Ivy Council

Case Study Leader

Risa Mish

Risa Mish is the Lecturer of Management and Director of the Leadership Skills Program at Cornell’s Johnson School of Business. Risa Mish teaches courses in analytical thinking in business, in addition to serving as director of the Leadership Skills Program. She currently runs a management consulting and training practice, providing strategic employee relations advice and training to senior executives and human resources teams. Risa Mish has previously represented Fortune 500 clients in the financial services, consumer products, and manufacturing industries. She is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mish earned a BS with Distinction from Cornell University and a JD cum laude from Cornell Law School.

Workshop Leader

Kate Golden (UBS Resume Writing Workshop)

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Panelist

Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is the Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement based on a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net ]. Her books are translated into sixteen languages. Her comments have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, OpenDemocracy.net, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, the Financial Times, among others.

Panelist

Ronald G. Shaiko

Professor Shaiko begins his twenty-first year of teaching and his seventh year at Dartmouth College as a senior fellow and associate director for curricular and research programs at the Rockefeller Center; he is also a research professor in the department of government at Dartmouth College. Prior to arriving at Dartmouth, he was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Politics at the American Studies Center of Warsaw University in Poland during the 2000-2001 academic year. During the decade of the 1990s, he held a tenured position in the department of government at American University in Washington, DC. During his time at American he was the founder and academic director of The Lobbying Institute. He also served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in 1993-1994 and served as a Democracy Fellow in the Center for Democracy and Governance at the United States Agency for International Development from December 1997 to November 1999. He is the author and editor of three books and author of more than two dozen journal articles and book chapters as well as more than a dozen U.S. government reports and publications.

Panelist

David Sherwyn

David Sherwyn is an associate professor of Law at the School of Hotel Administration. He is the academic director of the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) at Cornell and a Research Fellow at the Center for Labor and Employment Law at NYU's School of Law. Prior to joining the Hotel School, he practiced management-side labor and employment law for six years. Sherwyn has published articles in the Stanford Law Review, Berkeley Journal of Labor & Employment Law, Fordham Law Review, University of Pennsylvania's Labor and Employment Law Journal, and the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly.