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The background and behavior of students emerge as two critical components driving the performance gap of MBA students in technical – but not social – courses

Guler Sabanci tells the story of a lifetime spent growing her family’s international business, Sabanci Holding. 

The Private Equity Program recently launched a two-part video lecture with Valerie Purdie-Vaughns who came to speak at Deal Camp in 2015 and 2016. Speaking on the subject of diverse teams, and providing an experiential exercise for the students, Professor Purdie-Vaughns shows the academic research and ideas that make diverse teams an important value-proposition for PE Firms. These sessions were sponsored by KKR.

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

Someone who supports and stands up for the rights of LGBT people is known as an “Ally.” And to celebrate all the “allies” who support the LGBT community, Columbia Business School held its annual Ally Week November 14–18.

New research from Columbia Business School helps explain the low number of corporate whistle-blowers: company stock options are often given to rank-and-file employees to discourage them from publicly reporting financial reporting violations. 

The Family Business Program at Columbia Business School and Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), which operates the oldest and largest privately held bank in the United States, have announced a new partnership for the 2016–17 academic year. The partnership includes a gift from BBH that will provide crucial seed money to develop and scale the Family Business Program. The funds will enable the program to move forward with immediate plans for curricular development, research, and new student and alumni programming. BBH is the Family Business Program’s founding corporate sponsor.

According to new research from Columbia Business School, workers of all ages increasingly value purpose and meaningfulness at work, so much so that they are willing to give up monetary benefits in exchange. "We tend to think of valuing non-monetary benefits over money only in mission-driven and public service organizations, but this research demonstrates that workers in for-profit organizations are also motivated by a company’s social responsibility," said author Vanessa Burbano, assistant professor of management at Columbia Business School.

The “2015 New York Census — The State of Women Business Leaders in New York State” analyzed data from fiscal year 2014 from the top 100 public companies headquartered in New York State.

A look at the biggest ideas from Columbia Business School’s 100th-anniversary event.