World Business

Since the 2008 financial crisis, according to new research from Columbia Business School, global portfolios have shifted dramatically away from the euro and toward the dollar – essentially cementing the dollar as the only international currency.

Walter and Shirley Wang '93 stress the need for resilience, love, and faith in building a family business. 

NEW YORK – Your company has devised an improved manufacturing technique and left it up to employees to put it into practice. But, if there is no obvious benefit to those employees, are they going to embrace the new technique? 

Network congestion is driving user paid fees in Bitcoin and other blockchain based systems Adequate network congestion is critical for sustainable long-run operation of the system Simple design modifications to the current Bitcoin protocol such as smaller but more frequent blocks and dynamically adjusting throughput to control congestion would increase the overall efficiency of the system.

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.

Masazumi Wakatabe, Visiting Scholar, Center on Japanese Economy and Business

I-Care, which uses technology and medical data to match disabled senior citizens with local professional caregivers, was recognized by the Global Public Policy Network at its conference last month.

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

Professor Amit Khandelwal opens up about his goals as the Chazen Institute’s new director and his long-term vision for the study of global business at Columbia.