Jack is Professor Emeritus in the Nolan School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. He previously held the Robert C. Baker Chair in Real Estate at Cornell and the position of director of graduate studies for the Baker Program in Real Estate. He was the first director of the Center for Hospitality Research at the Hotel School. After receiving undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Georgia in real estate and corporate finance, he held faculty positions in several business schools at major universities before joining Cornell.

Corgel published 100 articles in academic and professional journals, mainly on the subjects of real estate finance, investment, valuation, and hospitality real estate. His research has appeared 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 Hospitality Quarterly and International Journal of Hospitality Management). His textbook, Real Estate Perspectives (with Smith and Ling), was used throughout the nation for introductory real estate courses. He co-edited The Cornell School of Hotel Administration on Hospitality: Cutting Edge Thinking and Practice.

 

Corgel was senior research advisor to CBRE Hotels Research (previously PKF Hospitality Research), where he helped the firm develop products for the hotel industry based on property-level financial and real estate performance information, including Hotel Horizons econometric forecast of U.S. hotel market performance.

Since retiring from Cornell and CBRE Corgel formed Cordial Hotel Property Research to serve clients that require econometric forecasting, litigation support, and various analytical services.