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

2018 Best & Brightest: Kayti Stanley ’18
Kayti Stanley, SHA ’18, has been named one of the Best & Brightest Business Majors by Poets & Quants.

Entrepreneur alumnus featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list advises students to keep an open mind
Micah Green, who attended Cornell for one year before dropping out and forming his company Maidbot, gave student entrepreneurs advice in a talk sponsored by Life Changing Labs at eHub in Collegetown.

Cornell Hospitality Summit series: Hospitality technology disruption
At the Cornell Hospitality Research Summit, a panel of industry experts discussed what hoteliers can expect in the future.

With hotels becoming social spots, more private spaces for guests
Professor Chekitan S. Dev says you can credit the trend of private guest spaces to millennial travelers in the New York Times.

Cornell SC Johnson to train young Rwandans in hospitality industry
In collaboration with eCornell and Cornell SC Johnson’s executive education program, the Mastercard Foundation Hanga Ahazaza initiative will focus on various content areas and will be taught in a combination of online courses and live, virtual synchronous events with faculty.
Robots: Hotel customers like them (mostly)!
Rohit Verma’s co-authored exploratory study of robot use among hotels in China found that hotel guests surveyed were satisfied with the robots’ service.

In with the new: Intrapreneurship and innovation in hospitality
Neil Tarallo and Andrew Quagliata discuss why now is the time for innovation in hospitality, and how existing companies can support intrapreneurship.

Top restaurateur urges students to defy expectations
With playful, self-deprecating humor and pithy lessons from his successful career, Will Guidara ’01, co-owner of Eleven Madison Park, a restaurant ranked among the best in the world, gave the keynote address at the 93rd Hotel Ezra Cornell.

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.