This informative session will examine the space industry, highlighting key trends, emerging technologies and opportunities within the sector. Experts from the New York Consortium for Space Technology (NYCST), a groundbreaking center funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and led by Cornell University, will discuss the latest developments in space technology and share how you can get involved with NYCST.

Panel

• Mason Peck, Stephen J. Fujikawa Professor of Astronautics, Cornell Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
• Gregory Ray, Vice President, Emerging Science and Technology, Voyager Space
• John Neal, Executive Director, Space Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

What You'll Learn

• The evolution of humanity in space
• A look at today’s space technology industry
• Current and emerging trends in space technology
• The private sector’s role in space technology and opportunities for industry

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We rarely want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past — particularly if it involves reflecting on uncomfortable missteps. We often want to move quickly, telling ourselves that speed equals efficiency. True efficiency, however, sometimes requires slowing down, being mindful and especially looking back at the decisions we’ve made that didn’t go as we’d hoped.

Join Cheryl Einhorn, an adjunct professor at Cornell Tech, for a discussion of using your past decisions as a dataset you can mine for insights to make better future decisions.

What You'll Learn

• How to use past decisions as a dataset that you can mine for insights
• How to turn insight into action
• Strategies to shift your behavior going forward

The Cornell Keynotes podcast is brought to you by eCornell, which offers more than 200 online certificate programs to help professionals advance their careers and organizations. Learn more in our Complex Decision-Making certificate program, authored by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn.

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Our words, actions and even our presence can profoundly affect other people, but we often misread the situation or underestimate ourselves. Emotions and cognitive biases often get in the way.

Through extensive behavioral research and workplace study, Vanessa Bohns — the Cornell ILR School’s Braunstein Family Professor and chair of the organizational behavior department — has developed strategies for us to better observe our influence, reconsider our fear of rejection and sometimes even use our influence more sparingly. Bohns, the author of “You Have More Influence Than You Think,” encourages us to recognize the influence we already possess rather than seeking new ways to gain it.

What You'll Learn

• How to be more mindful and present in your interactions with others
• How to get better at asking for things
• How to get better at saying no
• How to recognize and harness our influence for good by building stronger relationships and creating more supportive environments

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Cornell University research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy has identified approaches to designing employer career webpages that can significantly heighten the likelihood of a company’s success in attracting job seekers with disabilities and encouraging them to apply for open positions.

Susanne Bruyère, a professor of Disability Studies and academic director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability at the Cornell ILR School, takes a close look at this research—and what it means for employers as well as people with disabilities—and offers insights for recruiting applicants with disabilities, finetuning hiring processes and understanding how a person with a disability may choose to self-identify to potential employers.

What You'll Learn

• Approaches to disability-inclusive messaging on Fortune 500 company career webpages
• How job seekers with disabilities approach job searching online
• How to tailor messaging to encourage job seekers with disabilities to apply and self-identify

The Cornell Keynotes podcast is brought to you by eCornell, which offers more than 200 online certificate programs to help professionals advance their careers and organizations. Susanne Bruyère is an author of these programs:

• Neurodiversity at Work
• Workplace Disability Inclusion

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Checklist for Employers: Facilitating the Hiring of People with Disabilities through the use of eRecruiting Screening Systems, Including AI
• Disability Outreach and Inclusion Messaging: Assessment Checklist for Career Pages
• ODEP website
• Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability Website 

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The trend of converting office buildings into hotels has become more popular as companies ditch their office spaces in favor of remote work. Places like New York City, Washington D.C. and Calgary are even offering incentive programs to draw more interest. A perfect example is the former headquarters of the New York Daily News in Manhattan’s Financial District; in the U.S.’s largest conversion, it now houses 1,300 luxury condos.

Brad Wellstead, a senior lecturer at Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business, helps us understand the process of turning these old buildings into new real estate as well as some of the main pitfalls that developers face.

What You'll Learn

• The incentives behind renovating office spaces into hotel and luxury spaces
• Why there are so many available offices spaces and who is buying them
• The cities that are being affected most by these types of renovations
• Why these office spaces are the perfect places to renovate into hotel rooms

The Cornell Keynotes podcast is brought to you by eCornell, which offers more than 200 online certificate programs to help professionals advance their careers and organizations. Learn more from Brad Wellstead in these certificate programs:

• Commercial Real Estate
• Real Estate Development
• Real Estate Investing 360

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The majority of jobs today are filled by hiring internal candidates in a process that is faster than an external search and enables individuals with institutional knowledge to impact an organization more quickly in new roles.

In this Cornell Keynotes podcast episode, JR Keller, assistant professor at the Cornell ILR School, and Angela Cheng-Cimini ’92, chief human resources officer for Harvard Business Publishing, explore aspects of internal talent mobility, including:

• Hiring processes – posting vs. slotting
• Talent hoarding and internal talent loaning
• Motivational spillover effects of internal promotions
• Boomerang hires
• Transparency in contemporary leadership
• Managerial influence on career outcomes
• Effects of internal hiring on diversity

Learn more in JR Keller’s eCornell certificate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Building a Diverse Workforce.

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The performance of a company is linked to the quality of its employees. However, a faulty interview process can unbalance the equation for success in frequently undetected ways. In this episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, JR Keller, associate professor of human resource studies at the Cornell ILR School, joins host Chris Wofford to explore five ways to create a better experience for candidates and interviewers:

• Reduce anxiety
• Value the candidate’s time
• Use quality, targeted prompts and questions
• Ensure consistency
• Develop an evaluation plan

Additional topics in this episode include:

• “Good hire” rates
• Expectation management
• Consistent small talk
• Performance-predicting interview questions
• Lazy interview questions
• Internal vs. external candidates
• Structured interviews
• Video interviewing with AI plugins

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Check out a previous episode with JR Keller about hiring internally: How to Mobilize Your Internal Top Talent.

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Open communication, clear expectations and constructive feedback are essential components of effective leadership. Through comparisons of management and parenting, Andrew Quagliata, senior lecturer of management communication at the Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration, outlines strategies for stronger communication in any setting during this episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast, hosted by Chris Wofford and brought to you by eCornell.

This episode covers:

• Interpersonal communication in the workplace
• High caring and high expectations
• Presence, responsiveness and trust
• Relationship-first approach to constructive criticism
• Individualized support
• Proactive conflict management
• Expectation setting
• Performance reviews

Learn more in Andrew Quagliata’s online certificate programs from eCornell:

• Business Writing
• Communications 360
• Persuasive Communication
• Business Communication

You can also visit Quagliata’s website to read his recent blog posts:

• “Tough Love”
• “Providing Radically Candid Feedback”
• “3 Ways That Being a Good Parent is Like Being a Hostage Negotiator”

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Having general counsel is a relatively new phenomenon in institutions of higher learning. The pressures of regulation, litigation and legislation have given rise to a new era, and institutions must know how to respond. Lou Guard, an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, discusses the tools university attorneys need to navigate the higher ed space.

Join Lou Guard, general counsel at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, as he delves into the legal landscape of higher education. Guard will offer insights from his bestselling book, “All the Campus Lawyers,” and discuss the tools university attorneys need to navigate the higher ed space.

Jens David Ohlin, the Allan R. Tessler Dean and a professor of law at Cornell Law School, hosts.

What You'll Learn

• Legal challenges in-house counsel could face
• Why in-house counsel needs to be well versed in a variety of potential legal issues
• Factors that have contributed to the increasing need for institutions to have in-house counsel
• The potential impacts of litigation on student life in higher education

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Learn more in our law certificate programs.

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Family estrangement can significantly impact the functioning and success of a family business. Estranged family members may withdraw their support or refuse to collaborate, which can hinder business operations and growth. Moreover, the emotional toll of estrangement can affect decision making and day-to-day interactions, creating a tense and unproductive work environment.

Join Daniel Van Der Vliet, professor and executive director of the Smith Family Business Initiative at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, as he delves into successful strategies for individuals who have a chance to repair family rifts or find peace when reconciliation is not possible. We will look at why the health of the family unit is intrinsically linked to the health of the family business, making it crucial to address and manage both personal and professional conflicts effectively.

What You'll Learn

• How major organizations handle changes at the top among family members
• Why governing bodies are so critical when it comes to managing a family business
• Strategies to repair rifts in a relationship that can also mend a working relationship

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more in our Family Business Leadership certificate program co-authored by Daniel Van Der Vliet.

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