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

Hospitality panel discusses sexual harassment, brand evolution
The School of Hotel Administration presented its first Cornell Hospitality Thought Leadership Event focused on sexual harassment and brand evolution.

MMH Mexico trek: Company visits, excursions, alumni connections offer hospitality all around
Although I’m well aware of how powerful the Hotelie network is, this trip really reaffirmed it for me. We were 2,631 miles away from Ithaca, but still somehow felt like everywhere we went, Cornell and SHA was with us.

Cornell alumna: Lifelong learning, leading teams is key to women’s entrepreneurial success
Serial entrepreneur Shelly Porges ’74, MPS ’77, has followed one guiding principle throughout her successful career: If you become a lifelong learner, opportunities will come your way.

Noteworthy: The only person cooler than Marty Daniels? Ed Marinaro ’72
Ed Marinaro ’72 shares his journey from Cornell to the NFL and how his values of humbleness and perseverance allowed him to earn a lifetime full of achievements.

MMH students give 5 tips for finals week
Before you can enjoy a much-needed vacation, you have one more hurdle to jump. Finals week. After interviewing a couple current Master of Management in Hospitality (MMH) students, here are some tips I gathered.

Executive Education: Q&A with Professional Development Program faculty
We spoke with five of the amazing faculty that will be teaching courses during PDP and asked about their motivation to teach professionals, excitement about the program, and ideas for how to keep participants engaged.

Hotel butler service is really nice – is it worth the price?
Reneta McCarthy, senior lecturer at the Hotel School, historicizes the concept of butlers and explains how top-end hotels utilize them in today’s competitive market.

Tang Welcome Center will be ‘wonderful gateway to Cornell’
The $6 million project was made possible by a $3 million gift in 2016 from Martin Tang and his two sisters, in response to a challenge grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, a foundation created by Charles Feeney, SHA ’56.

A “land of opportunity” at the Nolan School
The Hotel School can prepare you for a career in just about anything your heart desires—it is a land of opportunity amongst an ocean of diversity in knowledge.