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Oklahoma Treasurer Presses Financial Institutions To Say Whether They’re Boycotting Energy Firms
Featuring Professor Shivaram Rajgopal
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Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.
What if Both Sides of the ESG Debate Are Right About US Majors’ Oil and Gas Investments, but for the Wrong Reasons?
Featuring Professor Shivaram Rajgopal
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Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.
Sustainability Can Be About Operations and Services Not Necessarily Values: The Case of SDG Goals for Mumbai City
Featuring Professor Shivaram Rajgopal
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Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.
Hiring For Cultural Fit Can Be Good But Comes With Risks
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Wei Cai joined Columbia University in 2020. Her research interests revolve around management accounting, organizational culture, and diversity and inclusion. Her research broadly investigates how to measure and manage key organizational capital. For example, she examines how corporate leaders and managers can deliberately design and shape organizational culture, and improve organizational outcomes through innovative management control systems.
ESG Regulatory Divide Poses Challenges for Asset Managers
Featuring Shivaram Rajgopal
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Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.
In Praise of the Office Suck-Up
Featuring Wei Cai
AI & Business Analytics Faculty In the News
AI ChatGPT is helping CEOs think. Will it also take your job?
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Professor Netzer's expertise centers on one of the major business challenges of the data-rich environment: developing quantitative methods that leverage data to gain a deeper understanding of customer behavior and guide firms' decisions. He focuses primarily on building statistical and econometric models to measure consumer preferences and understand how customer choices change over time, and across contexts. Most notably, he has developed a framework for managing firms' customer bases through dynamic segmentation.
Tracking Tech Layoffs: Why Companies like Amazon and Meta Cut Jobs in 2022
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Daniel (Dongil) Keum is an Assistant Professor of Management at Columbia Business School. His research interests lie in innovation, organizational structure, labor market policy, and their application to public policy formation. He holds a PhD from NYU Stern School of Business and an AB with high honors in economics and mathematics from Dartmouth College. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Daniel worked at McKinsey & Company for four years. His primary industry experience is in retail, fashion, and corporate portfolio restructuring.
Crypto Crash Not Expected to Dampen Investor Interest
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Omid Malekan is the the author of several books, including Re-Architecting Trust: the Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms as well as The Story of the Blockchain: A Beginner’s Guide to the Technology That Nobody Understands. An eight-year veteran of the crypto industry, his writing on this and related topics has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Spectator Magazine, and his own blog on Medium.
A crypto mystery: Why did no one short FTX?
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Ciamac C. Moallemi is the William Von Mueffling Professor of Business in the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, where he has been since 2007. He also develops quantitative trading strategies at Bourbaki LLC, a quantitative investment advisor.
Digital Transformation Done Right
Featuring David Rogers
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David Rogers, Faculty of Executive Education at Columbia Business School, is a globally-recognized leader on digital business strategy, known for his pioneering model of customer networks and his work on digital transformation. He is author of four books, including “The Network Is Your Customer,” and his newest book, “The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age” (Columbia University Press).
NFT Platform to Digitally Divide Banksy Artwork into 10,000 NFTs to Sell at Auction
Featuring R.A. Farrokhnia
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R.A. Farrokhnia, a recipient of the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, is an Executive Director at the Dean's Office of "Advanced Projects and Applied Research in Fintech." He also teaches courses at Schools of Business and Engineering; in addition, he is a lecturer and Board Member of the Knight-Bagehot Program at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Business & Society Faculty In the News
Mayor Adams' record-breaking $102B budget paints a foggy future for climate initiatives
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School.
Ivory Tower Weighs In on Jewish Study Halls
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Awi Federgruen is the Charles E. Exley Professor of Management and Chair of the Decision, Risk, and Operations (DRO) Division of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, where he served as Senior Vice Dean from 1997-2002. Professor Federgruen also served for many years as the Chair of the DRO Division, most recently from 2004-2010.
US Cities Are Falling Out of Love With the Parking Lot
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School.
ESG Regulatory Divide Poses Challenges for Asset Managers
Featuring Shivaram Rajgopal
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Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.
The Case for Mandating Climate-Risk Disclosure
Featuring Gernot Wagner
Climate Faculty In the News
Mayor Adams' record-breaking $102B budget paints a foggy future for climate initiatives
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School.
Republicans plan more attacks on ESG. Investors still plan to focus on climate risk
Mentioned Faculty (1)
Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.
Carbon Market under Pressure to Deliver Billions in Climate Funding
Featured Gernot Wagner
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School.
Global Diplomats Are Talking about Climate Change — Again. Does It Do Any Good?
Featuring Bruce Usher
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Bruce Usher is a Professor of Professional Practice and the Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. The Tamer Center educates leaders to use business knowledge, entrepreneurial skills, and management tools to address social and environmental challenges, and has grown into one of the largest centers at Columbia Business School.
Economy & Policy Faculty In the News
Investing in the Underbanked: An Opportunity at the Intersection of Fintech and Proptech
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What the Fed’s Interest-Rate Increase Means for Your Mortgage, Car Loan and Savings
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Yiming Ma is an assistant professor in the finance division at Columbia Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2018 and holds a BA from Yale University.
Microsoft under Fire for Hosting Private Sting Concert for Its Execs in Davos the Night before Announcing Mass Layoffs
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Rita Gunther McGrath, a Professor at Columbia Business School, is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation with particular emphasis on developing sound strategy in uncertain and volatile environments. Her ideas are widely used by leading organizations throughout the world, who describe her thinking as sometimes provocative, but unfailingly stimulating. She fosters a fresh approach to strategy amongst those with whom she works. Thinkers50 presented Rita with the #1 award for Strategy, the Distinguished Achievement Award, in 2013.
OPEC Predicts Moderate Economic Growth for 2023
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School.
You Can't Compete against Big Tech Monopolies. But You Can Go after Their Unhappy Customers
Featuring Jonathan Knee
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Professor Knee teaches Media Mergers and Acquisitions, co-teaches The Media Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy with Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, and co-teaches Digital Investing with Adjunct Professor Jeremy Philips. He also serves as co-director of the Media & Technology Program with Professor Sarvary. Professor Knee is a Senior Advisor at Evercore Partners. Before joining Evercore as a Senior Managing Director in 2003, Professor Knee was a Managing Director and Co-head of Morgan Stanley's Media Group.
Entrepreneurship Faculty In the News
Small-Business Owners Can Innovate on Flexibility and Work Policies to Stand Out from Major Companies Competing for Talent
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Angela Lee teaches venture capital, leadership, and strategy courses at CBS. She brings 20 years of innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship experience to the classroom. She started her career in product management and then moved into strategy consulting at McKinsey. Angela is passionate about entrepreneurship and has started several companies in the education sector. She is a startup investor and the founder of 37 Angels, an investing network that has evaluated 15000 startups, invested in 80, and activates new investors through a startup investment boot camp.
The Co-CEO Model: A Win-Win Model for Women Entrepreneurs?
Featuring Mabel Abraham
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Mabel Abraham is the Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics. She teaches the MBA elective course on Power, Influence, and Networks and PhD seminars on Organizational Theory. She earned her PhD and MS in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Gen Z and Millennials Need to Cultivate This to Fuel Their Career or a Startup Company
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Adam Galinsky is the Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics and at the Columbia Business School.
Professor Galinsky has published more than 200 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. His research and teaching focus on leadership, negotiations, diversity, decision-making, and ethics.
Live Abroad to Excel in the Language of Leadership
Featuring Adam Galinsky
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Adam Galinsky is the Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics and at the Columbia Business School.
Professor Galinsky has published more than 200 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. His research and teaching focus on leadership, negotiations, diversity, decision-making, and ethics.
You Can't Compete against Big Tech Monopolies. But You Can Go after Their Unhappy Customers
Featuring Jonathan Knee
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Professor Knee teaches Media Mergers and Acquisitions, co-teaches The Media Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy with Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, and co-teaches Digital Investing with Adjunct Professor Jeremy Philips. He also serves as co-director of the Media & Technology Program with Professor Sarvary. Professor Knee is a Senior Advisor at Evercore Partners. Before joining Evercore as a Senior Managing Director in 2003, Professor Knee was a Managing Director and Co-head of Morgan Stanley's Media Group.
Business Schools Are Beginning to Embrace Stakeholder Inclusion
Featuring Costis Maglaras
Finance Faculty In the News
The Fed is trying to get inflation back down to 2%, but is that too low for the good of the economy?
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Charles W. Calomiris is Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School, Director of the Business School’s Program for Financial Studies Initiative on Finance and Growth in Emerging Markets, and a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. His research spans the areas of banking, corporate finance, financial history, and monetary economics.
Are the Latest Consumer Price Index Numbers a Good Sign for the Economy?
Featuring Laura Veldkamp
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Laura Veldkamp is a Professor of Finance at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and is a former editor of the Journal of Economic Theory. Professor Veldkamp earned a B.A in applied mathematics and economics from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in economic analysis and policy from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Consumers Roll over Debt without Knowing Their Interest Rate
Featuring Michaela Pagel
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Michaela Pagel is the Roderick H. Cushman Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. She received her Ph.D. from the Economics Department at UC Berkeley and works on topics in behavioral economics, household finance, and macroeconomics.
At Columbia’s $600 Million Business School, Time to Rethink Capitalism
Featuring Costis Maglaras, Bruce User, R. Glenn Hubbard
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Costis Maglaras is the 16th Dean of Columbia Business School, and the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business at Columbia University. Costis received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London, in 1990, and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1991 and 1998, respectively. He joined Columbia Business School in 1998, when he joined the Decision, Risk and Operations Division.
Bruce Usher is a Professor of Professional Practice and the Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. The Tamer Center educates leaders to use business knowledge, entrepreneurial skills, and management tools to address social and environmental challenges, and has grown into one of the largest centers at Columbia Business School.
Professor Hubbard is a specialist in public economics, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions. He has written more than 100 articles and books on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics and public policy, including two textbooks, and has authored The Wall and the Bridge and coauthored Balance, The Aid Trap, and Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise.
All the New Faculty at the Top U.S. Business Schools in 2022
Featuring Boaz Abramson, Ashli Carter, Dante Donati, Michael Ewens, Hortense Fong, Luis Garicano, Christopher LaSala, Danielle Li, Rebecca Ponce de Leon, Nicola Rosaia, Dominik Supera, Paola Valenti, Gernot Wagner, Sang Wu
Healthcare Faculty In the News
Life, Liberty, and Lost Output
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Dr. Shang-Jin Wei is N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs.
China’s Protests: Authorities, Public Are Doing Different Cost-Benefit Analyses, Professor Says
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Dr. Shang-Jin Wei is N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs.
Expensive Prescription Drugs Are a Bargain
Featuring Frank Lichtenberg
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Frank R. Lichtenberg is Cain Brothers & Company Professor of Healthcare Management in the Faculty of Business Economics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business; a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a member of the CESifo Research Network. He received a BA with Honors in History from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Health Professionals Wonder about Future of COVID Drugs as Federal Funding Wanes
Featuring Carri Chan
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Professor Chan teaches the core MBA class, Operations Management. Her primary research interests are in data-driven modeling of complex stochastic systems, dynamic optimization, and queueing with applications in health-care operations management. Her current focus is on combining empirical approaches with mathematical modeling to develop evidence-based approaches to improving patient flow through hospitals, and particularly intensive care units.
Leadership Faculty In the News
Layoffs Etiquette: Microsoft and Others Are Showing Us What Not to Do When Eliminating Jobs
Featuring Rita McGrath
Mentioned Faculty (1)
Rita Gunther McGrath, a Professor at Columbia Business School, is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation with particular emphasis on developing sound strategy in uncertain and volatile environments. Her ideas are widely used by leading organizations throughout the world, who describe her thinking as sometimes provocative, but unfailingly stimulating. She fosters a fresh approach to strategy amongst those with whom she works. Thinkers50 presented Rita with the #1 award for Strategy, the Distinguished Achievement Award, in 2013.
The Outspoken CEO Is a Rapidly Dying Breed
Featuring Vanessa Burbano
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Hiring For Cultural Fit Can Be Good But Comes With Risks
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Wei Cai joined Columbia University in 2020. Her research interests revolve around management accounting, organizational culture, and diversity and inclusion. Her research broadly investigates how to measure and manage key organizational capital. For example, she examines how corporate leaders and managers can deliberately design and shape organizational culture, and improve organizational outcomes through innovative management control systems.
Marketing Faculty In the News
What’s Ahead for Bed Bath & Beyond in Wake of Bankruptcy Warning
Featuring Mark Cohen
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Mark A. Cohen has been in the retail business since his graduation from Columbia University in 1971. (MBA '71, BS Electrical Engineering '69) He has over 20 years experience in president/chairman, chief executive officer level positions. Most recently he was Chairman/CEO of Sears Canada Inc, Chief Marketing Officer and President of Softlines of Sears Roebuck & Co., Chairman/CEO of Bradlees Inc., and Chairman/CEO of Lazarus Department Stores.
Fed-up Tesla Owners Say They're So Sick of Elon Musk's Antics That They're Ditching Their Cars
Featuring Matthew Quint
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Matthew Quint is a Director in the Center on Global Brand Leadership. Matthew researches, writes, and presents on a wide range of issues critical to building a strong brand. His expertise is in marketing ROI, strategies for marketing in the digital age, and the development of creative and effective brand communications. He is also the producer and host of the Center's BRITE conference.
‘Tis the Season of Post-Holiday Gift Returns
Featuring Mark Cohen
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Mark A. Cohen has been in the retail business since his graduation from Columbia University in 1971. (MBA '71, BS Electrical Engineering '69) He has over 20 years experience in president/chairman, chief executive officer level positions. Most recently he was Chairman/CEO of Sears Canada Inc, Chief Marketing Officer and President of Softlines of Sears Roebuck & Co., Chairman/CEO of Bradlees Inc., and Chairman/CEO of Lazarus Department Stores.
TikTok Ban for U.S. Government Phones Advances, Threatening Its Ad Revenue, Experts Say
Featuring Matthew Quint
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Matthew Quint is a Director in the Center on Global Brand Leadership. Matthew researches, writes, and presents on a wide range of issues critical to building a strong brand. His expertise is in marketing ROI, strategies for marketing in the digital age, and the development of creative and effective brand communications. He is also the producer and host of the Center's BRITE conference.
Real Estate Faculty In the News
Is New York City Facing a ‘Doom Loop’ Scenario? A Discussion Has Started.
Featuring Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
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Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, which he joined in July 2018. His research lies in the intersection of housing, asset pricing, and macroeconomics. One strand of his work studies how financial market liberalization in the mortgage market relaxed households' down payment constraints, and how that affected the macro-economy, and the prices of stocks and bonds.
Is That Co-Worker Really ‘Off to a New Adventure’?
Featuring Adam Galinsky
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Adam Galinsky is the Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics and at the Columbia Business School.
Professor Galinsky has published more than 200 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. His research and teaching focus on leadership, negotiations, diversity, decision-making, and ethics.
Why the Dream of Turning Empty Offices Into Housing Is a Bust
Featuring Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
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Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, which he joined in July 2018. His research lies in the intersection of housing, asset pricing, and macroeconomics. One strand of his work studies how financial market liberalization in the mortgage market relaxed households' down payment constraints, and how that affected the macro-economy, and the prices of stocks and bonds.
Kohl's Snub of Big Sale-Leaseback Sets up New Clash with Hedge Funds
Featuring Mark Cohen
Mentioned Faculty (1)
Mark A. Cohen has been in the retail business since his graduation from Columbia University in 1971. (MBA '71, BS Electrical Engineering '69) He has over 20 years experience in president/chairman, chief executive officer level positions. Most recently he was Chairman/CEO of Sears Canada Inc, Chief Marketing Officer and President of Softlines of Sears Roebuck & Co., Chairman/CEO of Bradlees Inc., and Chairman/CEO of Lazarus Department Stores.
Strategy Faculty In the News
Biggest Hedge Funds Will Keep Lion's Share of Customers in 2023, Data Shows
Featuring Michael Weinberg
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For 29 years Michael has invested directly at the security level and indirectly as an asset allocator in traditional and alternative asset classes. He is a Managing Director, Head of Hedge Funds and Alternative Alpha, and on the Investment Committee at APG, a world leader in Environmental, Social and Governance Investing. Previously he was the Chief Investment Officer at MOV37 and Protege Partners.
Can China Save Its Economic Miracle?
Featuring Shang-Jin Wei
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Dr. Shang-Jin Wei is N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs.
Worried About a Gap in Your Resume? This Small Tweak Could Result in More Job Callbacks
Featuring Ariella Kristal
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Ariella is a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia Business School. She is interested in how environments can be structured to help people achieve their goals and the psychological barriers preventing people from adopting effective strategies. Most of her work focuses on how individuals can achieve their self-control goals and how organizations can achieve their diversity goals.
MBA Programs Must Adapt to Navigate American Culture Wars
Featuring Dan Wang
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Dan Wang is Associate Professor of Business and (by courtesy) Sociology at Columbia Business School, where he is also the Co-Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. His research examines how social networks drive social and economic transformation through the analysis of global migration, social movements, organizational innovation, and entrepreneurship.