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Prof. Fabrizio Ferri, and his co-author Robert Gox, have had the honor of publishing a book chapter, "Executive Compensation, Corporate Governance, and Say on Pay," in the prestigious Foundations and Trends in Accounting, Vol. 12, Issue 1.

IRI and Columbia University’s Center for Pricing and Revenue Management Announce 2018 Pricing Analytics Program Two-day program will teach executives how to leverage pricing analytics to better understand consumers and drive profitable growth

Ethan Rouen was awarded the American Accounting Association Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Dissertation Award for 2018 for "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance." Ethan completed his Ph.D. at Columbia in 2017 and is now an assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

On Friday, April 6th, students from the Real Estate Association (REA) were hosted by Jamestown and Belvedere Capital for a private tour of their historic Industry City development which stretches across 15 blocks of the Brooklyn Waterfront.

On Wednesday, March 28th 2018, members of the Real Estate Association (REA) were hosted by L+M Development Partners for a private tour of their groundbreaking Essex Crossing development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

 

On April 13th, after chasing warmer weather in Miami, 21 first- and second-year REA students met with a group of local real estate investment professionals to learn about their current activity in South Florida and abroad.

(NEW YORK) – Groundbreaking new research released today by Columbia Business School shows that when it comes to the availability of mortgage credit, voters punish incumbents in tough economic times, but don’t always reward them in good ones. The new findings could impact how we view the relationship between the economy and national elections for years to come.

A new study led by Neal Masia, Vice President of Patient & Health Impact at Pfizer, and Adjunct Professor of Business in the Management Division at Columbia Business School in New York, assessed how changes in childhood vaccine investment impact a country's gross domestic product (GDP). Using the DTP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) as a proxy for vaccination programs generally, the research findings show that improved childhood vaccination rates were associated with economic growth, suggesting a significant and long-term increases in the GDP growth rate.

NEW YORK—When government forces the business sector to “do good,” it hurts the bottom line and actually reduces voluntary efforts to be good corporate neighbors. Those are the findings of research unveiled today by Columbia Business School, which examines the viability of mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a business practice, finding that enforced activity –efforts by governments to make CSR spending mandatory by law– is a value-decreasing proposition for shareholders, and a disincentive for corporate good behavior.