13 episodes
Columbia Ideas at Work Columbia Business School
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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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 executives.
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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 their portfolios when markets are down.
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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 the implications for organizations. Read the full story here.
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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 insurance exchanges.
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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 uncertain future.
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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 insights the field may offer the healthcare industry.
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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 increase efficiency.