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The Columbia Business School Real Estate Association (REA) is pleased to announce the co-presidents and vice presidents elected for the 2013-14 academic year.

Columbia Business School is pleased to have two real estate-focused women awarded real estate scholarships from WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate.

The GBA Commendations were created to recognize students, faculty members, and staff members for outstanding contributions to the Columbia Business School community.

GE is investing big in Big Data. Leading its finances is Keith Sherin ’91, who for three decades has helped the firm chart new territory.

Videos From Our Tokyo Conference and Mitsui Symposium Are Now Available

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The largest-ever gathering of real estate alumni, spanning more than 50 class years, took place on April 30 at the Columbia Club of New York. This 2013 Annual Alumni Real Estate Reception honored Distinguished Real Estate Partner John R. Klopp of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing.

Professors Ray Fisman and Bruce Usher,Co-Directors of the Social Enterprise Program (SEP),shed light on some of the challenges social entrepreneurs may face in making organizational decisions.

Daron Acemoglu of MIT and James A. Robinson of Harvard were recognized for their book, Why Nations Fail, while Columbia’s Paul Tetlock was honored for his research on finance.

With the help of 526 class committee volunteers, this year’s event drew a record crowd: 2,400 alumni and guests for the three-day weekend, April 19–21.

Brigadier General Daniel J. O'Donohue, during a visit to Columbia Business School, highlighted the parallels between military and business leadership, emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct and personal codes in both realms.

What glass ceiling? Columbia Business School alumnae are striving for — and reaching — the top of the finance world.

Neng Wang, the Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, has been awarded a 2013 Research Grant from the School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business to further his work on dynamic entrepreneurial finance.

As part of the annual initiative, alumni spoke at CBS Matters, a recurring student forum, for the first time.

The site is a space for current students and the 41,000-plus alumni around the world to pass knowledge on to future classes, and to share photos, videos, and stories.

Professor Joseph Stiglitz in the Nikkei commented on Japan's new fiscal policy and actions.

Andrew Jacobs '96, managing director and partner at Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management, focuses on identifying, evaluating, and overseeing real estate private equity fund managers and investment opportunities in the eastern United States and Latin America. An adjunct associate professor in the Finance and Economics Department, he teaches the Real Estate Project Class. In a recent interview with Diego Banos Garcia '13, he discussed his firm’s business, opportunities in the current economic climate and his teaching.

How Woori Financial Group is making its way to becoming one of the top financial institutions in Asia.

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South America’s leading economy and one of the most intriguing markets for global real estate investors was the destination for this year’s Columbia Business School Real Estate Association international study trip. From March 16 to 24, twenty-eight students and two faculty members traveled to Brazil, meeting with more than a dozen financial institutions, government organizations, and real estate developers, investors, and service companies in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to gain a sense of the market landscape and understand how companies are approaching current opportunities.