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The 2nd Annual News and Finance Conference explored the interplay between the media and the markets through expert research, presentations, and discussions.

Columbia Business School lost a longtime friend and supporter when Daniel Cain '72 passed away on March 31 at his home in West Cornwall, Connecticut, after an illness. Cain was a member of the School’s Board of Overseers, which he first joined in 2000, and his generosity supported many academic and scholarly initiatives. Along with contributions from the employees of the healthcare investment banking firm he co-founded, he endowed the Cain Brothers & Company Professorship of Healthcare Management in the Faculty of Business. 

Russia still punches above its weight in some areas, like nuclear weapons. But it has been less effective in nurturing long-term economic growth.

After the cameras stopped at the 2016 Republican presidential debates, sensationalism trumped substance on Twitter

As the United States experiences another year of lackluster financial growth, economists are looking at corporate tax rates as a cause.  But is a high US corporate tax rate to blame for the weak economy?

Dean Glenn Hubbard has announced three new faculty appointments that will take effect on July 1: Charles Jones, the Robert W. Lear Professor of Finance and Economics, has been named senior vice dean; Shiva Rajgopal, the Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing, will become vice dean for research; and Paolo Siconolfi, the Franklin Pitcher Johnson Jr. Professor of Finance and Economics, will lead the School's Doctoral Program.

Decades’ worth of research on couples points to the disproportionate frequency with which women perform housework as compared to men. But a groundbreaking series of new studies from Columbia Business School and William Paterson University suggests that women also take on more of couples’ “mental housework” – the remembering of daily errands and to-dos.

On Tuesday, April 4, Columbia Business School's Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics will host an impassioned discussion on the new energy economy and changing American policies.

MTGE Investment Corp. ("MTGE" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: MTGE) announced on March 10th that its Board of Directors has elected Steven W. Abrahams to the Board effective immediately. MTGE's Board of Directors now consists of five members, including four independent directors. "We are pleased to welcome Steve to the MTGE Board. Steve's significant experience with, and expertise in, U.S. mortgage-backed securities and global fixed income investing will complement the strong and diverse skill set of our existing Board," said Gary Kain, MTGE's Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Abrahams also currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School.

Deep-rooted cultural norms are at play when “yes” means “no.” Good managers can spot the difference.

Intercultural relationships can unlock creative potential, a new study shows.

Columbia Business School’s Tamer Center for Social Enterprise recently honored Justine Zinkin ’02, CEO of Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners, with the 2017 Social Enterprise Leadership Award at its annual reception. 

Long gone are the days when a life of material excess and endless leisure time signified prestige. According to a new study from Professor Silvia Bellezza of Columbia Business School, Americans increasingly perceive busy and overworked people as having high status.  The study has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Columbia Business School’s case competition team topped 14 other business schools to finish first place in the 2017 Real Estate Development Challenge hosted by UNC on February 17. The team, Strokos Capital, consisting of Durrell Mack '17, Will Noyes '17, John Pollock ’17 and Emily Steinberg '18, impressed the judges by presenting a plan to redevelop a 145-acre retired U.S. army base outside of downtown Atlanta. 

Professor Hugh Patrick was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal program about Japan's relationship and trade partnership America. To read the full story, please click the link below: From Rival to Ally: Japan's American Evolution (Wall Street Journal, March 2017)

Antonia Romeo, who completed the Advanced Management Program in 2015, talks about serving as the UK's director general of economic and commercial affairs in the US in the wake of the Brexit vote.

Do cuts in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget hurt women more than men? Advocates for women’s issues say yes.