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Keep up to date with Hotelies, hospitality education, and industry at large with these stories and updates from the Nolan School.

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Exploring courses outside of the Nolan School

To help everyone get a head start in exploring options outside the Hotel School, I’m sharing a list of my top favorite non-HADM classes that I’ve taken thus far.

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Team from Cornell University wins 2018 ULI Hines Student Competition with plan to redevelop Toronto site

A redevelopment plan for a Toronto site presented by students from the Baker Program has taken top honors in the 2018 Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Student Competition.

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Undergrads! Here’s how to make your Nolan School experience count.

As students know well, everyone at the Hotel School came from the top percentiles in their class. But here’s the truth: This place isn’t a cut-throat competitive arena.

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A Sense of Place at The 93rd Hotel Ezra Cornell

This year, the Hotel Ezra Cornell conference theme was A Sense of Place, where speakers, alumni, and industry leaders discussed a shift from an age of information to an era of experience.

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2018 Best & Brightest: Kayti Stanley ’18

Kayti Stanley, SHA ’18, has been named one of the Best & Brightest Business Majors by Poets & Quants.

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After 105 years, it’s time to scale the family restaurant

Talking with administrators during the application process further highlighted the managerial focus of the program. I was not coming here to learn operations, I was coming here to learn how to be a leader in the industry.

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Sustainability sows a healthy business climate

Corporate professionals gathered with students at the Cornell Business Impact Symposium, “Unleashing the Hidden Power of Sustainability,” at the Breazzano Family Center for Business Education.

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Flexibility for the future: Curriculum and experiences pave infinite paths

The best part about being in the Hotel School is the flexibility it gives me for the future. The amount of different paths that Hotelies take is what makes it such an incredibly dynamic learning environment.

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Hotelies set course for the cruise industry with immersive Royal Caribbean experience

Students recently traded their winter jackets for sunglasses to get a closer look into the cruise industry with Robert Kwortnik’s Introduction to the Global Leisure Cruise Industry course.