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Cornell University

Graduate School

Graduate SchoolFields of Study

Hotel Administration

Field Description

MMH program
The Master of Management in Hospitality (MMH) program leads to a terminal professional degree and is designed to help individuals who have professional work experience prepare for successful management careers in hospitality at the corporate and operational levels.  

Application:
Admission is offered for May enrollment only. Submission of Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) scores is required of all applicants.  International applicants must have a minimum TOEFL score of 100 on the Internet-based test (iBT), 250 on the computer-based test (CBT) or 600 on the paper-based test (PBT). Decisions are made on a rolling basis. A personal interview, on or off campus, with a representative of the M.M.H. program is scheduled by the applicant online. For more information about scheduling an interview and application deadlines, please see www.mmh.cornell.edu. 

M.S. and Ph.D. programs
These degree programs prepare students to teach at the college level and do research in the field.

Please note the MPS program is administered by the Johnson Graduate School of Management. For additional information, please visit http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Programs/MPS-in-Management-Accounting-Specialization

Contact Information

Website: https://sha.cornell.edu/
Email: mmh@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-6376

180 Statler Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

Subject and Degrees

Concentrations by Subject

Hospitality Management

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

Faculty

Aaron Ashok Adalja

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: food and beverage management; hospitality management
  • Research Interests: food and agricultural economics

Chris K. Anderson

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: hospitality management
  • Research Interests: revenue management; dynamic pricing; real options

Christopher D.A. Boone

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: human resource management

Walter Boudry

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: financial management; real estate management
  • Research Interests:

Judith Lee Brownell

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: 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: Hospitality Management: financial management; hospitality management
  • Research Interests: asset pricing; valuation

Steven Andrew Carvell

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: 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

Howard Chong

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: financial management
  • Research Interests: resource and sustainable economics; regulation sustainability

HaeEan Chun

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: marketing
  • Research Interests: marketing

John Corgel

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: real estate management
  • Research Interests: real estate and corporate finance

Jan Adrian de Roos

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: hospitality management; properties asset management; real estate management
  • Research Interests: hospitality real estate

Chekitan Singh Dev

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

Cathy Ann Enz

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: hospitality management; human resource management
  • Research Interests: innovation; competitive dynamics; pricing strategy; change management and human resource investment strategies

Susan Fleming

  • Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: hospitality management

Michael D. Giebelhausen

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: marketing
  • Research Interests: marketing

Sheryl Elaine Kimes

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

Robert Kwortnik

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: marketing
  • Research Interests: consumer behavior; with special attention to consumer decision making for experiential products and associated strategic implications for services marketing

Kathyrn LaTour

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: food and beverage management; marketing
  • Research Interests: Marketing, food & beverage, wines

Crocker H. Liu

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: financial management
  • Research Interests: finance; real estate

Peng Liu

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

Fang Liu

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: financial management

William Michael Lynn

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: marketing
  • Research Interests: tipping behavior; status consumption; and consumer response to product scarcity

Yifei Mao

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: financial management

Brett J. Massimino

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: hospitality management

Pamela C. Moulton

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

Michael Thomas Paz

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: hotel accounting

Jamie Lyn Perry

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: human resource management

Gordon S Potter

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: 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

Stephani Robson

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: properties asset management
  • Research Interests: effect of environmental factors on behavior in hospitality settings

Sean E. Rogers

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: human resource management

David S Sherwyn

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

Tony L Simons

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: 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: Hospitality Management: hospitality management

Eva M. Steiner

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: financial management
  • Research Interests: commercial real estate; empirical real estate; REITs; corporate finance

Alex M Susskind

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: 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

Gary M Thompson

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: hospitality management
  • Research Interests: labor scheduling in service delivery systems

John Bruce Tracey

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

Andrey D. Ukhov

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: financial management; real estate management
  • Research Interests: finance; corporate finance

Rohit Verma

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

Kristina M. Workman

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Hospitality Management: human resource management