Press Release Archive

Practice and experience that come with age may offset much of the adverse impact from slipping brainpower, say researchers at the Columbia Business School. They acknowledge inevitable cognitive decline. But they conclude that much of its effect can be countered in later life if problems and decisions remain familiar.

One popular paradigm for thinking about how to deal with the problem of global warming is to divide the problem into “wedges.” Thus, one wedge would be to increase solar power. Another would be to make buildings more energy efficient. And so on. Conceived of in this way,  according to Columbia’s Weber, changing human behavior may be most powerful wedge of all for one simple reason: It influences all of the others.

At a time when organizations urgently need workers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math, new research suggests that women, and especially women of color, might be leaving STEM fields thanks to pervasive gender and racial bias.

In light of the recent trend for more openness in central banking, economists explore the effects of transparency on the performance of monetary policymakers

Professor Tano Santos takes a close look at the various impacts of credit booms in, “Credit booms: implications for the public and private sector” published by the Bank for International Settlements in January, 2015.

First-of-its-kind analysis of more than 5,000 mountain-climbing expeditions to show how hierarchical cultural values can predict success and fatality rates

New research shows cognitive aging does not spell doom for financial decision-making

The bad news: our brains slow down as we age. As early as our 30s, "fluid intelligence" starts deteriorating. The good news: another type of smarts—"crystallized intelligence," or the ability to use skills, knowledge, and experience—keeps growing until we get elderly. During a recent Public Affairs Forum at the Atlanta Fed's headquarters, Columbia University Business School Professor Eric Johnson explained how fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence affect people's financial decision making.

Steven Spinola, of the Real Estate Board of New York, led the panel “New York: At the Very Center of Business” by framing the discussion around key market drivers: population, job growth and transportation.

Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Executive Chairman, Boston Properties, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report, Chairman and Publisher of the New York Daily News joined Professor Lynne B. Sagalyn for a fireside chat at the 7th Annual Columbia Business School Real Estate Symposium on Monday, December 15, 2014.

The 7th annual Real Estate Symposium, an exclusive alumni-only event, took place on Monday, December 15, 2014, at the Columbia University Club of New York. Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Executive Chairman, Boston Properties, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report, Chairman and Publisher of the New York Daily News, delivered the keynote address.

Most Americans believe that climate change is occurring. But as a recentPew survey confirms, we don’t view it as a high-priority problem. After all, we reason, its most severe impacts won’t be felt for decades. So why change our behavior now?

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Getting old doesn't spell doom when it comes to making important financial decisions, a team of researchers led by a University of California, Riverside assistant professor report in a just published paper.

New Research from Columbia Business School Shows that It May Benefit You to Check Your Retirement Portfolio Less Often

New research shows cognitive aging does not spell doom for financial decision-making

The Private Equity Program wishes you a wonderful holiday season.      

On December 10, 2014, Christopher Mayer, Co-Director of the Richard Paul Richman Center of Business, Law, and Public Policy & Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, Columbia Business School moderated a panel titled "The Implication of Secular Change" at the Barclays Select Series 2014 – Real Estate: The Year Ahead. 

Effective January 5, Zelon Crawford ’96TC will serve as Columbia Business School’s new Assistant Dean and Dean of Students, Full-Time MBA Program.

CJEB's Director of Research, David E. Weinstein was recently interviewed by Jiji Press for the article titled "Abenomics”- Moving in the Right Direction = After the 2014 General Election, Some Structural Reforms Are Needed."

CJEB's Senior Advisor, Alicia Ogawa, provided her perspective and thoughts on Prime Minister Abe's tax hike decision and reforms in a recent Nikkei article, titled "After tax hike delay, Abe can no longer shy away from bold reforms." To view this article, please click here.

Voter behavior has long held mysteries for both politicians and psychologists. Why do poor and working-class voters across the US South, for instance, still line up to support conservative candidates whose policies favor the rich, weaken the social-safety net and limit access to affordable health care?

Columbia Business School’s case competition team topped 18 other business schools to finish first place in the prestigious National Real Estate Challenge, hosted by UT Austin on November 19 - 20, 2014. The team, consisting of Azeem Ahamed ’15, Nikhil Chaudhri ’16, Christopher Doman ’15, Aaron Kazam ’15, Lauren McDermott ’15, and Daniel Wagman ’15, impressed the judges by presenting a plan to redevelop Boston’s Landmark Center into a premier retail destination for local residents.

CJEB's Core Faculty member, Professor Gerald Curtis, recently interviewed with The Wall Street Journal in Tokyo to discuss Japan's upcoming election which will take place in December. He speculates the outcome of the election and how it may impact Abe and the LDP party. He also discusses the recent recession and the progress of Abenomics. For more information and to view the video, please click here.

From November 3-4, 2014, 20 students of the Columbia Business School Real Estate Association traveled to San Francisco to explore the market landscape and learn how San Francisco-based companies are taking advantage of local, national, and international opportunities. The group had informational meetings and site visits with real estate developers and investment and private equity companies.

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate hosted a full-day, interactive workshop on negotiating real estate joint-venture agreements at Columbia Business School on Friday, October 24. Hosted in conjunction with the MIT Center for Real Estate and Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), the event attracted over 60 participants from Columbia, MIT, and Harvard with professional backgrounds ranging from business, consulting, private equity, real estate development, urban planning, law, and public policy. Mentoring the students were some of New York’s top business and law professionals, who helped students understand the key provisions of joint-venture contracts, including overall project risk, risk allocation, governance, and fee and incentive structures. The teams then negotiated those provisions before a panel of prominent industry experts, receiving additional feedback at the conclusion of the negotiation.