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Teaching for a Small Business Sector

    Students at the University of Dar Es Salaam listen to a lecture. At last night’s Community Forum, Dean Glenn Hubbard, professors Bill Duggan and Gita Johar, and Eric Tienou ’03 of Burkina Faso...

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Live on the Web: 'Ideas Worth Spreading'

For those of you familiar with TED, you might have your favorite clips (Jill Bolt Taylor’s “My Stroke of Insight” is popular). For the uninitiated, welcome to one of the treasure troves of the...

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Buffett, Gates Join Students in Conversation

They are two icons of American business — Warren Buffett, MS ’51, and Bill Gates. On November 12, Columbia Business School students will have the opportunity to connect with them in person. They will...

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Opportunities in Alternative Energy

Last Thursday, Warren Buffett, MS ’51, and Bill Gates visited Columbia Business School. During the event, Gates identified energy — including renewable sources, like solar — healthcare and IT as the...

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Summer Fellowships with Social Value

Last summer, more than 55 MBA students in the Social Enterprise Program participated in the Summer Fellowship Program. Their internships took place at a variety of organizations, from NGOs to venture...

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Better Incentives for Carbon Reduction

World leaders are meeting in Copenhagen to discuss climate change policy this week. Professor Geoff Heal suggests that the participants at Copenhagen are focusing on the wrong issues. “There should be...

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What Is the Best Book You Read in 2009?

Public Offering asked faculty members what books they enjoyed most this year and here’s what they said. (Take a look at last year’s list for more titles.) Daniel Ames How to Break a Terrorist by...

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Good Cause and Effect

Creative models for buying and selling goods allow consumers to act philanthropically through charity tie-ins with product purchases. But are they profitable? New research from Professor Ray Fisman,...

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What Can Multinationals Learn from Mom and Pop?

The future of poverty eradication lies in the private sector, says Nancy Barry, president and CEO of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty. Barry, former CEO of Women’s World Banking, created the venture to...

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Disaster Strikes, Charity Spikes

If you have been on Facebook or Twitter in the last 24 hours, you may have seen mobile giving campaigns to aid Haiti. Red Cross and Yéle are among those organizations that have deployed viral giving...

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How Does the Copenhagen Accord Affect Business?

The ho-hum results from December’s international climate summit in Denmark drew out uncertainty about the future of global environmental laws — and that could cripple economic progress toward lower...

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What Corruption Fighters Can Learn from Figure Skating

In a recent Slate column — with a nod to the upcoming Vancouver Olympics — I describe a study by Dartmouth economist Eric Zitzewitz, who analyzed the sometimes shady world of Olympic figure skating....

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First CSR Case Competition Considers Norway's Pension Fund

Above, from left to right: Christopher Bishop, IBM; winning team, Elizabeth McCarthy ’11, Blaire Fernandez ’11, Justin Kidwell ’11, Kristin Stepaniak ’11; and Jennifer Crozier, Director, Corporate...

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Rational Decision Making: Myth or Reality?

How do we make decisions? If you believe classical economic models, decision making is a process of choosing the most rational and self-serving option. But, as Professor Stephan Meier’s research...

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Who Will Be the Clean-Tech Leader?

The oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has placed renewed focus on clean energy, writes adjunct professor Bruce Usher, a carbon finance leader and executive in residence at the School. In an...

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