Building on the School’s many ties to the private equity industry, the new program will bring together students, alumni and prominent industry leaders.
A paper by Professor Bjorn Jorgensen (and Michael Kirschenheiter, Purdue) is one of six winners of the 2003 KPMG & UIUC Competitive Manuscript Competition on Reporting Risk.
Professor Bjorn Jorgensen was recipient of the 2005-2006 Faculty Mentoring Award for the affiliated schools in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, representing the best in PhD sponsorship.
Columbia MBA students’ turnaround strategies for Pier 1 Imports and Trump Entertainment Resorts earned two top awards at the 2007 Carl Marks Student Paper Competition.
Designing Marketplaces of the Artificial with Consumers in Mind: Four Approaches to Understanding Consumer Behavior in Electronic Environments, was runner up for the best paper award in the Journal of Interactive Marketing.