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

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.

7 ways you can study real estate online
We offer awesome certificates in commercial real estate and hotel real estate investments and asset management with eCornell.

Noteworthy: David Desta ’14 pinpoints the hospitality industry’s Achilles’ heel
Authored by alumnus David Desta, this in-depth editorial examines the landscape of the Ethiopian hospitality industry and proposes solutions by way of on-the-job academic coursework to help build up a reliable, qualified workforce within Ethiopia.
Hotels move ahead on sustainability
Eric Ricaurte ’01 discusses an international effort to collect sustainability data from hotels around the globe and delivers a progress report.

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.