Nachum Sicherman on the "Ostrich Effect"
On Bloomberg Radio, Professor Nachum Sicherman discusses his research on the “ostrich effect:” the tendency of investors to avoid looking at...
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Columbia Ideas at Work
Columbia Ideas at Work is a bridge between business research and practice, offering key insights from Columbia Business School’s faculty in a format that is easily accessible to busy executi...
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13 episodes
Katherine Phillips — Get Along or Get to Work?
Professor Katherine Phillips discusses her recent findings that diverse teams focus less on getting along and more on getting to work, and t...
Eric Johnson: Choosing Health — and Wealth
Professor Eric Johnson discusses how better choice architecture could help Americans make wiser choices on the new Affordable Care Act insur...
Geoffrey Heal: Uncertainty, Risk, and Climate Change
Professor Geoffrey Heal discusses how new approaches to risk assessment in the face of climate change can help decision makers negotiate the...
Oded Netzer: Text Mining Social Media for Consumer Insights
Professor Oded Netzer discusses how the emerging science of text mining is helping marketers measure their impact — and the surprising insig...
Marcelo Olivares: Data Transforms Operations Research
Professor Marcelo Olivares discusses how a flood of data is changing the way that researchers help businesses fine-tune their operations and...
Ilyana Kuziemko: Studying Inequality in America
Professor Ilyana Kuziemko discusses how questions raised by the 2010 mid-term elections spurred her latest study about people’s aversion to...
Urooj Khan: Accounting and Systemic Risk in Financial Institutions
Professor Urooj Khan discusses the important role of accounting in assessing systemic risk.
Suresh Sundaresan: Capital, Creditors, and Systemic Risk
Professor Suresh Sundaresan discusses the role of credit and creditors in the financial crisis, and the significance of his research in expl...
Leonard Lee: When Shopper Marketing Backfires
Professor Leonard Lee discusses how shopper marketing tools can sometimes motivate consumers to spend less — rather than more. Read the rese...
Brett Gordon: Political Advertising and the Electoral College
Professor Brett Gordon discusses how the elimination of the electoral college could shift spending on political advertising during president...
Daniel Ames: Decision Making and Negotiation
Professor Daniel Ames discusses Columbia Business School’s Decision Making and Negotiation Cross-Disciplinary Area, and why the best decisio...
Eric Johnson: Behavioral Economics and Time Preference
Professor Eric Johnson explains time preferences and present bias, and how these behavioral phenomena affect the choices we make. Read the s...