India, July 10 -- Every admissions season, the same checklist does the rounds among hospitality aspirants: best campus, best placement record, best-known alumni. Ask any working hotelier what shaped their career, and the answer rarely starts with a building. It starts with a name - a professor who pushed them harder than they wanted, who picked up the phone years after graduation, who turned a textbook chapter on guest recovery into a story they still tell at work. The better admissions question, then, is this: who teaches at the institute you're considering, and what faculty culture stands behind them? New research on India's premier Institutes of Hotel Management (IHMs) suggests this matters more than almost anything else on the checkli...