August 1, 2021

Women in Translation Month 2021! A Journey from East to West

By Olivia Treynor

Welcome to Women in Translation Month 2021! Seven years ago, blogger and academic Meytal Radzinski took a critical look at the publishing landscape and noticed that the world of translated literature was heavily male-dominated. Reflecting on this gender disparity and...

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...

July 26, 2021

The Complicated Legacy of Black Patriotism

By Justene Hill Edwards

Black people have been in the United States since before its founding. Though they have fought in every major military conflict in American history, African Americans have engaged in an uphill battle to force this nation to uphold the lofty...

July 23, 2021

Five Extraordinary Discoveries That Will Change the Way You Look at Fossils Forever

By Dr. Dean R. Lomax

Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: How did these animals actually behave? From dinosaurs fighting to their deaths to elephant-sized burrowing ground sloths, Locked in Time: Animal...

July 22, 2021

To Make The World Porous: An AUP RoundUP

By Olivia Treynor

This week, I read blog posts from other academic presses through the lens of “opening” and all the things that can mean. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS TO LOOSEN THE BOUNDS OF THINGS… I arrived at this post’s project after reading...

July 20, 2021

Announcing Our 2021-2022 Sociology Catalog

Letter from the editor: It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of my colleagues at Columbia University Press, I introduce this year’s sociology catalog. The books in this catalog exemplify the quality of scholarship that we prize, and they...

July 8, 2021

History Informs the Present: An AUP RoundUP

By Olivia Treynor

In my inaugural Columbia University Press Blog post, I thought it would be appropriate to think about the ways history informs the present. After all, I’m picking up where our previous bloggers left off, providing weekly thoughts on and highlights...

June 17, 2021

Challenged Friendships in Challenging Times

From the Introduction to U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century

By Abraham Denmark

As the twenty-first century seems to be dominated by great power competition between China and the United States, everyone wonders whether war will come and how to avoid it. In U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century: Empowering Allies and Partners,...