Category: Columbia Business School Publishing

March 15, 2012

David K. Hurst on The New Ecology of Leadership

On his blog, David K. Hurst, author of The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World(forthcoming from Columbia Business School Publishing) posted an excerpt from the introduction that identifies seven rewards for reading the book: 1. Reading...

January 27, 2012

Michael R. Powers on Terrorism Forecasting

The following excerpt on terrorism forecasting is from Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance, by Michael R. Powers: In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. insurance industry confronted billions of dollars...

January 25, 2012

Michael R. Powers on Risk

In his book, Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance, Michael R. Powers discusses how risk impacts our lives, health, and possessions and proceeds to introduce the statistical techniques necessary for analyzing these uncertainties. In this excerpt...

January 6, 2012

Howard Marks Discusses "The Most Important Thing"

In the following video Howard Marks, author of The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, discusses his new book and investing with James Flanigan.

July 12, 2010

William M. Klepper on tough love between Corporate Boards and CEOs

William Klepper, author of The CEO’S Boss: Tough Love in the Boardroom, recently posted an article on Boardmember.com on how corporate boards can better improve their relationships with their business’s CEO through tough love. In the article Klepper explains that...

May 18, 2010

Kenneth Posner: Smaller "Black Swans" Are Around Us

TheStreet has been featuring Kenneth Posner’s new book Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility and his explanation of how “black swans” can be detected. The concept of a “Black Swan,” was popularized...

April 13, 2010

Ken Posner on Fannie and Freddie

Ken Posner, author of of Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility, recently appeared on Yahoo Finance’s Tech Ticker to discuss among other things about how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to...

March 26, 2010

Edward Hess talks to Business Insider about Smart Growth

In an interview with Business Insider (see below), Edward Hess, author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing Risks, challenges Wall Street’s accepted wisdom about growth. Hess argues that growth is not always good; bigger is not always...

March 15, 2010

Edward Hess on Smart Growth

Edward Hess discusses his new book Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth. For more on the book, you can also read an interview in which Hess challenges conventional thinking regarding growth and business. From...

April 9, 2009

William Duggan: Spend more on "D" and Less on "R"

William Duggan, author of Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement and the forthcoming The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, was recently profiled in a Wall Street Journal article that looked at the decision of some major...

July 24, 2008

India's Growing Pains in the Global Economy: An Interview with Charles Calomiris

The Columbia Business School’s Web site Ideas at Work recently interviewed Charles Calomiris, the co-editor of Sustaining India’s Growth Miracle. In the interview, Calomiris discusses how India’s growth and potential for growth compares with that of China; the challenges confronting...

June 27, 2008

William Duggan and R. Glenn Hubbard on a Marshall Plan for Africa

The always interesting Policy Innovations recently excerpted from William Duggan and R. Glenn Hubbard’s article “The Forgotten Lessons of the Marshall Plan”, which originally appeared in Strategy & Business. Duggan, author of Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement,...