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Digital media platforms such as Netflix, Facebook, and TikTok are under increasing scrutiny regarding the ethical implications of their personalized content recommendations. To combat bias and avoid skewed content suggestions, sophisticated algorithms can perform additional layers of analysis to ensure that recommendations give space to topics such as racial equity, sexuality, and political persuasion. However, doing this in real time with the conventional algorithmic approach would greatly increase page-load times and create a frustrating user experience. New research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics sets out a new, faster method for applying ethical constraints to produce responsible content recommendations.

Policymakers and international organizations like the United Nations have suspected that local banks play a role in improving healthcare outcomes in developing countries. New research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics takes a broad look at bank services in developing countries and uncovers surprising links between healthcare marketplaces and positive community outcomes.

Recently, some brands have chosen to take sides on controversial issues. However, this type of brand activism may aggravate social polarization without benefit. New research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School suggests brands that choose a different path can play a unique and successful role decreasing the polarization of social and political attitudes.

Employee selection systems are important tools for shaping organizational culture. Previous research has shown that identifying and hiring employees who hold company-aligned vales, such as quality or adaptability, is an effective way to directly infuse those values into an organization. New research affiliated with the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership under the auspices of the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School goes a step further and finds that the cultural values of new hires can have spillover effects on existing employees and company-wide performance.

Columbia Business School Professor Brett House and teaching assistant Robert Swigert EMBA ’23 offer insight into the Fed's half-point rate cut, the first interest rate cut since March 2020.

As firms aim to increase age, gender and racial diversity in their promotional materials, recent social movements such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Me Too have simultaneously raised awareness of long-standing social inequality. However, past studies on the effects of racial diversity in advertising have been largely inconclusive. Now, new research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School suggests that advertisers would be well advised to diversify racial representation in their materials.

Columbia Business School research is the first to find empirical evidence for how government intervention would shape the private healthcare market