Press Release Archive

Private Equity funds, specifically their operating partners on the ground, need to  get more engaged on how their portfolio companies’ leaders evaluate the merits and approach to moving to the cloud – both their backbone technologies and the those that create competitive advantage.

Inaugural series of Executive Education courses to be offered in Venture Investing and Entrepreneurship, two in-demand topics among professional athletes.

On Wednesday, December 13th, four teams of students in Adjunct Professor Andrew C. Jacobs’ ’96 Real Estate Project Class presented their final presentations as part of the Alexander Bodini Foundation Competition held in Uris Hall.

Two Marketing PhD Students are winners of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition

Over the past decade, public companies large and small have been taking note of the increasing impact of shareholder votes on their governance and compensation practices, particularly with the rise of shareholder activism. But new research from Columbia Business School suggests that corporate management continues to have extraordinary influence on voting outcomes. 

Silvia Bellezza was one of two Business School faculty awarded $25,000 in research funds from the Provost’s Grants Program for Junior Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University in Fall 2017.

The Marketing Division wishes to congratulate the following PhD students on their recent job placements. Jaeyeon Chung - Assistant Professor of Marketing, Rice University Ryan Dew - Assistant Professor of Marketing, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Qitian Ren - Assistant Professor of Marketing, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)

New research from Columbia Business School asserts that China’s one-child family planning policy, and the sex ratio imbalance that resulted from it, has been an underlying source of the dramatic rise in housing prices across the country.

The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures recently completed its fifth funding cycle and selected four new early-stage ventures to add to the portfolio. Four Columbia University-affiliated teams of social entrepreneurs recently received seed grants from the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures to help them develop their early-stage ventures. In addition to funding, these entrepreneurs also gain access to the social enterprise resources the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School provides.

A new tool assesses the creative value of any new idea. Olivier Toubia, Glaubinger Professor of Business, and Oded Netzer, Professor of Business from Columbia Business School are co-authors of this first of its kind research entitled, Idea Generation, Creativity, and Prototypicality.

Columbia Engineering and Columbia Business School have announced a new full-time Master of Science in Business Analytics degree, with a three-semester curriculum designed for those who want to focus on learning the modeling techniques and data science tools that help businesses use data to make better decisions.

Eric Schaffer ’18, the Vice President of Events in the Real Estate Association (REA), was awarded the David Winoker Scholarship by the Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association of New York. 

Researchers reviewed consumers’ purchasing trends when a product’s price is divided into a base price plus one or more mandatory surcharges Consumer transactions are more likely to involve an additional surcharge now than they were two decades ago Researchers, public policy makers and marketing managers need to understand the psychological processes underlying consumer spending to effectively utilize partitioned pricing

 

Price promotions, like 20 percent off a designer handbag, strongly motivate people to purchase luxury items Quantity-based promotions, such as buy-one, get-one, are less effective in swaying people to purchase luxury items, as such promotions induce guilt. Conversely, in certain situations – like when purchasing a gift – price promotions for luxury items can backfire, as they cheapen the gift in the eye of the giver.

NIC is the seniors housing and care industry’s leading annual conference, attended by all types of industry players. Each year, the conference invites groups of students to attend and make connections that will enable future growth of the industry. The 2017 conference themes focused on changes in the industry.

The Science and Applications of Psychological Targeting in Persuasive Communication

New research by Eric Johnson, the Norman Eig Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, shows that how information is presented to people can greatly affect whether they chose immediate gratification and less value, or greater value at a later time. 

SLEB Chair, Sam Longair '18, attended the Society for Business Ethics' annual conference, which brought together engaging experts to address real-life issues.

Data was analyzed to determine how stock market recommendations from a financial advisor are evaluated and whether a particular recommendation is chosen based on gender identification (i.e. female names). Investment recommendations submitted by men are more likely to be viewed than those submitted by women. There is evidence that double standards lead to unequal evaluation outcomes for similarly performing men and women.

Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness honored Jeffrey R. Immelt, former Chairman and CEO at GE, and Arne M. Sorenson, President and CEO at Marriott International, with the 2017 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence.

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? 

 

Columbia Business School was saddened to learn of the passing of Washington SyCip ’43, a member of the School’s Board of Overseers for over two decades and one of its most prominent alumni in Asia. 

Across a series of studies, researchers from Columbia Business School found that people tended to think individuals who agreed with how they saw other people were good judges.