Most articles or speeches about family businesses start with some version of the “three-generation rule,” which suggests that most don’t … More
Category: Research Findings
Sustainable Growth Drivers for Family Enterprises
In collaboration with the Columbia Global Center Nairobi, Kenya, Patricia M. Angus, Adjunct Professor and Managing Director, Global Family Enterprise Program, joined … More
Is there a correlation between interest rates and wealth inequality?
Columbia’s Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate, Stijn G. Van Nieuwerburgh, explores how long-term interest rates … More
New Ideas in Family Firms
The New Ideas in Family Firms Academic – Practitioner Conference, co-hosted online with Columbia’s Global Family Enterprise Program and INSEAD’s … More
What’s the relationship between emotions and health in a family?
To reconcile empirical inconsistencies in the relationship between emotionally-negative families and daughters’ abnormal eating, this article hypothesizes a critical moderating … More
How can imagining your future self help your health?
To the extent that people feel more continuity between their present and future selves, they are more likely to make … More
How do romantic couples manage their daily to do’s?
It appears that couples help each other remember outstanding tasks (“to-dos”) by issuing reminders. Professor Malia Mason and co-authors examine … More
What motivates charitable giving to more than one organization?
People are more generous toward single than toward multiple beneficiaries, and encouraging greater giving to multiple targets is challenging. Vicki … More
Can Money Buy Happiness?
In contrast to decades of research reporting surprisingly weak relationships between consumption and happiness, recent findings suggest that money can … More
How do financial resources affect decision-making?
Professor Stefan Meier and colleagues find that, among low socio-economic groups, scarce resources indeed can affect one’s willingness todelay gratification … More