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New research from Columbia Business School helps explain the low number of corporate whistle-blowers: company stock options are often given to rank-and-file employees to discourage them from publicly reporting financial reporting violations. 

The Family Business Program at Columbia Business School and Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), which operates the oldest and largest privately held bank in the United States, have announced a new partnership for the 2016–17 academic year. The partnership includes a gift from BBH that will provide crucial seed money to develop and scale the Family Business Program. The funds will enable the program to move forward with immediate plans for curricular development, research, and new student and alumni programming. BBH is the Family Business Program’s founding corporate sponsor.

According to new research from Columbia Business School, workers of all ages increasingly value purpose and meaningfulness at work, so much so that they are willing to give up monetary benefits in exchange. "We tend to think of valuing non-monetary benefits over money only in mission-driven and public service organizations, but this research demonstrates that workers in for-profit organizations are also motivated by a company’s social responsibility," said author Vanessa Burbano, assistant professor of management at Columbia Business School.

The “2015 New York Census — The State of Women Business Leaders in New York State” analyzed data from fiscal year 2014 from the top 100 public companies headquartered in New York State.

A look at the biggest ideas from Columbia Business School’s 100th-anniversary event.

New research from Columbia Business School shows that teams with the most talent don’t always net the best results.

New research from Columbia Business School examines methods that hinder diversity in the workplace, and recommends steps for how to most effectively strengthen diversity efforts. 

A survey of nearly 2,000 CEOs and CFOs reveals a startling disconnect between the value culture adds and how companies underinvest in it

Fabrizio Ferri, the Regina Pitaro Associate Professor of Business and Accounting at Columbia Business School, has won the 2015 Best Paper Award from the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. 

Columbia Business School study shows that professional experiences abroad can fuel creative innovations