Entrepreneurship

By Carol Yang '05 and Ben Powell '05, Bottom Line.

Columbia Business School is proud to announce that President George Bush nominated Brian Carlton Roseboro ’83 to be under secretary of the treasury for domestic finance. The position would make Roseboro the Treasury’s top domestic finance official, overseeing a number of areas including debt management and enterprise policy.

Columbia University's Board of Trustees has appointed Professor Elke Weber to the Jerome R. Chazen Professorship of International Business effective November 1, 2003.

By Jessica Banks '04, Bottom Line.

By Diana Yousef '03 and Carol Yang '05.

Do some venture capital investors look beyond financial returns when considering investment opportunities? Do ventures which do social good necessarily have lower capital returns? Can one be successful and satisfied as an entrepreneur if she or he has a higher social commitment, beyond profit maximization? 

By Zev Greenfield '05, Bottom Line.

The 2001 Nobel laureate in economics will be honored at a conference on October 24–25. He will receive a Festschrift, “Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz,” compiled by his students, teachers and coauthors.