Robert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. For more than a decade, his "Economic View" column appeared monthly in The New York Times. He received his BS in mathematics from Georgia Tech, and then taught math and science for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nepal. He holds an MA in statistics and a PhD in economics, both from the University of California at Berkeley. His papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, and other leading professional journals.
His books have been translated into 23 languages, including Choosing the Right Pond, Passions Within Reason, Microeconomics and Behavior, Principles of Economics (with Ben Bernanke), Luxury Fever, What Price the Moral High Ground?, Falling Behind, The Economic Naturalist, The Darwin Economy, and Success and Luck. The Winner-Take-All Society, co-authored with Philip Cook, received a Critic's Choice Award, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and was included in Business Week's list of the ten best books of 1995. Frank is a co-recipient of the 2004 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. He was awarded the Johnson School's Stephen Russell Distinguished teaching award in 2004, 2010, and 2012, and its Apple Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.
I think the opportunity for the Tsinghua-Cornell students
to spend part of their time here and part of their time in China
is a huge advantage,
and they've taken absolutely full advantage.
When they come here,
they're very open, they ask questions, they visit many places,
and I think they will go back at the end of their degree program
with a much richer view of how the global finance industry actually functions.
I see a lot of that quality in the Tsinghua’s students.
They really are curious.
They want to know more.
They seem socially engaged as well as academically engaged.
It's a bit of a total pleasure to work with them.
You have a very valuable resource in these students
who have already been through the program.
There will be some contact between the new people
and the ones who are leaving.
Talk to those people
and ask for their advice,
and get them to describe their experiences.
When you're at Cornell.
Talk to the Cornell students.
They are remarkably generous with their willingness to share.
Share their experiences and offer opinions about things.
So that's a very valuable resource for the students
that they should make a point to take every advantage of.
