Columbia Ideas at Work Archive
Fall 2011
Unraveling Systemic Risk; Kick Back and Spend; Modeling Multiple Relationships in Social Networks; Middlemen Lead the Way on Trade; Multiplying Insult Times Injury; Winning Combinations; Can the Euro Be Saved?; The Value of an Invisible Guarantee; Can Quotas Bring Equity to the Boardroom?; No Double Jeopardy?; Confidence Game; Which Way Up?
Summer 2011
The Pulse of the Organization; Death of a Salesman? Think Again; Not So Fast, or So Simple; Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?; Wait and See, at a Cost; Vouching for Outsourced Labor; Complicating Choice; Hide and Seek with Earnings Management; Can Sharing Warranty Costs Lead to Better Products?; Measuring the Effect of Queues on Customer Purchases; Momentum Crashes
Spring 2011
Words' Worth; Untangling Skill and Luck; Value Investing's Long Run; What Do Financial Economists Have to Say About "value"?; The View from Tokyo; Can a Kinder, Gentler Company Earn a Bigger Bottom Line?; Enemy of the People and Friend to Better Business; When the Best Get Better; Running for the Pro-Business Border; Cleaning Up the Muni Market; Modeling Churn and Usage Behavior in Contractual Settings
Winter 2011
Like Daughter, Like Father; A Contrarian's View of China's Growth; When Giving Incentives Doesn't Give Back; A Little Free Press; Making More Room in ICUs; How Private Equity Tackles Taxes; Accounting for Value; Temporal Dynmiacs of Social Exchange and the Development of Solidarity; The Discriminating Consumer