News & Impact Stories at Columbia SPS
News at Columbia SPS
The Future of Urban Transportation Should Be Underground
Project Management Program Director Evangelia Ieronymaki reflects on how underground transportation infrastructure can help dense cities reclaim surface space while balancing engineering, environmental and operational trade-offs.
Third-Party Risk Has a Ghost Problem — and It's Called the Fourth Party
Rimla Khawaja brings two decades of third-party risk management experience into the classroom, including the lesson that your risk doesn’t stop with the vendor you hired.
Technology Causes Pollution but Also Enables the Circular Economy and a Sustainable Lifestyle
While technology can drive pollution, it can also enable a circular economy and more sustainable lifestyles.
Hunts Point Food Market and Feeding New York City
Hunts Point Cooperative Market plays a vital role in feeding New York City
Saving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity of lived experience, equitable treatment, and inclusive decision-making are essential management practices.
Critical Thinking Is Your Compass on the Jagged Frontier of AI
Applied Analytics professor Robert L. Simione II highlights recent research on the blind spots of generative AI and notes where human judgment can provide clearer vision.
Throughline
Columbia IKNS Director Christoph Meinrenken on the power of transferable passions in an increasingly interdisciplinary world.
From Finance to the Roof of the World
A journey from private equity to a remote Tibetan village sparked M.S. in Sustainability Management senior lecturer Travis Bradford’s career in energy — and his conviction that the global transition to solar is inevitable.
Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Effective regulation will be essential to balancing AI innovation with accountability, transparency, and public trust.
Mining Our Garbage Instead of Our Planet
AI- and robotics-powered waste sorting can turn garbage into a valuable source of recovered materials.
Mitigating the Environmental and Community Impact of Artificial Intelligence Data Centers
Clean energy, efficient tech, thoughtful siting, and community input can curb data centers’ environmental and social impacts.
The Situational Awareness Collapse: Anatomy of a Leverage Crisis
ERM part-time lecturer Rajat Baijal breaks down the lessons for risk management from the fall of hedge fund Situational Awareness.