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How creating buzz around a product makes companies more successful.

Erskine Bowles ’69, cochair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, addressed a capacity crowd of Columbia Business School students, faculty members, alumni, and industry professionals at the Inaugural Program for Financial Studies Conference, “Finance in a World of Uncertainties.”

TheSquareFoot, co-founded by Jonathan Wasserstrum '12 and hometown friends Aron Susman and Justin Lee, started when Aron and his business partner were looking for office space after relocating to Orange County.

Tommy Craig '82 has been with Hines in New York since 1983.

Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat and Chrysler Group, and Brent James, MD, chief quality officer of Intermountain Healthcare, were honored on Wednesday, November 2, as recipients of Columbia Business School’s second annual Deming Cup awards.

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CJEB has moved to the new Centers' Suite in Uris Hall, Columbia Business School.

David Sherman '82 is the president of Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management, a Real Estate Circle Leader and member of the MBA Real Estate Program Advisory Board. Interview conducted by Jason Chiang '12.

Mikael Ohlsson, president and CEO for the IKEA Group, received the 2011 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics, an annual award presented by the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics.

This semester, Columbia Business School appointed Kate Kerrigan as the administrative director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate. Prior to her appointment, Kerrigan, a lawyer, was the executive director of the Dumbo Improvement District (BID), overseeing the daily operations of one of Brooklyn, and New York City's most dynamic BIDs.

Nearly 600 alumni and guests from 37 countries attended Columbia Business School’s Pan-European Reunion in London October 14-16.

Professor Elke Weber, co-director of the Center for Decision Sciences, presented at Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence in Dharamsala, India about "Ethics and Action: The Psychology of Action and Behavior Change."

“The Art of Choosing” Lecture Series for NHK Television with Sheena Iyengar, S.T. Lee Professor of Business Columbia Business School

Study finds that subjective evaluations are comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness

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Columbia Business and law students met on Oct. 12, 2011 at a mixer and information session for the ABI Corporate Restructuring Competition.

Industry leaders and activists came together on Thursday, October 6, to discuss diversity on corporate boards as part of a lunchtime panel presented by the Sanford C. Bernstein Student Leadership and Ethics Board, Columbia Women in Business, and the Latin American and Hispanic Business Association.

Report by Columbia Business School professor discusses flaws in eurozone design, potential solutions for the euro area crisis, and potential outcomes

Leymah Gbowee, who was a keynote speaker at the Oct. 7 Social Enterprise Conference, was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day.

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