Category: Business

January 7, 2022

Emerging Markets: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t

Lorenzo Forni

The COVID-19 pandemic has already had large negative effects on emerging economies. When the crisis hit, most emerging economies were in relatively good shape from a macroeconomic point of view. Their central banks were successfully adopting inflation targeting, exchange rates...

January 7, 2022

Announcing the 2022 Columbia University Press Economics Catalog

Featuring Titles from Columbia Business School Publishing

Click on the down arrow above to download the PDF. Letter from the Editor of Columbia Business School Publishing: As the founding publisher of the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming authors and...

January 5, 2022

The Gender Problem in Economics: How Did We Get Here?

Ann Mari May, PhD

The American Economic Association and indeed the public at large are slowly awakening to the realization that the gender problem in the dismal science is profound and measurable. Women are underrepresented in all stages of the academic hierarchy. They receive...

July 30, 2021

Can Design Thinking Contribute to Fostering Equity and Inclusion?

By Jeanne Liedtka

The quest for a way to actually live and teach the principles of inclusion and equality, at schools, at work, and at home, has taken on a new urgency today. Debates on the relative merits of various approaches have ensued,...

July 30, 2021

Are “Best” Practices Really Best for Your Organization?

Four Guidelines for Critical Evaluation

By T. Brad Harris and Andrew Bartlow

We’ve dedicated our professional lives to helping HR/people leaders grow and become more successful. If our experience as educators, consultants, and coaches has taught us anything, it’s that HR in a high-growth start-up is a different—and very wild—animal relative to...

July 30, 2021

Regulating Family Offices Is Not the Answer

By Bill Woodson

The recent financial collapse of Archegos Capital Management and the corresponding multi-billion-dollar losses incurred by financial services firms that extended them credit, coupled with the market disruption caused by the panic selling needed to meet margin calls, has resurfaced a...

July 30, 2021

Browse Our AoM 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Myles Thompson

Socially distanced greetings, I’m Myles Thompson, the publisher for Columbia Business School Publishing. Because we are meeting virtually this year, I want to invite you to our Academy of Management virtual book exhibit on the Columbia University Press Blog. I...

July 28, 2021

Announcing Our 2021-2022 Business and Economics Catalog

Letter from the editor: As the founding publisher of the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming authors and titles. We seek to bridge leading academic thought and professional practice in order to...

March 16, 2021

Three Things You Can do to Make Your Data Tables More Visual

By Jonathan Schwabish

Tables are different from graphs and charts. Charts are meant to present a quick, visual representation of data. But tables are drill-downs, an outlay of all the data down to their exact values or estimates. Tables are not always the...

January 5, 2021

Proving Hamlet Wrong: Doubt and Action in the Life of Albert Hirschman

By Michele Alacevich

“This wonderful book offers new insights on a giant of the social sciences. Alacevich places Hirschman’s work in intellectual context and traces its long arc of influence to our day.” —Dani Rodrik, author of Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for...

January 5, 2021

Video: Mark Blyth on Global Trumpism and the Future of the Global Economy

“With considerable sophistication and a good dose of humor, this book dissects the popular anger that has made our economics unsustainable and our politics dysfunctional. Lonergan and Blyth rightly call for a reset of our current model of capitalism. To...

January 4, 2021

Five Charts You’ve Never Used but Should

By Jonathan Schwabish

“An excellent primer for anyone who wants to display quantitative information clearly and powerfully.” —Robert B. Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, and former U.S. secretary of labor Today’s AEA featured post comes to use...