Columbia Business School

Featured Research

Can Big Data Make Business More Ethical?
Ideas at Work
The mountains of information collected by business and government present substantial ethical challenges, but they may provide solutions to others.

All at sea
The Economist
Ideological divisions in economics undermine its value to the public

Economists Aren’t As Nonpartisan As We Think
FiveThirtyEight.com
Do economists political leanings influence their research work? The answer may surprise you.

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Research Insights on Leadership and Ethics

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Emily Breza

"Banks in India...the accounts are not well used...This may be because they have to walk the 3km to the bank; or it may be due to other obstacles, such as procrastination.”

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Paul Glasserman

"The industry has developed general principles on which portfolio risk should be decomposed but actually determining the risk contributions can be difficult in complex portfolios."

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Kathy Phillips

"Those in a homogeneous group put much less effort into the task at hand in part because they were more interested in avoiding conflict. Diverse environments allowed people to focus on the task instead of their social relationship."

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Amit Khandelwal

“What makes countries rich is how productively they use their resources…Once a (more productive) technology is introduced, do people use it? Why aren’t people using the most improved technologies to begin with?”