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‘I’m not sure they’re ready yet.’ Over the last few years, we have become accustomed to hearing this complaint, or others like it, from family business leaders, anxious about who from the next generation will follow in their footsteps as stewards.

Most articles or speeches about family businesses start with some version of the “three-generation rule,” which suggests that most don’t survive beyond three generations. 

Columbia’s Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate, Stijn G. Van Nieuwerburgh, explores how long-term interest rates track with wealth inequality.

New Columbia Business School research is the first to assess the impact of introducing new drugs on both branded and generic drug prices

The New Ideas in Family Firms Academic – Practitioner Conference, co-hosted online with Columbia’s Global Family Enterprise Program and INSEAD’s Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise, took place on May 7, 2021. Leading academic researchers and global practitioners discussed the role of the family enterprise in society, the meaning and potential for ESG practices, and ways that the pandemic has impacted family enterprise advisory work

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 “Japan funds' private markets diversification proceeds slowly” which discusses trends in the portfolios of Japan’s top public pension funds, such as Government Pension Investment Fund.

Listen to a trio of "experience pioneers" -- Prof. Bernd Schmitt, Lou Carbone, and Joe Pine -- reflect on their experience frameworks and thoughts on the future of experience management.

Listen to a trio of "experience pioneers" -- Prof. Bernd Schmitt, Lou Carbone, and Joe Pine -- reflect on their experience frameworks and thoughts on the future of experience management.

A recent flurry of official measures in both China and the United States suggests that the two governments are not keen on Chinese firms retaining their US stock-market listings.

 

Organizations—including business schools—are increasingly focused on expanding their DEI capabilities. Here we discuss best practices for having productive conversations around DEI.

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 New York Times article “Inflation? Not in Japan. And That Could Hold a Warning for the U.S.” Inflation? Not in Japan. And That Could Hold a Warning for the U.S. (New York Times, 7/15/2021)

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 Quiet Olympics” which discusses the current state of emergency declaration in Japan in response to COVID-19 and the Olympic/Paralympic Games in Tokyo this summer.

New Columbia Business School research finds communication is the best way to mitigate worker misconduct, but worker surveillance negates all positive effects

CJEB’s Director, Professor David Weinstein, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article, “Inflation Threat May Be Boosted by Changes in Globalization, Demographics and E-Commerce,” in which he discusses the complicated broader inflationary impact of recent tariffs. Inflation Threat May Be Boosted by Changes in Globalization, Demographics and E-Commerce (Wall Street Journal, 7/12/21)

The latest in private equity alumni news

The Private Equity Program had its largest group of guest speakers in the 2020-2021 school year.

Chocolate lovers around the world may not know it, but some of their guilty pleasures may have been produced by child slaves.

In a new study on such “managerial trickle-down effects” in the workplace, Columbia Business School’s Phillip Hettleman Professor of Business Joel Brockner finds that people in mid-level managerial roles are especially likely to do unto those below them as has been done to them from above when those in the mid-level managerial roles experience less of a sense of power, defined as the perceived ability to control valuable resources.