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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.

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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.

This year’s Graham and Dodd Seminar, Value Investing 2000, was the tenth in a series held to recognize the tradition of Benjamin Graham and David Dodd at Columbia Business School. The program featured Christopher H. Browne, managing director of Tweedy, Browne Company, who discussed value investing, behavioral psychology and financial decision-making. Bruce C. N. Greenwald, the Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, moderated the discussion.

The 19th annual Black Business Students Association (BBSA) conference, Leaving a Lasting Legacy: Taking Responsibility for Our Future, featured renowned figures from a number of industries who explored the economic opportunities and challenges facing African-Americans.

Howard Schultz is the recipient of Columbia Business School’s prestigious 2000 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics.

More than 400 Columbia Business School alumni and guests gathered for the reunion festivities in Monte Carlo.

Columbia Business School hosted His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan as a distinguished speaker in the School’s continuing Millennium Lecture Series. His Majesty spoke to a packed auditorium of alumni, faculty members and students about leading a developing country to economic stability. 

Some of the world’s most renowned brand strategists and corporate leaders participated in the 2000 Conference on Brand Valuations to develop branding strategies for the international marketplace. 

Columbia and London have joined forces to design and deliver a joint executive MBA program.

At its 24th Annual Dinner, Columbia Business School honored three leaders. 

The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia Business School will grow into the newest Sloan Foundation center with the announcement of a $1.2 million grant to expand CITI into a multidisciplinary center dedicated to research in the telecommunications sector.

Joseph Stiglitz, special adviser to the president and former chief economist of the World Bank, will give eight lectures this spring as the first Joel Stern Faculty Scholar.

This year's conference featured a high-powered lineup of women sharing insight on the new economy.

“Superinvestor” Warren E. Buffett, who got an A+ from Ben Graham at Columbia in 1951, never stopped making the grade. He made his fortune using the principles of Graham and Dodd's Security Analysis. Here, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of that classic text, he tracks the records of investors who stick to the “value approach” and have gotten rich going by the book.

As participants in incentive systems perceive that they are getting closer to their goal, they intensify their efforts.

Picking a sure small reward versus a risky big one depends on the effort it requires and how much you enjoy it.