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CJEBは、国際ビジネス・ジェローム・チェイズン・インスティテュート（Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business）およびジャパン・ビジネス・アソシエーション（JBA）の企画にて2008年３月に行われた「チェイズン訪日国際研究ツアー」を協賛した。

CJEB co-sponsors 2008 Chazen Study Tour to Japan. On March 4, 40 Columbia Business School students traveled to Japan for a ten day educational and cultural tour.

Patrick Cescau, group chief executive of Unilever plc and Unilever N.V. and recipient of the 2007 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics, addressed how businesses can drive positive social change at the 2007 Social Enterprise Conference.

Geoffrey Heal, the Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, has achieved prominence for his research in topics of sustainability and the environment. The following is a look at When Principles Pay, his new book, published under the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint.

Written by Paul Glader, Knight Bagehot Fellow 2007-2008, this article recaps a panel of experts discussing energy policy and for profit energy solutions in emerging economies.

Professor Bruce Usher, CEO of EcoSecurities Group plc - the world's leading climate change advisory firm, discusses his entry into the sustainability arena after spending several years working in finance on Wall Street.

Andrea Wenner'05, founder and executive director of Out2Play, featured in Columbia Magazine, by Cristina Najarro CC'10.

Read about the experiences had by three of the 2007 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows.

The first of two articles written by Knight Bagehot fellows who covered 2007 the Social Enterprise Conference. This article discusses the Cradle to Cradle doctrine - the consideration of the life cycle of a product at the design stage along with possible environmental and social impacts.

４月３日（木）、ブラウンバッグ・レクチャー・シリーズとして"An Update on US-Japan Relations"を開催する。

The Center on Japanese Economy and Business present the brown bag lecture: "An Update on US-Japan Relations."

In recent years American media have focused on the dramatic rise of China while largely ignoring the role of Japan in Asia. However, the relationship between these two Asian giants is much more complex than the occasional diplomatic flap that Americans read about in the newspapers.

Should the U.S. join the Kyoto Protocol, or at least play a positive role in the search for a successor? Or is this too costly, or otherwise fatally flawed as our President has suggested? Professor Geoffrey Heal offers expert analysis.

Three SEP students traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil during Winter break, to work on a pro bono consulting project.

On Thursday, March 20, the Center on Japanese Economy and Business hosted a zadankai (informal discussion group) titled, Japan’s Economic Prospects: How Good Are They?

The Fall 2008 semester heralds the launch of a revised core curriculum. The new core will blend the best of the old — retaining all of the foundational elements of the Columbia MBA — while allowing greater flexibility for students to pursue individual interests.

On April 14th 2008, the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information will hold the inaugural meeting of the Network of Research Centers on ICT in Latin America. This cross-disciplinary academic network seeks to advance knowledge on the social and economic impact of ICTs in Central and Latin America, and examine the policy and regulatory issues that affect its broad-based development.

In their new research, forthcoming in Psychological Science, Professor Leonard Lee and his collaborators (George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University, Dan Ariely of MIT, and the founders of HOTorNOT.com, James Hong and Jim Young) found that whereas people’s own physical attractiveness has an impact on whom they choose to date, it does not affect their perception of how physically attractive their potential dates are.

"Adoptive Expectations: Rising Son Tournaments in Japanese Family Firms" by Prof. Wiwattanakantang.