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The program will offer a select group of students the opportunity to combine research and practice to design efforts that seek to drive capital toward investments that promote sustainable economic growth.

H. Fisk Johnson, chairman and CEO of SC Johnson, and Paolo Rocca, chairman and CEO of Tenaris S.A., are the winners of the fourth annual Deming Cup awards, given by the School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness.

Columbia Business School today launched a new, comprehensive brand positioning campaign to better define and communicate the core elements that make it one of the best business schools in the world.

New tagline At the Very Center of Business™ highlights the School’s unrivaled impact on the forces shaping global business and showcases the extraordinary opportunities its location affords its community

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Annual award recognizes Paolo Rocca and H. Fisk Johnson for their achievements in operational excellence

On October 23, more than 920 Columbia Business School alumni, friends, students, and faculty and staff members took part in the second annual Columbia University Giving Day, helping the Business School raise more than $575,000 in gifts and University-wide Challenge Match funds.

Vince Ponzo ’03 has been named Director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center.

David E. Simon ’85, chairman and CEO of Simon Property Group and a member of the School’s Board of Overseers, has pledged a gift of $5 million to Columbia Business School.

CJEB Core Faculty member Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, gave a talk, "Abe and the LDP Are Back. Now What?" on September 25. A video and summary report of the talk are now available.

New Working Paper by CJEB Director of Research David E. Weinstein, Professor Tsutomu Watanabe of the University of Tokyo, and Jessie Handbury of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, "How Much Do Official Price Indexes Tell Us About Inflation?," now available

The School’s Program on Social Intelligence (PSI) has recently launched several initiatives to develop students’ leadership capabilities.

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 Presentations from the State Intervention and Private Enterprise: Japan, the U.S., and China are available here online.

Two Columbia Business School faculty members have been recognized with Dean’s Prizes for Teaching Excellence in a core course for 2013.

Professor Hugh Patrick's views on the state of the political economy in Japan, particularly Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy of "Abenomics," were featured in his article "Japan's Price Fix" in the East Asia Forum on October 9, 2013.

The placement agent concept that Charles Eaton ’68 spearheaded has become a multibillion-dollar industry.

This article originally appeared on the Columbia University News page: http://news.columbia.edu/research/3241

The conference “State Intervention and Private Enterprise: Japan, the U.S., and China” addressed state intervention in private enterprise, comparing recent and historical trends in the United States, China, and Japan. Speakers and discussants including Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate Christopher J. Mayer addressed a broad range of topics relevant to the subject of intervention, including real estate finance.

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