2009 Social Enterprise Conference Chairs Announced
Natalie Wieder '10, Amanda Cahn '10 and EMBA Alexi Villedrouin '10 selected as Social Enterprise Conference Chairs.
BRITE '09 Conference Showcases Innovation in Branding
The two-day event brought together leaders in business, technology, media and marketing to discuss how technology and innovation are transforming the ways that companies build and sustain brands.
CJEB Associate Director David Weinstein quoted in Bloomberg article on U.S. economy.
CJEB Associate Director David Weinstein was quoted in a Feb. 27 Bloomberg article, titled "Obama Must Defeat Spite on Bailouts to Beat Recession (Update1)".
March 2 Zadankai - Current Economic Conditions in Japan and Asia. CJEB Graduate Fellow Shari Cooperman reports
On March 2, 2009, the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) and the Japan Business Association of Columbia Business School hosted a zadankai (informal discussion) titled "Current Economic Conditions in Japan and Asia." Naoyuki Yoshino, professor of economics at Keio University in Tokyo and a member of Japan's Ministry of Finance, led the conversation; Professor Hugh Patrick, director of CJEB, served as the moderator.
March 3 Brown Bag Lecture- "Yankee Capitalist Go Home: The Singer Sewing Machine Company in 1930s Japan." CJEB Graduate Fellow Vivien Ng reports
A look at America's iconic Singer sewing machine company sheds light on some of the lessons earlier American capitalists learned when venturing abroad. On March 3, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business cosponsored a lecture titled "Yankee Capitalist Go Home: The Singer Sewing Machine Company in 1930s Japan." The guest speaker Andrew D. Gordon is a Professor of History at Harvard University, where he is also director of the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. Hugh Patrick, director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School, moderated the event.