Press Release Archive

Professor Adam Galinsky

Please join us in congratulating Don Lehmann, who is the recipient of the American Marketing Association’s Consumer Behavior Special Interest Group (CBSIG) Lifetime Achievement Award. This award acknowledges the accomplishments of a consumer behavior scholar who has made significant and long-standing contributions to the field of consumer research.

FASB (the Financial Accounting Standards Board) announced that among the five new members of its Investor Advisory Committee is the Columbia Business School Accounting Division’s Professor of Professional Practice, Trevor Harris.

Not all information is good information, so how do you separate fact from fiction? On March 8, interdisciplinary leaders from academia, business, government, and the media will gather at Columbia Business School’s 2nd Annual News and Finance Conference to explore how media coverage of financial news, rumors, and whispers affect stock market movement.

On March 6-7, Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership will host BRITE ’17 its annual conference that focuses on emerging trends in technology, innovation, culture, and branding.

What color is your house? After reading that question, what were you thinking about? The obvious answer is the color of your house. Though this exercise may seem ordinary, it has profound implications. The question momentarily hijacked your thought process and focused it entirely on your house or apartment. You didn’t consciously tell your brain to think about that; it just did so automatically.

Trevor Harris, Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, has been named to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)’s Investor Advisory Committee.

Exposure to climate models' predictions affects policymakers and climate negotiators less than the informed general public, a paper by Valentina Bosetti and co-authors assesses. But the right presentation format can improve forecasts' effectiveness.

The Impact Prize, awarded once every two years, recognizes ideas or techniques that have broadly impacted the fields of operations research and management sciences. Professor van Ryzin won this award in recognition of his work on revenue management.

The Private Equity Program has launched its January 2017 newsletter. Click to read entire issue.

Yash Kanoria, assistant professor of Decision, Risk, and Operations at Columbia Business School, was recently awarded a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the design of matching markets.

The award recognizes an author whose publications set an exemplary standard of exposition.

Columbia Business School’s Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program will host the 13th Annual Healthcare Conference on February 24.

Professor Zeevi will speak at the 9th annual gathering where researchers from the larger New York metropolitan area convene to discuss the interplay between computer science, economics, marketing, and business.

Professor Yash Kanoria received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and grant for his work on matching market design.

Professor Takatoshi Ito recently appeared on Bloomberg TV on January 31, 2017 to discuss the economy and central bank's monetary policy. To watch the interview, please click on the link below: How Long Will Central Banks Remain Close to Zero (Bloomberg TV)

Eva Ascarza, Associate Professor of Business, has been selected as an MSI Young Scholar, 2017.

The Finance and Economics Division at Columbia Business School is excited to welcome three new members to its esteemed faculty for the 2016-17 academic year.

The Marketing Division is pleased to welcome two new faculty members who will join the department in July, 2017: Tomomichi Amano of Stanford Graduate School of Business and Andrey Simonov of University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Real Conversations features current MBA students, discussing their experiences in the Real Estate Program at Columbia Business School and beyond…in their own words.   

Real Conversations features current MBA students, discussing their experiences in the Real Estate Program at Columbia Business School and beyond…in their own words.   

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Professor Raymond Horton along with the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise is the recipient of $250,000 from the Bill and Melida Gates Foundation in support of the “Gulf Philanthropy Fellowship Program.”

Professor Bo Cowgill received the Overall Best Paper Award from the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics for his paper “Automating Subjective Decisions: Theory and Evidence from Resume Screening.”

Professor Joel Brocker’s book The Process Matters: Engaging and Equipping People for Success was recognized as one of the 2016 best business books on management by Strategy + Business. The book was also the winner of the 2016 Bronze Medal in Operations Management/Lean/Continuous Improvement, Axiom Business Book Award, and Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Business, Finance, & Management from the Association of American Publishers.