Professor Vanessa Burbano examines evidence that can guide a firm’s decision to speak out — or stay silent.
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Andrew Wellington and Dan Kaskawits of Lyrical Asset Management, recent guests on the popular Value Investing with Legends podcast, discuss the strategies behind their successful value investing portfolio.
The 100/50: Embracing Our Legacy campaign honors the 100th anniversary of the first matriculated Black student and the 50th anniversary of the Black Business Students Association.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist visited CBS for the first installment of a new speaker series from The Hub, a new think tank, to discuss the future of capitalism with CBS Dean Emeritus Glenn Hubbard.
In the sparkling new buildings at Columbia Business School, the revamped finance curriculum will get continuous updates aligned with modern markets and careers.
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Chazen Senior Scholar Geoffrey Heal outlines three major barriers to the decarbonization of electric power generation on a global scale.
Three takeaways from the 2022 Brazil Climate Summit held at Columbia Business School’s Manhattanville campus
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"The problem is that the situation we are in right now, and I think this is what folks maybe didn’t fully recognize, 37 percent of bank assets are financed with uninsured deposits. We are talking about nine trillion dollars in the system.”
"There is such a backlog that very little of this is ‘oh additional money we can do all these amazing additional things.’ And in order to spend the money we need the regulatory capacity to do so. EPA is the lead agency for these environmental reviews and it takes money and staff to speed up that process."
A pivot by drugmakers to selling their COVID treatments on the commercial market is a realistic scenario, according to Carri Chan of Columbia Business School. “These are new medications. We are years away from having cheap, generic options. And so for those without insurance, it becomes inaccessible,” Chan said.
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“The tech sector was overheated. The Crypto market has been embroiled in fraud and defaults. SVB and banks catering to tech companies were in trouble. There will be a negative impact on the tech industry, but the fitter companies will emerge."
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Nearly all students experience stress as they pursue important academic goals. Because stress can be magnified for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, it becomes important to identify interventions that can help mitigate this stress.
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