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New Research Shows U.S. Voters’ Ability to Identify Real News Hinges on Education and Income, Not Political Alignment

For its 15th anniversary, the award for operational excellence recognizes executives Ford, of Land O’Lakes, Inc., and Sweet, of Accenture

Prior to 2009, women made up only 8 percent of the directors of U.S. corporate boards. By 2019, the figure increased to 19 percent among public firms, but for private firms it was roughly unchanged. Despite mandates, goals, and rhetoric, progress toward board diversity is what commentators have referred to as "glacial." New research affiliated with the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership under the auspices of the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School examines a critical factor for achieving and sustaining a faster pace of change.

The gender pay gap is a hot topic among business leaders, policy makers and the public. The difference between men’s and women’s salaries is a clear-cut measure of gender equity. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. A limited focus on pay excludes the value of non-pay job attributes, such as benefits, hours flexibility and other amenities. New research affiliated with the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership under the auspices of the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School explores these non-pay attributes, which are often valued differently by men and women in the labor force. Thus, policies that strive to improve gender equity in the workplace must include both pay and non-pay aspects of employment. However, measuring the relative importance of non-pay attributes in the labor market is notoriously challenging.

Digital media platforms such as Netflix, Facebook, and TikTok are under increasing scrutiny regarding the ethical implications of their personalized content recommendations. To combat bias and avoid skewed content suggestions, sophisticated algorithms can perform additional layers of analysis to ensure that recommendations give space to topics such as racial equity, sexuality, and political persuasion. However, doing this in real time with the conventional algorithmic approach would greatly increase page-load times and create a frustrating user experience. New research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics sets out a new, faster method for applying ethical constraints to produce responsible content recommendations.

Policymakers and international organizations like the United Nations have suspected that local banks play a role in improving healthcare outcomes in developing countries. New research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics takes a broad look at bank services in developing countries and uncovers surprising links between healthcare marketplaces and positive community outcomes.

Recently, some brands have chosen to take sides on controversial issues. However, this type of brand activism may aggravate social polarization without benefit. New research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School suggests brands that choose a different path can play a unique and successful role decreasing the polarization of social and political attitudes.

Employee selection systems are important tools for shaping organizational culture. Previous research has shown that identifying and hiring employees who hold company-aligned vales, such as quality or adaptability, is an effective way to directly infuse those values into an organization. New research affiliated with the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership under the auspices of the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School goes a step further and finds that the cultural values of new hires can have spillover effects on existing employees and company-wide performance.

Columbia Business School Professor Brett House and teaching assistant Robert Swigert EMBA ’23 offer insight into the Fed's half-point rate cut, the first interest rate cut since March 2020.

As firms aim to increase age, gender and racial diversity in their promotional materials, recent social movements such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Me Too have simultaneously raised awareness of long-standing social inequality. However, past studies on the effects of racial diversity in advertising have been largely inconclusive. Now, new research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School suggests that advertisers would be well advised to diversify racial representation in their materials.

Columbia Business School research is the first to find empirical evidence for how government intervention would shape the private healthcare market

The Problem: New York City’s real estate market is at a transition point. Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city’s real estate market has seen signifcant shifts, including increased urban-to-suburban migration (Gupta et al. 2022), residential rent and housing affordability issues, and reduced value and usage of urban office space due to the adoption of remote and hybrid work (Gupta, Mittal, and Van Nieuwerburgh 2023) and higher interest rates.

Reducing Agent Commission Fees May Raise Prices for Home-buyers According to Study from Columbia Business School