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Columbia Ideas at Work

Columbia Ideas at Work is a bridge between business research and practice, offering key insights from Columbia Business School’s faculty in a format that is easily accessible to busy executives.

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Nachum Sicherman on the "Ostrich Effect"

Nachum Sicherman on the "Ostrich Effect"

On Bloomberg Radio, Professor Nachum Sicherman discusses his research on the “ostrich effect:” the tendency of investors... Read more

14 Jan 2016

1min

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Katherine Phillips — Get Along or Get to Work?

Katherine Phillips — Get Along or Get to Work?

Professor Katherine Phillips discusses her recent findings that diverse teams focus less on getting along and more on ge... Read more

17 Dec 2013

2mins

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Eric Johnson: Choosing Health — and Wealth

Eric Johnson: Choosing Health — and Wealth

Professor Eric Johnson discusses how better choice architecture could help Americans make wiser choices on the new Affor... Read more

29 Oct 2013

4mins

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Geoffrey Heal: Uncertainty, Risk, and Climate Change

Geoffrey Heal: Uncertainty, Risk, and Climate Change

Professor Geoffrey Heal discusses how new approaches to risk assessment in the face of climate change can help decision ... Read more

24 Jul 2013

17mins

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Oded Netzer: Text Mining Social Media for Consumer Insights

Oded Netzer: Text Mining Social Media for Consumer Insights

Professor Oded Netzer discusses how the emerging science of text mining is helping marketers measure their impact — and ... Read more

19 Jun 2013

15mins

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Marcelo Olivares: Data Transforms Operations Research

Marcelo Olivares: Data Transforms Operations Research

Professor Marcelo Olivares discusses how a flood of data is changing the way that researchers help businesses fine-tune ... Read more

24 Apr 2013

2mins

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Ilyana Kuziemko: Studying Inequality in America

Ilyana Kuziemko: Studying Inequality in America

Professor Ilyana Kuziemko discusses how questions raised by the 2010 mid-term elections spurred her latest study about p... Read more

27 Mar 2013

2mins

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Urooj Khan: Accounting and Systemic Risk in Financial Institutions

Urooj Khan: Accounting and Systemic Risk in Financial Institutions

Professor Urooj Khan discusses the important role of accounting in assessing systemic risk.

22 Mar 2013

2mins

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Suresh Sundaresan: Capital, Creditors, and Systemic Risk

Suresh Sundaresan: Capital, Creditors, and Systemic Risk

Professor Suresh Sundaresan discusses the role of credit and creditors in the financial crisis, and the significance of ... Read more

22 Mar 2013

3mins

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Leonard Lee: When Shopper Marketing Backfires

Leonard Lee: When Shopper Marketing Backfires

Professor Leonard Lee discusses how shopper marketing tools can sometimes motivate consumers to spend less — rather than... Read more

27 Feb 2013

3mins

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