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From the Archive, June 2005: You can sometimes improve your product's market share by adding competition. A study of consumer behavior challenges conventional wisdom about product placement.

Do Chinese avoid conflict? If so, how will this cultural trait affect negotiations with your Chinese joint venture partner? New research sheds light on how culture influences people in business settings.

Columbia Ideas at Work Bridges Faculty Research and Business Practice

Dean Glenn Hubbard announced today that Henry R. Kravis ’69, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., will cochair the School’s Board of Overseers, effective immediately. He joins Russell L. Carson ’67, general partner of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.

Dean Glenn Hubbard and Annual Dinner Chair Lulu Wang ’83, CEO of Tupelo Capital, welcomed 1,000 guests to the School’s 29th Annual Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria last night.

A group of Columbia Business Students attended the Annual Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. Sally Sherry '05 and T. Charlie Quin '06, two Columbia students in attendance, co-authored this article recapping the weekend.

Columbia Business School’s Executive Education Division will offer the Negotiation and Decision-Making Strategies course from May 23-25, 2005 on the Columbia University campus in New York City.

Venture's strategy to minimize patient non-compliance impresses judges with its potential for financial sustainability and social impact. By Bethany Hale '06 and Mollie Kinnamon at the Lang Center.

Columbia Business School’s Institute for Not-for-Profit Management’s (INM) 8th Annual Middle Management Program for Youth Service Organizations will begin April 21, 2005.

The Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis (CEASA) released its inaugural white paper on accounting for employee stock options and stock-related claims.

Working for Agora Partnerships, students conduct consulting sessions with some of Central America's budding entrepreneurs. By Jaya Balasubramaniam '06 and Michelle Fertig '06, Bottom Line.

Heads of some of New York's and New Jersey's top nonprofits discuss the challenges of being an Executive Director. By Lindsay Kruse '06.

Columbia Business School’s Executive Education Division announces its 7th annual Value Investing course.

Twelfth Annual Chazen CIBER MBA Career Services Conference Draws Crowds

The Outstanding Directors Exchange (ODX) and Columbia Business School?s Executive Education division today announce the 2004 Outstanding Directors awardees.

Chris Flynn '04 is applying her MBA to community development and affordable housing with the Housing Development Corporation in New York City.

"Adam Smith's invisible hand often seems invisible because it’s not actually there" said Professor Joseph Stiglitz in his keynote address to the annual Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) conference.

The official kick-off for the 2005 class gift campaign was held at Low Library on March 29. This year's graduating class voted to support a loan assistance program for students who take positions in the public and nonprofit sectors.

The12th annual Columbia Women in Business (CWIB) Conference on February 25th drew standing-room only crowds eager to learn from and network with one another and the accomplished women speaking at the event.

Students from top MBA programs across the country gathered recently at the School for the 2005 MBA Media & Entertainment Conference.