Leadership

The world’s second largest travel service has a not-so-secret weapon: its CEO says women improve the bottom line.

The Fourth Annual Family Business Conference brought together family business leaders, consultants, and research experts to talk about paths to expansion.

Yash Kanoria, assistant professor of Decision, Risk, and Operations at Columbia Business School, was recently awarded a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the design of matching markets.

A conversation at Columbia between two iconic public figures — billionaire investor Warren Buffett ’51 and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with PBS and Bloomberg TV host Charlie Rose moderating — was both broad-ranging and personal.

Businesses are constantly looking to find ways to motivate their employees. If you've tried a variety of incentives but still haven’t found the secret sauce, then research from Columbia Business School that says criticism is an effective workplace-tool can help stimulate your employees.

If you have been wondering how to be more entrepreneurial at work, how to win that leadership role you’ve coveted, or even how to synthesize the enormous amount of data available when making business decisions, new programs from Columbia Business School Executive Education may help you find answers. These new programs are focused on giving participants the ability to produce fast yet innovative results, solve challenges inherent in contemporary business situations, and stay relevant in the ever-changing world of business.

Razak Dawood ’68, chairman of Descon, a multinational, family-owned corporation based in Pakistan, offers his best advice for those entering or running their family businesses.

For the bank to set itself right, changing the top is a start, but the middle matters.