Press Release Archive

Three Columbia Business School faculty members have received 2011 Dean’s Prizes for Teaching Excellence.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored Professor Mueller with the prize for his research on the composition of the unemployed during recessions

Incentives can worsen outcomes for firms needing financing

Mayer remarks that the plan is probably not as risky as it sounds.

Jesse Greene, former vice president of financial management and chief financial risk officer for IBM, and Jack Mitchell, chairman and CEO of retail stores Mitchells/Richards/Marshs and Wilkes Bashford, have joined Columbia Business School as executives in residence.

Lecturer Aaron Wallen's Managerial Negotiations course inspired two students and Slate contributors to create a podcast series on the art of negotiation.

Congratulations to our colleagues Andrew Hertzberg and Daniel Paravisini.  The paper “Public Information and Coordination: Evidence from a Credit Registry Expansion” (co-authored with Jose Liberti) just won the Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize at the AFA meeting in Chicago.

Mitchell’s appointment will provide students with a connection to a family business expert

On December 2 through December 4 over sixty members and friends of the Columbia Business School community, including current MBA and EMBA students, law students, alumni, and industry professionals headed to the oceanfront conference facilities of Gurney's Inn located in Montauk, NY for an innovative seminar/retreat called Deal Camp.

Study provides evidence that retail chains, and not just individual stores, explains variation in price dynamics

Three Columbia Business School faculty members have received 2011 Dean’s awards for teaching an elective.

Each year the Center conducts a University-wide competition on behalf of the Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Scholarship Foundation and nominates one Columbia student to receive full tuition and some living expenses for a one-year program of undergraduate or graduate study in Japan. For the academic year 2012-2013, send your application by Wednesday, February 29, 2012.

Professor Christopher Mayer discusses the limitations of the federal Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) with Bloomberg.

Research reveals role of government funding in pharmaceutical R&D and its direct and indirect impact on innovative new drugs

A study conducted by Columbia Business School’s Prof. Stephan Meier, Regina Pitaro Associate Professor of Business, Management, and Charles Sprenger, Assistant Professor, Stanford University Department of Economics, determines that there may be a psychological reason for why people default on their mortgages.

BusinessWeek highlighted the Nonprofit Board Leadership Program, which pairs MBA students with alumni mentors serving on New York City nonprofit boards.

DRO PhD student Mehmet Saglam won first place in the Student Paper Competition

The main panel on designing and executing investment strategies centered on an outlook of cautious optimism amidst a backdrop of unprecedented uncertainty for real estate markets over the next few years.

Jeffrey Barclay '83, managing director and CIO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Real Estate Investment Group, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, and chairman of the 2011 Real Estate Symposium Steering Committee moderated the panel discussion on the state of the commercial real estate debt markets.

The Future Development in New York panel, moderated by Tommy Craig '82, senior vice president, Hines, and adjunct professor, Columbia Business School, addressed the challenges and opportunities of creating large, mixed-use development projects in New York.

The 2011 Real Estate Symposium took place on December 8, 2011, from 12 to 5 p.m. at Faculty House, Columbia University, and was open exclusively to alumni of Columbia Business School. The keynote speaker was Richard B. Saltzman of Colony Capital.

Columbia Business School Professor Elke Weber met with the Dalai Lama as one of 10 behavioral and climate scholars and scientists who discussed ecology, ethics, and interdependence during a five-day workshop in October in Dharamsala, India.

Elliott Cohen '06 is the co-founder and CEO of City Maps, a service popular with NYC brokers.

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The Program for Financial Studies held its inaugural conference, "Finance in a World of Uncertainties," on November 4, 2011.  A capacity audience including students, alumni, and practitioners welcomed the important perspective of Erskine Bowles '69, Co-Chair of the 2010 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, who served as keynote speaker for the event. Participants then attended concurrent panels discussing Asset Management and Corporate Finance.