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The School’s New Manhattanville Home Will Drive Academic Innovation and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate is pleased to welcome the following new alumni to the Real Estate Circle: Matthew Neisser ’14 and Arthur Romeo ’12 as Leaders and Maureen Devenny ’21 as an Associate. 

Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness announced that Mary Barra, chair and CEO of General Motors, and Ken Frazier, Merck’s executive chairman of the board, will receive its 2021 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence at a virtual ceremony on October 19.

Professor Takatoshi Ito, director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, wrote the Project Syndicate article "Japan's Four-Horse Race." The article discusses the effects of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's announcement that he will not seek re-election as president of the Liberal Democratic Party. It also goes over the likely candidates to be elected the LDP's leader and Japan's next Prime Minister.  

The Paul Milstein center for Real Estate sat down with the incoming Real Estate Association (REA) Co-Presidents Katie Hogan ’22 and Dan Vasserman ’22 to learn more about what brought them to the MBA Real Estate Program at Columbia Business School, into leadership positions in the REA, and beyond! Read more to get the inside scoop on the lives of Katie and Dan! 

As the world continues to confront the threat of climate change, business must play a leading role in how society will develop solutions to this challenge.

Professor Wei Cai wins Management Accounting Best Dissertation Award

Columbia Business School Executive Education is proud to announce the Chief Marketing Officer Program for senior marketing professionals who seek to advance their careers and take on leadership roles in their organizations. The program is being launched in collaboration with Emeritus, a global leader in making high-quality education accessible and affordable.

For business, common knowledge can be an enemy of clear thinking.

Professor Takatoshi Ito, director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, was quoted in the Pensions&Investments article "CIO of Japan endowment faces investing headwinds." CIO of Japan endowment faces investing headwinds (Pensions&Investments, 9/6/2021)

Kristin Bresnahan, general counsel and chief people officer at plant-based dairy company Nobell Foods and former co-director of the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership at Columbia Law School, shared memorable insights on leadership and building a career. 

One of CJEB’s core faculty members, Professor Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University, was quoted in an Economist article discussing Japan Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and the upcoming leadership vote at the end of September. Suga Yoshihide is unpopular, uninspiring and struggling to survive (Economist 9/2/21)

Message from Dean Costis Maglaras

Professor Takatoshi Ito, director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, wrote the Project Syndicate article "Japan's Delta Desperation." The article discusses the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games unfolding without any major incidents, the trailing but accelerating vaccine rollout, the spread of the Delta variant in Japan, Prime Minister Suga’s general election challenges, and the political and economic outlooks resulting from the current state of the pandemic.

Research from Sandra Matz challenges the notion of applying mobility-based predictions of depression at scale.

This year's SLEB Co-Chairs, Marissa Guiang '22 MBA, Margaret Knowles '21 EMBA, and Brian Roxas '22 MBA, will focus on community engagement by revamping the core and celebrating diversity and inclusion within Columbia Business School.

New Columbia Business School research challenges conventional wisdom to find that in accounting, book rate of return is a measure of risk and return, not profitability

New Columbia Business School Research Finds that Local Political Leaders Are Influenced By and Display Demand For Research Relevant to their Policy Choices

The claim that most family businesses fail in the third generation is refuted in this study by Thomas Zellwegger and colleagues.