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NEW YORK – Your company has devised an improved manufacturing technique and left it up to employees to put it into practice. But, if there is no obvious benefit to those employees, are they going to embrace the new technique? 

Developing countries are increasingly pushing back against the intellectual property regime. The production of knowledge should be used in ways that put the health and well-being of people ahead of corporate profits.

 

To achieve stronger economic growth and development, the world needs initiatives focused on building bridges — initiatives like China's Belt and Road.

Columbia Business School was saddened to learn of the passing of Washington SyCip ’43, a member of the School’s Board of Overseers for over two decades and one of its most prominent alumni in Asia. 

If the United States doesn’t honor its obligations and raise the debt ceiling, financial aftershocks could be “enormous,” says Chazen Faculty Fellow Jesse Schreger.

Across a series of studies, researchers from Columbia Business School found that people tended to think individuals who agreed with how they saw other people were good judges.

Gorman joins co-chair Henry Kravis ’69 and takes the reins from longtime co-chair Art Samberg ’67.

 

Yuan Zou is the winner of the 2017 PhD Alumni Accounting Award, an award given by a committee of Columbia PhD Alumni to recognize the most promising PhD student in accounting. Yuan works on examining the consequences of more transparent disclosure on executive compensation packages, and the role of passive investors in reshaping the capital markets.

Neither theory nor evidence suggests that the Republicans’ proposed corporate tax giveaway will increase investment or employment.

This is the Columbia Bizcast, a podcast series for Columbia Business School.

Network congestion is driving user paid fees in Bitcoin and other blockchain based systems Adequate network congestion is critical for sustainable long-run operation of the system Simple design modifications to the current Bitcoin protocol such as smaller but more frequent blocks and dynamically adjusting throughput to control congestion would increase the overall efficiency of the system.

Philippe Visser ’04 is the Senior Vice President of Development, Hudson Yards, at Related. In a recent interview with Mark Abramowicz ’18, Mr. Visser discussed his background and what drew him to real estate, the allure of large, complex projects, and gave advice for current Columbia Business School students aspiring to have careers in real estate.  

Five grants were awarded to student-led ventures upon completion of the 2017 Summer Startup Track.

Marketing Ph.D. student Travis Tae Oh is one of the co-winners of the 2017 ACR/Sheth Foundation Dissertation Proposal Award.