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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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Johnson 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.

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Nolan School

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.

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Dyson School

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.

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Nolan School

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.

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Nolan School

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.

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Johnson School

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.

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Johnson School

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.

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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.

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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.