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At the Forefront of Their Fields

At Columbia Business School, our faculty members are at the forefront of research in their respective fields, offering innovative ideas that directly impact the practice of business today. A quick glance at our publication on faculty research, CBS Insights, will give you a sense of the breadth and immediacy of the insight our professors provide.

As a student at the School, this will greatly enrich your education. In Columbia classrooms, you are at the cutting-edge of industry, studying the practices that others will later adopt and teach. As any business leader will tell you, in a competitive environment, being first puts you at a distinct advantage over your peers. Learn economic development from Ray Fisman, the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and a rising star in the field, or real estate from Chris Mayer, the Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, a renowned expert and frequent commentator on complex housing issues. This way, when you complete your degree, you'll be set up to succeed.

The Columbia Advantage

Columbia Business School in conjunction with the Office of the Dean provides its faculty, PhD students, and other research staff with resources and cutting edge tools and technology to help push the boundaries of business research.

Specifically, our goal is to seamlessly help faculty set up and execute their research programs. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Highly skilled staff of full-time predoctoral fellows, summer research interns, and part-time research assistants
  • Access to centralized funding from the Dean's office and external grants to support research activities
  • Providing a state-of-the-art high-performance grid computing environment
  • Acquisition of proprietary data sets and access to various databases
  • Leading library which provides faculty with latest tools and techniques to enable digital scholarship

All these activities help to facilitate and streamline faculty research, and that of the doctoral students working with them.

 

Research at CBS

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An interpersonal, attributional perspective on first offers in negotiations

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Loschelder, D., A. Lee, M.F. Mason, Daniel Ames, and A. Galinsky
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Working Paper
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Diversity isn’t what it used to be: The consequences of the broadening of diversity

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Akinola, Modupe, T Opie, G Ho, S Castel, M. Unzueta, and A Brief
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Working Paper
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Downstream Effects of Evaluator Placement

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Abraham, Mabel, Tristan Botelho, and C. Carter
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Working Paper
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Multinational Corporation and Stakeholders

Author
Yue, Lori, Kaixian Mao, and Huidi Lu
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Working Paper
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Understanding the Labor Market for Entrepreneurs

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Abraham, Mabel and Tristan Botelho
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Journal Article
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The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand

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Meier, Stephan and Suparee Boonmanunt

In-group bias can be detrimental for communities and economic development. We study the causal effect of financial constraints on in-group bias in prosocial behaviors – cooperation, norm enforcement, and sharing – among low-income rice farmers in rural Thailand, who cultivate and harvest rice once a year. We use a between-subjects design – randomly assigning participants to experiments either before harvest (more financially constrained) or after harvest. Farmers interacted with a partner either from their own village (in-group) or from another village (out-group).

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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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Publication
Emotion

Thriving under pressure: The effects of stress-related wise interventions on affect, sleep, and exam performance for disadvantaged college students

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Goyer, J.P., A.J. Crum, R. Grunberg, and Modupe Akinola

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, particularly for these populations as they enter academic environments. We examine the effects of stress mindset and stress management interventions administered to students from disadvantaged backgrounds (N = 140) before freshman year.

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Working Paper
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The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons: Evidence from Venezuelan Entrepreneurs

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Cowgill, Bo, Jorge Guzman, and Dany Bahar

This paper shows that providing undocumented immigrants with an immigration pardon, or amnesty, increases their economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal business registry, we study a 2018 policy shift in Colombia that made nearly half a million Venezuelan undocumented migrants eligible for a pardon. Our identification uses quasi-random variation in the amount of time available to get the pardon, introducing a novel regression discontinuity approach to study this policy.

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Working Paper
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The Past and Future of Corporate Sustainability Research

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Burbano, Vanessa, Magali Delmas, and Martin Cobo

Despite the skyrocketing of sustainability-related research in the strategy and management fields, there has been no comprehensive systematic review of the field as a whole. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of the field of corporate sustainability using a science mapping co-word bibliometric analysis. Through analysis of the co-occurrence of 25,701 keywords in 11,962 sustainability-related articles from 1994-2021, we identify and graphically illustrate the thematic and theoretical evolution of the field, in addition to emerging and waning research trends in the field.

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Working Paper
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Regional personality differences predict variation in COVID-19 infections and social distancing behavior

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Peters, Heinrich, Friedrich Gotz, Tobias Ebert, Sandrine Muller, P. Rentfrow, Samuel Gosling, Marin Obschonka, Daniel Ames, Jeff Potter, and Sandra Matz

The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed stark regional variation in the spread of the virus. While previous research has highlighted the impact of regional differences in sociodemographic and economic factors, we argue that regional differences in social and compliance behaviors-the very behaviors through which the virus is transmitted-are critical drivers of the spread of COVID-19, particularly in the early stages of the pandemic.

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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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Publication
Administrative Science Quarterly

Book Review for The Bank Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis, by Neil Fligstein

Author

The financial crisis of 2007–2008 was the most serious since the Great Depression and severely impacted the global economy. Yet more than 10 years after the crisis, we still lack clear understanding of its cause. Accounts point to some elements of fact but tend to be fragmented and sometimes contradictory. More than ever, we need an account that can put the puzzle pieces together and help us understand how to prevent a crisis like this from happening again.

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Journal Article
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Issues Revisited from Rumelt’s (1974) “Diversification, Strategy & Performance”

Performance expectations are revisited pertaining to particular corporate strategies that were highlighted by Rumelt (1974). In particular, suggestions regarding expectations about conglomerate enterprises, vertical integration, and mature- or declining-demand businesses are offered in light of additional information about research findings and observed industry phenomena that are at odds with information available when Rumelt's (1974) study of diversification was performed.