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Ronald O. Perelman Pledges $100 Million to Columbia Business School to Shape the Next Generation of Global Business Leaders

NEW YORK — Columbia Business School announced today that Ronald O. Perelman, Chairman and CEO of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. and a member of the School’s Board of Overseers, has pledged $100 million to Columbia Business School. The gift will be used to develop a new facility that will strengthen the School’s innovations and programs [...]

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Ronald O. Perelman Pledges $100 Million to Columbia Business School to Shape the Next Generation of Global Business Leaders

NEW YORK — Columbia Business School announced today that Ronald O. Perelman, Chairman and CEO of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. and a member of the School’s Board of Overseers, has pledged $100 million to Columbia Business School. The gift will be used to develop a new facility that will strengthen the School’s innovations and programs [...]

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Ronald O. Perelman Pledges $100 Million to Columbia Business School to Shape the Next Generation of Global Business Leaders

NEW YORK — Columbia Business School announced today that Ronald O. Perelman, Chairman and CEO of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. and a member of the School’s Board of Overseers, has pledged $100 million to Columbia Business School. The gift will be used to develop a new facility that will strengthen the School’s innovations and programs [...]

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SEC–Mandated XBRL Data at Risk of Being Irrelevant to Investors and Analysts

NEW YORK—January 22, 2013—In 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission mandated that public companies submit portions of annual (10–K) and quarterly (10–Q) reports—in a digitized format known as eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). The goal of this type of data was to provide more relevant, timely, and reliable “interactive” data to investors and analysts. The [...]

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Columbia Business School Professor Eric Johnson Selected as 2012 ACR Fellow

NEW YORK — December 27, 2012 — Eric Johnson, Norman Eig Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, has been selected as a 2012 Association for Consumer Research (ACR) Fellow for making a significant impact on scholarly work in the field of consumer behavior. One of only 25 Fellows since the award was established in [...]

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Social Networks May Inflate Self–Esteem, Reduce Self–Control

Pittsburgh/New York—January 14, 2013—Users of Facebook and other social networks should beware of allowing their self–esteem—boosted by “likes” or positive comments from close friends—to influence their behavior: It could reduce their self–control both on and offline, according to an academic paper by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia Business School that has recently [...]

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Social Networks May Inflate Self–Esteem, Reduce Self–Control

Pittsburgh/New York—January 14, 2013—Users of Facebook and other social networks should beware of allowing their self–esteem—boosted by “likes” or positive comments from close friends—to influence their behavior: It could reduce their self–control both on and offline, according to an academic paper by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia Business School that has recently [...]

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Columbia Business School Professor Eric Johnson Selected as 2012 ACR Fellow

NEW YORK — December 27, 2012 — Eric Johnson, Norman Eig Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, has been selected as a 2012 Association for Consumer Research (ACR) Fellow for making a significant impact on scholarly work in the field of consumer behavior. One of only 25 Fellows since the award was established in [...]

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Study Reveals How Bicultural Consumers Respond to Marketing Cues

NEW YORK—October 4, 2012—Consider a Japanese–American woman strolling through a mall. If she passes by a UNIQLO store, is she more likely to opt for sushi than a hamburger when she reaches the food court? Would this cue of Japanese culture draw out her Japanese side? The answer, according to new research from Columbia Business [...]

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The Wisdom of Retail Traders

NEW YORK—April 25, 2012—A forthcoming paper in the Journal of Finance by Professor Paul Tetlock, Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School, and Eric Kelley, Assistant Professor, Finance, the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, finds that retail investors’ are not as unsophisticated as many think: they can [...]

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