Press Release Archive

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South America’s leading economy and one of the most intriguing markets for global real estate investors was the destination for this year’s Columbia Business School Real Estate Association international study trip. From March 16 to 24, twenty-eight students and two faculty members traveled to Brazil, meeting with more than a dozen financial institutions, government organizations, and real estate developers, investors, and service companies in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to gain a sense of the market landscape and understand how companies are approaching current opportunities.

While people strive for first place, they'll also take a gamble to get out ?? and stay out ?? of last. This article was originally published in Ideas at Work.

Jiji Press Report on Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz's Tokyo Press Conference

CJEB Director Hugh Patrick featured in AP article, "Japan's central bank chief vows to end deflation"

Study finds that high–frequency trading enhances market liquidity, reduces trading costs, and makes markets more efficient

Faculty and industry experts, including Professor Frederic Mishkin, discussed the idea at the March 13 event, organized with Intelligence Squared.

The chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase recently answered questions from students as part of the School’s David and Lyn Silfen Leadership Series.

Social Enterprise Program student Donnel Baird ’13 was recently featured on PBS Newshour as an “Agent of Change” for his social enterprise, BlocPower. BlocPower is an organization that aims to provide job training and energy-efficient products in underserved New York City neighborhoods. Read the full article.

Professor Gerald L. Curtis Pens Article for Foreign Affairs magazine, "Japan's Cautious Hawks."

Prof. Joseph Stiglitz presented a keynote address in Tokyo on March 21 on the challenges facing advanced industrialized countries.

The generous endowed gift will support the teaching, research, and ancillary activities related to Usher’s role as the SEP’s co-director.

Team ”Capital City Investment Group,” consisting of four Columbia Business School students, placed second in the invitation-only UNC Real Estate Development Challenge held on February 14-15 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In doing so, they improved upon last year's third-place finish by the School’s team and continued the momentum following the School’s victory at the National Real Estate Challenge at Austin in the fall.

Distinguished faculty members spoke at a February 13 symposium sponsored by the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for International Business.

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Recent studies show that consumers tend to respond to free products or services differently from how they respond to the same goods when they are charged for them.

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Professor Lynne B. Sagalyn presented the paper “Entertainment Centers and the Quest for Transformation in the Periphery” with Amanda Johnson at the University of Amsterdam’s master class workshop, “Explaining Metropolitan Transformation: Politics, Functions, and Symbols,” January 24-25 in the Netherlands.

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Gary Appel ’77, who recently retired as Vice Chairman of the global middle market private equity funds manager, Castle Harlan, Inc., has been named Executive in Residence at Columbia Business School.

In December 2012 over eighty members and friends of the Columbia Business School community, including current MBA and EMBA students, law students, alumni, and industry professionals gathered at the oceanfront conference facilities of Gurney’s Inn located in Montauk, NY for the 2nd Annual Private Equity Program Deal Camp.

Gary Appel ’77, who recently retired as Vice Chairman of the global middle market private equity funds manager, Castle Harlan, Inc., has been named Executive in Residence at Columbia Business School.

New study Columbia Business School questions the reliability of the data written in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), the simplicity and stability of the underlying taxonomy and architecture, as well as the lack of user tools that add value and are easily integrated into an investor’s or analyst’s existing work flow and tools.