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On December 10, 2014, Christopher Mayer, Co-Director of the Richard Paul Richman Center of Business, Law, and Public Policy & Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, Columbia Business School moderated a panel titled "The Implication of Secular Change" at the Barclays Select Series 2014 – Real Estate: The Year Ahead. 

MBA students Chris Doman '15, Dennis Giuliano '15, Sarah Pous '15, and Kris Ronning '15 won first place, the Alexander Bodini Foundation Prize, at the Real Estate Project Class Final Presentations Competition and Awards Dinner at Columbia Business School on December 10, 2014. Their team was one of four to present at the competition, which is the culmination of the second-year course taught by Adjunct Associate Professor Andrew C. Jacobs '96. Each team was tasked with developing and presenting its own investment strategy for actual properties owned by the real estate firms sponsoring the event. Prior to the contest, four other teams had been eliminated.

Nearly every business wants a piece of this huge consumer market.

Effective January 5, Zelon Crawford ’96TC will serve as Columbia Business School’s new Assistant Dean and Dean of Students, Full-Time MBA Program.

Research by Prof. Bruce Kogut and colleagues explores the potential for economic research to be influenced by a researcher's political leanings.

CJEB's Director of Research, David E. Weinstein was recently interviewed by Jiji Press for the article titled "Abenomics”- Moving in the Right Direction = After the 2014 General Election, Some Structural Reforms Are Needed."

CJEB's Senior Advisor, Alicia Ogawa, provided her perspective and thoughts on Prime Minister Abe's tax hike decision and reforms in a recent Nikkei article, titled "After tax hike delay, Abe can no longer shy away from bold reforms." To view this article, please click here.

A foreign posting is a real resume booster — right? Not always, especially if you're coming from outside the United States to work within its borders.

Columbia Business School’s case competition team topped 18 other business schools to finish first place in the prestigious National Real Estate Challenge, hosted by UT Austin on November 19 - 20, 2014. The team, consisting of Azeem Ahamed ’15, Nikhil Chaudhri ’16, Christopher Doman ’15, Aaron Kazam ’15, Lauren McDermott ’15, and Daniel Wagman ’15, impressed the judges by presenting a plan to redevelop Boston’s Landmark Center into a premier retail destination for local residents.

Voter behavior has long held mysteries for both politicians and psychologists. Why do poor and working-class voters across the US South, for instance, still line up to support conservative candidates whose policies favor the rich, weaken the social-safety net and limit access to affordable health care?

From November 3-4, 2014, 20 students of the Columbia Business School Real Estate Association traveled to San Francisco to explore the market landscape and learn how San Francisco-based companies are taking advantage of local, national, and international opportunities. The group had informational meetings and site visits with real estate developers and investment and private equity companies.

CJEB's Core Faculty member, Professor Gerald Curtis, recently interviewed with The Wall Street Journal in Tokyo to discuss Japan's upcoming election which will take place in December. He speculates the outcome of the election and how it may impact Abe and the LDP party. He also discusses the recent recession and the progress of Abenomics. For more information and to view the video, please click here.

A big congratulations to CBS for taking both 1st and 2nd place in the ABI Corporate Restructuring Competition! The $6,000 first place was awarded to Colin McCarthy '16, Mark Reynolds '16, Wariz Anifowoshe '16 and Andrew Longley '16, and the $3,500 second place was awarded to Ari David '16, Catalin Cibu '16, Robert Dellinger '16 and Adam Yoran '16.

Professor Pierre Yared talks about his recent research, which looks at the rising popularity of guiding monetary policy through target-based rules.

Nina Tandon '12 talks about the origin of EpiBone and overcoming the challenges facing women entrepreneurs.

On Friday, October 31, 2014, members of the Real Estate Association and Paul Milstein Center staff met with Brookfield Property Group CEO, Ric Clark, and other members of the Brookfield team for a discussion regarding the Manhattan real estate market and Brookfield’s newest acquisitions and developments.

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate hosted a full-day, interactive workshop on negotiating real estate joint-venture agreements at Columbia Business School on Friday, October 24. Hosted in conjunction with the MIT Center for Real Estate and Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), the event attracted over 60 participants from Columbia, MIT, and Harvard with professional backgrounds ranging from business, consulting, private equity, real estate development, urban planning, law, and public policy. Mentoring the students were some of New York’s top business and law professionals, who helped students understand the key provisions of joint-venture contracts, including overall project risk, risk allocation, governance, and fee and incentive structures. The teams then negotiated those provisions before a panel of prominent industry experts, receiving additional feedback at the conclusion of the negotiation.

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