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Contextualizing Data in Global Hospitality
Fast Facts
- Has worked in revenue management at Marriott International for 22 years
- Has been an adjunct faculty member since 2013
- Teaches Data Analytics and Business Modeling
<p>Professor Carolyn "Cal" Fredey teaches <a href="/content/sps-nyu/courses/TCHS1-GC2080-data-analytics-and-business-modeling.html" title="Data Analytics and Business Modeling">Data Analytics and Business Modeling</a>, an elective course in the MS in Global Hospitality Management program at the <a href="/content/sps-nyu/about/academic-divisions-and-departments/jonathan-m-tisch-center-of-hospitality.html" title="Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality">Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality</a>. The objectives of this course are to build a solid foundation in data analysis, foster a spirit of curiosity about business results, and develop an ability to back up numbers with a scientific approach and compelling data visuals.<br>
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Fredey believe this course is important because hospitality executives now have an enormous amount of data and reporting at their fingertip, but to be effective, one must know more—like how to ask the right questions, how to clearly articulate the story behind the numbers, and how to communicate why it is relevant to move the business forward.</p>
Finding Joy in Teaching through Soaring Students
<p>Professor Fredey has spent her career working in the hospitality industry, with the last 22 years at Marriott International, all in revenue management, and considers herself “immensely blessed” to serve as adjunct faculty at the Tisch Center. She received a master's degree in management hospitality at Cornell University in 1999, where she discovered both her love of analysis and in teaching others.<br>
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<p> "I can easily identify with what my graduate students are experiencing at the Tisch Center and see such great potential in each rising star," she concluded.</p>
<p>An <a href="/content/sps-nyu/explore/degrees-and-programs/ms-in-global-hospitality-management.html" title="MS in Global Hospitality Management">MS in Global Hospitality Management</a> from NYU SPS can open doors that you may have never imagined were possible. See where you can start the next chapter of your career with a degree from the<a href="/content/sps-nyu/about/academic-divisions-and-departments/jonathan-m-tisch-center-of-hospitality.html" title="Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality"> Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality</a>.</p>
Nothing makes me happier than seeing my students soar at NYU and beyond the classroom. I find success in learning that our superstars find value in my experience and teaching.”
