CHR - Key Persons
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- Assistant Director
- Center Coordinator
- Member of the Leadership & Core Team
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- Associate Professor of Reproductive Biology
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- Professor, Interim Academic Director, Center for Hospitality Research, Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration
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- Executive - in - Residence / Executive Director of the Prince of Wales 's Accounting for Sustainability ( A4S ) Project, USA
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- Ruth and William Morgan Associate Professor in Applied Economics and Management
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- Robert Dyson Sesquicentennial Chair in Environmental, Energy, and Resource Economics
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- International Professor of Applied Economics and Management
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- Center for a Sustainable Future Faculty Director
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- Centers and Institutes Assistant, Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration 607.254.3285
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- Partner and Director, Total Social Impact and Sustainability / the Boston Consulting Group
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- Director, Center for Hospitality Research, Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration
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- Member of the Faculty & Staff
- Co - Director, Integrated Venture Engineering Program
Erik is an authority on new venture creation, having led or guided over a dozen corporate ventures and start-ups across five continents over the past 25 years. His frameworks and insights are published in leading journals, including the Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Sloan Management Review, and the journal Innovations.
Erik holds a PhD in Management from Cornell, an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received the Norman Block Award for highest academic achievement, and a BA magna cum laude from Wake Forest University.
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- Senior of Counsel / Covington & Burling
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- Eleanora and George Landew Professor of Management
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- Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management / Senior Director of MBA and MPS Programs
- Professor
Glen Dowell is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Senior Director of MBA and MPS Programs at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. He researches in the area of corporate sustainability, with a focus on firm environmental performance. Recent projects have investigated the effect of local demographic factors on changes in pollution levels, the role of corporate merger and acquisition in facilitating changes in facility environmental performance, and the relative influence of financial return and disruption on commercial adoption of energy savings initiatives.
Professor Dowell's research has been published in Management Science, Organization Studies, Advances in Strategic Management, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Business Ethics, and Administrative Science Quarterly. He is Co-editor of Strategic Organization, is on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, and Administrative Science Quarterly, and represents Cornell on the board of the Alliance for Research in Corporate Sustainability (ARCS). He also served as Division Chair for the Organizations and Natural Environment Division at the Academy of Management (2018).
Professor Dowell teaches Sustainable Global Enterprise and Critical and Strategic Thinking. He is a faculty affiliate for the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and is a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.
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- Social Media Specialist, Center for Hospitality Research, Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration
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- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Gellert Family Professor of Applied Economics and Management
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- CEO and President / Cadmus Group
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- Principal, Lead Client Partner and Travel, Transportation and Hospitality ( TTH ) Sector Co - Leader
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- Lecturer
- International past President for NEWH, Inc
- Lecturer at the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel
- Principal With Olive Hospitality Consulting
- Senior Lecturer / Deputy Area Chair for Operations, Technology, and Information Management
Jeanne Varney is a lecturer at the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration. She resides in the property development and management department, where she is responsible for the curriculum in Hospitality Facilities Management, Hospitality Asset Management, Sustainable Development, and Introduction to Sustainable Hospitality.
In Hospitality Facilities Management, she combines the technical facilities curriculum with a practical management perspective. In Hospitality Asset Management, she examines the broad range of issues faced by hotel ownership groups requiring asset management oversight and analyses, and how to influence results that meet ownership objectives. In Sustainable Development, she leads students through the principles, methodology, and strategic application of green hotel development and practices in an engaged learning environment. In Introduction to Sustainable Hospitality Principles, she guides students through the implementation of tactical green principles, policies and practices.
Outside Cornell, Varney is a principal with Olive Hospitality Consulting, where she provides practical sustainability solutions to businesses looking to improve the "triple bottom line" for their organizations. She has more than 20 years of real estate, operations, and sustainable hospitality experience. Prior to establishing Olive Hospitality Consulting, Varney was vice president of asset management at Host Hotels and Resorts, administering the full range of ownership responsibilities, including operational and capital expenditure budgeting, ongoing operational reviews, and long-term strategic planning for the properties. Varney previously held positions with Marriott International Corporate Headquarters and Horwath Landauer Hospitality Consulting, as well as positions with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.
Outside her professional duties, Varney is an international past president for NEWH, Inc. and is a founding member of the NEWH Sustainability Committee. She is also a member of US Green Building Council, Sustainable Hospitality Council, Cornell Real Estate Council, and Cornell Hotel Society. Varney holds an MBA from The George Washington University and a BS degree in hotel administration from Cornell University.
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- Senior Vice President, Commercial Strategy, Insights and Analytics
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- Managing Principal Hospitality / ZS
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- Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy
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- Chief Evangelist and Head of Strategy
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- Executive - in - Residence
Travel journalist and author with 15 years of experience reporting on sustainable tourism, currently writing full-time for Bloomberg Pursuits
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- Senior Vice President, Marketing, Communications, and Sales Enablement
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- Associate Dean
- Senior Extension Associate Executive Director, Institute for Compensation Studies / Associate Dean for Strategy and Societal Impact
Linda Barrington is associate dean for strategy and societal impact for the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. She is also the executive director of the Institute for Compensation Studies. Barrington came to Cornell University from The Conference Board, a global business membership and research organization. While there, she advanced through several positions, including economist, special assistant to the CEO, research director, and managing director of human capital. Before assuming her current role at SC Johnson, Barrington served as associate dean for outreach and sponsored research at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She began her career on the economics faculty at Barnard College of Columbia University and has also taught economics at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois.
Barrington's published research addresses compensation, gender issues in the workplace, business leaders' perceptions of their top challenges, employees with disabilities, workforce demographics, and the working poor. Her work appears in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic History, Historical Statistics of the US, WorldatWork Journal, workspan, and numerous business-research reports. Barrington has also edited and been contributing author to three scholarly books.
She has been a frequent media contributor on compensation issues and labor market statistics and has presented expert opinion to state and national policy panels on gender pay gaps, generational workforce challenges, and compensation. She has rich career experience as an educator, researcher, media spokesperson, and executive leader, having built a successful track record in academic administration, stakeholder collaboration, and organizational management.
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- Senior Lecturer and Director of the Emerging Markets Institute
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- Member of the Faculty & Staff
- Member of the Leadership & Core Team
- Director of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise
- Faculty Director
- Faculty Director of Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise / Clinical Professor of Management
Dr. Mark Milstein is Director of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He oversees the center's work on sustainable innovation and low-income - or base of the pyramid - enterprise development. Professor Milstein teaches and conducts research on strategy, decision making, technology management, and innovation. Dr. Milstein is a member of the Management and Organization Group at the Johnson School, as well as the university-wide Entrepreneurship@Cornell program.
He is currently serving as a faculty advisor to the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, as well as a member of Cornell's Ad Hoc Committee on Sustainable Endowment Practices.
Dr. Milstein's own research is focused on how and why firms generate new business growth opportunities by treating social and environmental challenges as unmet market needs. His work includes private sector approaches to poverty alleviation and technology commercialization strategies to catalyze sustainable innovation.
Currently, Dr. Milstein is heading a study of the approaches being used by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps for promoting private enterprise to spur economic development in areas such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, and the Philippines. His other research projects include a collaboration with researchers in Mexico and Canada to examine how companies are pursuing sustainable innovation, and a collaboration with researchers from the Netherlands and China to examine corporate approaches to enterprise development in Latin America, China, and Africa. Dr. Milstein has led research supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) focused on improving ways to bridge management and engineering education of sustainable technology commercialization. From 2002-2006, he was Project Director of another NSF-sponsored study of U.S. multinational corporate initiatives to build new businesses that serve the world's poorest people.
Professor Milstein's writings have appeared in the Academy of Management Executive, Sloan Management Review, Environmental Finance, and Value, as well as various edited books. He is an award-winning author of several popular teaching cases. Dr. Milstein has taught strategy, innovation, and sustainable enterprise to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives in the U.S., Latin America, and Asia.
He is a frequent speaker on the topics of strategy, organizational change, and innovation related to business and sustainability. He also consults with a number of multinational firms, small- and medium-sized enterprises, and NGOs, including Caterpillar, Suncor, the U.S. Army, and Schering-Plough.
From 2004 to 2006, Dr. Milstein was the business research director for the Sustainable Enterprise Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a non-profit, non-partisan think tank located in Washington, D.C. There, he oversaw a number of projects and initiatives in the U.S., Latin America, and China related to strategy and innovation in the private sector.
From 2002 to 2004, he was on the faculty of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directed research and strategy for the school's Center for Sustainable Enterprise.
Milstein earned a B.A. in economics and Japanese from the University of Michigan. He later earned both an MBA in general management and an M.S. in natural resource policy from the University of Michigan's dual-degree Corporate Environmental Management (now Erb) Program. He received his PhD in strategic management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- Senior Advisor for Kalibri Labs
Mark Lomanno is a Partner and Senior Advisor for Kalibri Labs, a hospitality data analytics company that focuses on helping hotels improve profit contribution by evaluating performance based on revenue net of customer acquisition costs. In addition, he advises several start-up and investment companies in the hospitality and data space, including Duetto Research, Aspire Marketing, Venturism and FireLight Camps, where he also sits on the Board of Directors. In that role he takes an active role in helping to shape the respective company's strategic direction, creating and enhancing new research solutions and building relationships with hospitality brands, owners and operators.
Mark is the former President and CEO of Smith Travel Research (STR). Under his fifteen years of leadership, the company grew from a US firm to the most respected name in global hotel benchmarking. While at STR, Mark co-authored the 2012 Distribution Channel Analysis: A Guide for Hotels with Cindy Estis Green.
Mark serves on the advisory board of the Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University and University of Delaware's school of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional management, is an active member in the Hotel Development Council of the Urban Land Institute and is a named Conti Professor at Pennsylvania State University. Mark also serves on the advisory board of The School of Tourism & Hospitality Management at Temple University, where he teaches a graduate level course "New Media and Distribution." Mark holds a MS in Marketing from LaSalle University and an MBA from Temple University.
Mark is an avid runner and Philadelphia Eagles fan. Mark's favorite quote: "Well done is always more important than well said" - unknown
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- Leader
- Member of the Faculty & Staff
- Author of Sustainable Tourism
- Managing Director of STAMP
- Managing Director Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program ( STAMP )
Megan Epler Wood is a leader, educator and consultant who has dedicated her professional career to the implementation of sustainability practices in the field of tourism. She has worked worldwide for over 30 years to inform thousands of leaders, students, business professionals, and local people on the use of well-researched sustainable business, environment conservation and inclusive economic development tools. She founded the first NGO in the world dedicated to sustainable tourism, The International Ecotourism Society.
Epler Wood is the author of Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet; Environmental, Business and Policy Solutions (2017) a globally adopted text book which systematically reviews sustainability practices in each sector of the tourism industry. She is the senior author of Destinations at Risk; the Invisible Burden (2019) a ground-breaking report which has called attention to the unaccounted for costs of managing tourism at the local level. And she is the lead faculty member of the Cornell On-Line Course, Sustainable Tourism Destination Management (2022).
Epler Wood has led an international consulting practice EplerWood International since 2003 with over a dozen projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America and numerous international studies. She has advised on national policies for sustainable tourism development; fostered small scale enterprise development in rural and biodiverse areas; improved and diversified mainstream tourism supply chains to create wealth for the bottom billion; and set measurable standards and delivered tools for sustainable destination development.
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- Chief Technology Officer / General Electric
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Leadership & Core Team
- Executive Director of Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise / Associate Director of Sustainability Careers, Career Management Center
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- Executive Director, Center for Hospitality Research, Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration 607.254.3383
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- Program Director Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program ( STAMP )
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- Vice President, Global Topline Analytics / Marriott International
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- Professor and Director of Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture & Development ( CIIFAD )
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- Senior Research Associate
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- Director of Financial Modeling, Integrated Venture Engineering Program
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- Robert Dyson Sesquicentennial Chair in Environmental, Energy, and Resource Economics
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- Director, Research Information Services / CBRE Hotels Research
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- Center Coordinator, Center for Hospitality Research, Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration 607.254.4504
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- President / Silver Hospitality Group
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- Senior Vice President, Research
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- International Professor of Applied Economics and Management
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- World Affairs and International Professor of Applied Economics and Management
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- Assistant Professor and Susan Henry Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
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- Member of the Faculty & Staff
- Co - Director, Integrated Venture Engineering Program
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- Emerson Professor of Manufacturing Management