How to build a successful community. Before Facebook, were you part of a community? Did you share pictures of your vacation with your friends?
Professor Michael Morris's research on how language impacts behavior, particularly stock market metaphors and investor confidence, is highlighted in the February 2010 issue of Eureka, the Times of London's monthly science magazine.
The Social Enterprise Program, together with Columbia Business School alumni Keith Timko '02, Real Estate Advisory & Development Services (nonprofit real estate development firm), and Ben Kornfeind '05, Dunn Development Corporation, has launched a Community and Real Estate Development Interest Group. The scope of the group is quite broad and will include discussion in areas at the intersection of:• Community development• Real estate development• Community development finance
In response to the current challenging economic conditions for real estate capital markets, Columbia Business School and Goodwin Procter have partnered to present the 2010 International Real Estate Capital Markets Conference.
The Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business has concluded the first of six modules that make up the new Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Latin America (ECLA) program, which is in collaboration with the Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg awarded $20,000 to Greenext Technology Solutions as the winner of the NYC Next Idea Competition, which was sponsored by the Economic Development Council and co-organized by Columbia Business School.
Shang-Jin Wei, the N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, has been named as director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia Business School.
Chris Browne, of the illustrious value investing firm Tweedy Browne, passed away on December 13th from a heart attack. He was a valued contributor to the Heilbrunn Center and to the Value Investing Program at Columbia Business School. Browne was a long time advisor to the Heilbrunn Center and was always supportive of the idea of an academic center for the value investing approach.