Professor Takatoshi Ito commented on Bank of Japan's monetary policy on Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia. To view this segment, visit Bloomberg's website below:
Columbia Professor Ito Says Conditions Warrant No Further BOJ Easing (Bloomberg, 2/18/2018)
Prof Silvia Bellezza Selected as "Emerging Thinker" in 2018
Prof Silvia Bellezza was included by Thinkers50 as part of their list "On the Radar 2018: Emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions to management theory and practice." Thinkers50 identifies, ranks, and shares the very best in management ideas. Its definitive global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years.
Climate Change Could Explain the Personality of Your Significant Other
NEW YORK – Have you ever wondered why your significant other thinks and acts the way they do? We typically think the answer lies in their parents and genes, but new research points to another insightful possibility: the average temperature where they grew up.
Demystifying Cloud (Part I): Cloud Motivation and Economics
Private Equity funds, specifically their operating partners on the ground, need to get more engaged on how their portfolio companies’ leaders evaluate the merits and approach to moving to the cloud – both their backbone technologies and the those that create competitive advantage.
Former NFL Players Partner with Columbia Business School to Enhance Athletes' Post-Career Investment and Business Opportunities
Inaugural series of Executive Education courses to be offered in Venture Investing and Entrepreneurship, two in-demand topics among professional athletes
Columbia Business School Research Sheds Light on Management’s Influence on Votes Cast by Shareholders
Over the past decade, public companies large and small have been taking note of the increasing impact of shareholder votes on their governance and compensation practices, particularly with the rise of shareholder activism. But new research from Columbia Business School suggests that corporate management continues to have extraordinary influence on voting outcomes.
Silvia Bellezza was one of two Business School faculty awarded $25,000 in research funds from the Provost’s Grants Program for Junior Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University in Fall 2017.
The Marketing Division wishes to congratulate the following PhD students on their recent job placements.
Jaeyeon Chung - Assistant Professor of Marketing, Rice University
Ryan Dew - Assistant Professor of Marketing, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Qitian Ren - Assistant Professor of Marketing, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
Did China’s One-Child Policy Lead to an Inflated Housing Market? New Research from Columbia Business Argues Yes
NEW YORK – Despite recent measures to reign in China’s surging property markets, the price of home ownership in China continues to soar, outpacing increases in income nationwide and rates of housing prices worldwide. Even in this climate, China maintains one of the highest rates of home ownership in the world. New research from Columbia Business School offers an explanation: for single men looking to marry, owning a home has increasingly become a key status symbol in the hunt for a spouse, which in turn has driven up prices and led to an inflated housing market.
Tamer Fund for Social Ventures Awards Grants to Four New Ventures After Receiving Record 130 Applications
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures recently completed its fifth funding cycle and selected four new early-stage ventures to add to the portfolio.
Four Columbia University-affiliated teams of social entrepreneurs recently received seed grants from the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures to help them develop their early-stage ventures. In addition to funding, these entrepreneurs also gain access to the social enterprise resources the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School provides.
New Tool Assesses the Creative Value of Any New Idea
NEW TOOL ASSESSES THE CREATIVE VALUE OF ANY NEW IDEA
NEW YORK – In the worlds of business in general and marketing in particular, creative ideas are the most valuable currency. Ideally, they lead to great success but, in some cases, can lead to colossal failure. To get ahead of the game, researchers from Columbia Business School faculty have identified a way to determine an idea’s perceived creativeness simply by looking at the words – and combination of those words - used to explain that idea.
Columbia Business School and Columbia Engineering Announce New Master’s Degree in Business Analytics
NEW YORK - Columbia Engineering and Columbia Business School have announced a new full-time Master of Science in Business Analytics degree, with a three-semester curriculum designed for those who want to focus on learning the modeling techniques and data science tools that help businesses use data to make better decisions.
Eric Schaffer ’18, the Vice President of Events in the Real Estate Association (REA), was awarded the David Winoker Scholarship by the Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association of New York.
Do Consumers Know Exactly How Much They Are Paying? New Research From Columbia Business School Shows The Impact Of Hidden Fees On The Shopping Experience
Researchers reviewed consumers’ purchasing trends when a product’s price is divided into a base price plus one or more mandatory surcharges
Consumer transactions are more likely to involve an additional surcharge now than they were two decades ago
Researchers, public policy makers and marketing managers need to understand the psychological processes underlying consumer spending to effectively utilize partitioned pricing
New Research from Columbia Business School Sheds Light on Factors Affecting Luxury Versus Practical Purchases
Price promotions, like 20 percent off a designer handbag, strongly motivate people to purchase luxury items
Quantity-based promotions, such as buy-one, get-one, are less effective in swaying people to purchase luxury items, as such promotions induce guilt
Conversely, in certain situations -- like when purchasing a gift – price promotions for luxury items can backfire, as they cheapen the gift in the eye of the giver
New Research: How You Approach Decision Making Can Impact Your Ability to be Patient
NEW YORK – Would you rather have $5 today or $10 in a month? Eat a donut or an apple? Save for retirement or buy something new? When making these choices, you're weighing two kinds of options: a short-term reward that is worse for your longer-term outcomes, or a less immediately satisfying reward that's better for your future. This decision-making framework, known as intertemporal choice, often comes down to a singular characteristic of human evolution: patience.
SLEB Chair, Sam Longair '18, attended the Society for Business Ethics' annual conference, which brought together engaging experts to address real-life issues.