Press Release Archive

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How do you cope with workplace stress? PSI Director Michael Morris recommends two reappraisal techniques in a 3/17/10 Forbes.com article, The Latest On Handling Job Stress.

Marketing Professors Ran Kivetz and Oded Netzer and doctoral students Rom Y. Schrift and Jeffrey R. Parker received awards for their papers at the 2010 Society for Consumer Psychology conference. 

Bruce Usher, who was the CEO of EcoSecurities Group and is an adjunct professor, has joined the Executives in Residence Program.

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Jerry Speyer '64, Chairman and Co-Ceo, Tishman Speyer, spoke on February 11, 2010 as part of the Silfen Leadership Series. 

Professor Michael Morris's research on how language impacts behavior, particularly stock market metaphors and investor confidence, is highlighted in the February 2010 issue of Eureka, the Times of London's monthly science magazine.

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The Social Enterprise Program, together with Columbia Business School alumni Keith Timko '02, Real Estate Advisory & Development Services (nonprofit real estate development firm), and Ben Kornfeind '05, Dunn Development Corporation, has launched a Community and Real Estate Development Interest Group.  The scope of the group is quite broad and will include discussion in areas at the intersection of:•    Community development•    Real estate development•    Community development finance

In response to the current challenging economic conditions for real estate capital markets, Columbia Business School and Goodwin Procter have partnered to present the 2010 International Real Estate Capital Markets Conference.

The Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business has concluded the first of six modules that make up the new Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Latin America (ECLA) program, which is in collaboration with the Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg awarded $20,000 to Greenext Technology Solutions as the winner of the NYC Next Idea Competition, which was sponsored by the Economic Development Council and co-organized by Columbia Business School.

Shang-Jin Wei, the N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, has been named as director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia Business School.

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Chris Browne, of the illustrious value investing firm Tweedy Browne, passed away on December 13th from a heart attack. He was a valued contributor to the Heilbrunn Center and to the Value Investing Program at Columbia Business School. Browne was a long time advisor to the Heilbrunn Center and was always supportive of the idea of an academic center for the value investing approach.

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The Center on Japanese Economy and Business(CJEB) and The Program for Economic Research(PER) organized a conference titled "Coping with Crisis: Financial Policy in the U.S. and Japan" from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at Columbia Business School. This was the inaugural event of CJEB's new program, "New Financial Architecture-Japan & the U.S."

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In a community forum event on November 12, Buffett and Gates responded to student body questions on a variety of topics, including the economy, investing during an economic downturn and the fruitful careers and industries of the future.

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The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate and the Real Estate Circle of Columbia Business School hosted the second annual Real Estate Symposium and annual Real Estate Alumni Reception for Columbia Business School Alumni on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at the Asia Society in New York.

Robert Amen ’73, the retired chairman and CEO of International Flavors and Fragrances, and Frank Zarb, chairman of Frank Zarb Associates, have joined Columbia Business School’s Executives in Residence Program.