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One of CJEB’s core faculty members, Professor Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University, was quoted in an Economist article discussing Japan Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and the upcoming leadership vote at the end of September. Suga Yoshihide is unpopular, uninspiring and struggling to survive (Economist 9/2/21)

Message from Dean Costis Maglaras

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 "Japan's Delta Desperation." The article discusses the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games unfolding without any major incidents, the trailing but accelerating vaccine rollout, the spread of the Delta variant in Japan, Prime Minister Suga’s general election challenges, and the political and economic outlooks resulting from the current state of the pandemic.

Research from Sandra Matz challenges the notion of applying mobility-based predictions of depression at scale.

This year's SLEB Co-Chairs, Marissa Guiang '22 MBA, Margaret Knowles '21 EMBA, and Brian Roxas '22 MBA, will focus on community engagement by revamping the core and celebrating diversity and inclusion within Columbia Business School.

New Columbia Business School research challenges conventional wisdom to find that in accounting, book rate of return is a measure of risk and return, not profitability

New Columbia Business School Research Finds that Local Political Leaders Are Influenced By and Display Demand For Research Relevant to their Policy Choices

The claim that most family businesses fail in the third generation is refuted in this study by Thomas Zellwegger and colleagues.

‘I’m not sure they’re ready yet.’ Over the last few years, we have become accustomed to hearing this complaint, or others like it, from family business leaders, anxious about who from the next generation will follow in their footsteps as stewards.

Most articles or speeches about family businesses start with some version of the “three-generation rule,” which suggests that most don’t survive beyond three generations. 

Columbia’s Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate, Stijn G. Van Nieuwerburgh, explores how long-term interest rates track with wealth inequality.

New Columbia Business School research is the first to assess the impact of introducing new drugs on both branded and generic drug prices

The New Ideas in Family Firms Academic – Practitioner Conference, co-hosted online with Columbia’s Global Family Enterprise Program and INSEAD’s Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise, took place on May 7, 2021. Leading academic researchers and global practitioners discussed the role of the family enterprise in society, the meaning and potential for ESG practices, and ways that the pandemic has impacted family enterprise advisory work

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, was quoted in the Pensions&Investments article “Japan funds' private markets diversification proceeds slowly” which discusses trends in the portfolios of Japan’s top public pension funds, such as Government Pension Investment Fund.

Listen to a trio of "experience pioneers" -- Prof. Bernd Schmitt, Lou Carbone, and Joe Pine -- reflect on their experience frameworks and thoughts on the future of experience management.

Listen to a trio of "experience pioneers" -- Prof. Bernd Schmitt, Lou Carbone, and Joe Pine -- reflect on their experience frameworks and thoughts on the future of experience management.

A recent flurry of official measures in both China and the United States suggests that the two governments are not keen on Chinese firms retaining their US stock-market listings.