The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/business/page/5/)
From the adventures of Link in the Legend of Zelda to the twists and turns of Mario Kart, Reginald “Reggie” Ails-Aimé ’83, former president and CEO of Nintendo America, has been a part of bringing dreams to life for Nintendo users across the world for years.
Veterinary medicine is headed in a new direction that emphasizes the business aspects in addition to healthcare delivery, according to Dean Lorin D. Warnick Ph.D. ’94.
The newly-formed Professional Fraternity Council held a recruitment fair in Baker Portico on Sunday, an opportunity for prospective members to get to know nine of the campus’s 11 pre-professional fraternities. According to Kumar Nandanampati ’20, vice president of recruitment for PFC, the driving force behind the showcase was simple. “What can we do to make recruitment fair?”
The fair’s main goal was to present the fraternities in an “egalitarian manner,” according to Nandanampati. Attendees were encouraged to walk around and interact with current members and leaders from each organization. The timing of the event was early in the semester, Nandanampati said, so that potential new members could familiarize themselves with all pre-professional organizations before any specific rush process began.
Betches, which has over 6 million followers on Instagram, is a multimedia destination for “women who want to communicate honestly and unapologetically.”
Sandra E. Peterson ’80 called millennials “a generation that is used to open, transparent and constant communications.”
At the end of the summit, all participating organizations will be asked to sign a pledge committing to supporting gender diversity, according to Forté member Kamakhya Misra ’20.
Students pitched businesses ideas ranging from detecting milk contamination to providing fresh meals to students in the Big Idea Competition last Friday.
Interested in having your own startup? An Ithaca-based company with annual revenues of $20 million and subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Japan and Taiwan is here to give you the inspiration you need. Researchers and clinicians seek reliable quantitative data to make informed decisions about patients and experiments. Transonic Systems aids in this process by producing diagnostic and research measurement equipment. Cornelis J. Drost, CEO and president of Transonic Systems, discussed his inspiration behind creating the business.
Chantelle Farmer ’91 MPS ’13 has now been running her own group fitness classes in Ithaca through a business called the FLX Fitclub, since it launched in March.
When I was first applying to college, I fell in love with the idea of going to a school where I could see the stars at night. Having been born in a city and raised in suburbia, I imagined something idyllic and romantic about living in a rural city completely removed from the rest of the world and from the noisy humdrum of daily life. It wasn’t just about being out in the nature; it was a symbol for the education and intellectual environment I wanted — an oasis of thought and individuality. However, the truth is that Cornell is a neoliberal, corporate institution designed to churn out human capital in the form of polished, Ivy League-educated graduates ready to tackle the toughest models Wall Street has to throw at them. The stream of freshmen walking down the bridge from North Campus before 11:40 classes resembles an industrial assembly line — we walk from class to class, and each class serves as a mechanical arm preparing student after student for assimilation into the corporate world.