Hilton and Cornell’s Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship Bring Student Innovators Together for On-Campus Hackathon

The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship | December 13, 2019

Students Challenged to “Revolutionize the Customer Journey” – with the Hotel Industry Emerging the Big Winner Hilton and the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship (PIHE) at Cornell University’s School of Hospitality Administration (SHA) joined forces to bring students from across the University together for a two-day Hackathon on the Cornell campus in Ithaca. The Hackathon focused students on creating personalized digital customer journeys to deliver world-class, differentiated experiences. Among the students that competed at the event, more than 40% were “hotelies,” students at the indus...