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Husband and wife Bram Bluestein ’71 and Ilene Gordon joined the Global Family Enterprise Program in 2019 for “Making It Work: Two Careers, One Family, and a Lasting Legacy.” Their candid insights on balancing their two high-powered careers while raising a family resonate today.

NEW YORK - From Marie Kondo’s bestseller The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up to high-end brands like Acne Studios that deploy bare aesthetics, it’s evident minimalism has successfully infiltrated mainstream fashion, home design, and more. As minimalism has taken over the fashion scene, brands, designers and consumers have all interpreted minimalism in their own unique ways.

By Jack Davis '22 and Gianmarco Rea '22

Sandeep Mathrani, CEO of WeWork, recently sat down with David Sherman '82, Co-Director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, during Columbia Business School’s annual Real Estate Symposium, and spoke about "How Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast."

Diane Hoskins, Co-CEO and Chairperson of Gensler joins the 2021 Annual Real Estate Symposium as keynote speaker sharing trends in the design profession. 

The coming year will likely see crackdowns on large tech companies worldwide.

Professor Takatoshi Ito, director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, wrote the Project Syndicate article "Does Japan Vindicate Modern Monetary Theory?" The article discusses how the Japanese government has amassed more and more debt without triggering higher borrowing costs or inflation and how Japanese leaders should start thinking about the country's huge stock of debts.

Three new Tamer Fund for Social Venture awardees were selected after their participation in an application screening round, a due diligence process with student teams from a Columbia Business School course, and a final pitch to the fund’s investment board.

Three new Tamer Fund for Social Venture awardees were selected after their participation in an application screening round, a due diligence process with student teams from a Columbia Business School course, and a final pitch to the fund's investment board.

Student Leadership and Ethics Board member Tom Goldenberg '22 shares compelling insights and powerful quotes from a recent panel that addressed worldwide economic inequality as well as potential solutions.

Three new Tamer Fund for Social Venture awardees were selected after their participation in an application screening round, a due diligence process with student teams from a Columbia Business School course, and a final pitch to the fund’s investment board.

NEW YORK - From amusement parks to live entertainment to nightlife to video games, a major segment of the economy is dedicated to the marketing and selling of fun experiences. While fun is familiarly conceptualized as enjoyment or pleasure, the psychological functions behind fun experiences remain largely unexplored.

Columbia Business School research spotlights benefits of inclusive managers, who help companies increase their value and improve employee retention

I’ve got a special place near my heart for Dan & Whit’s general store in Norwich, Vermont.  

Entrepreneurship in the United States continues to be a major path to wealth creation for individuals and their families.

Entrepreneurs are different from other people. Their talent lies in imagining a new solution or a fresh approach that gives the world something it may not have even realized it needed. Building a successful enterprise from start-up to sustained profitability demands total immersion. 

During the last 50 years, the number and scope of women-owned businesses have risen at a virtually unprecedented rate

A paper coauthored by Professor David Weinstein, CJEB’s director, was highlighted twice in the Wall Street Journal, in a MarketWatch article, three Forbes articles, and in an article in the Hill.  

CJEB’s Director, Professor David Weinstein, was quoted in the Economist Special Report on Japan, in the section about the economy titled, “Japan’s Economy Is Stronger than Many Realise” in which he argues that Japan has managed to contain spending and that for Japan, “markets are sanguine because Japan has a rare ability to adjust.” Japan’s Economy Is Stronger than Many Realise (The Economist,  12/7/21)