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The Columbia Business School Real Estate Association is excited to announce the debut of its new Alumni Mentorship Program for first-year MBA students.

The MBA Real Estate Program Advisory Board plays an active, participatory role in helping shape and guide real estate education at the Business School. The board is chaired by John R. Klopp, managing director of Morgan Stanley, Co-CEO, and Co-CIO of Morgan Stanley Real Estate. In the summer of 2011 thirteen new members joined the board. The new board members were welcomed with an orientation luncheon hosted by John Klopp at the offices of Morgan Stanley on July 19, 2011. We are pleased that the following real estate leaders have joined:

Harvard surgeon and writer for The New Yorker Atul Gawande hires a coach.

A new framework helps regulators and industries trace risk to its source.

Study questions the widely–used methods by which lay moral judgments are evaluated; results found individuals who are least prone to moral errors also possess a set of prototypically immoral psychological characteristics

Professor Michael Morris and former PhD student Emily Amanatullah (now at McCombs School of Business) find that women are better at negotiating for others than for themselves, due to the potential of social backlash for being self-assertive.

Research finds that women are savvy bargainers who simultaneously negotiate economic outcomes and gender role expectations

Laura Lee has been named Chief of Staff of the Dean’s Office for Columbia Business School, effective October 24.

Professor Gerald L. Curtis's lecture on the political, social, and economic situation in Japan following the Tohoku Earthquake featured in the September 21, 2011 edition of Kyodo News

Charles E. "Ed" Haldeman, Jr., CEO of Freddie Mac, talked with students about the US housing market and leading during challenging times as the first speaker in the School’s 2011-12 David and Lyn Silfen Leadership Series.

Professor Hugh Patrick's essay, "Japan??s Economy: Earthquake-Induced Delayed Recovery," discussing Japan's recovery in the wake of the 11 March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, is now available online.

Hitendra Wadhwa of the Marketing Division has been named Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, effective July 1, 2011.

Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, has been tapped to lead presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's economic policy team.

Registration is now open for the 2011 Social Enterprise Conference.

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With The Runthrough, a shopping site for accessories editors, Mandy Tang ’10 is solving a problem that has challenged the fashion industry for decades.

Model depicts that detailing, relationships between sales representatives and medical doctors, is an extremely effective long–term marketing tool, while sampling has a stronger, short–term effect

Starting a Media Company and Want to Talk to Someone About It? Take Advantage of the Entrepreneurial Sounding Board

Marin Kaleya '12 spent her summer working at the Acumen Fund as part of the Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship Program.

New York Times Endorses Mayer/Hubbard refinancing plan as "Lifeline for Homeowners."