Press Release Archive

The Columbia Business School Real Estate Association (REA) is pleased to announce the co-presidents and vice presidents elected for the 2014–15 academic year.

Professor Sheena Iyengar has been appointed Faculty Director of The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center effective July 1. Iyengar is the S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division and director of the Global Leadership Matrix (GLeaM).

The Dr. Boris Yavitz Scholarship was recently endowed, honoring the former Columbia Business School Dean. “Boris cared deeply about the School and its students,” said Irene Yavitz, wife of former Dean Boris Yavitz, PhD ’64. “We’re so excited about this scholarship — it’s a fitting testament to his commitment and passion for the School.”  A business strategy professor at the School starting in 1964, Yavitz was appointed dean by then University President William J. McGill in 1975.

Gerald Brady '58, a Columbia University faculty member for more than 30 years and a professor emeritus of the Business School, died at home on April 16 at age 84.  

More than 2,400 alumni and guests returned to campus April 11–13 to celebrate Reunion 2014.  The action-packed weekend kicked off with a full day of alumni panel discussions and presentations, a Manhattanville campus update, and lunch with Dean Glenn Hubbard. 

On Wednesday, April 23, 2014, five teams presented stock pitches before a series of judges at the 7th Annual "Pershing Square Value Investing and Philanthropy Challenge."  This challenge is the culmination of the "Applied Security Analysis" course currently co-taught by Jon Salinas '08 and Naveen Bhatia. Stock Pitches and Finalists Allegion (ALLE) - Matt Ford '15, Oystein Kvaerner '15, and Brian Waterhouse '15 (First Place)

School signs on as exclusive higher education partner for event and will highlight nine successful young alumni startups

Leslie Goedken ’14 and Ashley McDonald ’15 have been awarded scholarships by the organization WX, New York Women Executives in Real Estate.

FORTUNE -- We now know that 7.1 million people signed up for health care insurance during the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s initial enrollment period, which ended on March 31. But, what is less well known is the potential financial disaster facing these millions of consumers who have chosen policies during the last six months.

When frigid temperatures set much of the country shivering last week, pundits took the opportunity to scoff at the concept of climate change."This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bull**** has got to stop," Donald Trump tweeted. "Our planet is freezing, record low temps, and our GW scientists are stuck in ice."The final comment referred to an Antarctic research vessel that got stuck in ice driven by high winds in late December.  

The team representing Columbia at the 17th Annual Global VCIC Competition (http://www.vcic.unc.edu) won first place the weekend of April 10-12, 2014.Hosted at University of North Carolina, the finals events were the culmination of a series of regional competitions where over 66 top universities competed across the globe and over 1,200 graduate students competed.The Columbia team was called “Board Room Fund” due to all of them holding leadership positions with the Private Equity and Venture Capital Club.

Two University professors have been awarded the 2014 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing.

Bruce Greenwald asserts the value of value versus momentum stocks in "A Chance for a Market's Wallflowers to Bloom" published by The New York Times on April 11, 2014.

31 teams have been selected to join the Columbia Startup Lab, one of a growing number of university initiatives engaged with New York City’s burgeoning startup sector and dedicated to fostering entrepreneurial talent

CJEB Core Faculty Professor Gerry Curtis will give a talk "Japan in the World" at the Economist Japan Summit in Tokyo on 4/17, following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's keynote address.

CJEB's Director of Research, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy David E. Weinstein shared his views on Japanese monetary policy and structural reform in an article published by Toyo Keizai, appearing in print on April 12th, 2014. You can find the full article (Japanese) in PDF format here.

More than 60 distinguished Columbia Business School alumni, faculty, and staff members gathered at New York’s Le Parker Meridien hotel in Midtown for the School’s biennial Professorship Celebration on March 24. The event connects alumni who have supported endowed professorships and the professors who hold those chairs.

A group of 32 Columbia Business School real estate students and faculty members headed to Hong Kong and Beijing over spring break, March 16-23, for a deeper look at the Chinese property market. On the agenda: dim sum, a Peking duck dinner, the Great Wall, and visits with more than a dozen local and international developers and investors.

Columbia Business School Professor Reviews Data of Nearly 800K MLB Pitches and Finds ‘Star-Struck’ Umpires Show Bias in Favor of All-Star Pitchers

Students, faculty, and staff showcase their passion for making a difference outside the classroom through ten community service projects throughout New York City

The "Valuing Research" series includes summaries of recent academic papers with both theoretical and practical implications for the greater value investing community.  These summaries are prepared by Ye Li, a current Ph.D. student at Columbia Business School, under the supervison of Professor Tano Santos.  Professor Tano Santos is the research director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing.

Columbia Business School experiments show that hiring managers chose men twice as often for careers in science, technology, engineering and math

Professor Bruce Greenwald recently hosted a lunch for three current Columbia Business School students who had entered a raffle to win lunch with a faculty member as part of the School's new brand campaign launch.   

This article was originally published in Columbia Business. As part of our new At the Center Q&A series, Uzayr Jeenah ’14 chats with Mary Jane McQuillen ’07 of ClearBridge Investments about the real returns of investing in a sustainable future.Introduction by Dan Rosen; Photography by Don Hamerman  

This winter, three corporate gatherings were held, enabling Columbia Business School alumni to connect, hear from special guests, and talk with leaders from the School.