Business Economics and Public Policy

Held the evening of May 5 at the Waldorf-Astoria, Columbia Business School’s 32nd Annual Dinner honored Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke with the award for Distinguished Leadership in Government and Russell Carson ’67, general partner and cofounder of the private investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, with the award for Distinguished Leadership in Business. 

Out of a record field of 245 teams from 23 countries, a student team from CBS won the $25,000 grand prize at this year’s Global Social Venture Competition.

The Center on Japanese Economy and Business present the brown bag lecture: "An Update on US-Japan Relations."

On Thursday, March 20, the Center on Japanese Economy and Business hosted a zadankai (informal discussion group) titled, Japan’s Economic Prospects: How Good Are They?

March 8th celebrates International Women’s Day. For the Columbia Business School, this day was preceded by the announcement by Goldman Sachs of $100 million to fund education for women in emerging markets; Columbia Business School was named as one of the 10 partner schools.

CEO Lloyd Blankfein said the firm pledges $100 million to provide 10,000 underserved women with education and mentoring in business, management and entrepreneurship.

With no oil or natural gas reserves of its own, Japan has long depended on the Middle East for its energy needs. Ninety percent of the country's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, so stability in the region is crucial to Japan’s economic well-being.

The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, with the sponsorship of the Telefonica Foundation and the Intel Corporation, has launched a study aimed at assessing the impact of Information and Communication Technologies in the social and economic development in Latin America.

Joel Klein, David Saltzman and Russell Carson ’67 discuss how business skills can transform urban public education.

Economics Professor Edmund S. Phelps delivered this fall’s University Lecture, “Economic Theory for an Innovative World,” proposing the development of new theoretical models to keep pace with entrepreneurial endeavors.