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Linda Green, the Cain Brothers & Company Professor of Healthcare Management, has been appointed faculty director of the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management (HPM) Program, effective immediately.

Marina Halac, the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business and Economics at Columbia Business School, was recently awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Conferred every other year by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, the Elaine Bennett Research Prize recognizes, supports, and encourages outstanding contributions by young women in the economics profession.

Searching for palm trees, sandy beaches, and celebrity mansions, the Real Estate students who traveled to Los Angeles from November 7-8 were given a privileged, A-lister’s peek into LA’s diverse and dynamic real estate market, currently in the midst of extraordinary change.

On Friday November 11th, 2016 the Real Estate Association (REA) and members of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate toured Flushing Commons, a mixed-use development site with residential condominiums, office space, parking, and an open-air public plaza including outdoor restaurants and shops. 

Consumers are glued to their smartphones – so what makes smartphone owners suddenly lose, drop, break, shatter, or destroy their prized possessions? Research from Columbia Business School Professor Silvia Bellezza says consumers act recklessly with their current products when in the presence of appealing upgrades.

In a surprise move to strangle its shadow economy, India has canceled its two largest bills, prompting major shifts in the world’s third-largest economy.

How will the incoming president affect perceptions of risk among investors worldwide — and what will that do to Latin America’s emerging ecomomies?

As technology changes the future of employment, radical solutions may be necessary, said panelists at a recent Richman Center event.

Given the fast pace of technological advancement and globalization, how can governments, businesses, and workers adapt and ensure that enough jobs remain?

If it had been windier on November 8, then the election results might have looked very different, says research from Columbia Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School. A research paper titled Weather Affects Voting Decisions finds that the weather on Election Day affects voters’ decisions.

In the past three decades, dozens of investors have tried to improve education by funneling billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing, and they have, with surprising regularity, failed. A just-released book from Columbia Business School Professor Jonathan Knee dissects what drives investors' efforts to improve education and why they consistently struggle to succeed.

The cracks are starting to show in the proverbial glass ceiling.

On Friday, November 18th, graduate students from the Real Estate programs at Columbia, MIT, and NYU gathered in Uris Hall for the 5th annual Coming to Terms: Negotiating Real Estate Joint Ventures workshop. The event which is co-sponsored by the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, the MIT Center for Real Estate, the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Grosvenor, provided students from each of the different programs the opportunity to spend a full day discussing key issues in a real estate joint-venture (JV) agreement and to engage with seasoned professionals from both the legal and business sides of the real estate industry.  

On November 17th, the University of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business hosted the 14th Annual National Real Estate Challenge sponsored by Invesco. Twenty of the top MBA programs participated in the competition. Columbia Business School, represented by Mark Abramowicz ’18, Samuel Fenwick ’18, Anthony Feenick ’17, Daniel Liu ’17, Nicholas Mellis ’17, and Joe Noon ’17, placed 3rd in the competition behind the host university and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.  

Joseph Stiglitz explains how a symbol of the dream of unity and peace in Europe became a living nightmare for the continent.

The Columbia Business School community has lost an extraordinary colleague and friend in Margaret M. Cannella '76, who passed away peacefully over the Thanksgiving weekend.

These unique products and services created by Columbia Business School entrepreneurs will make you the world’s greatest gift-giver.

Liz Wilkes ’13, founder of the office meditation, fitness, and massage company Exubrancy, talks about managing post-election and pre-holiday stress.

The Bernstein Center brought together titans of industry, sports, and entrepreneurship to discuss the role of leadership in promoting an ethical culture — in both the workplace and society at large.