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The Marketing Division is pleased to welcome four new PhD students in 2019: Uliana Evseeva Maren Hoff Eric Park Jasmine Yang   We wish Uliana, Maren, Eric, and Jasmine much success during their time at CBS!

Michel Pham and Shiri Melumad winners of La Londe Conference Best Paper Award.

On August 5th, Bunny Ellerin, Director of the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Management Program at Columbia Business School and President of NYC Health Business Leaders was featured as one of Crain’s 2019 Notable Women in Healthcare. 

Are Americans primarily suffering from income inequality or lack of opportunity? At the 2019 Social Enterprise Leadership Forum, speakers diagnosed the problem and proposed solutions.

Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness announced today David Abney, chairman and CEO, United Parcel Service, Janet DiFiore, chief judge, New York State, and Hubert Joly, executive chairman, Best Buy, will receive its 2019 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence.

Four new Tamer Fund for Social Venture awardees were selected after participating in an application screening round, a due diligence process with student teams as part of a Columbia Business School course, and a final pitch to the fund’s investment board.

Professor Takatoshi Ito commented on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's victory in the upper house elections, and the implications for government and central bank policies. To view this segment, visit Bloomberg’s website below: What Are Japanese PM Abe's Priorities? (Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia, 7/21/19)

Congratulations to our DRO PhD graduates of the class of 2019! DRO PhD student Francisco Castro accepted a faculty position at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He will join the Decisions, Operations and Technology Management (DOTM) area. Francisco was advised by Professors Omar Besbes, Ilan Lobel and Gabriel Weintraub.

Dassault Systemes SE, a maker of industrial design software, agreed to buy Medidata Solutions Inc. for $5.7 billion to gain a foothold in the fast-growing market for clinical trial technology. Medidata offers clients wearable sensors that help track patient health and biomarker analysis to select which patients may best respond to certain drugs. It estimates that 13 of the top 15 medicines sold last year relied on its technology, as the healthcare industry shifts towards personalized medicine and the targeting of individual patient profiles.

Columbia Business School Article argues that employees need more than paychecks to stay at a company and continue to produce high quality work.