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Joseph Azrack ’72 is the Founder and currently Senior Advisor to Apollo Global Real Estate Management. He has over 30 years of real estate investment management experience. Mr. Azrack is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School where he is a member of, and for many years chaired, the Real Estate Program Advisory Board. He will be teaching Real Estate Entrepreneurship, which will be offered for the first time in fall 2014. In a recent interview with Adam Koplewicz ’15, he discussed his career, advice for graduates, and his formative experiences at CBS.

Wei Jiang, the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise in the Finance and Economics Division, has been appointed Director of the School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business.

May 19, 2014We could save a lot of cash – and keep a lot of carbon from the air – if we tweaked our habits and focused a little more on saving energy. But we're all too busy. Here's what we need to change.ShareThis

"To get a venture off the ground, you really just have to start," says serial entrepreneur Drew Patterson ’06, whose newest gig is leading hotel search site Room 77.

Columbia Business School research highlights the disconnect between peoples’ own views and their counterparts’ views of their assertiveness—and the impact it can have on negotiations

Columbia Business School study says analysts’ concerns about fair value accounting clouded the already murky waters, fueling the crisis

Bruce Greenwald explains his investment strategy for retirement and talks about his single favorite stock in "How 5 Pros are Investing for Retirement" published by Fortune on June 12, 2014.

If you want your idea to be innovative, you need to hit the right mix of novelty and familiarity, a new study shows.

School entrepreneurs were recently given a chance to take their business ideas prime time when ABC’s Shark Tank held a private casting call for students and alumni on campus Wednesday, June 11.

Have you ever considered that viral videos might tickle your taste buds, say for a burrito? Well, Chipotle thinks they do.

The Private Equity Program launched its newsletter on May 31, 2014.Read our what the Program has been doing, and alumni updates.  

A new report on Norway’s pension fund points toward a Canadian model for active investment management.

Columbia Business School Professor says $850 billion Norwegian Government Pension Fund would benefit from taking on more risk

Columbia Business School study reveals a critical problem for foreign organizations: skilled migrant workers don’t always successfully share what they’ve learned in the US

(Reuters) - Nobody wants their health benefits cut, but a funny thing happens when U.S. consumers shop for plans on their own: They buy less coverage than they had before. That "buying low" behavior observed in data collected by consulting companies like Aon Hewitt and Liazon Corp may soon happen much more often. With the start of Obamacare and corporate open enrollment seasons, millions of Americans are likely to buy their own healthcare coverage on public and private exchanges.

By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette There's a learning curve with all online transactions -- banking on the Web, buying songs from iTunes. So how long will it take America to warm up to shopping for health insurance online?And, more importantly, how long will it take us to shop wisely?That depends largely on the architecture of the websites through which America will do its shopping, according to a new paper written by a University of Pennsylvania Law School health insurance expert and several other colleagues.

With just over one month until the Affordable Care Act’s health-care exchanges roll out, new research from Columbia University shows the complexity of choosing coverage for consumers, as some experts claim the law’s subsidies do not incentivize consumers to pick their health-care wisely. What’s more, consumers picking the wrong plan will cost taxpayers—to the tune of about $9 billion per year.

Even if HealthCare.gov worked as well as Amazon, buying insurance isn't easy. And for many young, first-time insurance buyers, trying to pick the most cost-effective plan can involve a steep learning curve.

By Jessica Zigmond

By News Staff