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Multiple times every day, people in homes and offices across the country are faced with a daunting decision: do I speak up and risk being penalized by or embarrassed in front of my friends, family, colleagues, or superiors, or do I remain silent, refrain from influencing a conversation or decision, and go unnoticed?

Marina Halac, the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business and Economics at Columbia Business School, was recently awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Conferred every other year by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, the Elaine Bennett Research Prize recognizes, supports, and encourages outstanding contributions by young women in the economics profession.

Linda Green, the Cain Brothers & Company Professor of Healthcare Management, has been appointed faculty director of the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management (HPM) Program, effective immediately.

Consumers are glued to their smartphones – so what makes smartphone owners suddenly lose, drop, break, shatter, or destroy their prized possessions? Research from Columbia Business School Professor Silvia Bellezza says consumers act recklessly with their current products when in the presence of appealing upgrades.

If it had been windier on November 8, then the election results might have looked very different, says research from Columbia Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School. A research paper titled Weather Affects Voting Decisions finds that the weather on Election Day affects voters’ decisions.

On November 17th, the University of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business hosted the 14th Annual National Real Estate Challenge sponsored by Invesco. Twenty of the top MBA programs participated in the competition. Columbia Business School, represented by Mark Abramowicz ’18, Samuel Fenwick ’18, Anthony Feenick ’17, Daniel Liu ’17, Nicholas Mellis ’17, and Joe Noon ’17, placed 3rd in the competition behind the host university and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.  

Someone who supports and stands up for the rights of LGBT people is known as an “Ally.” And to celebrate all the “allies” who support the LGBT community, Columbia Business School held its annual Ally Week November 14–18.

Today, Columbia University announced the establishment of the Mendelson Center for Undergraduate Business Initiatives, a joint program between Columbia College and Columbia Business School. The Center was established with a $10 million gift from the Mendelson family, whose relationship with Columbia spans four generations. The Center will foster an ongoing business education program for select Columbia undergraduates.

Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness recently honored David M. Cote, chairman and CEO at Honeywell, and Indra K. Nooyi, chairman and CEO at PepsiCo, with the 2016 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence. In addition, the center bestowed the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award to Paul H. O’Neill, 72nd Secretary of the US Treasury and former director and chairman at Alcoa, for his legacy of leadership across the public and private sectors over five decades.

On November 18, 2016, Columbia Business School’s Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics will host its annual conference, titled “Restoring Trust: New Realities and New Possibilities for Business Leadership,” featuring executives from US Soccer, Coach Inc., and Duke Energy among many others. This year’s theme focuses on how leaders view trust in the modern business world and how they integrate fairness and value into their daily roles in their respective industries.