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If globalization worked as it should, there would be enough benefits to go around.

Columbia Engineering and Columbia Business School have announced a new full-time Master of Science in Business Analytics degree, with a three-semester curriculum designed for those who want to focus on learning the modeling techniques and data science tools that help businesses use data to make better decisions.

“By my actions I'm starting to make a statement about what matters most to me.”

“By my actions I'm starting to make a statement about what matters most to me.”

Eric Schaffer ’18, the Vice President of Events in the Real Estate Association (REA), was awarded the David Winoker Scholarship by the Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association of New York. 

Researchers reviewed consumers’ purchasing trends when a product’s price is divided into a base price plus one or more mandatory surcharges Consumer transactions are more likely to involve an additional surcharge now than they were two decades ago Researchers, public policy makers and marketing managers need to understand the psychological processes underlying consumer spending to effectively utilize partitioned pricing

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Just when you thought charcoal deodorant and AI music had nothing in common.

If you are not focused on creating a startup culture that inspires innovation, you could get stuck in the present, soon to be past.

From ideation to exiting and everything in between, here’s a roundup of top insights from alumni venture capitalists.

Whether it is incremental or groundbreaking — there is opportunity in every role to be innovative.

Teresa Law '81 shares the story of Mountain Hazelnuts — the largest hazelnut nursery in the world, which is planting 10 million trees, doubling the income of 15 percent of Bhutan’s population.

The head of India's largest search firm highlights five specific interventions that will improve living standards for its neediest citizens.

Although advanced technology is key to countering the threat, it is insufficient on its own. Just as important are the building of trust and the sharing of information between regulators and businesses.

 

Price promotions, like 20 percent off a designer handbag, strongly motivate people to purchase luxury items Quantity-based promotions, such as buy-one, get-one, are less effective in swaying people to purchase luxury items, as such promotions induce guilt. Conversely, in certain situations – like when purchasing a gift – price promotions for luxury items can backfire, as they cheapen the gift in the eye of the giver.

As the founder of Small Axe Peppers, John Crotty '96 works with community gardens to grow peppers, which he then turns into the Bronx Hot Sauce.

NIC is the seniors housing and care industry’s leading annual conference, attended by all types of industry players. Each year, the conference invites groups of students to attend and make connections that will enable future growth of the industry. The 2017 conference themes focused on changes in the industry.

 

The agenda Xi Jinping laid out at the 19th Party Congress promises radical change. Jin-Yong Cai of TPG Capital discussed the particulars at a recent Chazen Institute event.