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19th Annual Private Equity & Venture Capital Conference  "Creating Value in a Shifting Landscape"

Columbia and Pitt researchers publish evidence on Facebook behavior and how it relates to users’ self–control, body–mass indexes, and credit–card debt

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Prestigious Award Recognizes Scholarly Contributions in Consumer Behavior

MBA student Annie Koo ’14 has been awarded the Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association of New York 2012 Scholarship.

MBA Real Estate Program students Matthew Giammanco ’13, Jeffrey Organisciak ’13, and Andrew Stone ’13 won the top Alexander Bodini Foundation Prize at the Real Estate Project Class Final Presentations Competition and Awards Dinner at Columbia Business School on December 12.

A research study on online social networks reveals that networking sites can drive advertising revenue by encouraging the density of social ties, or boosting the level of friendship or social connections between users. 

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The closing panel for all Symposium attendees centered on how some of the largest and most active institutional real estate investors think about allocating capital. Serving as moderator, Professor Sagalyn continually asked about approaches to real estate investing and what criteria shaped decision-making. Speaking to these issues were three panelists whose companies collectively manage tens of billions of dollars in real estate.

The fifth annual Real Estate Symposium took place on December 4, 2012, at Columbia University’s Faculty House, with more than 180 alumni representing classes from 1961 to 2012. David E. Simon ’85, Chairman and CEO, Simon Property Group, delivered the keynote address.

A new study on the connections between race and gender — a phenomenon called gendered race — reveals unexpected ways in which stereotypes affect our personal and professional decisions.

Team “Clairvoyance Capital,” consisting of three first-year and three second-year students, finished first in the prestigious National Real Estate Challenge held on November 28-29.

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Columbia Business School’s innovative real estate cases and new Social Impact Real Estate Investing and Development are highlighted in a November 26 Financial Times article about real estate curricula at leading business schools.

NEW YORK — November 27, 2012 — Barbara Krumsiek, Chair, President, and CEO of Calvert Investments, has been selected to receive Columbia Business School’s 2012 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics. The Botwinick Prize is an annual award recognizing an outstanding leader who exhibits the highest standard of ethical conduct in business or the professions. It is organized by the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics, the umbrella for leadership and ethics activities at Columbia Business School. Ms.

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Women’s careers can be viewed as “lattices instead of ladders” in some cases, Sallie Krawcheck ’92 said during her keynote address as part of Columbia Business School’s first Women’s Week, held November 12-16.

More than 20 executives of nonprofit groups in Harlem came together at Columbia Business School for a leadership training program, "Strengthening West Harlem Nonprofits."

Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness recognized the winners of the third annual Deming Cup at a dinner reception on Tuesday, October 23.

NEW YORK—November 2, 2012—For decades, “bigger is better” has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that carried 2,000 tons of cargo have been replaced by modern container ships that routinely move 150,000 tons. But now, new research shows, we are on the cusp of a radical shift from building big to building small—a change that has profound implications for both established and emerging industries.

Annual award recognizes contributions to the field of operations made by leaders in various industries

For Kesha Cash '10, being an impact investor means doubling as a social entrepreneur and as an activist for the next generation of change-makers.

Three Columbia Business School faculty members have been recognized with Dean's Prizes for Teaching Excellence in a core course for 2012.

NEW YORK—October 10, 2012—Thanks to blogs, online forums, and product review sites, companies and marketers now have access to a seemingly endless array of data on consumers’ opinions and experiences. In principle, businesses should be able to use this information to gain a better understanding of the general market and of their own and their competitors’ customers.

NEW YORK—October 4, 2012—Consider a Japanese–American woman strolling through a mall. If she passes by a UNIQLO store, is she more likely to opt for sushi than a hamburger when she reaches the food court? Would this cue of Japanese culture draw out her Japanese side? The answer, according to new research from Columbia Business School’s Michael Morris, the Chavkin–Chang Professor of Leadership, and Aurelia Mok, Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (she received her Ph.D.