‘For me, it’s definitely about finding my inspiration through things like personal pain points.’
Nina Tandon ’12 talks about the origin of EpiBone and overcoming the challenges facing women entrepreneurs.
MBA students learn how to function effectively in teams through a new course where they must integrate multiple perspectives while managing team dynamics.
CBS professor Bruce Usher discusses his book and its most important takeaways for investors.
Understanding how a digital identity and an engaged audience can create powerful influence across industries
Columbia Business School Professors Oded Netzer, Christopher Frank and Paul Magnone discuss their new book, Decisions Over Decimals, which offers a roadmap for effective decision-making when using data.
The class is designed to give students an opportunity to understand a programming language commonly used to make business decisions.
Professor Gernot Wagner discusses his work in climate economics, his views on urgent climate policy challenges, and what makes him optimistic for the future.
Three takeaways from the 2022 Brazil Climate Summit held at Columbia Business School’s Manhattanville campus
New research challenges the accepted wisdom that shunning companies that fail to meet your values puts pressure on them or puts them out of business.
Chazen Senior Scholar Geoffrey Heal outlines three major barriers to the decarbonization of electric power generation on a global scale.
Emergency departments (EDs) typically have multiple areas where patients of different acuity levels receive treatments. In practice, different areas often operate with fixed nurse staffing levels. When there are substantial imbalances in congestion among different areas, it could be beneficial to deviate from the original assignment and reassign nurses. However, reassignments typically are only feasible at the beginning of 8–12-h shifts, providing partial flexibility in adjusting staffing levels.
Equitable protocols to triage life-saving resources must be specified prior to shortages in order to promote transparency, trust and consistency. How well proposed utilitarian protocols perform to maximize lives saved is unknown. We aimed to estimate the survival rates that would be associated with implementation of the New York State 2015 guidelines for ventilator triage, and to compare them to a first-come-first-served triage method.
This research sheds light on consumer motivations for participating in the sharing economy and examines downstream consequences of the uncovered motivations.
The extent to which men and women sort into different jobs and organizations—namely, gender differences in supply-side labor market processes—is a key determinant of workplace gender composition. This study draws on theories of congruence to uncover a unique organization-level driver of gender differences in job seekers’ behavior. We first argue and show that congruence between leadership gender and organizational claims is a key mechanism that drives job seekers’ interest.
Emissions control cannot address the consequences of global warming for weather disasters until decades later. We model regional-level mitigation or adaptation, which reduces disaster risks to capital in the interim. Mitigation depends on belief regarding the adverse consequences of global warming. Pessimism jumps with a disaster and slowly reverts in the absence of arrivals. Mitigation spending by firms is less than first-best because of externalities. We prove that capital taxes to fund public mitigation, which requires collective action, restores first-best.
