Entrepreneurship

The W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness at Columbia Business School honored Michele Buck, chair, president, and CEO of The Hershey Company, and Brian Cornell, chair and CEO of Target, with the 2023 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence during a ceremony at Columbia University's Low Library Rotunda in October.

Jensen Huang, a tech visionary who built his company into a $1 trillion giant, met with Columbia Business School Dean Costis Maglaras for a conversation organized by CBS's Digital Future Initiative and the Silfen Leadership Series.

Two Columbia Business School alumni and change agents in the climate-tech and entertainment industries received special honors from the CBS board of trustees at the 45th Annual Awards Dinner.

The first event of its kind at Columbia Business School, TEDxColumbiaUniversity—Excellence Through Equity was held last September in Manhattanville. Faculty, students, and thought leaders from across academia, business, and policy gathered to examine how equity in organizations propels all of us higher.

Turning a startup idea into a successful business takes passion, perseverance, and grit, as the alumni entrepreneurs profiled below exemplify. These former CBS students leveraged the School's programs and resources at the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center to get their ventures off the ground. 

Over the summer, nine other US business school deans and I traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with Lael Brainard, Director of the National Economic Council, and Jared Bernstein, Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, as well as other members of Congress, top White House staff, and business leaders.