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Michael Lynn

Michael Lynn

Michael Lynn

Burton M. Sack '61 Professor in Food and Beverage Management

Services Marketing
552 Statler Hall
Phone: 607.255.8271
Email: wml3@cornell.edu

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Research Keywords

Consumer Behavior, Tipping, Uniqueness Seeking, Status Consumption

Professional Biography

Dr. Michael Lynn is a professor of consumer behavior and marketing at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Ohio State University in 1987, and has taught in the marketing departments of business and hospitality schools since 1988. Dr. Lynn paid his way through school by waiting tables and bartending. This experience sparked his interest in service gratuities (tipping), a topic on which he has over 35 published academic papers. His other research focuses on consumer status and uniqueness seeking. Dr. Lynn is the past editor of the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Academy Marketing Science, which gave him an outstanding reviewer award in 2006.

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Academic Degrees

  • Ph D, Ohio State University
  • MA, Ohio State University
  • BA, University of Texas

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