Business Economics and Public Policy

The key to reforming America’s health care system is increasing reliance on the free markets, rather than extending government control

Joan Bavaria, founding president and CEO of Trillium Asset Management, delivers keynote address at the Social Enterprise Conference on October 7.

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System (AEI Press), proposes steps that may save as much as $60 billion a year and extend coverage to 20 million people who are currently uninsured.

Two thought-provoking guest panels held during orientation introduced first-term students to the School’s Individual, Business and Society curriculum. The discussions, CEO Perspectives on Leadership and Corporate Integrity and Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line, brought together corporate executives and business leaders to debate the issues of personal and corporate responsibility.

Lee Branstetter introduces guest lecture on Merck & Co.'s efforts to combat the AIDS epidemic.

Recognizing the value of MBA talent to the public and nonprofit sectors, the class of 2005 pledged its class gift of $502,593 to the School’s Loan Assistance Program.

Columbia Business School’s Institute for Not-for-Profit Management’s (INM) 8th Annual Middle Management Program for Youth Service Organizations will begin April 21, 2005.

"Adam Smith's invisible hand often seems invisible because it’s not actually there" said Professor Joseph Stiglitz in his keynote address to the annual Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) conference.

Geoffrey M. Heal leads panel discussion on "Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line."

A report released at the United Nations Global Compact's Leaders Summit on June 24, 2004, details recommendations by the financial industry to better integrate environmental, social and governance issues into investment analysis, asset management and securities brokerage.