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Professor Elke Weber, co-director of the Center for Decision Sciences, presented at Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence in Dharamsala, India about "Ethics and Action: The Psychology of Action and Behavior Change."

“The Art of Choosing” Lecture Series for NHK Television with Sheena Iyengar, S.T. Lee Professor of Business Columbia Business School

Study finds that subjective evaluations are comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness

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Columbia Business and law students met on Oct. 12, 2011 at a mixer and information session for the ABI Corporate Restructuring Competition.

Industry leaders and activists came together on Thursday, October 6, to discuss diversity on corporate boards as part of a lunchtime panel presented by the Sanford C. Bernstein Student Leadership and Ethics Board, Columbia Women in Business, and the Latin American and Hispanic Business Association.

Report by Columbia Business School professor discusses flaws in eurozone design, potential solutions for the euro area crisis, and potential outcomes

Leymah Gbowee, who was a keynote speaker at the Oct. 7 Social Enterprise Conference, was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day.

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The Columbia Business School Real Estate Association is excited to announce the debut of its new Alumni Mentorship Program for first-year MBA students.

The MBA Real Estate Program Advisory Board plays an active, participatory role in helping shape and guide real estate education at the Business School. The board is chaired by John R. Klopp, managing director of Morgan Stanley, Co-CEO, and Co-CIO of Morgan Stanley Real Estate. In the summer of 2011 thirteen new members joined the board. The new board members were welcomed with an orientation luncheon hosted by John Klopp at the offices of Morgan Stanley on July 19, 2011. We are pleased that the following real estate leaders have joined:

Harvard surgeon and writer for The New Yorker Atul Gawande hires a coach.

A new framework helps regulators and industries trace risk to its source.

Study questions the widely–used methods by which lay moral judgments are evaluated; results found individuals who are least prone to moral errors also possess a set of prototypically immoral psychological characteristics

Professor Michael Morris and former PhD student Emily Amanatullah (now at McCombs School of Business) find that women are better at negotiating for others than for themselves, due to the potential of social backlash for being self-assertive.

Research finds that women are savvy bargainers who simultaneously negotiate economic outcomes and gender role expectations

Laura Lee has been named Chief of Staff of the Dean’s Office for Columbia Business School, effective October 24.

Professor Gerald L. Curtis's lecture on the political, social, and economic situation in Japan following the Tohoku Earthquake featured in the September 21, 2011 edition of Kyodo News

Charles E. "Ed" Haldeman, Jr., CEO of Freddie Mac, talked with students about the US housing market and leading during challenging times as the first speaker in the School’s 2011-12 David and Lyn Silfen Leadership Series.

Professor Hugh Patrick's essay, "Japan??s Economy: Earthquake-Induced Delayed Recovery," discussing Japan's recovery in the wake of the 11 March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, is now available online.