Press Release Archive

On August 5th, Bunny Ellerin, Director of the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Management Program at Columbia Business School and President of NYC Health Business Leaders was featured as one of Crain’s 2019 Notable Women in Healthcare. 

Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness announced today David Abney, chairman and CEO, United Parcel Service, Janet DiFiore, chief judge, New York State, and Hubert Joly, executive chairman, Best Buy, will receive its 2019 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence.

Four new Tamer Fund for Social Venture awardees were selected after participating in an application screening round, a due diligence process with student teams as part of a Columbia Business School course, and a final pitch to the fund’s investment board.

Professor Takatoshi Ito commented on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's victory in the upper house elections, and the implications for government and central bank policies. To view this segment, visit Bloomberg’s website below: What Are Japanese PM Abe's Priorities? (Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia, 7/21/19)

Congratulations to our DRO PhD graduates of the class of 2019! DRO PhD student Francisco Castro accepted a faculty position at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He will join the Decisions, Operations and Technology Management (DOTM) area. Francisco was advised by Professors Omar Besbes, Ilan Lobel and Gabriel Weintraub.

Dassault Systemes SE, a maker of industrial design software, agreed to buy Medidata Solutions Inc. for $5.7 billion to gain a foothold in the fast-growing market for clinical trial technology. Medidata offers clients wearable sensors that help track patient health and biomarker analysis to select which patients may best respond to certain drugs. It estimates that 13 of the top 15 medicines sold last year relied on its technology, as the healthcare industry shifts towards personalized medicine and the targeting of individual patient profiles.

Columbia Business School Article argues that employees need more than paychecks to stay at a company and continue to produce high quality work.

Congratulations to Professor Matthias Breuer for winning the Best Paper Award at the American Accounting Association's 2019 Financial Reporting and Accounting Section Midyear Meeting for his study titled, "How Does Financial-Reporting Regulation Affect Market-Wide Resource Allocation?" The award recognizes a paper presented at the midyear meeting that is judged to best reflect the tradition of academic scholarship and is of relevance to problems facing the accounting profession and standard-setters.

Eight projects at the intersection of climate change and business were awarded the Three Cairns Climate Fellowship during the 2018-2019 academic year.

Former DRO PhD student Wenqi Hu, DRO Professor Carri Chan, former DRO Professor Jose Zubizarreta, and Dr. Gabriel Escobar of Kaiser Permanente won the runner-up prize for the Industry Studies Association's 2019 Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award.

By Kevin Cullen '19 On Tuesday, May 7, four teams of second-year MBA students took part in the Alexander Bodini Foundation Competition in Uris Hall.  The competition served as the culmination of the Real Estate Private Equity course taught by Andrew C. Jacobs ’96 – a course which brings four real estate firms into the classroom as sponsors for eight competing student teams.  Each of the eight teams work on a real project throughout the semester in preparation for the Bodini Competition in May. 

 

His Excellency Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister; Minister of Finance; Minister of State for Financial Services, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, made a special appearance to give a Keynote Speech at CJEB's Annual Tokyo Conference on May 28th, 2019. Japan’s Ministry of Finance has posted the contents of the speech on their official website:

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Dr. Geraldine McGinty '00, chief strategy officer of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Physician Organization, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Jessica M. and Natan Bibliowicz Award for Excellence in Mentoring Women Faculty.

A series of research papers from Columbia Business School show how hospitals can reduce costs by examining their patient efficiency strategies

New research from Columbia Business School casts light on ways to remedy the project shortfall of more than 121,000 physicians by 2030

Defaults are one of applied behavioral science’s biggest success stories. Despite, or perhaps because of, the widespread use and success of defaults, a few important questions have remained in the background: How have defaults been implemented? Does it matter how they are implemented? This was the aim of a recent meta-analysis of all prior default studies conductd by the Center for Decision Sciences, which we recently published in Behavioural Public Policy (authors Jon Jachimowicz, Shannon Duncan, Elke Weber and Eric Johnson). 

Columbia Business School study shows that even in cases where men and women have access to the same networks, male entrepreneurs continue to outpace their female counterparts in accessing resources

New research from Columbia Business School documents how female-led ventures are disproportionately overlooked by venture capitalists at multiple stages of the entrepreneurship pipeline.

Real Conversations features current MBA students discussing their experiences in the Real Estate Program at Columbia Business School and beyond…in their own words. The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate recently sat down with Sophie Nitkin ’20 to discuss what drew her to Columbia Business School, the impact of the Real Estate Association, and what speakers have made the most impact during her first year.  

Research from Columbia Business School outlines how the adoption of tenure voting would affect control rights within a corporation over time

New Study Suggests National Pricing Models Can Yield the Highest Profits for Competitive Retailers.

Research from Columbia Business School reveals the burden and benefits of keeping secrets

Research from Columbia Business School reveals social networks are a more reliable predictor of fame than one’s creativity