[BUToday] How’s the Hospitality Industry Doing? We Asked Three 2021 School of Hospitality Administration Grads
BUToday highlighted some very exceptional SHA Grads to ask them what the future lies ahead of them! Mackenzie Miers, Marut Ravel, and Solomon Frey shared their experiences of searching for a hospitality job and what their plans are now that they are finished with their undergraduate degree. Watch their interview below and learn how hospitality […]
New MMH Courses!
While all our MMH courses are current and reflect on-going societal and business changes, a few in particular to highlight may be of interest. Though conceived pre-COVID, the BU SHA MMH course in Innovation & Disruption has taken on even more meaning and significance at this turning point for the hospitality industry. Students are inspired […]
[BU Today] Joanne Chang Serves Up Life Lessons at SHA Convocation
Flour and Myers + Chang chef-owner on the importance of listening to your inner voice Joanne Chang is unlikely to offer this four-course menu at one of her Boston-area restaurants. Fruit kebabs. Peaches. A bowl of cereal. Dumplings. But the pastry chef and co-owner of the popular Flour Bakery + Cafe chain and award-winning local restaurant Myers + […]
[BU Today] Career Advice from the General Manager of a Luxury Hotel
Alum Nicholas Farina offers career advice “In our series “Jump-start Your Job Search,” BU Today brings you short interviews with BU alums who are leaders in their fields, such as banking, advertising, tech start-ups, journalism, or nonprofit organizations. They talk about how they got to be where they are and what they’ve learned from their mistakes. They […]
[BU Today] SHA Students Design Senior Living Community for Developer in Hungary
“Students who signed up for the School of Hospitality Administration course Hospitality Design last spring thought they would be introduced to ‘basic principles of facility planning, layout, and design for hotel dining, kitchen, public, and service areas.’ And they were. But in an unexpected way—and it came with a quick weekend jaunt across the Atlantic for some. […]
[BU Today] SHA Students Help Real-World Clients with Hospitality Marketing
“Hand your business marketing over to a bunch of college students? That’d be crazy, right? Maybe not. Since 2015, hospitality businesses large and small have been turning to students in Leora Lanz’s classes at the School of Hospitality Administration for help with their marketing challenges. They have not quite handed over the reins, but they have […]
[BU Today] What’s it Like to be a Twin? Elise and Leah Tringale (SHA’18) Tell All
Identical Twins Birthday: April 2, 1996 Hometown: Winchester, Mass. Do you have similar interests and do a lot of things together? Elise and Leah: We both love cooking, working out, trying different restaurants, and traveling. For the most part, we have the same friends. One of us will usually make a friend, then within a short time, we […]
[BU Today] Chopped Finalist Jared Goldberg’s (SHA ’20) Mission to Master Dessert
Photo by Michael Goldberg When he was 17, Jared Goldberg (SHA’20) made it to the final round on the teen version of Food Network’s Chopped. He has cooked at restaurants in Connecticut, New York, and Boston, and in summer 2017, he interned at a top bakery in New York City. Goldberg thrives on challenge, working “in […]
BU Today: Airbnb Not Hurting Boston Hotel Sector
A recent analysis of Airbnb in Boston by School of Hospitality Administration faculty members found that the sharing economy platform doesn’t seem to be negatively impacting the regions hotel market. In fact, similar to Uber and Lyft does for the taxi and limousine industry, Airbnb is helping to expand the lodging market. BU Today recently […]