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New Preliminary Data In New York Shows Widespread Employer Support for Paid Leave Law Research finds that California’s paid family leave produced a 46-percent increase in fathers taking time off to bond with newborn and newly-adopted children.

As care moves from hospital to home, eldercare providers will invest most in home health &  palliative care as the aging population grows. In The Wall Street Journal, Patrick Pilch, CBS '89, with Alta Partners & MedScience Ventures, explains how tech companies can compete in the space.

 

New York—Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Columbia Business School Executive Education announced today the launch of STBReady, an innovative new training program designed to prepare Simpson Thacher’s incoming associates to do more sophisticated legal work, more efficiently, earlier in their careers. The evolving nature of our associates’ work as a result of technology innovations and alternative service providers prompted the launch of this intensive approach to associate training.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, according to new research from Columbia Business School, global portfolios have shifted dramatically away from the euro and toward the dollar – essentially cementing the dollar as the only international currency.

 

New research from Columbia Business School finds evaluating employees based on their past performance is better received and seen as more fair.

Professors Urooj Khan and Shiva Rajgopal were awarded American Accounting Association’s 2018 FARS Best Paper Award for their study, “Do the FASB’s standards add shareholder value?” The American Accounting Association makes this award to a financial accounting and reporting paper published within the past five years that is judged to best reflect the tradition of academic scholarship and be of relevance to problems facing the accounting profession and standard setters.

Researcher Kinshuk Jerath argues search engines are the only real winners NEW YORK – Advertisers spend a lot of money on paid search. By 2019, paid search ad spending will reach nearly $40 billion in the U.S. alone. But, according to research from Columbia Business School’s Kinshuk Jerath, this tactic has many subtleties and doesn’t always result in increased profits for advertisers.

Walter and Shirley Wang '93 stress the need for resilience, love, and faith in building a family business.