May 6, 2021
Professor M. Diane Burton will lead the ILR School center that researches, teaches and communicates about monetary and non-monetary rewards from work, and how rewards influence outcomes for individuals, companies, industries and economies.
She begins July 1 as director of the Institute for Compensation Studies, Alex Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, announced May 5. Colvin is ILR’s Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman ’75, MS ’76, Professor of Conflict Resolution.
Burton succeeds founding director Kevin F. Hallock, ILR’s Joseph R. Rich ’80 Professor of Economics and Human Resource Studies, who departs Cornell in August to begin as president of the University of Richmond. Hallock is a former dean of the SC Johnson School of Business, where he is a professor.