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Dan Doctoroff, chairman and CEO of Sidewalk Labs, explores "crisis as catalyst," how New York’s leaders re-imagined and rebuilt the city in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks with strong management and execution, resourceful innovation, and a belief that "the impossible is possible" — all essential elements for recovery today.

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate is pleased to welcome the following new alumni to the Real Estate Circle: Brent Connell '95 and Eric Tam '08 as Leaders.

ESG investing is here to stay.

A K-shaped recovery occurs when different parts of the economy recover at different rates, times, or magnitudes. For many developing countries and emerging markets, the end of the COVID-19 crisis is a long way off.

Special event – now available on demand – features Henry Kravis, Robert Zoellick, Marie Ffolkes, Joseph Stiglitz, Glenn Hubbard, and more.

Sally Susman, executive vice president and chief corporate affairs officer at Pfizer, talks about Leadership & Strategy, innovation, breakthroughs, and partnerships in these extraordinary times.

Sally Susman, executive vice president and chief corporate affairs officer at Pfizer, talks about leadership, innovation, breakthroughs, and partnerships in these extraordinary times.

In contrast to decades of research reporting surprisingly weak relationships between consumption and happiness, recent findings suggest that money can indeed increase happiness if it is spent the “right way” (e.g., on experiences or on other people).

It appears that couples help each other remember outstanding tasks (“to-dos”) by issuing reminders.

People are more generous toward single than toward multiple beneficiaries, and encouraging greater giving to multiple targets is challenging.

To the extent that people feel more continuity between their present and future selves, they are more likely to make decisions with the future self in mind. 

To reconcile empirical inconsistencies in the relationship between emotionally-negative families and daughters’ abnormal eating, this article hypothesizes a critical moderating variable: daughters’ vulnerability to emotion contagion. Professor Michael Slepian and co-authors find that young women susceptible to emotion contagion may be at increased risk for eating disorders.

This paper provides evidence on the impact of paid leave legislation on fathers’ leave-taking, as well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner households.

Eight studies, conducted by Professor Adam Galinsky and colleagues, explored the antecedents and consequences of whether people locate their sense of self in the brain or the heart.

Eight studies by Professor Adam Galinsky and colleagues find a robust negative relationship between the experience of power and the experience of loneliness.

This article combines unique administrative and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The model illustrates how risk aversion and talent determine how firms select and motivate managers.

Professor Stefan Meier and colleagues find that, among low socio-economic groups, scarce resources indeed can affect one’s willingness to delay gratification when making choices about monetary rewards.

Professor Andrea Prat and colleagues study the information flows that arise among a set of agents with local knowledge and directed payoff interactions. 

Professor Takatoshi Ito will speak with Takeo Hoshi, both coauthors of The Japanese Economy, Second Edition (The MIT Press, 2020), on a Tokyo College Online Discussion Series to discuss current issues in the Japanese Economy. Taka and Takeo Explain the Japanese Economy: "The Japanese Economy" Online Discussion Season 2 [Online discussion series on YouTube] Event 1: March 10, How to achieve Carbon Neutral by 2050 Event 2: March 17, Should we introduce carbon pricing? Event 3: March 24, Demise of the traditional labor practices?  Event 4: March 31, Post-pandemic labor market in Japan Videos are available here.  The Center on Japanese Economy and Business is an outreach partner for these events. Contact: tokyo.college.event@tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp For more information click here.

How does family interaction impact age of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis?