Nolan School
Keep up to date with Hotelies, hospitality education, and industry at large with these stories and updates from the Nolan School.
7 tips for surviving winter in Ithaca (from 2 Texans!)
To help you learn to love (or at least tolerate) the Ithaca winters, we’re sharing our 7 tips for surviving the coldest months on campus!
The 450+ hotel woman: Alexandra Jaritz of Tru by Hilton
Alex Jaritz ’97 SVP and global brand head of Tru by Hilton, ensured the Tru brand had the fastest growing development pipeline in lodging history. Check out her interview with Lodging Magazine about her background and the future of Tru.
Noteworthy: Nolan School’s Michael Paz featured in YesCollege.com accounting podcast
Studying accounting is akin to what students learn in linguistics class, says Michael Paz; but instead of developing a proficiency in a foreign tongue, accounting makes one fluent in the most familiar language on earth: business.
These college town hotels are in a class of their own
The Statler Hotel made USA Today’s list of the top 10 college town hotels.
International guests: They’re (not) coming to America
Raymond Martz ’93 writes about the concerning decline in international visitation to America in Hotel News Now.
Institute nurtures promising social scientists with ‘dream’ semester
Cornell’s Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) announces its 2018-19 cohort of 15 faculty fellows, offering a dream semester to the university’s most promising young social scientists.
Duetto raises $80 million to give hotel booking an e-commerce makeover
Duetto, co-founded by Marco Benvenuti, MMH ’05, raised $80 million in Series D financing.
Taking third at the Cornell International Real Estate Case Competition
The Cornell International Real Estate Case Competition is an annual event that gathers undergraduate students from universities around the world to analyze a real-world commercial real estate transaction.
Opening the door for everyone: Reducing gender inequality in hospitality leadership
Senior Lecturer Susan Fleming discusses the need for more gender diversity in hospitality leadership and how women can take matters into their own hands.