Faculty & Research

Faculty Experts

Every month, a Johnson School faculty members talks about research, teaching, study, and the MBA experience at Cornell.

Professor O'Connor is an organizational psychologist who studies negotiation, teamwork, and decision making. Much of her recent research focuses on how negotiations link together over time. One stream of work shows that past negotiation experiences direct negotiators' choice of tactics and their performance in successive negotiations. A second stream investigates how negotiators' reputations affect them and their potential for success at the bargaining table.
Professor Frank is a monthly contributor to the "Economic Scene" column in The New York Times. Until 2001, he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Nepal, chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board, fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was Professor of American Civilization at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has written numerous books including The Winner-Take-All Society, co-authored with Philip Cook, which was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and was included in Business Week's list of the ten best books for 1995. Frank holds a BS in mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MA in statistics from UC Berkeley and a PhD in economics, also from UC Berkeley.
Professor Robert Jarrow, a mathematician and leading expert on risk management, talks about solid quantitative models and how the lack of them contributed to the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

Mark Milstein, PhD, directs the Johnson School's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, and also serves as lead faculty for the innovative Sustainable Global Enterprise Immersion Learning Program for MBA students. In this interview, Dr. Milstein defines sustainable enterprise, discusses the school's unique approach to teaching sustainable enterprise, and explains how innovation and entrepreneurship can help solve many of the world's pressing economic, social, and environmental problems.

Michael Waldman, the Charles H. Dyson Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, has served on the faculty of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University since 1991. He is widely recognized as one of his field's top researchers in the area of applied microeconomic theory, where his main fields of interest are industrial organization and organizational economics. In these areas, he is best known for his work on learning and signaling in labor markets, the operation of durable goods markets, and the strategic use of tying and bundling in product markets.

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