Hotel Administration

Field Description

MMH program:

The AACSB-accredited Master of Management in Hospitality (MMH) program uniquely prepares you for your future because your management courses are taught within the context of the hospitality industry. Students can concentrate in fields like hotel operations, revenue management, marketing, real estate, entrepreneurship, and more.

Application:

Admission is offered for August enrollment only. All international applicants must demonstrate proficiency in the English language. International students demonstrate proficiency by submitting official test scores from TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or IELTS (International English Language Testing System). For more information, please review our application requirements page.

M.S. and Ph.D. programs

The School of Hotel Administration's highly competitive Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programs in Hotel Administration are research-focused degrees designed for students interested in pursuing careers teaching hospitality management in a university setting and conducting groundbreaking research in the field. For more information, please visit our MS and PhD page.

Contact Information

Website: https://sha.cornell.edu/
Email: mmh@sha.cornell.edu
Phone: 607-254-4228

289 Statler Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

Data and Statistics

• Doctoral Program Statistics
• Research Master's Program Statistics

Subject and Degrees

Hospitality Management

• Hospitality Management (M.M.H.) (Ithaca)

Hotel Administration

• Hotel Administration (M.S.) (Ithaca)
• Hotel Administration (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)

Concentrations by Subject

Hospitality Management

• real estate management (minor)

Hotel Administration

• financial management
• food and beverage management
• hospitality management
• hotel accounting
• hotel administration
• human resource management
• marketing
• properties asset management (minor)
• real estate management (minor)

Faculty

Aaron Ashok Adalja

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: food and beverage management; hospitality management
• Research Interests: food and agricultural economics

Chris K. Anderson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management
• Research Interests: revenue management; dynamic pricing; real options

Judith Lee Brownell

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management
• Research Interests: leadership development; listening behavior; women in the hospitality workforce; customer service in the cruise industry; intercultural communication

Linda Canina

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: financial management; hospitality management
• Research Interests: asset pricing; valuation

Steven Andrew Carvell

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: financial management; hospitality management
• Research Interests: developing models to incorporate real options, risk analysis, and debt capacity into hotel feasibility analysis; economic value-added models applied to hotel operations

Jacob Patrick Chestnut

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management
• Research Interests: behavioral operations management, sustainability, procurement, mechanism design

Dragana Cvijanovic

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: financial management; hotel administration
• Research Interests: real estate finance, household finance, corporate governance

Chekitan Singh Dev

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management
• Research Interests: strategic marketing; branding; strategic alliances; e-commerce

Sheryl Elaine Kimes

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management
• Research Interests: revenue management; hotel location; and service quality

Madeline King Kneeland

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management
• Research Interests: management and organizations

Tashlin Lakhani

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hotel administration; human resource management
• Research Interests: strategic human resource management, labor and employment relations, franchising

Kathyrn LaTour

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: food and beverage management
• Research Interests: Marketing, food & beverage, wines

Crocker H. Liu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: financial management
• Research Interests: finance; real estate

Peng Liu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: financial management; Hospitality Management: real estate management
• Research Interests: asset pricing, securitization, real estate finance, commodity, housing, investment banking and financial intermediaries

Yifei Mao

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: financial management

Francisco de Asis Martinez Jerez

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hotel accounting; hotel administration
• Research Interests: performance measurement and management; corporate governance; leadership; organizational design; strategy implementation

Pamela C. Moulton

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: financial management; Hospitality Management: real estate management
• Research Interests: market microstructure; liquidity; international finance; attention constraints; automation

Marie E Ozanne

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: food and beverage management
• Research Interests: operations, technology and information management, marketing (consumer behavior)

Michael Thomas Paz

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hotel accounting

Gordon S Potter

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: financial management; hospitality management; hotel accounting
• Research Interests: management accounting

Daniel W.C. Quan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hospitality Management: real estate management
• Research Interests: real estate finance; mortgage markets; auction markets

David S Sherwyn

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management; hotel administration; human resource management
• Research Interests: labor and employment law issues relevant to the hospitality industry; specifically, mandatory arbitration of discrimination lawsuits and sexual harassment

Yuan Shi

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management
• Research Interests: strategic management, innovation, entrepreneurship

Tony L Simons

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management; human resource management
• Research Interests: trust, integrity, and conflict in executive groups and between employees and management

Vincent W. Slaugh

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management

Alex M Susskind

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management
• Research Interests: organizational communication and behavior examining (a) the impact of communication network relationships upon the attitudes and perceptions of organizational members at both the individual and group levels, and (b) the customer-server exchange focusing on service workers behavior and attitudes, and their influence upon consumer behavior and satisfaction

Alexei Tchistyi

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: financial management; hotel administration
• Research Interests: real estate finance, corporate finance, contract theory

Gary M Thompson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management
• Research Interests: labor scheduling in service delivery systems

John Bruce Tracey

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: human resource management
• Research Interests: training, leadership, employment law, and turnover costs

Rohit Verma

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: hospitality management
• Research Interests: product-service design and development, customer choice modeling, marketing/operations interrelated issues; supplier selection strategies quality; and process improvement

Kathleen M Walsh

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: human resource management
• Research Interests: service relationships and delivery; empowerment; organizational and professional identity and commitment

Kristina M. Workman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Hotel Administration: human resource management