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Browsing School of Hotel Administration Collection by Title
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Arbitration of Employment-Discrimination Lawsuits: Legalities, Practicalities, and Realities
(2002-12-01)Arbitration agreements can be an effective, cost-effective way to settle employment disputes-but not all courts agree about what constitutes an enforceable contract. -
Are Christian/Religious People Poor Tippers?
(2013-01-01)A web-based survey was used to assess the relationships of religious faith and frequency of church attendance with tipping under conditions of good and bad service. Results indicated that Jews and those with no religion ... -
Are Floating-Rate Mortgages Best for Hotels? Observations from the Recent Cyclical Peak-To-Trough
(2004-10-01)[Excerpt] During January of 2004, we attended the American Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS), a large hotel industry investment conference held each year in Los Angeles. We sat through several sessions about financing hotel ... -
Are US Firms Becoming More Short-Term Oriented? Evidence of Shifting Firm Time Horizons from Implied Discount Rates, 1980-2013
(2020-09-17)Whether US firms have become more short-term oriented remains an active debate among managers, investors, researchers, and policymakers. In this study, we report that investors have been increasingly discounting the ... -
Asking the Big Questions
(2004-02-01)[Excerpt] This issue of the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly is the first to be published by Sage Publications. As Gary Thompson notes elsewhere in this issue, this change will truly be a great benefit ... -
Assessing Customer Contact: Work Sampling in Restaurants
(1991-05-01)Customer contact is a crucial element in food service. But how much actual contact do restaurant guests experience, and how much time do food servers' other tasks require? Here’s a method to use in answering those questions. -
Assessing Faculty Productivity by Research Impact: Introducing Dp2 Index
(2015-01-01)Assessing hospitality faculty-research output has become a subject of research in its own right. Unfortunately most of the currently available assessment instruments are limited in their ability to consider consistency, ... -
Assessing the Economic Significance of Return Predictability: A Research Note
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] In recent years, financial researchers have gradually accepted the notion that stock returns are partially predictable (Cochrane, 1999). Most often, the extent of return predictability is assessed from a statistical ... -
Assessing the Long-Term Impact of a Consistent Advertising Campaign on Consumer Memory
(2004-01-01)How effective is an advertising campaign that has consistently used the same theme since consumers' early childhood? To answer that question one has to consider the effect the campaign has had on consumers' memory. This ... -
Asset Management and Investment Banking
(2013-04-26)We find evidence that conflicts of interest are pervasive in the asset management business owned by investment banks. Using data from 1990 to 2008, we compare the alphas of mutual funds, hedge funds, and institutional funds ... -
Assigning Telephone Operators to Shifts at New Brunswick Telephone Company
(1997-08-01)I developed a procedure for assigning telephone operators to shifts at New Brunswick Telephone Company (NBTel). Al though the problem has received scant attention in the literature, its solution greatly affects employees' ... -
Association of Nonfinancial Performance Measures with the Financial Performance of a Lodging Chain
(2005-11-01)A test of nonfinancial measures used as part of a management-incentive program by a U.S.-based, full-service hotel chain found that improvements in the nonfinancial measures were followed shortly by increases in revenue ... -
Attention Effects in a High-Frequency World
(2015-12-09)How does limited attention affect stock prices in today’s computer-driven financial markets? We study this issue by re-examining the effects of limited attention using a dataset that separately identifies trades made by ... -
Attitudes and Perceptions toward Affirmative Action Programs: An Application of Institutional Theory
(2014-08-01)Due to the continuing controversy surrounding the use of affirmative action programs in organizational hiring and promotion practices, we conducted a study to model individuals’ attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions toward ... -
Attribute Abstraction, Feature-Dimensionality, and the Scaling Of Product Similarities
(1992-05-01)This paper examines the attributes that consumers use when making product similarity judgments and their effect on similarity scaling. Previous research suggests that concrete brands are judged using dichotomous features ... -
Audience Heterogeneity and the Effectiveness of Market Signals: How to Overcome Liabilities of Foreignness in Film Exports?
(2014-01-01)This study extends research on the importance of market signals in international markets for cultural products by examining not only when market signals are important but also what types of market signals are most important ... -
Authentic Leadership and Behavioral Integrity as Drivers of Follower Commitment and Performance
(2012-05-01)The literatures on both authentic leadership and behavioral integrity have argued that leader integrity drives follower performance. Yet, despite overlap in conceptualization and mechanisms, no research has investigated ... -
Automation, Speed, and Stock Market Quality: The NYSE’s Hybrid
(2010-02-07)Automation and trading speed are increasingly important aspects of competition among financial markets. Yet we know little about how changing a market’s automation and speed affects the cost of immediacy and price discovery, ... -
Award for Best <i>CQ</i> Article in 2005
(2006-08-01)[Excerpt] I am pleased to present the 2005 award for the best Cornell Quarterly article. The winner was chosen from an exceptionally strong field of papers. In 2005, we received 178 total unsolicited submissions, of which ... -
Award for the Best <i>Cornell Quarterly</i> Article in 2002
(2003-04-01)[Excerpt] I am pleased to announce that the following article has been named Cornell Quarterly article of the year for 2002 (it appeared in the August 2002 issue): "Assessing the Profitability of Premium Players," by Anthony ...
