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Someone who supports and stands up for the rights of LGBT people is known as an “Ally.” And to celebrate all the “allies” who support the LGBT community, Columbia Business School held its annual Ally Week November 14–18.

Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness recently honored David M. Cote, chairman and CEO at Honeywell, and Indra K. Nooyi, chairman and CEO at PepsiCo, with the 2016 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence. In addition, the center bestowed the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award to Paul H. O’Neill, 72nd Secretary of the US Treasury and former director and chairman at Alcoa, for his legacy of leadership across the public and private sectors over five decades.

Today, Columbia University announced the establishment of the Mendelson Center for Undergraduate Business Initiatives, a joint program between Columbia College and Columbia Business School. The Center was established with a $10 million gift from the Mendelson family, whose relationship with Columbia spans four generations. The Center will foster an ongoing business education program for select Columbia undergraduates.

Options for going meatless for the holiday.

Strategy is often thought of as the exclusive preserve of top management, but organizational alignment is impossible without everyone’s participation.

The problems posed by the disaffected Americans — including those who voted him into office — will not be solved quickly or by conventional tools.

On November 18, 2016, Columbia Business School’s Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics will host its annual conference, titled “Restoring Trust: New Realities and New Possibilities for Business Leadership,” featuring executives from US Soccer, Coach Inc., and Duke Energy among many others. This year’s theme focuses on how leaders view trust in the modern business world and how they integrate fairness and value into their daily roles in their respective industries.

On Veteran’s Day, November 11, Columbia Business School will host an event for active duty military and veterans interested in pursuing an MBA, bringing together prospective student veterans with current student veterans. The event will spotlight the mentorship and community provided by The Military in Business Association (MIBA), the veteran community on campus for Columbia Business School students.

A closer look at the company’s 2014 IPO reveals technicalities that give Jack Ma & Co. total control. Wei Jiang, the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise and a Chazen Senior Scholar, opens the books.

While not a new concept, populist ideology notably informed the campaigns of both US presidential candidates, and it doesn’t show signs of stopping.

The Alumni Club of Boston's highly successful alumni mentorship program yields unexpected and fruitful relationships.

To kick off Startup Week, a four-day celebration of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School, The Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship announced the first winners of the newly established entrepreneurial research fellowship awards for PhD students. Each academic year, the Lang Center will award up to four students with a fellowship of $5,000. This year’s fellows will present their research publicly at the Entrepreneurial Research Showcase event in the spring of 2018.

America regularly holds the longest political contests of any democracy, but there’s little evidence that a lengthy consideration period leads to better choices.

Professor Elke Weber and co-authors Shahzeen Attari and David Krantz studied factors "affecting the adoption of personal energy conservation behaviors and endorsement of energy conservation goals proposed for others."

Sidney and Helaine Lerner have generously endowed the new Lerner Value Adjuncts Fund, which will support the program of adjunct professors who teach Applied Value Investing at the School.

Social and behavioral scientists caution that you must be careful when you use the “convert communicator” tactic. If the converts bash their own group too much, they lose persuasive powers and credibility. They must hold on to some essence of their original group identity while revealing this specific decision is about not being able to align that identity with this particular candidate.

Sidney and Helaine Lerner have generously endowed the new Lerner Value Adjuncts Fund, which will support the program of adjunct professors who teach Applied Value Investing at the School. 

The Columbia Business School Real Estate Association (REA) is pleased to announce the assistant vice presidents elected for the 2016–17 academic year. The officers, all in the class of 2018, were elected by the REA membership.