Browse By Area of Focus: Global
February 15, 2010

Global Banking After the Financial Crisis: Alberto J. Verme '84

Brian Hindo MBA '10

Alberto J. Verme '84, Citi's co-CEO of Europe, Middle East and Africa, discusses growth in emerging markets, positive signs for an economic recovery, and why banks should get "back to basics."

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February 15, 2010

Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid: A 'Four Ps' Approach

Brian Hindo MBA '10

Professor Gita Johar talks about the state of social enterprises and how modern marketing techniques can help deliver goods and services more effectively to the world's poorest people.

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January 15, 2010

The Business of Health in Emerging Markets

Lauren Frasca MBA '10

A panel of experts debates the risks, rewards, challenges and opportunities of bringing healthcare to emerging markets at the sixth annual CBS Healthcare conference, "New Healthcare Paradigm: Technology, Value and Emergence."

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December 15, 2009

International Investing with the Oracle of Omaha

Adrian Almazan MBA '10
International Investing with the Oracle of Omaha

Warren Buffett shares his international investing experiences and insights to a group of Columbia Business School students visiting him at Berkshire Hathaway headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.

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November 15, 2009

Management Consulting After the Crisis: An Interview with Shumeet Banerji

Ritija Gupta MBA '10
Management Consulting After the Crisis: An Interview with Shumeet Banerji

CEO of Booz & Co, Mr. Shumeet Banerji, offers his perspectives on how the economic crisis has affected the way managers need to think and the way management consulting firms need to prioritize.

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November 15, 2009

Perspectives on the International Wine Business: An Interview with Philippe Newlin

Matthew Price MBA '09
Perspectives on the International Wine Business: An Interview with Philippe Newlin

Philippe Newlin, sales manager at Vintus Wines and regular contributor to the CBS Wine Society, reflects on his road to becoming a wine connoisseur and on the global nature of the wine industry.

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October 15, 2009

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

Sawa Nakagawa MBA/MIA '09

John Wood, founder of Room to Read, talks about why he left Microsoft to "be a force of change" and establish a non-profit organization that improves access to education for children in developing countries.

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October 15, 2009

Economic Gangsters: An Interview with Professor Ray Fisman

Sawa Nakagawa MBA/MIA '09
Economic Gangsters: An Interview with Professor Ray Fisman

Raymond Fisman, Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, discusses his latest book, Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations.

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September 15, 2009

Fair Trade: A Proposal for Labor Standards in Trade Agreements

Kabir Masson MBA '10

Kabir Masson explores the arguments linking labor rights to trade agreements and proposes a policy compromise: the developing world agrees to labor standards in trade agreements, and the developed world reduces barriers to trade that affect industries in developing nations.

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