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Interested in attending Columbia? Watch the Admissions Webinar, recorded in 2014, which focused on Private Equity and features our Admissions team.

CJEB recently held its 10th annual lecture on Japanese politics with Professor Gerald Curtis, CJEB's core faculty member and Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. The lecture was titled "New Directions in Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy". To view the video of this lecture, please click here.  

Forget what you thought you knew. Letting the other party make the first offer doesn’t always pay.

Please read what the Program has been up to, and what is planned so far in 2015 in the latest issue of the newsletter.   There is also an alumnus spotlight on Tracy Bahl `04 talking about operating roles and PE.      

As countries around the world roll out climate change mitigation policies, carbon divestment moves from moral high ground to financial imperative.

Using nearly a century and a half of stock market data, researchers consider individual tolerance for risk to put a more accurate price on carbon and stave off the worst effects of climate change.

Columbia Business School announced today that the Social Enterprise Program has become the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. This was made possible by a generous donation by Sandra and Tony Tamer, with the aim of expanding many of the existing social enterprise activities and developing new initiatives to broaden the social entrepreneurship network at Columbia University.

The new center will create a cross-disciplinary epicenter of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship activities at Columbia

NEW YORK—Columbia Business School today announced the creation of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. The new center, made possible through a transformative endowment gift from Sandra and Tony Tamer will help develop a new generation of business leaders that understand how management can contribute to, enhance, and impact society and the environment. Additionally, it will serve as the educational, curricular, research, and strategic hub of all social entrepreneurship activities at Columbia.

Practice and experience that come with age may offset much of the adverse impact from slipping brainpower, say researchers at the Columbia Business School. They acknowledge inevitable cognitive decline. But they conclude that much of its effect can be countered in later life if problems and decisions remain familiar.

Alexander Tuff '03 reveals six mistakes you might be making with your mission, vision, and values statements — and how to avoid them.

For medical professionals, new research can save lives, if only they can find it. One company is seeking to make that easier.

One popular paradigm for thinking about how to deal with the problem of global warming is to divide the problem into “wedges.” Thus, one wedge would be to increase solar power. Another would be to make buildings more energy efficient. And so on. Conceived of in this way,  according to Columbia’s Weber, changing human behavior may be most powerful wedge of all for one simple reason: It influences all of the others.

At a time when organizations urgently need workers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math, new research suggests that women, and especially women of color, might be leaving STEM fields thanks to pervasive gender and racial bias.

In light of the recent trend for more openness in central banking, economists explore the effects of transparency on the performance of monetary policymakers

At a time when organizations urgently need workers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math, new research suggests that women, and especially women of color, might be leaving STEM fields thanks to pervasive gender and racial bias.

A survey conducted by FICO finds that while consumer deliquencies and credit card debt are expected to rise in the first half of 2015, the U.S. and Canada are less pessimistic than previous quarters regarding student loan delinquencies.     

First-of-its-kind analysis of more than 5,000 mountain-climbing expeditions to show how hierarchical cultural values can predict success and fatality rates.

First-of-its-kind analysis of more than 5,000 mountain-climbing expeditions to show how hierarchical cultural values can predict success and fatality rates

Professor Tano Santos takes a close look at the various impacts of credit booms in, “Credit booms: implications for the public and private sector” published by the Bank for International Settlements in January, 2015.