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What did the teachers gathered in Raleigh last week have in common with Pres. Donald Trump, besides an affinity for red clothing? The teachers’ union called the walkout a “Rally…
The Charlotte Observer over the weekend had an article on “Why Belk was smart to sell itself when it did.” The reason, as you might have guessed, is that department…
Uber helped usher in an era of competition challenging the taxicab monopoly. The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek documents the way in which competition continues to benefit Uber customers through…
That’s the description Fortune columnist Allan Sloan, no raging right-winger, offers in his latest piece for the magazine. Washington is very good at creating things out of thin air. The…
If you breathed a sigh of relief when the president and Congress reached a deal to resolve the “fiscal cliff” debate at the beginning of the calendar year, Columbia Business…
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek features a conversation with Columbia Business School dean Glenn Hubbard about his work advising Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney: Everyone I talk to says Governor Romney’s…
It’s possible. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that in the wake of the popularity of “Inside Job,” which “exposed ties between financial firms and academia,” Columbia and other Ivy League schools are…
If you?ve read entries in this forum during the past week, you?re likely to have read arguments in favor of scrapping the Bush tax cuts and in favor of maintaining…
Then you might be interested to read Columbia Business School professor Amar Bhide’s commentary in the new Business Week. Economists on this forum will likely different with Bhide’s prescriptions, but…
I mentioned last week the troubles the Pepsi brand is having. Now comes the news that PepsiCo Chairman-CEO Indra Nooyi is going all out to reverse the downward market-share trend…
Gita Johar at Columbia Business School suggests the best time to influence someone is when you introduce a product, idea, or candidate. The best way to do that? ?During the…
The Dean of Columbia Business School stars in the best economics video on YouTube … about job envy.