Lang Letter Archive

Two speakers at the recent India Business Initiative conference offer radical suggestions for solving the country’s physician shortage.

Columbia University’s physician-in-chief prescribes some radical intervention that will help cure India’s healthcare crisis.

The high pitched fervor over ‘big data’ has died down a bit, but only because companies are more focused on putting their noses to the grind stone to determine how to more effectively collect and analyze data, of all sizes, to improve their business performance.

Second only to the use of fossil fuels, deforestation is the largest driver of global climate change, but a proposal before the United Nations Conference on Climate Change could change that.

Focusing on process is more effective than trying to control every aspect of employee performance.

The global economy is undergoing a massive structural transformation. Bruce Greenwald, the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management and director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing, explains the coming death of manufacturing and the return of the local.

Legal systems are blocking access to credit in emerging-market countries. New research explains how — and why.

A life-long runner, associate professor Malia Mason reflects on what the sport taught her about leadership.

Skills mastered through endurance sports fuel success in business, says marathoner and serial entrepreneur Joshua Spodek ’06.