Named Professorships

School of Hotel Administration

Jeffrey S. Harrison was elected the Fred G. Peelen Professor of Global Hospitality Strategy at the School of Hotel Administration. The professorship was established by Fred G. Peelen, president and CEO of International Hospitality Consultants and a graduate of the Hotel School, Class of '64 and was established by a bequest he made to the school in 2000.

Harrison is the first Hotel School professor to hold the chair. His research interests in-clude corporate-level strategic management, the hospitality industry and business ethics.

Before coming to Cornell this academic year, he was a professor of management at the University of Central Florida, where he received a distinguished researcher award, research incentive program award, two awards for excellence in teaching,
a teaching incentive award from the university's College of Business Administration and numerous other awards.

He is the author of six books. The most recent is Strategic Management of Resources and Relationships (Wiley, 2003). He also has published articles on strategic management in such prestigious academic journals as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management and Journal of Business Ethics. He serves on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly and Academy of Management Executive. He recently was guest co-editor of a special research forum of the Academy of Management Journal, titled: "Stakeholders, Social Responsibility and Performance." He has consulted or provided executive training to managers at Lockheed Martin, Siemens Westinghouse, Volvo, Southdown and elsewhere.

Harrison received his Ph.D. at the University of Utah in 1985. In addition to his academic post at the University of Central Florida, he served on the faculties at
Arizona State University and Clemson
University prior to his Cornell appointment.

School of Industrial and
Labor Relations

Edward Lawler, dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, was elected
the Martin P. Catherwood Professor at
the ILR School. The professorship was established in 1983 to honor the late Martin P. Catherwood. A professor of public administration who went on to play a leading role in
New York state government as industrial commissioner, Catherwood was dean of the ILR School from 1947 to 1958.

Lawler, who also is professor of organizational behavior at the ILR School and professor of sociology, joined the school's permanent faculty in 1994. Before that he did three stints as a visiting faculty member and fellow at the ILR School, in 1978, 1981 and 1990, while on the faculty at the University of Iowa, where he was the Duane C. Spriesterbach Professor, chair of the department of sociology and a faculty member for 22 years.

His research interests include power, negotiation, social exchange and organizational politics. He is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's 2001 Cooley-Mead award, for his scholarship in those areas, and the 2001-2002 State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship. He has written, co-written and edited 15 books, including Power and Politics in Organizations (Jossey-Bass, 1980) and Bargaining: Power, Tactics and Outcomes (Jossey-Bass, 1981), both written with Samuel B. Bacharach, ILR professor of organizational behavior.

Lawler has published more than 40 articles in professional journals. He also served as editor of Social Psychology Quarterly from 1993 to 1997 and co-editor of the 10-volume series Advances in Group Processes (JAI Press), which publishes theoretical and empirical work on small-group relationships. He is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Academy of Management and other professional organizations. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in sociology from California State University-Long Beach, in 1966 and 1968, respectively, and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972.