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At a multinational pharmaceutical company, employees who were nominated for but not awarded top performance ratings were at least 34% more likely to leave voluntarily, according to new research from Brittany Bond, an assistant professor of organizational behavior.

Now in its fifth year, the 2024-25 New York at Work report draws on ILR expertise, research-based data and policy analysis on a broad range of key issues affecting the state’s workers, unions, communities and employers.

Were it not for a teachers’ strike that happened decades before her birth, Connecticut native Katherine (Katie) DeRose ’26 might not have considered applying to Cornell.

New research by Alice Lee, assistant professor of organizational behavior, found that a seller’s emotional attachment to an item – big or small – influences the “sales funnel,” the process through which sellers sort through the field of potential buyers to determine the course of negotiation and, ultimately, the sale.

People who are passionate about their work, but then become less engaged in it, may stay at the job due to an exaggerated fear that others will judge them harshly for quitting, but new research has revealed they may be judged less harshly.

Javier Ramirez, former deputy director of field operations at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, has joined ILR’s Scheinman Institute to help lead the newly established National Conflict Resolution Service.