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NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies that employ people with disabilities reap numerous benefits. Active recruiting and retention of employees with disabilities, including veterans, can both significantly expand the pool of talent and create new business opportunities, according to a new publication from The Conference Board, Leveling the Playing Field: Attracting, Engaging and Advancing People with Disabilities. Among the poignant conclusions reported: Managers who...

ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Human resources professionals can now earn nine graduate credits from the ILR School at Cornell University in fewer than nine months with ILR's new online Graduate Certificate in Human Resources Management. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090311/NY82145LOGO ) "More and more, HR professionals are being asked to play a larger role in providing strategic leadership and helping to manage change," said Harry C. Katz, Kenneth F. Kahn Dean, ILR...

ITHACA, N.Y., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Cornell University's ILR School and eCornell have announced the launch of a new online professional development certificate program in High Performance Leadership. The certificate program is based on the research and consulting of Professor Samuel Bacharach, the McKelvey-Grant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the ILR School and director of Cornell ILR's Institute for Workplace Studies. The High Performance Leadership certificate is designed to...