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New York—Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Columbia Business School Executive Education announced today the launch of STBReady, an innovative new training program designed to prepare Simpson Thacher’s incoming associates to do more sophisticated legal work, more efficiently, earlier in their careers. The evolving nature of our associates’ work as a result of technology innovations and alternative service providers prompted the launch of this intensive approach to associate training.

New research from Columbia Business School finds evaluating employees based on their past performance is better received and seen as more fair.

Columbia Business School scholars present a new framework for exploring why people are drawn into deceiving others in negotiation.

The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics and the Military in Business Association (MiBA) seek to bridge the military-civilian divide in the greater Columbia community.  

NEW YORK—When government forces the business sector to “do good,” it hurts the bottom line and actually reduces voluntary efforts to be good corporate neighbors. Those are the findings of research unveiled today by Columbia Business School, which examines the viability of mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a business practice, finding that enforced activity –efforts by governments to make CSR spending mandatory by law– is a value-decreasing proposition for shareholders, and a disincentive for corporate good behavior.

New research also shows that living abroad leads to clearer career decision-making.

The paper studies optimal inventory control policies under the simultaneous presence of major practical challenges.

The latest research from Columbia Business School offers compelling evidence for the role of regional ambient temperature in shaping people’s personality.

Private Equity funds, specifically their operating partners on the ground, need to  get more engaged on how their portfolio companies’ leaders evaluate the merits and approach to moving to the cloud – both their backbone technologies and the those that create competitive advantage.

Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness honored Jeffrey R. Immelt, former Chairman and CEO at GE, and Arne M. Sorenson, President and CEO at Marriott International, with the 2017 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence.