The ability to see change before it happens — or to imagine change and create it — can result in billions of dollars. Can it be taught?
After spending a few months over here, I wanted to offer some perspective on the situation.
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?
In Competition Demystified, a new book based on his popular Economics of Strategic Behavior course, Bruce Greenwald offers a simple roadmap for navigating the competitive landscape.
One of the most difficult — but essential — decisions to make in today’s hypercompetitive markets are those that involve shutting things down.
Pulling off bold strategies that change markets requires leadership through every step of strategy development, planning and implementation.
With the right product differentiation strategy, you can steal customers from your competition without provoking a price war.
Good decision making requires skills, and one way to learn these skills is by practice.
Michelin’s PAX Run-Flat tire was a big-bet innovation, intended to overturn the industry in the same way that their introduction of steel-belted radial tires did nearly 60 years ago. What went wrong?
For young biotech firms seeking prestigious industry alliances, who their top management team knows may be as important as what they know.
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.
What is the best way to teach students to handle tough, real-world decisions?
A game theory model offers antitrust regulators a new screening method for collusive behavior.
This year, the Class of 2008 not only became the first class in the history of CBS to pledge an unrestricted gift, but also attained a never-before-seen participation rate: 95 percent.
Donald Lehmann discusses Managing Customers as Investments, a new book in which he and coauthor Sunil Gupta explain how to calculate and apply customer lifetime value.
During a classroom simulation, students were able to witness the failure of a market due to asymmetric information between sellers and buyers.
In his new book, Eric Abrahamson lambastes our profit-devouring, time-wasting obsession with order and revels in having achieved an optimal state of messiness.
The answer to the question of who will win the election may lie partly in whether voters are looking for honesty or competence. And one clue to how candidates are perceived is the shape of their face.
Dear Professor Feiner: As my career has progressed, the number of emails I get has increased exponentially, and I’m having trouble getting to all of them. Any tips on how to manage this?
As I wind down my CBS career, I figured it would be a good time to impart some of the wisdom I’ve picked up over the last 12-plus months in business school.
You can sometimes improve your product's market share by adding competition. A study of consumer behavior challenges conventional wisdom about product placement.
To many, entrepreneurship calls to mind the path-breaking motivation envisioned by Schumpeter’s “creative destruction.” But much of entrepreneurship — and much of what we can teach in business school — is more akin to “nondestructive creation.”
Combining ideas from military history, cognitive psychology and modern neuroscience, strategic intuition offers a four-step method for identifying and capturing opportunity.
Is the concept of sustainable competitive advantage still relevant in today's business environment? How can you take advantage of change and set yourself apart from the competition?
In his new book, Bill Duggan reveals how to cultivate strategic intuition to drive innovation, solve problems and capitalize on unforeseen opportunities.
In an excerpt from their 2005 book, Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn present a radical improvement to Michael Porter's strategy framework.
When trying to find the best option makes us miserable.
Napoleon, Buddha, Bill Gates — what makes them all great? According to a new book by Professor Bill Duggan, extraordinary achievements begin with something known as “strategic intuition.”
Harborne "Gus" Stuart explains why cooperative game theory is less a tool than a mind-set and how business leaders can use it to create and capture value for their companies.
Imagine you could have a PGA Tour player hit one of the following for you: all your putts, your short game, your long game or your sand shots. Which should you choose?
Columbia MBA students’ turnaround strategies for Pier 1 Imports and Trump Entertainment Resorts earned two top awards at the 2007 Carl Marks Student Paper Competition. Read more...
Columbia Business School’s Executive Education Division will offer the Negotiation and Decision-Making Strategies course from May 23-25, 2005 on the Columbia University campus in New York City. Read more...
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Columbia University team, consisting of four MBA students, takes first place in Global Social Venture Competition. Read more...
The Class of 2008 broke former participation records with a 95 percent participation rate in student contributions to the annual class gift. Read more...
Presentations Online from Paris Ultrabroadband Conference (4/3 - 4/4/08) Read more...
Following the close of a difficult quarter, investors will be watching closely as Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit ’86 continues his push to turn the company around. Read more...
Rejecting calls for Citigroup’s breakup, CEO Vikram Pandit ’86 has vowed to keep the world’s largest bank intact in order to preserve its wide international reach. Read more...
Presentations from CITI's conference "Future Scenarios for Latin American Telecom" are now online. 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...
