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Rachel Diller ’99 is Partner and Head of Bridges UrbanView. She has taught the Social Impact Real Estate Investing and Development course at Columbia Business School since 2014. In a recent interview with Conor O’Neill ’17, she discussed her professional experience, her approach to creating impact through the built environment, and her advice for aspiring real estate professionals.  

On Friday, December 9th, students in Adjunct Associate Professor Andrew C. Jacobs’ '96 Real Estate Project Class presented their final presentations as part of the Alexander Bodini Foundation Competition held in Uris Hall.

Professor Hugh Patrick, CJEB’s director, interviewed with NHK World on Wednesday, January 11, 2017. His segment is available on NHK World’s website, “NEWSROOM TOKYO”. Please visit their website to watch the interview: "NEWSROOM TOKYO" http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/newsroomtokyo/aired/20170111.html

Razak Dawood ’68, chairman of Descon, a multinational, family-owned corporation based in Pakistan, offers his best advice for those entering or running their family businesses.

For the bank to set itself right, changing the top is a start, but the middle matters.

On Friday, December 2, 2016 the Real Estate Association (REA) and members of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate toured 50 West Street, a 191-unit ground-up luxury residential condominium development in Lower Manhattan. 

The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School announced the winners of its most recent round of funding. Three new social ventures, including the first nonprofit organization and first all-undergraduate founding team, received $25,000 each from the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures.

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President-elect Donald Trump is making brash promises backed up by voodoo economics, says one of Columbia Business School’s resident Nobel laureates.

New measures go a long way toward protecting property rights for entrepreneurs and private citizens. But they don't go far enough.

The new “must-have” isn’t an expensive bag or a rare sports car. It’s time.

Forging connections is crucial to a successful career. Why, then, does it feel so superficial? Professor Sheena Iyengar offers tips for working a room like a pro.

The innovative program focuses on teaching fundamental analysis to provide students with practical tools for fundamental investing.

In your 20s, you’ll make decisions that will affect what you’ll do and where you’ll live for your entire career. Here’s how to navigate them.

Multiple times every day, people in homes and offices across the country are faced with a daunting decision: do I speak up and risk being penalized by or embarrassed in front of my friends, family, colleagues, or superiors, or do I remain silent, refrain from influencing a conversation or decision, and go unnoticed?

One of the world’s foremost economists suggests which catalysts propelled India out of desperate poverty – and predicts how the subcontinent will turn its sprint into a marathon.

Fewer Americans cast ballots in 2016 than have in a generation. Sheena Iyengar argues that's due in part to how we make difficult choices.

Ethics alone won’t be enough to break us out of our echo chambers. And what we miss could be costly.