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MICHAEL D. JOHNSON FAMILY PROFESSORSHIP OF SERVICES MARKETING

The School of Hotel Administration at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business is accepting applications for a tenure-track faculty member for the Michael D. Johnson Family Professorship of Services Marketing.

Position Description:  The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University is seeking exceptional candidates for a tenure-track position in marketing at the Associate Professor or Full Professor level with an established reputation in services marketing, and 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, faculty, and the hospitality industry, and enrich the intellectual capital of the school through their research and teaching activities in the area of services marketing. Research should have the potential to influence both academics and practitioners. 

Qualifications:  Ideal candidates will currently hold the rank of Associate or Full Professor and have a reputation in services marketing. The candidate should have a strong publication record in the top marketing journals, as well as field and service-focused journals, and meet the school’s current tenure standards of research excellence. The candidate should be able to effectively communicate with hospitality industry leaders and have a strong record of teaching courses at the undergraduate, masters, and executive levels. A research focus in hospitality is desired, but a focus on the service industry is required. Candidate must be willing to develop expert knowledge of services marketing in the hospitality industry. A Ph.D. degree in the fields of marketing or other appropriate field from a recognized program is required.

Institution:  The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University is the top-ranked hospitality management program worldwide, with undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. programs. The School of Hotel Administration has approximately 800 undergraduates and 120 graduate students. Founded in 1922, The School of Hotel Administration is an AACSB accredited business school, with a resident faculty of 65 and over 8,000 alumni worldwide. Important resources available to faculty include extraordinary access to industry leaders, excellent research funding, the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR), and the cultural and intellectual resources of the Cornell University community. 

The School of Hotel Administration is housed within the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, which also includes the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. The college is one of the most comprehensive business schools in the country with 208 faculty and nearly 2,900 undergraduate, professional, and graduate students. The combination of these schools into the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business allows Cornell to achieve the full potential of its business programs by integrating Cornell business faculty and students at all levels and coordinating programmatic collaborations that span Cornell's campuses. It helps advance Cornell's deeply rooted mission to apply knowledge for public purpose and to educate the next generation of leaders and creators to benefit society, solve some of the world's major challenges, and better serve the needs of New York State.

The holder of the Johnson Chair of Services Marketing would be part of a unified marketing group of 19 tenure track faculty members serving undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. This individual would be expected to teach primarily in the programs of the School of Hotel Administration (SHA). Cornell’s SHA is the global leader in hospitality and related services research and has access to high level industry data as well as top management across the globe.

Responsibilities:  Job responsibilities include developing and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses designed to support services marketing. Top-level multi-disciplinary research is valued, as is dissemination of cutting-edge ideas and practices to hospitality executives.

Application:  Consideration of candidates will begin immediately. Please submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of three references, syllabi for recent courses taught, and corresponding teaching evaluations via AJO.

Starting Date:  As soon as the chosen candidate is available.

The Cornell SC Johnson College of Business embraces diversity in all its forms.

Cornell University actively seeks to meet the needs of dual-career couples with its Dual Career program, and is a member of the Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment Consortium that assists with dual career searches.

Cornell University is an innovative Ivy League university and a great place to work. Our inclusive community of scholars, students and staff impart an uncommon sense of larger purpose and contribute creative ideas to further the university's mission of teaching, discovery and engagement. Located in Ithaca, NY, Cornell's far-flung global presence includes the medical college's campuses on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Doha, Qatar, as well as the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New York City.