Michael Hershman, president and CEO of the Fairfax Group, has been awarded Columbia Business School’s 2013 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics. The award was presented during a ceremony on Monday, September 16.
Columbia’s popular course on personal leadership kicks off new program; Offers innovative networking and interactive educational opportunities to a broader audience of business professionals
NEW YORK—October 10, 2012—Thanks to blogs, online forums, and product review sites, companies and marketers now have access to a seemingly endless array of data on consumers’ opinions and experiences. In principle, businesses should be able to use this information to gain a better understanding of the general market and of their own and their competitors’ customers.
Michael Adler, professor emeritus of business, died on July 29. He was 76. In his more than 40 years on the faculty, Adler was an influential member of the Columbia community. Among his many contributions, he was instrumental in developing the MBA class on international corporate finance and he served as chair of the Finance Division.
NEW YORK—November 2, 2012—For decades, “bigger is better” has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that carried 2,000 tons of cargo have been replaced by modern container ships that routinely move 150,000 tons. But now, new research shows, we are on the cusp of a radical shift from building big to building small—a change that has profound implications for both established and emerging industries.
