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The Quiet Choices That Shape Family Wealth

Asset Management, Family, Family Office, Leadership and Strategy, Research Findings, Tax Policy

Most families assume wealth is lost through dramatic failures—a bad investment, a misjudged expansion, an unexpected crisis. But new research from Columbia Business School reveals something more subtle and far more consequential: long-term wealth is shaped by the small, ordinary decisions families make repeatedly over time. How often you rebalance. When you recognize gains or losses. Whether your advisors follow a disciplined process or react emotionally.

A Gap From the Get Go: Salary Offers Perpetuate the Gender Pay Gap

Business and Society, Labor, Leadership, Organizations

A gender salary offer gap exists of 5% on average across industries according to new research from Columbia Business School

Biofuels as an interim solution for hard-to-electrify sectors

Climate and Solutions, Climate and Sustainability, Climate and Technology, Climate Knowledge Initiative

Biofuels are uniquely positioned to help stopgap emissions in the sectors that cannot yet easily be electrified like aviation, maritime shipping, heavy trucking, and industrial heat, while emerging technologies become ready for widespread industrial-scale commercial deployment. Already a $100 billion industry in the U.S. and growing 8 percent annually, they offer an immediate, plug-in substitute for fossil fuels that works with existing infrastructure.

Vision, Culture, and Collapse: A Family Enterprise Look at WeWork

Entertainment

As families think more intentionally about the systems and behaviors that shape long-term resilience, the WeWork story offers a striking contemporary case study. This Family Enterprise Entertainment feature explores how decision-making, governance, and risk played out inside one of the fastest-scaling modern enterprises.

New Framework Unites Decades of Research on How Businesses Act Collectively

Business Economics and Public Policy, Leadership and Strategy

A comprehensive review by Columbia Business School and international co-authors provides the first integrated model explaining when and why firms collaborate to shape markets, regulation, and society