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Professors Eric Johnson and Elke Weber of the Center for Decision Sciences show how the way that tradeoffs between benefits and costs of budget cuts are presented can drastically impact people's opinions on public policy. More specifically, when tradeoffs are framed in terms of understandable, personal, and concrete numbers, people disagree less. 

Early detection is critical for improving treatment efficacy for those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and it’s often those closest to a child who notice the first signs. New research from Columbia Business School, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mt. Sinai reveals that children who had older siblings or frequent interaction with grandparents were diagnosed earlier with ASD.

Prof. Fabrizio Ferri’s paper with CBS doctoral student Yuan Zou was accepted for presentation at the 2017 Conference on the Convergence of Financial and Managerial Accounting Research to be held on June 19-21, 2017 at Banff National Park, Canada (https://haskayne.ucalgary.ca/CFMA). Title of paper: “Uncertainty in Managers’ Reporting Objectives and Investors’ Response to Earnings Reports: Evidence from the 2006 Executive Compensation Disclosures.”

The world’s second largest travel service has a not-so-secret weapon: its CEO says women improve the bottom line.

I-Care, which uses technology and medical data to match disabled senior citizens with local professional caregivers, was recognized by the Global Public Policy Network at its conference last month.

Prof. Fabrizio Ferri's paper with the CBS doctoral student Yuan Zou (and Ronghuo Zheng from UT Austin), “Uncertainty in Managers’ Reporting Objectives and Investors’ Response to Earnings Reports: Evidence from the 2006 Executive Compensation Disclosures,” has been accepted to the Fourth Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation hosted jointly by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the University of Maryland, Lehigh University and CFA Institute; the conference will be held on May 4-5 at the SEC headquarters in Washington

The Fourth Annual Family Business Conference brought together family business leaders, consultants, and research experts to talk about paths to expansion.

Frustrated with constraints imposed upon them by their employers during times of distress, many high-quality employees feel compelled to take the leap into entrepreneurship. This is most likely to happen when their companies face financial distress and become restrictive, says a study from Columbia Business School.

Professor Adam Galinsky

There's a truism that only two things in life are certain: death and taxes.

An entrepreneur brings employment to Argentina’s slums by repurposing a common clothing accessory.

Please join us in congratulating Don Lehmann, who is the recipient of the American Marketing Association’s Consumer Behavior Special Interest Group (CBSIG) Lifetime Achievement Award. This award acknowledges the accomplishments of a consumer behavior scholar who has made significant and long-standing contributions to the field of consumer research.

Saving for retirement can seem intimidating, but a few simple rules can help you stay on track.

Not all information is good information, so how do you separate fact from fiction? On March 8, interdisciplinary leaders from academia, business, government, and the media will gather at Columbia Business School’s 2nd Annual News and Finance Conference to explore how media coverage of financial news, rumors, and whispers affect stock market movement.

FASB (the Financial Accounting Standards Board) announced that among the five new members of its Investor Advisory Committee is the Columbia Business School Accounting Division’s Professor of Professional Practice, Trevor Harris.

On March 6-7, Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership will host BRITE ’17 its annual conference that focuses on emerging trends in technology, innovation, culture, and branding.

What color is your house? After reading that question, what were you thinking about? The obvious answer is the color of your house. Though this exercise may seem ordinary, it has profound implications. The question momentarily hijacked your thought process and focused it entirely on your house or apartment. You didn’t consciously tell your brain to think about that; it just did so automatically.