Insights Search

New research by Gita Johar suggests that consumers who set "safe" goals may not be maximizing their satisfaction in the end. 

In February 2008, Madison International Realty was presented with the opportunity to buy an additional equity position in the partnership that owns the Mayfair House—a 10-story, trophy-quality office building located in the Mayfair submarket of London’s West End. In the case based on this situation, students are presented with information on the UK real estate market, the terms of the partnership agreement, and an investment spreadsheet in order to determine how much Madison should pay for this interest and what conditions in the partnership agreement might impact the valuation.

New research from Columbia Business School Professor Michael Morris finds that people who are habitually aware of their cultural frameworks tend to develop more affectively trusting relationships with people from other cultures, opening the free flow of ideas that is intrinsic to creative collaboration.

Gentry Ashmore Hoit ’90 is joining Park Madison Partners as partner to advise clients on real estate acquisitions and capital-raising efforts. The New York-based real estate placement and advisory firm was cofounded by Nancy Lashine ’81.

Sheena S. Iyengar, CJEB's Faculty Advisory Committee Member, was featured in the Asahi Shimbun.

A generous donor who wishes to remain anonymous recently donated $25 million to Columbia Business School, among the largest gifts ever made to the School.

Amanda Carlson has been named Assistant Dean of Admissions at Columbia Business School.

&nbsp

E. Ralph Biggadike, a Columbia Business School faculty member in the Management Division for 16 years, died on August 17.

In the August 2012 APEC Economies newsletter, Professor Gerald Curtis discusses the implications for Japan's future of the response to the March 11 earthquake disaster.

Surya N. Mohapatra, former chairman and chief executive officer of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, has been named Executive in Residence at Columbia Business School.

Stefan Hyman Robock, a Columbia University faculty member for nearly 20 years and the Robert D. Calkins Professor Emeritus of International Business at Columbia Business School, died August 1 at age 97.

&nbsp

&nbsp

Jonathan Knee is interviewed by Bloomberg on Media Mergers

Professors Bruce Greenwald and Joseph Stiglitz shared their expertise on globalization with Executive MBA students during a course at Columbia Business School July 22-26.

Adjunct Professor Tommy Craig '82 received widespread attention this week for leading Dallas-based firm Hines to sustained success in the New York market. Craig's work as senior vice president and partner in Hines's regional office in Manhattan is featured as the lead story in the July 23 Crain's "Real Estate Report." The piece commends the firm's development and management work in New York over the past 24 years, from the Lipstick Building in 1986 to the One Bryant Park building currently under way.

The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center has announced the launch of Columbia Business Lab, a new office space in Soho for recently graduated Columbia Business School entrepreneurs.

Professor Gerald Curtis was featured in a Financial Times opinion piece.

Effective July 1, the Columbia-Harlem Small Business Development Center will move to Columbia Business School from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.