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Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness announced today David Abney, chairman and CEO, United Parcel Service, Janet DiFiore, chief judge, New York State, and Hubert Joly, executive chairman, Best Buy, will receive its 2019 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence.

Congratulations to our DRO PhD graduates of the class of 2019! DRO PhD student Francisco Castro accepted a faculty position at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He will join the Decisions, Operations and Technology Management (DOTM) area. Francisco was advised by Professors Omar Besbes, Ilan Lobel and Gabriel Weintraub.

The paper was written under the supervision of DRO professor Awi Federgruen.

Professor Daniel Guetta and two NYU co-authors won acclaim for their recent work, Supply Chain Coordination and Contracts in the Sharing Economy - a Case Study at Cargo.

DRO professor warns about red flags in the polio vaccine supply chain.

New Columbia Business School Study Finds Agreeableness and Trusting Tendencies Closely Associated with Vulnerability and Financial Hardship.

Patrick Pilch, CBS’89, is quoted in Home Health Care News regarding Home Health as a Top Investment Target of Health care provider organizations.

Professor Linda Green, our Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Management Program Faculty Director, sits with FOX 5 / Fox5NY.com's Ernie Anastos Fox 5 to discuss the impending physician shortage, sharing data about why leveraging nurse practitioners and telemedicine will start to address the problem.

Research Offers an Important Caveat to the Dictum “Do as the Romans Do” NEW YORK – On a visit earlier this year to India, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to great lengths to fit in, wearing heavily embroidered kurtas and showing off his polished Bhangra moves at a reception.

New Preliminary Data In New York Shows Widespread Employer Support for Paid Leave Law Research finds that California’s paid family leave produced a 46-percent increase in fathers taking time off to bond with newborn and newly-adopted children.