Startup Success: How Founder Personalities Shape Venture Outcomes
Research by Sandra Matz and Brandon Freiberg from Columbia Business School reveals that VC investors often rely on the personalities of startup founders rather than business plans.
Columbia Business School faculty members are world-renowned — not only for generating new thinking in their fields but also for having a genuine impact on current business practices. Our professors routinely partner with businesses in New York and across the globe to test, refine, and implement new ideas for the ever-changing business landscape. This interchange of theory and practice is part of what makes the School such a rich environment for creating research that is truly groundbreaking.
Derek Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Management Division at Columbia Business School. He investigates what stifles equality in organizations and society. His research focuses on how and why group membership, social hierarchies, and intergroup ideologies shape how we react and respond to the increasingly diverse society around us.
Hannah Li is an Assistant Professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on developing data science methods for social systems--marketplaces, education systems, and online platforms. Her research combines techniques from operations research, statistics, and economics to develop theoretical insights for practically motivated problems. She informs her work with industry experience, working for and collaborating with large online platforms.
Gaia Marchisio, Ph.D., is a family-enterprise researcher, consultant, educator, speaker, and writer with 25+ years of impact across global family enterprises, academic institutions, corporations, public-sector organizations, and others.
Tano Santos, the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Asset Management and Finance and Director of Columbia Business School’s Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing, discusses the school’s approach to value investing and finance.
Columbia Business School Research Suggests Companies Can Reduce Consumer Regret by Promoting Both Highly Rated Products and Newer Products
Lise Strickler ’86 and Mark Gallogly ’86 are the co-founders of Three Cairns Group, a mission-driven investment and philanthropic firm focused on the climate crisis.
Columbia Business School Research Suggests Companies Can Reduce Consumer Regret by Promoting Both Highly Rated Products and Newer Products
Adapted from “Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: A Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments,” by Laura Boudreau of Columbia Business School, Julia Cajal Grossi of the Geneva Graduate Institute, and Rocco Macchiavello of the London School of Economics.
Adapted from “Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: A Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments,” by Laura Boudreau of Columbia Business School, Julia Cajal Grossi of the Geneva Graduate Institute, and Rocco Macchiavello of the London School of Economics.
Columbia Business School Study Finds Difference between Men and Women’s Attitudes Toward Their Jobs
Work by CBS Professor Laura Veldkamp uncovers insights into the economic evolution driven by AI, from labor market dynamics to the valuation of data as a key asset.
Watch Now as Richman Center Co-Director David M. Schizer testifies before the House Committee on Education.
Research by Sandra Matz and Brandon Freiberg from Columbia Business School reveals that VC investors often rely on the personalities of startup founders rather than business plans.
Columbia Business School Research Provides Industry-Specific Guidelines to Measure Future Value of In-House Intangible Investments Including R&D
The Nobel Prize-winning economist visited CBS for the first installment of a new speaker series from The Hub, a new think tank, to discuss the future of capitalism with CBS Dean Emeritus Glenn Hubbard.
Columbia Business School’s Research Model Explores the Relationship Between Uninsured Debt and Potential Bank Runs
Professor Tano Santos, the Faculty Director of Value Investing and Advanced Value Investing programs at Columbia Business School, outlines the reasons why value investing is returning to a period of ascendancy.
David Hodes led a panel of three distinguished real estate professionals in a spirited discussion regarding global capital flows.
New research from CBS Professor Carri Chan demonstrates that algorithms provide an effective method for enhancing how hospitals manage fluctuations in patient volume and demand.
In this session of More MPE, we focus on an issue that bedevils many business leaders: Should they speak out on socio-political issues? Host Professor Ray Horton speaks with Professor Vanessa Burbano on how her award-winning research addresses the question.
New research from Columbia Business School shows women experience work as more meaningful than men do — at least in lower paid roles.
CBS Professor Lori Yue examines how urban-rural polarization impacts businesses’ risks and opportunities.
Columbia Business School Research Suggests Companies Can Reduce Consumer Regret by Promoting Both Highly Rated Products and Newer Products
Columbia Business School Research Suggests Companies Can Reduce Consumer Regret by Promoting Both Highly Rated Products and Newer Products
AI is an innovation unlike any other in the history of humankind for its potential to remake society — for good or bad. In this episode, host Professor Ray Horton speaks with Professor Sandra Matz about how AI might affect the distribution of power and leadership in politics, business, and academia.
A New Columbia Business School Study Unveils Connection Between Economists' Political Orientation and Academic Writing in Economics
Adapted from “Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: A Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments,” by Laura Boudreau of Columbia Business School, Julia Cajal Grossi of the Geneva Graduate Institute, and Rocco Macchiavello of the London School of Economics.
Adapted from “Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: A Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments,” by Laura Boudreau of Columbia Business School, Julia Cajal Grossi of the Geneva Graduate Institute, and Rocco Macchiavello of the London School of Economics.
Columbia Business School’s Research Model Explores the Relationship Between Uninsured Debt and Potential Bank Runs
In the final episode of the season, host Professor Ray Horton speaks at a live event with Professors Glenn Hubbard and Tano Santos, the faculty who teach the popular course Modern Political Economy at Columbia Business School.
Columbia Business School Study Offers a New Way For Companies to Form Trustful Relationships with Customers in the Service Industry