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Researchers from Columbia, MIT, Northwestern, Harvard and Berkeley, conclude that stealing, cheating, and even traffic violations can be influenced by the expansiveness (or lack thereof) of physical space

Columbia Business School would like to invite you to our new Spark Social Venture Workshop series! Spark provides Social Innovators with an opportunity to explore resources, connections and potential solutions to help their social ventures, by tapping the collective knowledge within Columbia University, and the larger entrepreneurial and social impact community in the New York area and beyond. This workshop is open to all who are willing to bring their ideas, experience, and connections to help solve social and environmental challenges that these social innovators aim to address. This event is supported by the Social Enterprise Program, the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center, and the Social Enterprise Club at Columbia Business School.

Run by the School’s Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center, the lab is a co-working space where teams of students from across the University can collaborate on their business ventures over the summer.

Professor Lynne B. Sagalyn traveled to Sydney in May to advise the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales on establishing a real estate program. During her visit as the Andrew Roberts Visiting Professor, Sagalyn conducted a research seminar, met with academics and industry professionals, and participated in an industry panel discussion on commercial real estate market trends.

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Elizabeth B. Strickler ’86 and Mark T. Gallogly ’86 have made a generous gift to Columbia Business School to establish the fund in honor of Ms. Strickler’s mother.

Program is open to all Columbia students and modeled after the success of the Columbia Business Lab

McGrath proposes new playbook for companies to win in today’s fast–paced, ever–changing environment Forbes.com calls McGrath’s new book “a landmark contribution to the strategy field”

A 1949 Columbia Business School graduate and a member School’s Board of Overseers, the senior senator from New Jersey died on June 3 due to complications from viral pneumonia.

Columbia Business School professors say research can be used in everyday life, from car and home buying to salary negotiations

DRO Professor Peter Kolesar won the Distinguished Service Award given by the Upper Delaware Council in recognition of his volunteer research on alleviating thermal stress to improve the habitat of Upper Delaware River fisheries.  

Held on Monday, May 6, at the Waldorf Astoria, the event drew 173 gifts in total, including gifts from 53 new donors.

The Finance and Economics Department of Columbia Business School is proud to announce that Professor R.A. Farrokhnia has been named the recipient of the coveted and prestigious Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence.

Tomasz Piskorski, Edward S. Gordon Associate Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, has been named a co-recipient of the 2013 AQR Insight Award for his research on how to identify and quantify misreported loans in the $2 trillion market for private mortgage-backed securities.

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The GBA Commendations were created to recognize students, faculty members, and staff members for outstanding contributions to the Columbia Business School community.

Videos From Our Tokyo Conference and Mitsui Symposium Are Now Available

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The largest-ever gathering of real estate alumni, spanning more than 50 class years, took place on April 30 at the Columbia Club of New York. This 2013 Annual Alumni Real Estate Reception honored Distinguished Real Estate Partner John R. Klopp of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing.

Professors Ray Fisman and Bruce Usher,Co-Directors of the Social Enterprise Program (SEP),shed light on some of the challenges social entrepreneurs may face in making organizational decisions.

Daron Acemoglu of MIT and James A. Robinson of Harvard were recognized for their book, Why Nations Fail, while Columbia’s Paul Tetlock was honored for his research on finance.

With the help of 526 class committee volunteers, this year’s event drew a record crowd: 2,400 alumni and guests for the three-day weekend, April 19–21.

Neng Wang, the Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, has been awarded a 2013 Research Grant from the School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business to further his work on dynamic entrepreneurial finance.

Professor Joseph Stiglitz in the Nikkei commented on Japan's new fiscal policy and actions.

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