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The Management Division

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  • Harsh Feedback from a Manager May Inspire Creative Thinking

    Professor Modupe Akinola, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, examined the effects of feedback given to individuals and found that after negative feedback had been given, the work produced was significantly more creative. She concluded that harsh criticism increased the workers’ creativity and made them perform better.

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January 31, 2017

Tamer Center Receives Gift from Gates Foundation

Professor Raymond Horton along with the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise is the recipient of $250,000 from the Bill and Melida Gates Foundation in support of the “Gulf Philanthropy Fellowship Program.”

January 31, 2017

Prof. Cowgill Receives Award for Paper

Professor Bo Cowgill received the Overall Best Paper Award from the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics for his paper “Automating Subjective Decisions: Theory and Evidence from Resume Screening.”

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Why Strategy Is in Trouble

The ability to unify organizations behind winning strategies is an important, but often misunderstood characteristic of leadership.

Not All Discrimination Is Obvious

A look at subtle stereotyping and prejudice in the workplace.

Suits Don’t Tie Down Creative Thinking

Business casual is now commonplace, but is it the right dress code when the job calls for abstract thinking?

The Symbolism of Workplace Attire

Clothes communicate a message both to yourself and to others.

Preeminent Management Research

Columbia Business School’s Management Division includes scholars and teachers who are trained in a wide range of academic disciplines and experienced in business, government, and nonprofit management. These qualities underlie the division’s record in the world of scholarship and in the School’s program of professional education.

The faculty’s research applies cutting-edge methodologies to the study of management issues in diverse organizational and societal settings. Our faculty members are published in the citadel journals of economics, psychology, and sociology.

The research skills and rich management experiences of the faculty combine to give the division a leading teaching role in the School’s degree programs. In the MBA and EMBA programs, members of the management faculty teach many of the most sought-after elective courses on topics such as top management processes, decision making, and negotiation.

Our goals are to maintain a preeminent position in scholarly research and to expand our record of teaching excellence. To accomplish these goals, our strategy continues to be to recruit, promote, and retain top talent while providing a culture and infrastructure that helps the management faculty realize its full potential.