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Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness announced that Mary Barra, chair and CEO of General Motors, and Ken Frazier, Merck’s executive chairman of the board, will receive its 2021 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence at a virtual ceremony on October 19.

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate is pleased to welcome the following new alumni to the Real Estate Circle: Matthew Neisser ’14 and Arthur Romeo ’12 as Leaders and Maureen Devenny ’21 as an Associate. 

Professor Wei Cai wins Management Accounting Best Dissertation Award

Columbia Business School Executive Education is proud to announce the Chief Marketing Officer Program for senior marketing professionals who seek to advance their careers and take on leadership roles in their organizations. The program is being launched in collaboration with Emeritus, a global leader in making high-quality education accessible and affordable.

Professor Takatoshi Ito, director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, was quoted in the Pensions&Investments article "CIO of Japan endowment faces investing headwinds." CIO of Japan endowment faces investing headwinds (Pensions&Investments, 9/6/2021)

One of CJEB’s core faculty members, Professor Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University, was quoted in an Economist article discussing Japan Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and the upcoming leadership vote at the end of September. Suga Yoshihide is unpopular, uninspiring and struggling to survive (Economist 9/2/21)

Message from Dean Costis Maglaras

Professor Takatoshi Ito, director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, wrote the Project Syndicate article "Japan's Delta Desperation." The article discusses the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games unfolding without any major incidents, the trailing but accelerating vaccine rollout, the spread of the Delta variant in Japan, Prime Minister Suga’s general election challenges, and the political and economic outlooks resulting from the current state of the pandemic.

Research from Sandra Matz challenges the notion of applying mobility-based predictions of depression at scale.

New Columbia Business School Research Finds that Local Political Leaders Are Influenced By and Display Demand For Research Relevant to their Policy Choices