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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.
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Family, Research Findings
How do emotions travel in groups?
Professor Adam Galinsky and co-authors explore whether emotions intensify among people in groups in “Feeling more together: Group attention intensifies emotion.”
Governance, Leadership, Ownership, Research Findings, Strategy
What’s the relationship between Boards and CEO power?
In “Board Composition and CEO Power,” Professor Tim Baldenius and colleagues study the optimal composition of corporate boards.
Finance, Governance, Ownership, Research Findings
What is Pyramidal Ownership?
Professor Daniel Wolfenzon and colleague provide insights into this form of family firm ownership in “A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups.”
Governance, Leadership, Management, Research Findings
Family or Non-family CEO?
Professor Daniel Wolfenzon and colleagues provide thought-provoking findings on family versus non-family- CEO’s of family firms in Inside the Family Firm: Families in Succession Decisions and Performance.
Governance, Ownership, Research Findings
How is Family Firm Ownership Structured? The Case of Korean Chaebols.
Research by Professor Daniel Wolfenzon, Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics, and colleagues examines family firm ownership structures.
Finance, Ownership, Research Findings
Do Wealthy People Deserve to Be Rich?
Shai Davidai, Associate Professor, Management, Columbia Business School, determines the role charitable giving plays on whether others perceive that the rich deserve their wealth.
Finance, Ownership, Research Findings
Succession in Family Firms
Daniel Wolfenzon, Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, presents research on succession in family firms.
Leadership, Practitioner Perspectives, Research Findings
Decision-making in Action: Tools to Help You Right Now
In the midst of the pandemic, you hope that the decisions you’re making will stand the test of time.
Finance, Governance, Management, Research Findings
Do employees at family firms work harder?
Daniel Wolfenzon, Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics, Finance Division Chair, and Faculty Director, Columbia’s Global Family Enterprise Program, investigated absenteeism in family firms versus non-family firms.