DFI Digest

Columbia Business School research reveals that economic hardships experienced in formative years can impact attitudes toward immigration and government redistribution later in life

Host Professor Ray Horton speaks with Sandra Navalli OAM ’03, managing director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise, on the increasing importance of social entrepreneurship and the unique role the center plays in supporting social entrepreneurship in the United States and around the world.

Columbia Business School’s case competition team finished first place in the 2024 Real Estate Development Challenge hosted by the Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies at Kenan-Flagler Business School and presented by Hines. Team members Chris Byrns ’25, Connor Corcoran ’24, Katy Lepeturin ’25, and Rachel Lee ’25 inspired the judges and crowd by presenting a plan to redevelop the historic Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. 

Six Studies Address Key Topics Crucial for Enhancing Outcomes for Women in Business

The climate reporting genie is out of the bottle although the cost of a less prescriptive SEC rule is reporting inconsistencies across jurisdictions and fully delegating materiality assessments to the firm.

DFI affiliated Professor Stephan Meier recently co-authored "The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work" with CBS Professor Vanessa Burbano, Olle Folke, and Johanna Rickne arguing that whereas the gender gap in meaningful work closes a substantial part of the wage gap in lower paid jobs, it does little to close the gap in higher paid jobs in which the gender wage gap is largest.