Milstein Center Research in Focus

On April 14th 2008, the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information will hold the inaugural meeting of the Network of Research Centers on ICT in Latin America. This cross-disciplinary academic network seeks to advance knowledge on the social and economic impact of ICTs in Central and Latin America, and examine the policy and regulatory issues that affect its broad-based development.

In their new research, forthcoming in Psychological Science, Professor Leonard Lee and his collaborators (George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University, Dan Ariely of MIT, and the founders of HOTorNOT.com, James Hong and Jim Young) found that whereas people’s own physical attractiveness has an impact on whom they choose to date, it does not affect their perception of how physically attractive their potential dates are.

"Adoptive Expectations: Rising Son Tournaments in Japanese Family Firms" by Prof. Wiwattanakantang.

March 8th celebrates International Women’s Day. For the Columbia Business School, this day was preceded by the announcement by Goldman Sachs of $100 million to fund education for women in emerging markets; Columbia Business School was named as one of the 10 partner schools.

CEO Lloyd Blankfein said the firm pledges $100 million to provide 10,000 underserved women with education and mentoring in business, management and entrepreneurship.

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