If your industry has a high rate of technological change, are you more likely to outsource?
Everyone has his or her own choices for the top marketers of 2007, so I don’;t expect you to agree with me.
A taxonomy of new web-based business models shows how healthy profits can be made even when aspects of an offering are available for free.
Especially in high-tech industries, the ability to charge different customers different prices has to be part of product design.
One of the most difficult — but essential — decisions to make in today’s hypercompetitive markets are those that involve shutting things down.
It is hard to believe that just 10 years ago no one had yet used “google” as a verb, sent an email invitation to another person requesting declaration of their friendship to the world, or even remotely considered penning a Wikipedia entry.
Over the past decade, leading African business schools have adopted the traditional case method. But how much can they really learn from these cases when they are about American companies that routinely leave Africa out of their operating plans altogether?
Super Bowl ads don’t quite make it to the new world of networking sites, user content and interactive media.
Technological tying may allow a market leader to maintain an edge, but innovation is another question.
Facebook users sent a strong message to the company in November: don’t share our online buying information. But how valuable is this information among friends?
Lured by the promise of sunny weather and Hollywood glamour, nearly 30 Columbia MBAs (including me) descended upon Los Angeles for the annual student-run media trip this January.
This year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, was so well attended that this normally quaint ski town was bursting at the seams: on Saturday night, at the height of the opening weekend’s hottest parties and screenings, the power went out on Main Street for about an hour.
The Internet's image is that of a decentralized industry with low barriers to entry. But a study of market concentration in the Internet sector and related industries yields some surprising results.
In the 1990s, EMC was the hottest stock on the NYSE. But when the dot-com bubble burst, the company took a turn for the worse. How did Joe Tucci revamp EMC's business model to fit a radically different marketplace?
On a giant video screen, robot avatars armed with space-age immobilizers competed in a 3D landscape. But in order to win, these players better know their algebra.
Based on her research for the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Kathryn Harrigan discusses strategy models for players in the rapidly evolving telecommunications industry.
In his new book, Eli Noam measures market share to gauge how the media industry has evolved and to determine which companies will win and lose in the digital infotainment age.
Monday morning we started the day off with yoga and it’s already in the news.
Sirius Radio CEO Mel Karmazin describes his early days with CBS Radio and how he went from taxi driver’ son to media industry legend.
Finding the optimal level of task specialization helps organizations adapt and gives workers needed flexibility.
In this article about mobile phone design, Professor Rita Gunther McGrath comments: "There is an awful lot of pressure to keep the wheels turning instead of putting money into new innovation and development." Read more...
Dean Glenn Hubbard and Annual Dinner Chair Lulu Wang ’83, CEO of Tupelo Capital, welcomed 1,000 guests to the School’s 29th Annual Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria last night. Read more...
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Presentations Online from Paris Ultrabroadband Conference (4/3 - 4/4/08) Read more...
Presentations from CITI's conference "Future Scenarios for Latin American Telecom" are now online. Read more...
RecycleBank, co-founded by Ron Gonen ’04, is greening neighborhoods by creating an economic incentive for recycling. “Recycling is something you can do today that has a significant environmental impact on the way you live,” says Gonen. Read more...
Professor Paul Ingram says an effective manager knows how to step outside of his or her comfort zone: “The fact that you are an excellent programmer or salesman...doesn't mean you can be a great leader outside of your technical or cultural expertise.” Read more...
CITI and WiMAXDay.com Announce 2 Day WiMAX Investor Summit - May 12 & 13 Read more...
On April 14th 2008, the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information will hold the inaugural meeting of the Network of Research Centers on ICT in Latin America. This cross-disciplinary academic network seeks to advance knowledge on the social and economic impact of ICTs in Central and Latin America, and examine the policy and regulatory issues that affect its broad-based development. Read more...
Conference Registration for Future Scenarios for Latin American Telecom Now Open! Read more...
This conference will bring together policy makers, industry experts, and academics from the United States, Korea and Europe to examine the perspective of "Ultrabroadband" (i.e. transmission rates above 1Gbps on the residential market). It is a joint event of the Chair on Innovation and Regulation in the Digital Economy (Ecole Polytechnique - Telecom ParisTech - OrangeLabs) and is jointly organized with the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), and Korea Telecom. Read more...
CITI Announces Symposium on Location Based Services - April 11, 2008 Read more...
As part of the Silfen Leadership Series, Richard Parsons spoke on risk taking, accountability and highly publicized CEO resignations. Read more...
Network neutrality concerns about abusive discrimination by telecom network operators with market power is nothing new. There is long history in the United States of actual discrimination by network operators and consequential government actions to eliminate or at least mitigate the adverse consequences of market power, including unreasonable discrimination... Read more...
Presentations from The State of Telecom - 2007 are now available online. Read more...
To record the success of our intern program,and the projects/activities of a full working summer, CITI has produced a commemorative "journal." Read more...
Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement, by Professor William Duggan, will be the first book published under the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint. Read more...
Published in The Financial Times Online. Read more...
Are Internet Companies Overvalued (Again)? What we can learn from eBay?s acquisition of Skype. by Raul L. Katz and Paul Zangrilli Read more...
Video of Smart Radio, Smart Markets, and Policies now hosted online! To view the video, please visit the Smart Radio event page. Read more...
Published in The Financial Times Online Read more...
A student's venture captures one moment on earth Read more...
By Michelle Savage '07. Read more...
CEBiz has launched an online virtual laboratory to research decision making, focusing on customers, managers and others. Read more...
Professors Sunil Gupta and Donald Lehmann's E-Customer Value Project has been published in the article "Customers as Assets," which was awarded the Best Paper award in the Journal of Interactive Marketing. Read more...
Building a Wealth of Communities: Wikispaces a Year Later Read more...
Tango Tops 200,000 in Circulation Read more...
NPR Interview Read more...
Wikispaces in the news Read more...
Student Paper Featured in Top Mexican Newspaper Read more...
