Entrepreneurship

A team of five Columbia Business School students took top honors at the Fifth Annual Financial Engineering Case Competition.

&nbsp

Experts from industry and academia will meet with students and alumni during the seventh annual Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference to discuss the effects of the changing marketplace on the private equity sector. 

Columbia Business School and London Business School have formed an alliance to jointly offer executive education programs.

Henry R. Kravis ’69, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and chairman of the School’s 25th Annual Dinner, announced the selection of Jacques Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company as the 2001 Distinguished Leader in Business.

&nbsp

The $6 million center was established through a successful $3 million challenge grant from Eugene Lang, MS ’40, founder of Refac Technology Development Corporation and founder and chairman of the I Have a Dream Foundation. The Lang Center for Entrepreneurship was created to serve as a living laboratory for students’ entrepreneurial endeavors. Faculty members, alumni and students gathered on November 30 to celebrate the opening of the center. “When Gene Lang has an idea, we listen,’ stated Dean Meyer Feldberg. “It is very exciting to celebrate the opening of the center bearing his name, which is dedicated to exposing all students to entrepreneurship, regardless of their career choices.”

Representatives from major new economy companies joined Columbia Business School students to participate in the second annual Silicon Alley Uptown Conference.