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Featured in the Japan Times Online, Professor Michael Morris's research on U.S. and Japanese media coverage of corporate scandals shows differences in the public's direction of blame and responsibility.

The Harmony Institute wants to change your mind at the movies. In the last few weeks, a little-noticed nonprofit with big ideas about the persuasive power of movies and television shows quietly began an initiative aimed at getting filmmakers and others to use the insights and techniques of behavioral psychology in delivering social and political messages through their work.

Professor Eric Johnson's ideas for improving retirement income are featured in this New York Times article.

Fifteen Latin American business owners have completed a groundbreaking yearlong entrepreneurial education program that took them across three continents.

On November 9, the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, The Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing, and the Columbia Investment Management Association hosted a talk delivered by William Ackman, CEO, Pershing Square Capital  Management entitled "Finding Value in Real Estate." 

 From Threat To OpportunityThe Internet has reached the "web 2.0" generation in which users collaborate and interact. Has this been the end of the story? Not likely. Networks will soon progress to ultra-broadband capacity, and with it to new content styles, production models, and industry structure. It is therefore time to think ahead. What will "web 3.0" look like?Some questions addressed at this Conference were:

With the US electoral campaign heating up, one of the main high-tech issues will be the state of high-speed internet in America. A campaign discussion on this subject could be much deeper and more meaningful. It should be about America??s future information economy, about the interplay of private and public initiatives, about a diverse media landscape and about its role as an exporter of information and media products.