Private Equity Ownership Results in Poor Working Conditions in NYS Home Care
Cornell Chronicle
Private equity firms’ investment in home care agencies perpetuates poor working conditions for workers by continuing the exploitation that is prevalent across the industry, according to a new study from the ILR School’s Worker Institute.
Kheel Center Exhibit Weaves Clothing, Work and the Environment
Cornell Chronicle
As climate change intensifies, what workers wear becomes a question of survival, a dire prospect explored by a new Cornell University Library exhibit, which opens on Oct. 8 at the Catherwood Library.
Tove Helland Hammer ’69, First Female Editor of ILR Review, Dies at 80
Tove Helland Hammer, A&S ’69, professor emerita of organizational behavior in the ILR School and the first female editor of the ILR Review, died on Sept. 12 in Ithaca. She was 80.
CJI Releases “Blueprint for Labor-Led Residential Decarbonization in New York”
New York state could catalyze a widespread clean energy transition and address its affordability issues by leveraging one of its most important resources – homes – according to a new report from the Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell University.
Kristin “Kricky” Ksiazek, M.P.A. ’13, who directs the High Road Buffalo program, has been selected to serve as a 2026-27 fellow in the SUNY Civil Discourse and Civic Education and Engagement Fellows Program.
Cooling Investments in Apparel Factories Can Pay for Themselves
Investing in cooling for Bangladesh’s apparel factories can be commercially viable, with an average payback period of one to four years, according to new research from Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute.
Holding Mirror to Itself, Higher Education Can Restore Trust in ‘Sacred’ Mission
Cornell Chronicle
Rakesh Khurana ’90, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development and Unit Head of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School, gave the 2026 Konvitz Lecture.
Legendary Designer’s Sketches, Patterns and Swatches Housed by Kheel Center
Cornell Chronicle
The Kheel Center is stewarding an archival collection of Ralph Rucci’s work that includes approximately 8,000 sketches, 3,000 patterns, thousands of fabric swatches and hundreds of photographs.
Strengthening Higher Ed Is Goal of Upcoming Konvitz Lecture
Rakesh Khurana ’90, former dean of Harvard College and scholar of organizational behavior, will discuss why public trust in higher education has declined – and how universities and colleges can respond – when he delivers this year’s Milton R. Konvitz Memorial Lectureship in American Ideals.
AI’s Impact on Professional Work to Be Examined by CAROW Yang-Tan Incubator Initiative
A new research team plans to explore AI’s impact on professional work through a new two-year pilot initiative housed at the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Yang-Tan WorkABILITY Incubator.
Pessimism, Cost of Living Are on the Rise, New York at Work Report Finds
Cornell Chronicle
Studying two decades of data collected through the Empire State Poll, researchers have found that the cost of living dominates respondents’ key concerns, eclipsing other priorities, such as the environment.
ILR Dean Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, will explore how insights from the work of the late Robert “Bob” McKersie, former ILR School dean, relate to the state of labor today when he delivers the inaugural McKersie Labor Day Lecture on Friday, Sep. 4.
Reducing Interview Anxiety for Autistic Applicants
Cornell Chronicle
YTI research shows that to reduce the challenges of job searching, autistic applicants should rehearse socially appropriate responses and practice answering interview questions about teamwork with examples from previous experiences.
CAROW Seed Grant to Fund Study of Veterinarians’ Mental Health
Duanyi Yang and Brittany Bond have been awarded a seed grant from ILR’s Center for Applied Research on Work to examine how private equity leveraged buyouts are associated with changes in workers’ mental health, job quality and care quality in veterinary clinics.
Sam Wang is among 13 early-career professors from Cornell who’ve recently been awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.
John Abowd, professor emeritus of economics, statistics, and data science at Cornell and Lars Vilhuber, research professor and executive director of ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute, have received the 2026 Caspar Bowden PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
Historic Gift to ILR Will Endow Engaged-Learning Initiative
Cornell Chronicle
In the largest one-time gift commitment in the history of the ILR School, Edwin “Ed” Baum ’81 and his wife, Holly Wallace, will establish the Baum and Wallace Family High Road Endowment. The foundational gift will fund stipends, subsidize housing and provide robust program support for High Road New York City.
Bob McKersie, distinguished scholar, educator, author, mentor and one of the most influential voices in industrial and labor relations, died July 11 at his home in Arlington, Massachusetts, at the age of 96.
Community Context Shapes Corporate Response to Violence in Street Protests
New research by Forrest Briscoe examined how reported violence in protests was associated with increased local corporate diversity action announcements.
Workers With Temporary Protected Status Aid NYS’s Economy, Society
Cornell Chronicle
Central Americans with TPS status make significant contributions to New York’s economy and civic and political organizations, an ILR School report says.
Women Negotiate as Effectively as Men – But Leave People Happier
Cornell Chronicle
Men and women achieve similar economic outcomes in negotiations, but female negotiators foster stronger interpersonal relationships, according to new research by Charlotte “Charlie” Townsend, a Future of Work fellow in the ILR School’s Department of Organizational Behavior.
