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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. These quiet choices—not portfolio size—explain why some families steadily compound wealth across generations while others slowly fall behind. This article explores the unseen mechanisms that drive long-run outcomes and offers tools to help families examine the habits, systems, and governance structures that support true resilience.

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. Through the Apple TV+ series WeCrashed, starring Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto, and Hulu’s documentary WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, we look at how a couple’s shared vision and leadership style influenced culture, accelerated growth, and exposed the organization to avoidable vulnerabilities. Together, these works highlight how the structures around leadership — or the lack of them — can determine whether an ambitious enterprise thrives or unravels. Click to read the full piece.  

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

Ending reliance on oil, coal, and gas, and embracing technologies that will only improve and become cheaper over time, is not just smart climate policy. It is the best way to improve economic competitiveness and human prosperity for decades to come.

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

From Western countries imposing sanctions on Russia to the U.S. levying tariffs on dozens of countries, governments are increasingly wielding economic tools, including sanctions, tariffs, and export controls, to pursue geopolitical goals. The recent surge in geoeconomic activity marks a break from the previous two decades of policymaking and could significantly reshape the global economic and financial landscape.