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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.

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Gerry Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and CJEB core faculty member, writes an op-ed article in the Financial Times titled "Japan's politicians lose their way at a bad time."

Hugh Patrick, Director for the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, was quoted in a Feb. 18th CNNMoney.com article, "Dawn of the dead banks."

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An impressive group of speakers gathered at Columbia Business School last Thursday, February 5 for a symposium titled "Japan's Solar and Wind Ambitions: How Promising is the U.S. Market?" The event, organized by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business with the support of the Mitsui USA Foundation, marked the 10th anniversary of the Mitsui USA Foundation's sponsored symposia at Columbia Business School and was the first-ever to include a remote audience of Columbia Business School's alumni association in Tokyo via live webcast. Columbia Business School's Energy Club, Green Business Club, and Japan Business Association also cosponsored the event.

As dean, Yavitz enhanced the faculty in size and scope, increased applications, improved ties with the business community and restored the School's reputation as a top graduate institution.