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The election of Donald Trump could “destroy the international trading system overnight,” said one panelist at a recent Chazen Institute–sponsored forum.

Many widespread, global issues like poverty and disease remain unaddressed because governments often lack financial resources to make the needed long-term investments. But a just-released book from Columbia Business School Professor Georgia Levenson Keohane has found a solution to the financial shortfall: using innovative financing, a creative way to find more money to tackle these global challenges and encourage smarter use of resources we deploy for social change.

Guler Sabanci, chairperson and managing director of Turkey’s Sabanci Holding and Fortune’s “Seventh Most Powerful Woman in Global Business,” offers her advice to emerging leaders of both family businesses and traditional enterprises alike.

The 2016 campaign season has been defined in part by a breakdown in longstanding party coalitions, leaving an unusually large percentage of the electorate either unsure of how to vote or determined to stay home.

The event featured experiential games, talks from successful alumni, and awards.

In the first head-to-head matchup of the 2016 election cycle, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton showed a few skills that could be useful for any leader.

David M. Sherman ’82, has been appointed co-director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, effective October 2016.

When doctors are forced to deliver negative and life-altering information to patients, they should deliver the news in a way that patients do not expect to hear it, this according to new research from Columbia Business School. Providing challenging information in a way that patients do not expect to hear it - or counter to a patient's "motivational focus" - will disrupt a patient's expected response, which in turn improves the patient’s ability to process critical information and make more informed and effective decisions regarding their treatment.

Columbia Business School is pleased to announce that it has joined The Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) as an Institutional Member.

The Family Business Program at Columbia Business School and Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), which operates the oldest and largest privately held bank in the United States, have announced a new partnership for the 2016–17 academic year. The partnership includes a gift from BBH that will provide crucial seed money to develop and scale the Family Business Program. The funds will enable the program to move forward with immediate plans for curricular development, research, and new student and alumni programming. BBH is the Family Business Program’s founding corporate sponsor.

On September 30, 2016, the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School will host the annual Social Enterprise Conference. This year's one-day conference will focus on urbanization and how it is shaping the human experience in powerful ways. Top Fortune 500 companies participating in the event include: Microsoft, Propel, IBM, Vizalytics Technology, and Neighborly, among others.

On September 30, 2016, the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School will host the annual Social Enterprise Conference. This year's one-day conference will focus on urbanization and how it is shaping the human experience in powerful ways. Top Fortune 500 companies participating in the event include: Microsoft, Propel, IBM, Vizalytics Technology, and Neighborly, among others.

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate is pleased to welcome three new alumni to the Real Estate Circle: Austin Khan ’04 and Richard D. Pretsfelder ’94 as Circle Leaders, and Anand Bhatia ’16 as a Circle Associate. 

In the age of the social network, customer lifetime value is an increasingly inadequate metric.

After a quarter-century of stagnation, Japan has an opportunity to boost growth and raise standards of living.

Despite price tags reaching $200 million, the Olympic Games remains a rare opportunity for sponsors.