Program For Financial Studies Channel

Columbia Business School study says analysts’ concerns about fair value accounting clouded the already murky waters, fueling the crisis

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 Vessels that carried 2,000 tons of cargo have been replaced by modern container ships that routinely move 150,000 tons.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.

Study finds that gender differences in overconfidence concerning individual past performance explains a significant proportion of the lack of female leadership in organizations

Columbia Business School research shows a 22 percent drop in pneumonia deaths and a 7 percent decline in readmissions for heart failure patients

Research from Columbia Business School warns that management’s attempt to build closer bonds among colleagues through office gatherings fails to help among racially dissimilar employees

New research from Columbia Business School shows that powerful leaders fail to listen properly and take others’ accounts into perspective, jeopardizing the impact they could have

In new research from Columbia Business School, CEOs are three times as likely to value shares above market value to avoid getting pushed out