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By Brian Hwang ’17 and Knute Kvarekvaal ’16 On Friday, March 4th, 2016, the Real Estate Association (REA) and members of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate toured Time Warner Center and met with Related Companies.

John Ballay ’13, co-founder of custom clothing company Knot Standard, tells us how he aims to make buying tailor-made garments quick, easy, and accessible to the greater population.

When Manal Kahi moved to New York City to attend the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, she immediately set out to stock her apartment with her favorite staple: hummus.

Columbia Business School announced the launch of its first student-led value investing portfolio, the 5x5x5 Student Value Investment Fund. The innovative fund, named for its unique structure, affords students the invaluable opportunity to connect value-oriented investment theories to real-world practice as they apply their classroom learning to the management of this fund. The fund was made possible by a generous gift from Thomas Russo, a partner at Gardner Russo & Gardner LLC.

Think China's slowdown is responsible for the collapse in commodity prices? Not so fast.

The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise recognized the Carson family with its inaugural Horton Award.

Deans of the nation’s top business schools come together to address critical questions about the future of management education.

The Richman Center brought together a panel of the authors behind the new Center for Global Enterprise book, Growing Global: Lessons for the New Enterprise.

The Richman Center brought together a panel of the authors behind the new Center for Global Enterprise book, Growing Global: Lessons for the New Enterprise.

With a massive boom in production, natural gas and renewables offer an attractive means to green the U.S. economy. But achieving a truly carbon-free world may require reviving the nuclear dream.

Three realities — social injustice, massive inequities, and a loss of trust in elites — define the political moment in the United States

Serving on a nonprofit board is a worthwhile way to increase the impact of a nonprofit while also enhancing your career.

Jill Furman ’97, founder of Jill Furman Productions, talks about her role in bringing the smash hit “Hamilton” to Broadway.

In emerging markets, they both can win. New research from Kinshuk Jerath explains how.

New research from Columbia Business School shows that teams with the most talent don’t always net the best results.

On Friday February 5, 2016, Columbia Business School’s Real Estate Association, in partnership with the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, hosted the 7th annual Real Estate Career Forum at the Columbia Club of NY.  Despite the snow and difficult weather, over 20 prestigious companies from varying parts of the Real Estate industry attended the Career Forum to meet and exchange information with current Business School students. 

Once their paychecks clear, consumers are more likely to hit the stores, and when they do, to splurge on pricier items — a wrinkle in standard economic theory, but a potential boon for regulators in zero-interest-rate environments.

Professor Takatoshi Ito recently participated at IMF's conference, High-Level Conference on Economic Linkages between Asia and Latin America - Opportunities, Challenges and Policies on March 3, 2016.  He was a panelist for the session: "Assessing the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Key Opportunities and Challenges to Integration between Asia and Latin America". For more information on this conference, please visit the IMF Website below: