Dr. Jack Corgel holds the Robert C. Baker Chaired Professorship of Real Estate at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. He served as the first Director of the Hotel School’s Center for Hospitality Research. After receiving undergraduate and Ph.D degrees from the University of Georgia in real estate and corporate finance, he taught at the University of Florida, Georgia State University, and the University of Connecticut. He was a visiting scholar at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington, DC and is a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute. Dr. Corgel currently serves as Senior Advisor to PKF Hospitality Research (PKF-HR) where he helps the firm to develop products for the hotel industry based on property-level financial performance information, including Hotel Horizons econometric forecast of U.S. hotel market performance.
Dr. Corgel has published over 65 articles in academic and professional journals, mainly on the subjects of real estate finance, investment, valuation, and hospitality real estate. He has published in the most prestigious journals in real estate (Real Estate Economics), urban economics (Journal of Urban Economics), insurance (Journal of Risk and Insurance), business law (Journal of the American Business Law Association), and Hospitality Management (Cornell Quarterly and International Journal of Hospitality Management). In addition, he has written for nearly every national journal read by real estate professionals. His textbook, Real Estate Perspectives (with Smith and Ling) was used throughout the nation for introductory real estate courses. Dr. Corgel’s current research interests include hotel markets and the macro-economy and real estate price forecasting.
