In 2020, four of the five most-read stories in the Cornell Chronicle related to the pandemic. This year, as of Dec. 1, there was just one COVID-19 story in the top 20 – a reflection of the “new normal” following a year like no other.Of the top 10 Chr
Of the top 10 Chronicle stories in 2021, five were on research, one reported on a major gift to the university and two profiled Cornellians doing extraordinary things – including a graduate who played a key role in NASA’s landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars.
February 16, 2021
Harold “Hal” Bierman Jr., the Nicholas H. Noyes Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Management and Finance, who transformed the framing of investment decisions and mentored thousands of MBA students over nearly six decades at Cornell, died Feb. 12 in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina. He was 96.
Bierman joined the Cornell faculty in 1956, serving for 59 years in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management as a professor of finance, accounting and management.
Harold Bierman Jr.
“Hal was a longtime and beloved member of the Johnson and Cornell communities, and his influence and impact will live on,” said Mark Nelson, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of Johnson.