Business Economics and Public Policy

Alicia Ogawa, Director of the Program on Alternative Investments and Associate Director, Advising of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business will speak at the panel discussion entitled,  "Japan's financial and economic problems of the 1990s and the current crisis in the United States: A Comparison" in room 11-75 Cantor Board Room at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business from 6:30 to 8:30 pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2008. This event is organized by the Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies and the Undergraduate International Business Association at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

On Friday evening, November 7, approximately 50 members of the Japanese Business Association (JBA) at Columbia Business School gathered at the official residence of Ambassador Motoatsu Sakurai, consul general of Japan in New York City.

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Faculty opinion piece on "How To Prevent War And Famine" in Forbes.com

Among the keys to solving the current economic crisis are promoting bank recapitalization and stabilizing housing prices, speakers said.

MBA students report on their social enterprise summer internships

In a candid discussion, Pandit attributed the recent economic turmoil to severe global imbalances and outlined the strategy for Citigroup’s recovery.

CJEB held a symposium titled, "Perspectives on Japan's Political Economy - A Symposium with Columbia University Professors Curtis, Ogawa, Patrick, and Weinstein," on Wednesday, May 21 at Palace Hotel Tokyo.

With the US electoral campaign heating up, one of the main high-tech issues will be the state of high-speed internet in America. A campaign discussion on this subject could be much deeper and more meaningful. It should be about America??s future information economy, about the interplay of private and public initiatives, about a diverse media landscape and about its role as an exporter of information and media products.

Christopher J. Mayer, the Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate and director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate since 2003, has been named the School’s next senior vice dean.