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BusinessWeek highlighted the Nonprofit Board Leadership Program, which pairs MBA students with alumni mentors serving on New York City nonprofit boards.

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Tomasz Piskorski, Edward S. Gordon Associate Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, has been named a co-recipient of the 2013 AQR Insight Award for his research on how to identify and quantify misreported loans in the $2 trillion market for private mortgage-backed securities.

Report by Columbia Business School professor discusses flaws in eurozone design, potential solutions for the euro area crisis, and potential outcomes

By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette There's a learning curve with all online transactions -- banking on the Web, buying songs from iTunes. So how long will it take America to warm up to shopping for health insurance online?And, more importantly, how long will it take us to shop wisely?That depends largely on the architecture of the websites through which America will do its shopping, according to a new paper written by a University of Pennsylvania Law School health insurance expert and several other colleagues.

Leymah Gbowee, who was a keynote speaker at the Oct. 7 Social Enterprise Conference, was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day.

The main panel on designing and executing investment strategies centered on an outlook of cautious optimism amidst a backdrop of unprecedented uncertainty for real estate markets over the next few years.