Introducing New Members of the Faculty

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the faculty, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles through December.

Corgel

Nielsen

Nishii

Sine

John B. Corgel

Professor in real estate
College: School of Hotel Administration
Academic focus: Teaching and research interests are in hotel real estate investment, capitalization and valuation. His current academic research includes a study of real estate cycles and a paper on how hotel markets recover to their natural occupancy rates. His textbook Real Estate Perspectives (with Smith and Ling), now in its fourth edition, is used in introductory real estate courses throughout the United States. He continues his association with the hospitality research group of PKF Consulting, where he is working on an automated valuation model for hotels.
Previous positions: managing director of applied research, hospitality research group of PKF Consulting, 1999-2003; associate professor, 1989-97, and professor, 1997-99, School of Hotel Administration; director, Center for Hospitality Research, Hotel School, 1992-94.
Academic background: B.B.A., University of Georgia, 1971; M.A., Georgia State University, 1976; Ph.D., real estate and corporate finance, University of Georgia, 1979.
Last book read: Creativity in Product Innovation, by Jacob Goldenberg and David Mazursky.

Morten Ørregaard Nielsen

Assistant professor, economics
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Time series econometrics -- for example, integration, co-integration, long memory and fractional processes, as well as applications to exchange rates, realized and implied volatilities, interest-rate parities and high-frequency data.
Previous position: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2003.
Academic background: B.A., economics, University of Aarhus, 1998; M.Sc., econometrics and mathematical economics, London School of Economics, 1999; and M.Sc., economics, 2001, and Ph.D., economics, 2003, both from the University of Aarhus.

Lisa Hisae Nishii

Assistant professor, human resource studies and international and comparative labor
College: School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Academic focus: Research focuses on cross-cultural applicability of human resources (HR) and organizational behavior theories with a focus on cultural differences involving her home country of Japan; workplace diversity issues at multiple levels of analysis; and strategic HR research with a focus on the role of employee attitudes in linking HR practices to organizational effectiveness.
Previous position: Doctoral student and instructor, University of Maryland; organizational consultant, OPR Inc.
Academic background: B.A., economics, Wellesley College, with additional coursework at Vassar College, New York University and Harvard College, 1994; M.A., psychology, University of Maryland, 2000; Ph.D., industrial/organizational psychology, University of Maryland, 2003.
Last book read: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami.

Wesley Sine

Assistant professor, management and organization
College: Johnson Graduate School of Management
Academic focus: Research interests include industry emergence and evolution, technology entrepreneurship, new venture strategy and institutional change. His research has examined a diverse set of economic sectors ranging from the electric power industry to the emergence of the Internet. Teaching interests include the management of technology and innovation, entrepreneurship, new venture growth and organizational change.
Previous position: Assistant professor, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park.
Academic background: B.S., psychology, Brigham Young University, 1993; master's of organizational behavior and M.A., international development, Brigham Young University, 1996; and Ph.D., organizational behavior, Cornell, 2001.
Last book read: Young Men and Fire, by Norman Maclean.

November 13, 2003