In a contest called “Race for the Space,” the Downtown Ithaca Alliance will pick the contestants with the best business proposals and reward them with, along with other incentives, one year of free rent in space in downtown Ithaca, including on the Commons.

Irene Rosenfeld ’75, Ph.D. ’80, CEO and chairperson of Kraft Foods, delivered the 30th annual Hatfield Address on Wednesday to a packed Call Auditorium. Rosenfeld, a Hatfield fellow — the highest honor Cornell bestows on corporate leaders — shared her triumphs and failures in the business world with an audience of students and community members.

From the 2010-11 to the 2011-12 school year, international student enrollment at the Johnson Graduate School of Management rose from 22 percent to 34 percent, signaling a return to pre-recession levels. The increase is consistent with a trend at peer institutions nationwide, according to Christine Sneva, director of admissions and financial aid for the Johnson School.

Alexandra Post ’12, a senior in the College of Human Ecology and humor enthusiast, is the regional manager of Cornell Campus Basement, a website devoted to satirizing Cornell current events and campus culture. She sat down with The Sun to talk satire, Facebook etiquette and her (admittedly petty) beef with The Sun.

About 15 members of Occupy Cornell, Occupy Ithaca College and Occupy Ithaca protested the Work on Wall Street Conference at the Statler Hotel on Saturday.

Amelia Brown '12 discusses Gap's decline and offers fashion tips to their lead designers. 

Christopher Henty '11 attributes Shawn Carter's (aka Jay-Z) fame to not just musical prowess, but business skills as well. 

The United States needs to drastically change its current patterns of consumption in order to lessen its impact on the environment, Chairman and CEO of S.C. Johnson H. Fisk Johnson ’79 said yesterday at a lecture in Statler Auditorium.

Like many students in accelerated M.B.A. programs, Katy Moyer JGSM and Dr. Patrick Collopy JGSM are extensively studying the fundamentals of business administration while worrying about finding jobs in the troubled economy. However, thanks to the Johnson School’s Management Practicum course, they will be able to add something unique to their resumes: real work experience.

Associate Dean for Corporate Relations Randy Allen developed the Management Practicum with students in order to fill a void in the accelerated M.B.A. program. Because of its intensive academic nature, students in the program are not able to complete an internship during the summer as traditional M.B.A. students do.

It has been over 50 years since Ratan Tata ’59 arrived at Cornell for freshman orientation, but on Friday, the chairman and CEO of the multinational conglomerate Tata Sons Ltd. told students and alumni that the event was still fresh in his mind.

“I was one of about 2,000 people and very frightened,” Tata reminisced. “They told us to look to your left, look to your right … One of you won’t be here in four years.”

This was only one of the things that Tata talked about in the annual Olin Lecture titled “Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century” during Reunion Week.