Center for Hospitality Research

A group of visiting scholars have brought an international flair to the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) during this academic year, both in terms of academic scholarship and cultural enrichment. As part of its program to extend its global reach, the CHR has sponsored two researchers from Spain, one from South Korea, and one from […]

New from the Office of Executive Education—custom programs through videoconferencing! Bring an SHA faculty expert to your property for a one-time presentation or offer a series of workshops over time through our state-of-the-art video technology. These real-time, interactive learning sessions have proven to be engaging and productive. Programs delivered via videoconferencing are efficient, and they […]

Kanika Thakran MMH ’13’s webpage concept started with a classroom assignment when senior lecturer Bill Carroll asked her to make a presentation on hotel industry trends. Thakran, a student in the Master of Management in Hospitality program, realized that she did not have a handle on overall current hotel trends, despite several years of international […]

Neil Tarallo, newly appointed academic director of the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship (PIHE), comes to the School of Hotel Administration from Syracuse University, where he was an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. His responsibilities at the Whitman School included serving as director […]

Join us for another Hotelie Tailgate! Experience great food and fun on Saturday, September 17, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Schoellkopf Field parking lot before the Cornell vs. Bucknell game. The brilliant food and beverage team from the 87th annual Hotel Ezra Cornell will cook up and serve a “Big Red Diner”-themed tailgate […]

For three weeks each summer, 80 high school students from around the world attend Hotel Operations Management: Tactics for Profitability and get a taste of what it is like to be a Hotelie. Many of them hope that their performance in the class will give them a leg up during their college admissions process. This […]

Some time in the next few years, you’ll have the opportunity to stop at a restaurant for a quickly served, high quality Mediterranean meal, thanks to Martin Andonov ’13, who has created Agora Hellenic Grill, a concept that he has developed over the past year with the support of the Pillsbury Institute of Hospitality Entrepreneurship. […]

As student teams plan, prepare, and perfect their original concepts for the Cornell Hospitality Business Plan Competition this year, they will have an extra incentive to design businesses that tackle specific social issues. The new $5,000 Stein Family Prize for Disability and Environmental Sustainability Solutions will be awarded to the team whose business concept best […]

There has been much to celebrate at the Statler Hotel this winter. In January, the Statler received its second consecutive AAA Four Diamond Award and installed new state-of-the-art uniform tracking and delivery systems thanks to generous donations from White Conveyors and InvoTech Systems. The Statler has also launched a series of Taverna Banfi EDU events. […]