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How to get Canada’s pension funds to invest more in startups
Brett House discusses how Canada can unlock more domestic investment in startups and high-growth companies.
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The AI Buildout: What Real Estate Investors Need to Underwrite
For a data center investor, a signed lease with a major technology company is a powerful selling point. The tenant has deep pockets, demand for computing capacity is growing, and access to power limits competing supply. Put those features together, and a new campus can look like an unusually attractive real estate investment.
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Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh featured in The Wall Street Journal on the economics of the AI investment boom. His research is cited as the basis for an estimate that AI companies would need to generate roughly $3.5 trillion in annual revenue by 2032—about 8.8% of U.S. GDP—to justify the enormous capital being invested in AI infrastructure.
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Private Credit and Financial Stability
Rising redemption pressures in parts of the private credit market, alongside growing attention from regulators and market participants, have brought renewed focus to questions of financial stability.
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The future of technology, market competition, and democracy: How policy and AI are reshaping capitalism
Tano Santos, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Asset Management and Finance at Columbia Business School, and Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, joined the Hub and the Adam Smith Society for a two-part conversation on AI, re-industrialization, and market intervention.
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Former Estée Lauder CFO Tracey Travis reflects on how leading a struggling Pepsi bottling unit became the defining risk that shaped her path to global leadership.
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From frozen rent to a $30 minimum wage, Columbia Business School experts comment on the economic viability of headline-grabbing campaign promises from NYC's new millennial mayor.
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As the city heads into a defining mayoral election, Columbia Business School faculty share their expertise on the economic viability of candidate Zohran Mamdani’s policy proposals.