
Columbia Business School Register now for the upcoming conference organized by the Black Business Students Association
Blurring Boundaries: The Changing Paradigms of Race, Politics and Business
Location:Faculty House, Columbia University and Columbia Club New York, 15 West 43 Street, New York, New York
Time:9:00AM Friday, November 20th

Columbia Business School Tune in to watch TEDxEast from 1 to 6:30 p.m. today! Speakers include professor William Duggan, Naif Al-Mutawa '03 and many others. Ed Rashba ’04 and Melek Pulatkonak ’02 helped organize the event.
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For those of you familiar with TED, you might have your favorite clips (Jill Bolt Taylor’s “My Stroke of Insight” is popular). For the uninitiated, welcome to one of the treasure troves of the Internet. ...

Columbia Business School The new issue of Ideas at Work features Dean Glenn Hubbard on The Aid Trap, research from Olivier Toubia on viral marketing, a viewpoint from Ray Fisman on teaching and research on perception and behavior from Boğaçhan Çelen.
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Glenn Hubbard discusses how an old plan can become a new solution to help the world’s poorest nations lift themselves out of poverty — by putting business first.

Columbia Business School Professor Paul Glasserman blogs about why banks might not sign up for CAP
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Monday, November 9, is the deadline for banks to apply for the Treasury’s Capital Assistance Program. Chances are, none will sign up.

Columbia Business School Professor Ray Horton will host a book talk next week with Jennifer Burns, author of a new Ayn Rand biography and professor of history at the University of Virginia.
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Ayn Rand is experiencing a resurgence in popular culture — South Carolina’s Governor Mark Sanford published a glowing op-ed about Rand’s books in the October 23 issue of Newsweek and ...

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Last week, Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, spoke with Columbia Business School students about his experience as an entrepreneur. He recalled the moment he realized that he wasn’t cut out ...

Columbia Business School Prof. Ray Fisman in Slate
Were hundreds of criminals given the wrong sentences because lawyers messed up a basic work sheet? -
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In early 2005, Emily Owens was halfway through her Ph.D. thesis in economics at the University of Maryland. Her topic: the deterrence effect of long prison sentences. She had just received data from the Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Poli

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The world's population can be divided into two groups of people: the satisficers who find suitable options and quit searching, and the maximizers who

October 22 at 9:09pm

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Charles Calomiris writes in The Wall Street Journal that we shouldn't try to downsize global financial institutions because we're afraid that they're too big to fail. Financial regulators need to set aside their prejudice against big banks. ...

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“These are hard times and it’s nasty out there,” Shumeet Banerji, the CEO of Booz & Company, told students in early October. “But hold your nerve. It is getting better and recovery is long and slow.”

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The Columbia Community Business Program (CCBP) fosters the growth of businesses and nonprofit organizations in Upper Manhattan. The CCBP offers participants access to Columbia University resources from ...

Columbia Business School The Financial Times has a two-part video interview with Prof. Bruce Greenwald, discussing the theory of value investing (part 1 http://bit.ly/3b17As) and the current lack of compelling investment opportunities for value investors (part 2 http://bit.ly/JksQZ).

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Congrats to Shazi Visram '04, who is a finalist in the Shine a Light Competition for her company Happy Baby to win $100k. http://bit.ly/P8lck Vote for her company to win http://shinealight.ivillage.com/nominees /

Columbia Business School The new issue of Ideas at Work features Q&A with Bruce Greenwald on his new book, The Curse of the Media Mogul, research from Anne Bartel on the reals costs of cutting nurse staffing, and Stephen Zeldes on the Social Security shortfall. http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/ideasatwork
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In a new book coauthored with Jonathan Knee and Ava Seave, Bruce Greenwald explains why performance suffers at so many big media conglomerates, and which media firms will succeed in a changed media landscape.

Columbia Business School Insights from new book "The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies" written by professors Bruce Greenwald, Jonathan Knee and Ava Seave
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The media industry is in dire straights — and it’s not because of the Internet. Rather the industry has made some fatal mistakes based on flawed strategies of growth and convergence. A new ...























