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Early Bird & Night Owl Evaluation Tool (EBNOET) v2015
(2016-08-30)The early bird and night owl restaurant tool found in the accompanying Excel file provides an estimate of the effects of offering off-peak special menu prices. Unlike the classic back-of-envelope calculation, the tool ... -
Earnings Announcements in the Hospitality Industry: Do You Hear What I Say?
(2012-08-03)This study examines how the stock prices of publicly traded hospitality firms respond to quarterly earnings announcements. We find that after the initial price reaction to unexpectedly good or bad news, stock prices continue ... -
Economic Linkages, Relative Scarcity, and Commodity Futures Returns
(2013-01-01)This paper shows that economic linkages among commodities create a source of long-term correlation between futures returns. We extend the Theory of Storage to a multi-commodity level and find that the convenience yield of ... -
Eight Rules for Competing in Hotel Real Estate Markets
(2005-12-01)Data regarding hotel markets' behavior now exist through more than one complete market cycle, as well as through the wide variety of environmental conditions of the past 15 years. Those conditions include two general ... -
Emerging Marketing Channels in Hospitality: A Global Study of Internet-Enabled Flash Sales and Private Sales
(2012-02-01)The potential uses of flash deals or daily deals have caught the attention of many restaurant and hotel firms, as well as third-party distributors, such as Expedia. A survey of nearly 200 international hospitality practitioners ... -
Emerging Trends in Restaurant Ownership and Management
(2013-07-01)In a wide-ranging discussion of issues facing the U.S. restaurant industry, two major themes emerged, relating to the need to maintain a community oriented brand and to the tension between growth and the maintenance of ... -
Energy University: An Innovative Private-Sector Solution to Energy Education
(2012-05-01)Energy use is one of the most critical issues facing our world. The U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts that the world’s energy consumption will double by 2050, with electricity use also doubling by 2030. ... -
Enhancing Equipment Investment Decisions Using Equivalent Annual Cost
(2019-06-01)For any piece of equipment or system required to operate a hospitality business, there are typically many available choices that would perform various required functions. But while any of those machines may do a particular ... -
Enhancing Formal Interpersonal Skills Training through Post-Training Supplements
(2007-03-01)With the aim of enhancing formal classroom training in interpersonal skills, this study examined the effects of combining classroom training with two on-the-job supplements, namely, self-coaching and upward feedback. The ... -
Entrepreneurs and Innovators in Hospitality and Health
(2017-02-28)Three leading industry executives share their experiences about innovation in hospitality, health, and design-related industries: Karen Heidelberger SHA '94, partner, Deerfield Management Company LP; Meredith Johnson SHA ... -
Entrepreneurship Is Global: Highlights from the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Roundtable
(2017-03-27)A group of nearly 30 industry leaders, entrepreneurs, faculty, staff, and students from around the world met in Ithaca in November 2016 for the Entrepreneurship is Global Roundtable hosted by the Leland C. and Mary M. ... -
Entrepretality: Entrepreneurship Education in the Hospitality Industry
(2012-09-29)Entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly important to strategic programmatic initiatives at universities. Entrepreneurship education at the university level is important to building the next generation of leaders for ... -
Environmental Implications of Hotel Growth in China: Integrating Sustainability with Hotel Development
(2016-05-06)China has embarked on the largest program of new hotel construction the world has ever seen. Even though the nation’s growth rate has eased somewhat in the past year, China’s hotel development continues at a pace that would ... -
Environmental Management Certification (ISO 14001): Effects on Hotel Guest Reviews
(2014-03-03)A survey of guests at 6,850 hotels in Spain found that the guests gave higher satisfaction ratings to hotels that held the ISO 14001 certification than to hotels without the certification. As an international standard ... -
Environmental Management Certification and Performance in the Hospitality Industry: A Comparative Analysis of ISO14001 Hotels in Spain
(2011-12-01)As the number of hotels that are strongly interested in sustainability-related issues increases, the hotel industry is still seeking consensus on how sustainability can be measured and managed. One standard that provides ... -
Environmental Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry: Best Practices, Guest Participation, and Customer Satisfaction
(2015-03-01)Certain sustainability practices could be considered nearly universal in the lodging industry, based on a study of 100 resorts in the United States. Among the common green practices are water conserving fixtures and ... -
Ethics from the Bottom Up
(2017-04-03)Despite considerable research and discussion, the key to ensuring ethical behavior in hospitality organizations remains unclear. Over the years, hospitality industry practitioners have taken numerous substantive steps to ... -
Evolution in Electronic Distribution: Effects on Hotels and Intermediaries
(2003-01-05)With the migration of hotel–room distribution to the internet, a host of players old and new are vying to gain (or retain) control of distribution channels. In addition to the hotels and chains themselves, the operations ... -
Examining the Effects of Full-Spectrum Lighting in a Restaurant
(2007-09-01)A simple test of full-spectrum light found that changing the lamps in a restaurant's dining room had no noticeable effect on diners' purchases or the length of time at table. The study was motivated by the common perception ...
