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New York—Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Columbia Business School Executive Education announced today the launch of STBReady, an innovative new training program designed to prepare Simpson Thacher’s incoming associates to do more sophisticated legal work, more efficiently, earlier in their careers. The evolving nature of our associates’ work as a result of technology innovations and alternative service providers prompted the launch of this intensive approach to associate training.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, according to new research from Columbia Business School, global portfolios have shifted dramatically away from the euro and toward the dollar – essentially cementing the dollar as the only international currency.

Only one restaurant stands between Paul Grinberg ’89 and his goal

Columbia Business School has announced the appointment of six new members to its Board of Overseers, all of whom are alumni. Joining the board are Thomas J. DeRosa ’88, Sajjad Ebrahim ’73, Jamie Kern Lima ’04, Paulo Lima ’04, Sheldon Stone ’78, and Lihong Wang ’99.

"I really do feel like my purpose here is to figure out how to give more people access to upward mobility."

"I really do feel like my purpose here is to figure out how to give more people access to upward mobility."

New research from Columbia Business School finds evaluating employees based on their past performance is better received and seen as more fair.

 

Professors Urooj Khan and Shiva Rajgopal were awarded American Accounting Association’s 2018 FARS Best Paper Award for their study, “Do the FASB’s standards add shareholder value?” The American Accounting Association makes this award to a financial accounting and reporting paper published within the past five years that is judged to best reflect the tradition of academic scholarship and be of relevance to problems facing the accounting profession and standard setters.

“Every investment has an impact — it’s just positive or negative.”

“Every investment has an impact — it's just positive or negative.”

Light novels? No way. Here’s what our experts will be perusing during their time off.

As Congress moves to reform the financial regulatory framework known as Dodd-Frank, Columbia Business School’s Charles Calomiris weighs in on needed changes.

Antonia Stroeh '04 is awarded the 2nd annual SLEB Alumni Ethical Leadership Award.

Walter and Shirley Wang '93 stress the need for resilience, love, and faith in building a family business.