Nominees are being sought for the 2021 Saint Viator and Sacred Heart of Mary Distinguished Alumni Awards. Nominations are being accepted through June 30.
May 21, 2021
Circularity, Reuse, and Zero Waste Development (CR0WD) is a newly formed collaboration that brings projects and research from AAP faculty-led labs together with experts across both the campus and the City of Ithaca to address sustainable development practices. At AAP, The Circular Construction Lab, led by Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, architecture, and the Just Places Lab, led by Associate Professor Jennifer Minner, CRP, are central to the research and organization of the task force. Heisel and Minner helped to form CR0WD in partnership with the Susan Christopherson Center for Community Planning directed by alumna Gretchen Worth (M.A. HPP 20); Historic Ithaca led by Susan Holland 85; municipal leaders, and local and regional stakeholders concerned with reuse, architectural salvage, preservation, and planning.
Rosie CEO Nick Nickitas on leadership: Talk about ‘what we want to achieve together’
Posted May 18, 2021
Nick Nickitas, left, Mike Ryzewic, and Jon Ambrose, founders of Rosie, stand in the P&C Fresh market in Ithaca, the store that kickstarted their company s grocery shopping platform for mobile and web. Rosie launched with support and mentoring from Cornell University s eLab and Rev: Ithaca Startup Works.Cornell University/Lindsay France
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Nick Nickitas is CEO of Rosie, headquartered in Ithaca. Nickitas, Mike Ryzewic, and Jon Ambrose founded the company in 2013.
Rosie’s users on the web or the Rosie app buy groceries for delivery or pickup. The company grew phenomenally through the Covid-19 pandemic and in February raised $10 million in Series A financing led by the Avenue Growth Partners investment firm in Washington. Nickitas expects employment at Rosie to reach 150 this year.
HR4 Ltd Appoints Jay Hedges as CEO to Lead Company Growth
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HR4 Ltd, an end-to-end employee life-cycle solution provider focused on maximizing business owner profits and employee experiences, announces the appointment of Jay Hedges to the role of Chief Executive Officer to help guide HR4 in its next stage of expansion. TORONTO (PRWEB) May 06, 2021 HR4 President and Founder, Heather Macpherson: “Jay’s impressive track record and experience scaling private Software As A Service (SaaS) companies without extensive outside funding will be a huge asset to HR4. Jay is also a caring and empathetic leader who will have a positive impact on our people and our customers. I’m really proud of the suite of applications we’ve built and how happy our customers are to this point. That said, we have ambitious aspirations and Jay brings a new level of confidence and set of experiences that I believe will be inva
Schools highlight just a few of the ways their faculty are making a difference and their strategies for making impactful research the norm, not the exception.
How are business schools promoting research that improves business practice and changes society for the better? What does such research look like in real-world contexts? And how are schools quantifying its true impact?
Business school administrators and scholars are still working out how to respond to these complex questions, but the answers are becoming clearer. Not only have revised accreditation standards encouraged schools to place stronger emphasis on engagement and societal impact, but the pandemic has underscored, on an even larger scale, the important role that business research can play in helping humanity solve seemingly intractable problems.