Social Enterprise

Through a new Master Class — a unique partnership between the School, city agencies, and the private sector — students are working to improve one of the most complex entities in the world: New York City.

How one company is changing the way we treat one of the most common problems in society: Road Rage.

Professor Bruce Kogut recently co-authored an article describing how bringing philanthropic and investment capital together effectively could increase capacity to address pressing social challenges and how savvy financial structuring would be necessary to make this work.

Women should own the stories of their careers, declared Debra Coughlin ’82 during her keynote speech at the 19th Annual Columbia Women in Business (CWIB) Conference.

Daniel Mintzer '13, Morris Cox '13, Donnel Baird '13, and Yaniv Kalish '12 came in second place at the annual Ross Renewable Energy Case Competition.

A new study by Professor Jonah Rockoff and colleagues indicates that good elementary school teachers have a positive effect on students in the long-term.

BusinessWeek highlighted the Nonprofit Board Leadership Program, which pairs MBA students with alumni mentors serving on New York City nonprofit boards.

Columbia University Professor David Weinstein was featured in the Wall Street Journal article "On the TPP and its merits and demerits: Impact on agriculture industry will be severe, but benefits for manufacturing will be vast" on 18 November, 2011.

Leymah Gbowee, who was a keynote speaker at the Oct. 7 Social Enterprise Conference, was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day.

Professor Gerald L. Curtis's lecture on the political, social, and economic situation in Japan following the Tohoku Earthquake featured in the September 21, 2011 edition of Kyodo News