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Faculty

Columbia Business School faculty members are world-renowned — not only for generating new thinking in their fields but also for having a genuine impact on current business practices. Our professors routinely partner with businesses in New York and across the globe to test, refine, and implement new ideas for the ever-changing business landscape. This interchange of theory and practice is part of what makes the School such a rich environment for creating research that is truly groundbreaking.

The Future of Work

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Latest Insights from Faculty

Meet Some of our New Faculty

Derek Brown

Assistant Professor of Business: Management Division

Hannah Li

Assistant Professor of Business: Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Kristina Manysheva

Assistant Professor of Business: Economics Division

Gaia Marchisio

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Management in the Faculty of Business: Management Division

Faculty Director: Global Family Enterprise Program

Syrena Shirley

Assistant Professor of Business: Accounting Division

The Latest Research

Data/Big Data, AI and Transformative Tech, Marketplace

Date: April 21, 2025

Data/Big Data, AI and Transformative Tech, Marketplace

Uncovering the Costly Bias in Marketplace Testing

Statistical bias could be misleading your product and feature testing, according to research from Columbia Business School Professor Hannah Li, but solutions might be easier than you think.

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Finance, Banks & Financial Stability

Date: August 20, 2024

Finance, Banks & Financial Stability

Finance News

How Economic Pressures Could Trigger a New Wave of Bank Failures

Recent CBS research reveals how rising interest rates and commercial real estate distress threaten the US banking sector, especially for regional banks.

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Algorithms, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Business and Society, Business Economics and Public Policy, Data and Business Analytics, AI and Transformative Tech, Digital IQ, Finance, Marketing, Marketplace

Date: April 17, 2025

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Designing Smarter Economic Systems: A New Approach to Mechanism Design

Award-winning research from Professor Laura Doval tackles the “limited commitment” problem in economics, offering a model that helps governments and firms adjust rules and strategies based on new information over time.

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Data and Business Analytics, Data/Big Data, AI and Transformative Tech, Digital IQ, Marketing, Media and Technology

Date: April 04, 2025

Data and Business Analytics, Data/Big Data, AI and Transformative Tech, Digital IQ, Marketing, Media and Technology

How Real-Time Click Data Drives Smarter Personalization

New Columbia Business School research reveals how analyzing real-time customer journey data — from search queries to filtering behavior — can predict preferences with remarkable accuracy, even without historical data.

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Business and Society, Economics and Policy, Globalization, Management, Social Impact

Date: March 27, 2025

Business and Society, Economics and Policy, Globalization, Management, Social Impact

When Economic Struggles Foster Self-Interest, Not Universal Compassion

A Columbia Business School study shows that experiencing a recession in young adulthood leads to lasting support for wealth redistribution—but mostly for one’s own group.

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Areas of Expertise

AI and Business Analytics
Asset Management
Brand and Product Management
Climate
Consumer Behavior
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance

Decision Making & Negotiations
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Financial Accounting & Auditing
Financial Engineering
Financial Institutions
Fundamental Investment Analysis

Globalization
Healthcare
Labor Markets
Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Macroeconomics
Managerial Accounting
Marketing

Marketplace Design
Media
Microeconomics
Operations & Supply Chain Management
Organizations & Markets
Real Estate
Strategy