with Yiran Zhang

Q&A with Yiran Zhang

Get to know more about one of ILR’s four new faculty members.
Q&A with Yiran Zhang

New Department Reflects ILR’s Global Relevance, Academic Excellence

Drawing on faculty expertise in labor relations, labor law, anthropology, economics, history, political science and sociology, the Global Labor and Work Department studies workers, employers and the government policies affecting them.
New Department Reflects ILR’s Global Relevance, Academic Excellence

2023 ILR Senior Spotlights

The ILR School celebrates members of the Class of 2023.
2023 ILR Senior Spotlights

ILRie Leading Hollywood Writers

Ellen Stutzman ’04 is at the center of 11,500 striking screenwriters whose union is picketing Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Universal and Paramount.
ILRie Leading Hollywood Writers

CAROW Introduces Yang-Tan WorkABILITY Incubator

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Funding from K. Lisa Yang '74 will support innovative applied research projects and foster collaborations across Cornell to address important societal issues linked to work.
CAROW Introduces Yang-Tan WorkABILITY Incubator

ILR Announces 2023 McPherson Honors and Awards

ILR held its 30th McPherson Honors and Awards Celebration, a spring tradition honoring students and faculty, Tuesday at the Statler Hotel on campus.
ILR Announces 2023 McPherson Honors and Awards

With ‘Migrations,’ Big Red Scholars Navigate a World in Motion

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The cross-disciplinary Global Grand Challenge - which includes a project led by Patricia Campos-Medina - explores how, and why, Earth’s beings are always on the move.
With ‘Migrations,’ Big Red Scholars Navigate a World in Motion

Celebration Honors Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year Barry Beck ’90

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Barry Beck was honored during the Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s annual two-day Celebration conference, which also included various panels, talks and networking events, as well as eLab Demo Day and the announcement of the winners of three other competitions.
Celebration Honors Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year Barry Beck ’90

Gleeson to Discuss the Law and the Reality of Asylum

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Professor Shannon Gleeson will join a prominent refugee and author and a renowned legal expert to discuss racism and xenophobia in U.S. refugee policy at the “Race, Refuge & Border Justice” keynote on Wednesday, April 26.
Gleeson to Discuss the Law and the Reality of Asylum

ILR Duo Wins SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

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Yasmin Ballew ’23 and Anne Bugayong ’23 have been selected due to their outstanding achievements that demonstrate excellence in the areas of academics, leadership, campus involvement and community service.
ILR Duo Wins SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

Debaters Win Championship

Cornell Speech & Debate Program duo from ILR and the College of Arts and Sciences won top honors in national finals.
Debaters Win Championship

Yasmin Ballew ’23 Receives Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award

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ILRie will use award funding to establish a partnership between Alpha Phi Omega and the Greater Ithaca Activities Center.
Yasmin Ballew ’23 Receives Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award

Regional Town-Gown Conference Focuses on Labor, Employment

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Community leaders and ILR School experts discussed issues such as childcare, remote and hybrid work, and housing and demographic trends at the Regional Town-Gown Conference, held April 18 at the Hotel Ithaca.
Regional Town-Gown Conference Focuses on Labor, Employment

Warm-Up Time Corrects Creativity Power Imbalance

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“Low-power” individuals can show more innovation when given the chance to “warm-up” to a creative task, according to research co-authored by an ILR faculty member who is an organizational behavior expert.
Warm-Up Time Corrects Creativity Power Imbalance

Minimum Wage Increase Yields Positives: Report

Increasing the Tompkins County minimum wage of $16.61 to a living wage would increase earnings for thousands of workers and reduce racial and gender disparities, according to a new Ithaca Co-Lab report.
Minimum Wage Increase Yields Positives: Report

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