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Columbia Business School announces the launch of the Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis (CEASA). Arthur Levitt, who is currently an adviser to the investment firm the Carlyle Group, said, “The center will bring together the best ideas in academia and practice to provide objective solutions to current and anticipated issues facing regulators and practitioners.” 

Columbia Business School ranks #2 in the biannual Forbes MBA survey, which appears in the magazine’s October 13, 2003 issue. Based on return on investment, the Forbes ranking surveyed the members of Columbia Business School’s Class of 1998 on their pre-MBA and post-graduate salaries.

By Josh Klenoff '03, Bottom Line.

By Gautam Nivarthy '04, Bottom Line.

By Tom Karlo '04 and Janera Soerel '04, Bottom Line.

By Jamie Kern '04, Bottom Line.

Columbia Business School’s Dean Meyer Feldberg ’65 informed the School community that he is stepping down effective June 30, 2004. The announcement caps a successful 15-year renaissance for Columbia Business School, which has capitalized on its New York City location and vast network of business leaders to become one of the world’s preeminent business schools.

Professor Joseph Stiglitz, a 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Professor Bruce Greenwald, the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, are teaching Globalization and Markets and the Changing Economic Landscape to Executive MBA students this week in London. More than 125 students are participating from across Columbia’s portfolio of executive degree programs: EMBA-Global, the Berkeley-Columbia EMBA and the New York–based EMBA program.