Press Release Archive

Wei Jiang, the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise in the Finance and Economics Division, has been appointed Director of the School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business.

May 19, 2014We could save a lot of cash – and keep a lot of carbon from the air – if we tweaked our habits and focused a little more on saving energy. But we're all too busy. Here's what we need to change.ShareThis

Columbia Business School research highlights the disconnect between peoples’ own views and their counterparts’ views of their assertiveness—and the impact it can have on negotiations

Columbia Business School study says analysts’ concerns about fair value accounting clouded the already murky waters, fueling the crisis

Bruce Greenwald explains his investment strategy for retirement and talks about his single favorite stock in "How 5 Pros are Investing for Retirement" published by Fortune on June 12, 2014.

School entrepreneurs were recently given a chance to take their business ideas prime time when ABC’s Shark Tank held a private casting call for students and alumni on campus Wednesday, June 11.

The Private Equity Program launched its newsletter on May 31, 2014.Read our what the Program has been doing, and alumni updates.  

Columbia Business School Professor says $850 billion Norwegian Government Pension Fund would benefit from taking on more risk

Columbia Business School study reveals a critical problem for foreign organizations: skilled migrant workers don’t always successfully share what they’ve learned in the US

By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette There's a learning curve with all online transactions -- banking on the Web, buying songs from iTunes. So how long will it take America to warm up to shopping for health insurance online?And, more importantly, how long will it take us to shop wisely?That depends largely on the architecture of the websites through which America will do its shopping, according to a new paper written by a University of Pennsylvania Law School health insurance expert and several other colleagues.

Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY It's important consumers check pharmacy benefits in their health insurance plans.Premiums and deductibles tend to get the most attention when it comes to health insurance. Drug coverage deserves far more than it gets. And that's true whether you're shopping for insurance on one of the new health care exchanges or dealing with open enrollment at your employer.

Fola Akinnibi, USA TODAYAbout one in 10 Americans -- 9% -- say The Affordable Care Act has improved their health insurance situation in the past year, according to a new survey by Bankrate.com.The telephone survey asked a representative sample of 1,001 Americans about their knowledge of and feelings about the law that mandates health care insurances for all Americans in coming years.

Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY David Isenstadt has spent the past six weeks working 12-hour days, seven days a week, trying to reach all of his insurance clients with canceled policies to switch them to new policies. Now this.President Obama's announcement Thursday that consumers can keep insurance plans that don't meet the Affordable Care Act for a year will only create chaos, insurance brokers, regulators and carriers say.

When the Affordable Care Act’s “individual mandate” takes effect in October, millions of Americans will be hard pressed to select the best health insurance coverage for their needs, unless relatively simple design features are incorporated into the state and federal websites they will use to choose a policy. Smart design of those websites, the so-called health insurance exchanges at the heart of Obamacare, could save consumers and the government more than $9 billion annually.

Jayne O'Donnell and Paul Overberg, USA TODAY USA TODAY analysis shows metal level assigned to insurance plans on exchange website are often meaningless when it comes to price. The bronze, silver, gold and platinum levels that plans are grouped into on the federal health insurance exchange are often meaningless when it comes to price, a USA TODAY analysis shows.

New online marketplaces don't do enough to let consumers weigh their options, experts sayBy Karen PallaritoHealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- You have to wade through a lot of insurance jargon and be a skilled number-cruncher to choose the right health insurance plan on the new health exchanges, health literacy and consumer decision-making experts say.

Two Columbia Business School adjunct faculty members have received Dean’s Prizes for Teaching Excellence.

(Reuters) - Nobody wants their health benefits cut, but a funny thing happens when U.S. consumers shop for plans on their own: They buy less coverage than they had before. That "buying low" behavior observed in data collected by consulting companies like Aon Hewitt and Liazon Corp may soon happen much more often. With the start of Obamacare and corporate open enrollment seasons, millions of Americans are likely to buy their own healthcare coverage on public and private exchanges.

Our annual Tokyo Conference was held on May 15th at Otemachi Financial City Conference Center. With Governor Kuroda from the Bank of Japan and Dr. Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics as keynote speakers, the conference gathered speakers and guests from a wide range of fields to discuss and debate the future of the Japanese economy. The event was sold out and covered by multiple media sources, which can be viewed from the following links:

Tens of thousands of people flocked to the new online marketplace this past week, in hopes of signing up for coverage that could kick in as early as New Year's Day. The federal website is working better, but as more people get through the initial application process, they may then face a possibly daunting decision: which of all the plans should they choose?An Affordable Care Act 'promise': competition

New approach exposes irregularities in annual financial statements and can help the SEC, investors, and auditors detect fraud faster

Three Columbia Business School graduates have been chosen as Columbia University Alumni Medalists for 2014: Mitch Freinberg ’77, Philippa Feldman Portnoy ’90, and Sabin Streeter ’67. 

This annual gathering of Columbia Business School real estate alumni took place on May 8 at the Columbia Club of New York. The 2014 Annual Real Estate Alumni Reception honored Distinguished Real Estate Partner Hugh R. Frater ’85 of Berkadia.

More than 800 people gathered for Columbia Business School’s 38th Annual Dinner on Monday, May 5, raising $3.2 million for financial aid, faculty research, and entrepreneurial outreach.

Professor Amit Khandelwal, the Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business in the Finance and Economics Division, has been awarded the 2014 George S. Eccles Research Award.  Khandelwal was chosen through a rigorous and competitive selection process and will be honored at a reception with members of the Eccles family and the Columbia community on May 12.