Capital Markets and Investments
Ethics and Leadership News
January 30, 2013

Risk, Innovation, and Social Value

Bruce Kogut, the director of the School's Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics, discusses the center's latest perspective about making the financial sector work for Wall Street and Main Street after the financial crisis. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
March 06, 2012

A New Approach to Funding Social Enterprises

Professor Bruce Kogut recently co-authored an article describing how bringing philanthropic and investment capital together effectively could increase capacity to address pressing social challenges and how savvy financial structuring would be necessary to make this work. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
February 29, 2012

Why do we need social capital markets? Sir Ronald Cohen at the 2012 Klion Forum

Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures, spoke at the annual Stanley R. Klion Forum. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
December 15, 2010

Governance, Executive Compensation, and Excessive Risk: A Research Report

The Sanford C. Bernstein Center, in conjunction with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, has produced a research report on Governance, Executive Compensation, and Excessive Risk in the Financial Services Industry, which addresses the latest academic research and industry best practices on corporate governance and compensation in the financial industry as well as the latest proposals for reform and regulation of these practices. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
November 16, 2010

Changing Finance to Financing Change: Peter Blom Sets Precedent in Responsible Banking

Peter Blom Receives Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics for his leadership in responsible banking. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
June 14, 2010

Bernstein Center Hosts Conference on Governance, Executive Compensation and Excessive Risk in the Financial Services Industry

The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics co-hosted the May 27 event with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
May 19, 2010

Report Released on the Impact and Implications of Quantitative Models and Financial Innovations

Read the report on "The Quantitative Revolution and the Crisis: How Quantitative Financial Models Have Been Used and Misused." Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
March 21, 2007

Warren Buffett ’51 becomes part of IBS curriculum

The Oracle of Omaha agreed to a 30-minute video interview by 3 Columbia MBA students. In what ended up being an almost 1.5-hour session, Mr. Buffett discussed leadership and ethics. Read more...

Ethics and Leadership News
February 15, 2005

How High the Firewall? Separating Investment Banking from Research

Glenn Hubbard, dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, leads discussion with new MBA students. Read more...