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Optimal Team Composition: Diversity to Foster Implicit Team Incentives
In this article by CBS Professor Jonathan Glover and E. Kim, the authors study optimal team design. Read the article
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Translating Your Strategy Into a Compelling Leadership Message
For a strategy to be supported and acted upon, it has to live in the hearts and minds of employees.
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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge.
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Does financial reporting misconduct pay off even when discovered?
Experts and popular beliefs suggest that it pays to engage in financial misconduct due to lax enforcement and punishment after 2003.
Governance, Leadership, Practitioner Perspectives, Research Findings
Life After an Exit: How Entrepreneurs Transition to the Next Stage
Entrepreneurs are different from other people. Their talent lies in imagining a new solution or a fresh approach that gives the world something it may not have even realized it needed. Building a successful enterprise from start-up to sustained profitability demands total immersion.
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Finance, Research Findings
Is there a correlation between interest rates and wealth inequality?
Columbia’s Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate, Stijn G. Van Nieuwerburgh, explores how long-term interest rates track with wealth inequality.
Consulting, Governance, Ownership, Research Findings
New Ideas in Family Firms
The New Ideas in Family Firms Academic – Practitioner Conference, co-hosted online with Columbia’s Global Family Enterprise Program and INSEAD’s Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise, took place on May 7, 2021. Leading academic researchers and global practitioners discussed the role of the family enterprise in society, the meaning and potential for ESG practices, and ways that the pandemic has impacted family enterprise advisory work
Family, Research Findings
Can Money Buy Happiness?
In contrast to decades of research reporting surprisingly weak relationships between consumption and happiness, recent findings suggest that money can indeed increase happiness if it is spent the “right way” (e.g., on experiences or on other people).
Family, Research Findings
How do romantic couples manage their daily to do’s?
It appears that couples help each other remember outstanding tasks (“to-dos”) by issuing reminders.
Family, Governance, Research Findings
What motivates charitable giving to more than one organization?
People are more generous toward single than toward multiple beneficiaries, and encouraging greater giving to multiple targets is challenging.
Family, Research Findings
How can imagining your future self help your health?
To the extent that people feel more continuity between their present and future selves, they are more likely to make decisions with the future self in mind.
Consulting, Family, Research Findings
What’s the relationship between emotions and health in a family?
To reconcile empirical inconsistencies in the relationship between emotionally-negative families and daughters’ abnormal eating, this article hypothesizes a critical moderating variable: daughters’ vulnerability to emotion contagion. Professor Michael Slepian and co-authors find that young women susceptible to emotion contagion may be at increased risk for eating disorders.
Consulting, Family, Management, Research Findings
How does paid family leave impact father’s leaves and dual-earner households?
This paper provides evidence on the impact of paid leave legislation on fathers’ leave-taking, as well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner households.
Family, Research Findings
Is your sense of self in your heart or your brain?
Eight studies, conducted by Professor Adam Galinsky and colleagues, explored the antecedents and consequences of whether people locate their sense of self in the brain or the heart.