Awards & Honors
We’re proud of our people. Here, we share honors, awards, and accolades from across SC Johnson College.
2020 Best & Brightest: Samay Bansal, Cornell (Hotel Administration)
Samay Bansal, SHA ’20 is featured as one of Poets & Quants’ 2020 Best & Brightest.
Cornell team ‘solves the retirement puzzle,’ earns first place at the 2020 IPCC
Robert Carney, member of the winning Cornell team at the 4th Annual Investment Portfolio Case Competition, recounts his experience at the event.
Elizabeth Blau named 2020’s Cornell Hospitality Innovator
Blau, who helped transform Las Vegas into a world-class dining destination, will be honored in June 2021 in New York.
STR founder Randell Smith named 2021 Cornell Hospitality Icon
Randell Smith, who set the standard for hotel data intelligence and global benchmarking, will be honored on June 8, 2021.
Pitch competition rewards new ‘way’ to pay restaurants
The Pillsbury Institute’s pitch competition awarded top prizes to undergraduates in SHA, Dyson, and ILR and a grad student in the MMH program.
Sachin Gupta named editor in chief of Journal of Marketing Research
Sachin Gupta, the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management, will begin his three-year term with the prestigious journal in July 2020.
Mia Kyricos, Hyatt’s global head of well-being, receives Cornell award
Mia Kyricos, MMH ’03, senior VP and global head of well-being at Hyatt Hotels Corporation, received the 2019 Cornell MMH Outstanding Alumna of the Year.
Celebrating diversity in the workplace
Diversity Symposium speaker Larry Ruff, MBA ’82, relates why diversity and inclusion is good for business as well as the right thing to do.
Johnson celebrates 20 years of diversity and inclusion
Johnson’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion honors diversity awards recipients and marks 20 years of supporting woman, URM, and LGBTQ leaders.