This Week in New York Business
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TODAY
• The Blackstone Group is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter earnings.
TOMORROW
• The J. Crew Group is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter earnings.
• The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University hosts a seminar by the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Edward Glaeser, called “Urban Colossus: Why is New York America’s Largest City?” Between 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in room 1501 of the International Affairs building. Free. Contact: jac12@columbia.edu
• CAMBA Small Business Services offers a seminar called “Playing by the Rules: Stay in the Game,” discussing city agencies and their various license and permit requirements, between 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at 884 Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn. Free. Contact: smallbiz@camba.org
• Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York presents a panel called “The ABCs and Controversies of Microfinance” between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in room 814 of the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell at 450 Lexington Ave. $40. Contact: som_chivukula@yahoo.com
WEDNESDAY
• The U.S. Treasury budget is scheduled to be released.
• Advertising Women of New York honors the chief marketing officer of Citigroup, Lisa Caputo, as the 2007 Advertising Woman of the Year with cocktails and a luncheon beginningat11:45a.m. at the New York Hilton Hotel, 1335 Sixth Ave. Price varies. Please go to awny.org for more details.
THURSDAY
• The retail sales report is scheduled to be released.
• The editor of Portfolio magazine, Joanne Lipman, speaks in the Delacorte lecture series at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism beginning at 7:30 p.m. Free. Contact: kathleen.dowling@columbia.edu
• Author Michael Thomsett discusses how stock market investors can enhance profits and protect their portfolios with safe and sensible options strategies. At 5:30 p.m. at the Science, Industry and Business Library at 188 Madison Ave. Contact: 212-592-7000
FRIDAY
• Ann Taylor Stores and Liz Claiborne are scheduled to report their fourth-quarter earnings.
• The author of “Intellectual Freedom: Academic Libraries and Intellectual Freedom,” Barbara Jones, discusses freedom of information issues at the international level beginning at 11 a.m. at the Science, Industry and Business Library at 188 Madison Ave. Free. Contact: sibleref@nypl.org
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