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Columbia Business School’s expanding AI curriculum prepares students to succeed in the fast-moving, data-rich, high-tech environments of the future.

Behind the technology lies a vast physical infrastructure buildout that is reshaping capital markets and creating new vulnerabilities.

AI is reshaping entrepreneurship and product-market fit. Here are three skills future business leaders need to stand out, according to a16z partner Bryan Kim.

This month we mark National Family Owned and Operated Businesses Day, and the phrase rewards a second look. We celebrate the business, and rightly so. The business may be the source of wealth, the center of identity, the training ground for leadership, and the shared project that connects generations. Behind many of these enterprises are remarkable stories: founders and families who began with almost nothing and built something lasting through years of work, risk, and sacrifice.But the wealth a business creates does not stay inside it. Over time it takes other forms: liquidity, portfolios, real estate, trusts, foundations, direct investments, philanthropy, and new ventures. It also includes wealth that never appears on a balance sheet at all: a family's knowledge, judgment, relationships, reputation, and capacity to make decisions together. The organization a family builds to hold all of that is the family office.It is usually described as a structure for managing wealth. True, but incomplete. A systematic review published this year helps widen the frame. Reviewing 60 peer-reviewed studies published between 1980 and 2024, Siaba, Rivera, and Currais argue that the family office is better understood not only as a service platform but as a governance structure that mediates among the family, the business, and the wealth.

At Columbia Business School, students debate CAiSEY, an AI adversary, by voice or text. New research shows the way they interact with AI can dramatically shape how many ideas they generate.

As Columbia Business School deepens its institutional commitment to AI through its AI in Business Initiative and the upcoming "MBA Transformed: AI and Beyond" teaching symposium on June 1, 2026, family enterprises face a parallel question: is AI a threat to legacy, or a new way to coauthor it? A recent study in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, "AI Adoption in Family Firms: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Paradoxical Roles of Passive and Active Family Involvement," suggests AI adoption is as much a relationship and governance challenge as a technological one. Drawing on 125 interviews and survey data from 1,444 German firms, the authors find that passive family ownership may slow adoption, while active family management can accelerate it, particularly when paired with strong external ties to suppliers, customers, and even competitors. For enterprising families, the deeper insight is that legacy is not static; it is interpreted and renewed across generations. AI may become a voice of the next generation, offering younger family members a concrete way to contribute to continuity, if families are willing to turn legacy into a living conversation. Read the full article, Is AI a Threat to Legacy, or a New Way to Coauthor It?

A student-led hackathon, in partnership with Google, signals a shift in the AI landscape—moving beyond simple chatbots toward multimodal, real-time applications that bridge the gap between technical theory and business innovation.

Student Leadership and Ethics Board member Maisha Tasnim ’26 explains why utilizing AI to elevate skills empowers the workforce to focus on complex problem-solving, strategic innovation, and nurturing relationships.

Cancer Screening Outreach Program Using AI Model Improves Patient Outcomes

OpenAI Chief Economist Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji discusses how AI transforms productivity, work, and decision-making in the global economy.

New initiative unites expert insights, research, and forward‑looking conversations focused on finding AI opportunities to transform healthcare

GDP conflates consumption and investment spending and hence confuses motion for progress

Managing employees’ AI-related stress is the key to unlocking the technology’s potential.

This piece closes the loop on a year of Family Enterprise Insights by naming the common thread beneath our 2025 research: trust as infrastructure.

CBS faculty on the one word that defined AI adoption in 2025.

CBS faculty explain how generative AI has become an active collaborator in research—and what that means for the future of academia

CBS faculty reflect on the AI developments that surprised them most in 2025–and what business leaders should be paying attention to next.

Smart advertisements from Google, Meta, and Amazon sideline agencies and creative workers.

AI’s value is unmistakable, but the path to capturing it is more complicated and human than most organizations realize. Insights from Columbia Business School’s Deming Center and the AI in Business Initiative reveal why.

When people believe art is generated by AI, they feel less awe and empathy than they do from identical works attributed to human creators.

From smarter search to clearer product info, AI features tested on millions of shoppers made it easier for people to navigate choices and complete purchases

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on transforming an American icon for the AI age.

GenAI boosts sales and productivity, especially for smaller sellers and newer shoppers, by reducing friction in the digital marketplace.

From Western countries imposing sanctions on Russia to the U.S. levying tariffs on dozens of countries, governments are increasingly wielding economic tools, including sanctions, tariffs, and export controls, to pursue geopolitical goals. The recent surge in geoeconomic activity marks a break from the previous two decades of policymaking and could significantly reshape the global economic and financial landscape.

New Columbia Business School study finds A.I. tools like ChatGPT consistently favor the first option presented when evaluating choices—but aggregating results from multiple, differently-worded prompts cancels out the bias