Search Results for: ""Columbia Business School""

/ October 31, 2010 9:47 pm

The Dharma Initiative

Gurcharan Das, author of the recently published book, The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma, is a public figure in India where he writes a weekly column in the Times of India and many other national newspapers. He was the CEO of Procter & Gamble India and studied Philosophy at Harvard College and later attended Harvard Business School. His other acclaimed nonfiction works include India Unbound, which has been made into a...

/ October 9, 2012 4:35 am

Political Minutes: Economic Advisers Forum

...election’s impact on the job security of many including Big Bird, which received a welcome chuckle from the audience prior to the somber tone that permeated the rest of the night. Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School and senior economic adviser to the Romney campaign, gave the first speech laying out the grim statistics underlying the economic recovery and attributing President Obama’s poor leadership for their cause. To address t...

/ October 24, 2011 2:52 am

Citizens United, Columbians Divided

...cal campaign whose result will provide no substantial benefit to the American public. After all, when both candidates’ pockets are tied to the goodwill of magnates, what hope is there for systemic change? As Columbia Business School professor Joseph Stiglitz noted in an article published in Vanity Fair, the United States has become a nation “of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%.” Nowhere is that fact more obvious than in the Citizens United case....