Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration

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Position Description: The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University is seeking exceptional candidates for a tenure-track position in strategic management at the Assistant / Associate Professor level who can perform research and teach at a quality level that is consistent with the school’s pre-eminent status. The ideal candidate can effectively interact with students and faculty and enrich the intellectual capital of the school through their research and teaching activities. Research should have the potential to influence both academics and practitioners. A Ph.D. degree in the fields of strategy, organizational theory, or business economics. Potential areas of research focus include but are not limited to competitive strategy, franchising, inter-firm collaborations, entrepreneurial ventures, and innovation in service industries.

Responsibilities: Teach required and elective courses in strategy at the undergraduate and graduate level in the School of Hotel Administration. Conduct high quality research and publish in top discipline journals, advise students, and, depending on rank, perform a variety of other professional duties.

Rank and salary: The tenure-track professorial position is a three-year, renewable appointment beginning in the Fall of 2015. Rank and salary will be determined based upon academic achievement and experience. Appointments are nine-month terms with attractive fringe benefits. Significant research funding, summer support, professional development, and supplementary income opportunities are also available.

Institution: The School of Hotel Administration, one of seven undergraduate colleges at Cornell University, has approximately 800 undergraduates and 120 graduate students. Founded in 1922, the School is the oldest hospitality management program in the world, with a resident faculty of 65 and over 8,000 alumni worldwide. Important resources to faculty include extraordinary access to industry leaders, excellent research funding, the Center for Real Estate and Finance, the Center for Hospitality Research, and the intellectual and cultural resources of the Cornell University community. Hotel School faculty members have the opportunity to work with faculty and students in the Johnson Graduate School of Management, the Department of Economics, the Dyson School, and the broader community of accounting and economics scholars at Cornell.

Start Date: July 2015.

Application: Consideration of candidates will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Please send a cover letter indicating research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae, names of three references, representative publications and/or working papers, syllabi for recent courses taught, and corresponding teaching evaluations to:

Dr. Michael C. Sturman
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Strategic Management Search
146 Statler Hall
School of Hotel Administration
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607 255 3692
mcs5@cornell.edu

Cornell University is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer