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Long gone are the days when a life of material excess and endless leisure time signified prestige. According to a new study from Professor Silvia Bellezza of Columbia Business School, Americans increasingly perceive busy and overworked people as having high status.  The study has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Professor Hugh Patrick was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal program about Japan's relationship and trade partnership America. To read the full story, please click the link below: From Rival to Ally: Japan's American Evolution (Wall Street Journal, March 2017)

Do cuts in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget hurt women more than men? Advocates for women’s issues say yes.

Professors Eric Johnson and Elke Weber of the Center for Decision Sciences show how the way that tradeoffs between benefits and costs of budget cuts are presented can drastically impact people's opinions on public policy. More specifically, when tradeoffs are framed in terms of understandable, personal, and concrete numbers, people disagree less. 

Prof. Fabrizio Ferri’s paper with CBS doctoral student Yuan Zou was accepted for presentation at the 2017 Conference on the Convergence of Financial and Managerial Accounting Research to be held on June 19-21, 2017 at Banff National Park, Canada (https://haskayne.ucalgary.ca/CFMA). Title of paper: “Uncertainty in Managers’ Reporting Objectives and Investors’ Response to Earnings Reports: Evidence from the 2006 Executive Compensation Disclosures.”

Early detection is critical for improving treatment efficacy for those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and it’s often those closest to a child who notice the first signs. New research from Columbia Business School, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mt. Sinai reveals that children who had older siblings or frequent interaction with grandparents were diagnosed earlier with ASD.

I-Care, which uses technology and medical data to match disabled senior citizens with local professional caregivers, was recognized by the Global Public Policy Network at its conference last month.

Prof. Fabrizio Ferri's paper with the CBS doctoral student Yuan Zou (and Ronghuo Zheng from UT Austin), “Uncertainty in Managers’ Reporting Objectives and Investors’ Response to Earnings Reports: Evidence from the 2006 Executive Compensation Disclosures,” has been accepted to the Fourth Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation hosted jointly by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the University of Maryland, Lehigh University and CFA Institute; the conference will be held on May 4-5 at the SEC headquarters in Washington

Frustrated with constraints imposed upon them by their employers during times of distress, many high-quality employees feel compelled to take the leap into entrepreneurship. This is most likely to happen when their companies face financial distress and become restrictive, says a study from Columbia Business School.

Professor Adam Galinsky