Entrepreneurship

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Incoming Class of 2008 students participated in the first sessions offered through the School’s new Program on Social Intelligence, an experiential learning series designed to enhance students’ leadership abilities.

A team of five MBA students who studied with Laura B. Resnikoff won a second-place award at an international student paper competition.

John Kiker, who has worked as a senior marketing and corporate communications strategist with United Airlines, Cendant Corporation and Edelman New York, joined the School this January in the newly created position of associate dean of marketing and communications.

Cliff Cramer, who has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries, has been named director of the School’s new Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson today delivered his first public address since he was sworn in three weeks ago to an audience of faculty, students and friends of the School in Low Library.

Ray Fisman, an associate professor in the Finance and Economics Division, was named to an economics “Dream Team” by a Russian business magazine owned by the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.

CJEB has become the first academic group within the University to contribute electronic versions of its publications to DigitalCommonsColumbia, the new University Libraries-sponsored “institutional repository” pilot program.