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Do Dual-Branded Hotels Outperform Single-Branded Hotels?
Chekitan S. Dev | January 22, 2020
By Chekitan S. Dev and Eva Steiner Dual branding of hotels has become a growing industry practice. Beyond the potential marketing benefits of the dual-branding strategy, this paper tests whether dual-branded hotels operate more efficiently than comparable single-branded hotels (and therefore deliver better bottomline results). Comparing a proprietary longitudinal data set on the operating performance generated by dual-branded hotels in the U.S. against a set of comparable single-branded hotels, we document mixed results. While dual- and single-branded hotels achieve similar occupancy percentages, dual-branded hotels generate higher avera...
Timothy Hentschel ’01 Named Cornell Hospitality Innovator for 2018
January 24, 2018
Timothy Hentschel '01, cofounder and CEO of HotelPlanner, the world's largest online group travel provider, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Cornell Hospitality Innovator Award, an honor given annually by the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. Hentschel will receive the award at the 10th annual Cornell Hospitality Icon and Innovator Awards gala, Tuesday, June 5, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City. HotelPlanner was established in 2003 by Hentschel and his business partner, John Prince, a software engineer and COO. HotelPlanner w...
IDeaS Announces 2017 Cornell Revenue Management Scholarship Recipients
the School of Hotel Administration | January 22, 2018
IDeaS and Cornell Scholarships help advance careers of next-generation hotel leaders Tweet this: #RevenueManagement leader @IDeaS_RevOpt awards seven hospitality professionals with prestigious scholarships in partnership with Cornell University. http://bit.ly/2Bkqnas MINNEAPOLIS – January 22, 2018 – IDeaS Revenue Solutions, a leading provider of revenue management software solutions and advisory services, today announced the 2017 IDeaS Cornell Management Scholarship winners. Offered in partnership with the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration within the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, the scholarship pre...
Steve Wynn Named 2017 Cornell Icon of the Industry
the School of Hotel Administration | March 17, 2017
Ithaca, NY, March 17, 2017 - The Cornell University School of Hotel Administration (SHA) has selected Steve Wynn, chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts Limited, to receive the 2017 Cornell Icon of the Industry Award. This award recognizes Wynn for his contributions to the gaming and hospitality industries as well his legacy of philanthropy. The award will be presented at the 9th annual Cornell Hospitality Icon and Innovator Awards, Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at The Pierre Hotel in New York City. "Mr. Wynn reinvigorated the Las Vegas tourism scene through exceptional customer service to offer an unparalleled guest experience," said Kate Walsh, SH...
Cornell Study Examines How Bias Affects Hiring Practices
the Center for Hospitality Research | December 7, 2016
Ithaca, NY, December 7, 2016 - Removing bias from the hiring process presents challenges for the hospitality industry and other service industries that want a qualified, diverse workforce. New research from Cornell University shows that HR managers' awareness of competence among job applicants and managers' attitudes toward affirmative action programs help reduce prejudice in recruitment. The study, "Do you look like me? How bias affects affirmative action in hiring," is available from the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research. It was written by Alex M. Susskind, an associate professor at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration; Ozia...
Hotel Profit Implications from Rising Wages and Inflation in the U.S.
Jack Corgel | July 13, 2016
By Jack Corgel Macroeconomic models based on the Phillips Curve predict that as the unemployment rate declines toward the long-run, natural rate, the pace of wage and price growth accelerates and inflation rises.1 In this paper I analyze the profitability prospects for the U.S. hotel industry in today's relatively volatile economic environment, keeping in mind the Phillips Curve's general principle that inflation and employment have an inverse, but relatively stable short-term relationship. Although employment and economic growth in the U.S. have been uneven in recent months, the unemployment rate has declined to less than 5 percent, wh...
Center for Hospitality Research Reports on the New Science of Service Innovation
the Center for Hospitality Research | November 11, 2015
Ithaca, NY, November 11, 2015 – The trade-off between hotel room rates and search engine results; the importance of top-down innovation in European hotels; the parallel learning curves of guests and employees during organizational change; technological innovations in restaurants; and the use of analytics in energy management and in understanding customer comments in social media: these and many other topics are explored in a set of four far-reaching reports issued by the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR). The reports summarize selected presentations from the four tracks of the Cornell Hospitality Research Summit (CHRS). The re...
Duetto’s Marco Benvenuti is 2015-16 Pillsbury Institute Entrepreneur in Residence at Cornell’s SHA
Duetto | October 19, 2015
New York, October 19, 2015 – Marco Benvenuti, Chief Product and Analytics Officer and co- founder of Duetto, has been named Entrepreneur in Residence by the Pillsbury Institute at Cornell University's School of Hospitality Administration (SHA). Benvenuti will teach courses at SHA, hold regular office hours on campus and participate in other academic and social programs in the SHA community. His first quarterly visit begins on October 19th. Benvenuti holds an MMH from Cornell, where he currently serves on the advisory board of the Center for Hospitality Research at SHA. "I am proud to begin serving as Entrepreneur in Residence at t...
