Manage your ego — and more advice for MBA students
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Modupe Akinola is the Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and Faculty Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Professor Akinola worked in professional services at Bain & Company and Merrill Lynch. Professor Akinola examines how organizational environments- characterized by deadlines, multi-tasking, and other attributes such as having low status- can engender stress, and how this stress can have spill-over effects on performance.
Adam Galinsky is the Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at the Columbia Business School.
Professor Galinsky has published more than 300 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. His research and teaching focus on leadership, negotiations, diversity, decision-making, and ethics.
Michael Morris is the Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership at CBS and also serves as Professor in the Psychology Department of Columbia University.
He teaches MBA and executive-level classes on leadership, teamwork, communication, negotiation, and decision-making. In 2016, he was honored with the Dean's Award for Innovation in the Curriculum for creating two of the school's most popular elective courses: The Leader's Voice and the Patagonia Leadership Expedition.
Professor Alan Kane appointed Dean of the Business School at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Alan Kane has just been appointed Dean of the Business School at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Alan will serve as Dean at FIT while continuing his Retailing Leadership course at Columbia. The FIT Business School has 3,500 full-time students, as well as a very close relationship with the retailing industry and the apparel manufacturers and designers.
Russian Media During the War: Making Sense of an Opaque Landscape
Andrey Simonov wears many hats. He’s an expert on digital markets, and can speak authoritatively on advertising, news and other features of the media landscape, but there’s one topic that has recently piqued his interest and is proving a particular challenge.
Move from Command and Control to Discovery: Rita McGrath
When you have a platform of extensive experience, you can plan in a conventional way. But what if something is totally new to you? What will it entail for leadership? Rita Gunther McGrath a long-time Professor at Columbia Business School and one of the world's top experts on strategy and innovation, answers
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Daniel Lubetzky: A Model for Kind and Compassionate Leadership in a Complex World
Starbucks' new CEO wants senior leaders to work in stores, and it's a brilliant idea
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Mark A. Cohen has been in the retail business since his graduation from Columbia University in 1971. (MBA '71, BS Electrical Engineering '69) He has over 20 years experience in president/chairman, chief executive officer level positions. Most recently he was Chairman/CEO of Sears Canada Inc, Chief Marketing Officer and President of Softlines of Sears Roebuck & Co., Chairman/CEO of Bradlees Inc., and Chairman/CEO of Lazarus Department Stores. He has also held positions with Abraham & Strauss, The Gap, Lord Taylor, Mervyn's and Goldsmith's Department Stores.
Women’s History Month: Columbia Business School Experts Research Ways to Improve Outcomes for Women in Business
NEW YORK, NY – It’s Women’s History Month, an important moment to focus on how far women have come, and how far our society has to go to ensure gender equality. Columbia Business School’s faculty experts are leaders on women in the workplace, with groundbreaking research that highlights gender disparities in business and solutions to close them.
Should We Automate the CEO?
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Professor Netzer's expertise centers on one of the major business challenges of the data-rich environment: developing quantitative methods that leverage data to gain a deeper understanding of customer behavior and guide firms' decisions. He focuses primarily on building statistical and econometric models to measure consumer preferences and understand how customer choices change over time, and across contexts. Most notably, he has developed a framework for managing firms' customer bases through dynamic segmentation.
Can you understand family-owned business without the emotions?
How do emotions impact decision-making in your family enterprise? Fabian Bernhard, Associate Professor of Management, EDHEC Business School, explains.