Press Release Archive

The DRO Division is pleased to welcome Santiago Balseiro, Jing Dong, and Dan Russo.

Professor Chris Mayer led a cohort of aspiring entrepreneurs through an interactive work session to contribute to the curriculum of the first ever PropTech Pre-Accelerator program at Columbia University.

The American Accounting Association (AAA) would like to congratulate Dan Amiram, Zahn Bozanic, and Ethan Rouen as recipients of the 2017 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award.

In April 2017, 16 members of the Real Estate Association headed to Washington, DC for an enlightening visit with some of the major players in the DC real estate market.

On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, Joshua Wolf ’17, Jacob Chang ’17, Coleman Shear ’17, and Neil Duncan ’17 represented Columbia Business School at the 2017 Kellogg Real Estate Conference and Venture Competition. 

NEW YORK— Columbia Business School’s 6th Annual Digital Finance Summit on June 8 and 9 will provide an opportunity to engage with and hear from over 70 experts in fintech, mobile payments, blockchain, investing, regulation, and startups. Organized by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), the two-day summit will examine disruptive effects and implementation of mobile payments, digital financial services, and cryptocurrencies in emerging and developed markets. Speakers will include:

Graduates join ranks of prestigious alumni from School’s first century.

Columbia Business School bestowed Sebastian Mallaby, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, with its 2017 George S. Eccles Prize for Economic Writing. 

More than 1,000 members of the Columbia Business School Class of 2017 officially received MBA degrees on Wednesday, May 17, at Columbia University’s 263rd Commencement, capping off several days of celebrations recognizing the achievements of the most recent graduating class. 

On Friday, April 7th, the Real Estate Association (REA) had the privilege of visiting The Howard Hughes Corporation (HHC) offices and their project at Pier 17 of the South Street Seaport District.

NEW YORK— When it comes to salary negotiations for a new job, the opening offer can significantly impact what salary a person will walk away with, and research from Columbia Business School shows that providing a range offer – that is, where you ask for a range including, and above, your target number – can work to your advantage.

Crawford’s focus has drawn School community together, says Dean Hubbard.

 

The 2017 Real Estate Alumni Reception was held on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at the Princeton Club of New York, and honored Paul Pariser ’78, Founder and Co-CEO of Taconic Investment Partners as a Distinguished Real Estate Partner. This annual reception is hosted by the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate and Real Estate Circle and sponsored by Goodwin. 

Prof. Stephen Penman and CBS graduate student Erik Johannesson have been awarded the 2016 Abacus Best Manuscript Award. Penman’s paper is titled “Valuation: Accounting for Risk and the Expected Return.” The Johannesson paper (joint with James Ohlson) is ’“Equity Value as a Function of (eps1, eps2, dps1, bvps, beta): Concepts and Realities.”

While many people successfully conceal their secrets, new research from Columbia Business School reveals that there are harmful personal effects just from thinking about secrets.

Professor Takatoshi Ito shared his views on BOJ reaching the inflation target of 2% and the possibility of another financial crisis. He also discussed the Fed's policy path, and how their decision will affect central banks. These interviews take place on Bloomberg's segment - Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia. To watch the videos, please click on the link below:Professor Ito Sees Japan Near 2% Inflation by End of 2018 (Bloomberg, May 3, 2017)

Transportation contributes approximately 26 percent to greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, governments around the world are looking for ways to increase consumers’ use of fuel-efficient vehicles. One of the most straightforward ways to provide this information is in the form of labels.

This year’s Annual Dinner welcomed more than 800 attendees to the American Museum of Natural History on May 1.

Prof. Fabrizio Ferri was asked to join the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of the Accounting Review, the academic journal of the American Accounting Association

Don Lehmann was recognized by the Marketing Science Institute for his paper, co-authored with Kimberly Whitler and Ryan Krause, When and how does board-level marketing experience contribute to firm performance?  

More than 1.5 billion people live in extreme poverty worldwide, and even in the relatively wealthy US, 14 per cent live below the poverty line. People in poverty make more “myopic” or short-term decisions rather than forward-looking decisions that could improve their situations. A new study co-authored at Cambridge Judge Business School finds that increased community trust could help halt this “vicious cycle” of poverty.

Professor Takatoshi Ito was recently appointed as one of the members of the Eminent Persons Group of the G20. He, along with the other members of this group, are tasked to review issues relating to global financial governance. To read more on this, please visit the link below: DPM Tharman appointed chairman of top G20 group tasked to review global financial governance (The Strait Times, 4/22/17)

From April 21–23, more than 2,300 alumni and guests flooded back to Uris and Warren Halls to celebrate their Columbia Business School reunions.

On April 5, 2017, the Real Estate Association and the Family Business Club, with support from the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, presented a joint Real Estate Family Business Panel at Columbia Business School.