Category: Business

June 11, 2012

Book Giveaway! The Best Business Writing 2012

This week’s featured book is The Best Business Writing 2012, edited by Edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon. The book is part of our exciting new series from Columbia Journalism Review Books. Contributors include...

May 25, 2012

Ryan Chittum and Felix Salmon on the Facebook IPO Fiasco

Ryan Chittum and Felix Salmon look at the ugly events around the Facebook IPO.

May 23, 2012

Mark C. Taylor on the state of modern higher education

Mark C. Taylor addresses problems and opportunities in modern higher education.

May 16, 2012

Michael R. Powers — Are High Gas Prices a Boon to Auto Insurers?

Michael Powers discusses the complex relationship between auto insurers and rising gas prices.

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...

March 14, 2012

Dean Starkman, Felix Salmon, and Others Discuss the Business and Financial Press

Last week the Columbia Journalism Review and Public Business, organized a panel Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?. Among the panelists were Dean Starkman and Felix Salmon, co-editors of our forthcoming Best Business Writing 2012. The discussion focused...

February 10, 2012

William K. Tabb on Replacing Dependence on Financialization

We conclude our week-long feature on William K. Tabb’s The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time, with Tabb’s own conclusion in which he explores how the United States can reduce the impact of finacialization on the economy. Tabb argues that...

February 9, 2012

William K. Tabb on The Road Not Traveled—Nationalization

“The White House, whether under the management of Republicans or Democrats, was never ready for such a business-like approach. Ironically the abuse the administration would take for being ‘socialist’ would keep any chief executive from considering a protaxpayer, hardheaded business...

February 8, 2012

William K. Tabb on the Great Recession and the Lessons Learned and Not Learned

“What the decision-makers at the Fed and Treasury appear not to have learned is the most important lesson of all: that the financial sector has grown too large, too dangerous, and too parasitic.”—William K. Tabb In the concluding chapter to...

February 7, 2012

The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time

The following excerpt is from our featured book The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time, by William K. Tabb: Not long ago the near collapse of the financial system discredited the excessive financialization central to contemporary American capitalism. By the...

February 6, 2012

Book Giveaway!: The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time by William Tabb

This week our featured book is The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time, by William Tabb. Throughout the week we will highlight aspects of the book but we are also offering a free copy of the book to one lucky...

February 1, 2012

Patrick Bolton on Sovereign Wealth Funds

In an interview with Columbia Business School’s Ideas at Work, Patrick Bolton discussed sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and the new book he co-edited with Joseph Stiglitz and Frederic Samama, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investing. (A sovereign wealth fund is...