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Recently, some brands have chosen to take sides on controversial issues. However, this type of brand activism may aggravate social polarization without benefit. New research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School suggests brands that choose a different path can play a unique and successful role decreasing the polarization of social and political attitudes.

Employee selection systems are important tools for shaping organizational culture. Previous research has shown that identifying and hiring employees who hold company-aligned vales, such as quality or adaptability, is an effective way to directly infuse those values into an organization. New research affiliated with the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership under the auspices of the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School goes a step further and finds that the cultural values of new hires can have spillover effects on existing employees and company-wide performance.

Columbia Business School Professor Brett House and teaching assistant Robert Swigert EMBA ’23 offer insight into the Fed's half-point rate cut, the first interest rate cut since March 2020.

As firms aim to increase age, gender and racial diversity in their promotional materials, recent social movements such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Me Too have simultaneously raised awareness of long-standing social inequality. However, past studies on the effects of racial diversity in advertising have been largely inconclusive. Now, new research affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School suggests that advertisers would be well advised to diversify racial representation in their materials.

Columbia Business School research is the first to find empirical evidence for how government intervention would shape the private healthcare market

The Problem: New York City’s real estate market is at a transition point. Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city’s real estate market has seen signifcant shifts, including increased urban-to-suburban migration (Gupta et al. 2022), residential rent and housing affordability issues, and reduced value and usage of urban office space due to the adoption of remote and hybrid work (Gupta, Mittal, and Van Nieuwerburgh 2023) and higher interest rates.

Reducing Agent Commission Fees May Raise Prices for Home-buyers According to Study from Columbia Business School

Arranging capital, a cornerstone of real estate investment and development, was at the heart of the 12th annual Coming to Terms: Negotiating Real Estate Joint Ventures workshop, hosted by Columbia Business School on November 17, 2023. This was a convergence of over 80 MBA, EMBA, MSRED, and Planning students from Columbia, MIT, and NYU. They were there not just to learn but to actively engage in a realistic Joint Venture negotiation, honing skills for their imminent roles as future leaders in the urban landscape.

Columbia Business School’s case competition team fnished frst place in the 2024 Real Estate Development Challenge hosted by the Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies at Kenan-Flagler Business School and presented by Hines. Team members Chris Byrns ’25, Connor Corcoran ’24, Katy Lepeturin ’25, and Rachel Lee ’25 inspired the judges and crowd by presenting a plan to redevelop the historic Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

New work by Professor Lori Yue and her co-researchers quantifies firms’ nationalism and sheds light on how ideology impacts business.

Former Student Leadership and Ethics Co-Chair Marissa Guiang '22 recounts her recent trip with the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) cohort and shares the foundational mindset shift that came from it. 

A company's culture can significantly impact its financial performance, employee retention, and the overall well-being of its employees, according to new research from Professor Wei Cai.

Tech firms are mobilizing users to influence policymakers, but the strategy’s effectiveness is a double-edged sword.

Columbia Business School is taking an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the impact of AI-based algorithmic forecasting and the issues that come with it.