Archive of: Columbia Business School

  • Want To Field A Winning Team? Try Equality

    Want To Field A Winning Team? Try Equality

    Two organizational behaviour professors have come up with what they call a simple but nonetheless magical formula for putting together a winning team. The two, Roderick Swaab of the INSEAD Business School in Singapore, and Adam Galinsky of Columbia Business School in New York City, studied FIFA data from 199 national football teams (“soccer” to those of you living in the land mass between Canada and Mexico) between 2006 – the date the world football organization introduced more precise ranking metrics – and 2011.

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  • Senior men and senior women – choice versus opportunity

    Senior men and senior women – choice versus opportunity

    Research by Columbia Business School, New York shows that when a woman is appointed to the CEO role, other women are more likely to attain senior positions. However when a woman is appointed to a senior role that was not the top job, the likelihood of other women following them to executive levels falls by 50%. The Columbia researchers believe the most likely explanation for the failure of more women to break through was a desire among men to exclude them from the boardroom. We set out the key issue for CEOs - properly address the choice versus opportunity challenge for men and women.

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