Category: Columbia Business School Publishing

June 18, 2014

A Conversation With Leslie Pratch, Author of LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER?

The following is an interview with Leslie S. Pratch, author of Looks Good on Paper: Using In-Depth Personality Assessment to Predict Leadership Performance. In this book, Pratch shares insights from more than twenty years of executive personality assessment and proposes an empirically based approach to predict the effectiveness of individuals within organizations.

April 10, 2014

Video: Interview with Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot

The following is an interview with Michael Yogg author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot. The interview is with Glyn Holton, who writes the following: Today, I interview Michael Yogg, author of the...

February 14, 2014

Moralism and the Facts — The Pillars of Paul Cabot's Investment Strategy

We conclude our week-long feature on Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot, with an excerpt from the epilogue. In these excerpts, Yogg considers some of the core values that shaped Cabot’s investment strategy and...

February 13, 2014

Paul Cabot's Jeremiad

In the following passage from Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot, Michael Yogg examines Paul Cabot’s ideas about reform for the financial industry and the characteristics of a good investment manager. He also looks...

February 12, 2014

Michael Yogg — Investment Profession Should Learn from Industry Pioneer who Spoke Out

“The investment profession must do a better job of policing its own or face the loss of public trust and ever more draconian regulation.”—Michael Yogg The following post is by Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life...

February 11, 2014

Interview with Michael Yogg, author of "Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot"

The following is an interview with Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot. Find out how to win a FREE copy of Passion for Reality! Question: Why did you chose to...

January 16, 2014

August Turak on the Myth of Personal Development

In a recent article for Forbes, August Turak, author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity (Columbia Business School Publishing), takes a closer look at what is meant by “personal development” and how...

December 12, 2013

Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks Shortlisted for a Best Business Book of 2013!

Interest and excitement for August Turak’s Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity continues to grow. The book was recently shortlisted by 800-CEO-READ as one of the best business books of 2013 for the...

December 5, 2013

Video: Jeanne Liedtka on Design Thinking

In the following video, Jeanne Liedtka, coauthor of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works describes the book and how design thinking offers businesses new ways of tackling problems. As she explains the effectiveness of design thinking...

October 25, 2013

Watson on Jeopardy! And IBM's Decision to Put Him There

Of course one of the most prominent examples of congitive computing is Watson’s famous victory on Jeopardy!. Below is a video produced by Engadget that documents Watson’s appearance with Ken Jennings, Alex Trebek, et al. And below that is an...

October 24, 2013

Steve Hamm on Smart Machines and the Era of Cognitive Computing

Yesterday we heard from John E. Kelly III in a lengthy conversation about his experience as a researcher at IBM and his take on the history of computing as well as his vision of its future. Today we hear from...

October 23, 2013

Video: John Kelly Discusses Cognitive Computing and Watson at the Computer History Museum

John Kelly III, co-author of Smart Machines: IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing, discusses IBM’s Watson and cognitive computing as well as other topics ranging from his background and the path that led him to IBM and the...