Business Economics and Public Policy

Keynote speakers Paul Keckley of Deloitte and David Holveck of Johnson & Johnson call for radical, systemic changes to the healthcare industry and the medical profession.

On Thursday, October 11, 2007, the Center on Japanese Economy and Business and the Japan Business Association of Columbia Business School cosponsored a zadankai (roundtable discussion) entitled “Issues in Japanese Pension Fund Management”

For his research on the connections between smoking and wage dynamics, Professor Nachum Sicherman is a corecipient of the highest honor of the Eastern Economic Journal.

President Leonel Fernández Reyna of the Dominican Republic delivered a speech at Columbia Business School — and threw out the first pitch before a Yankees game — during his visit to New York.

Professor Ray Fisman exposes an easily overlooked obstacle to preventive healthcare: the high rate at which Americans switch insurance plans.

Dean Glenn Hubbard examines effects of the corporate tax on the economy.

Thanks to a generous gift from Russ Carson ’67 and the Carson Family Charitable Trust, the School will collaborate with nationally acclaimed education nonprofit Harlem Children’s Zone.

Article by By Katie Leonberger '08, cofounder of Microlumbia, the student-run microfinance investment fund.

Bottom Line Article: CBS Japan Business Association student leaders interview Alicia Ogawa, CJEB Director of Program on Alternative Investments

Professors Gur Huberman and Wei Jiang of the Finance and Economics Division received the Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Finance Association in Chicago.