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By Amanda Foley '05, Bottom Line.

The Financial Times announced today that Columbia Business School ranks # 3 worldwide for the third year in a row. The annual survey of international MBA programs also ranks Columbia Business School # 2 for current alumni salary and #2 for alumni salary growth since graduation.

A number of organizations presented CBS faculty members with awards in recognition of achievement within their fields.

By Stephanie Sewell '05, Bottom Line.

By Janera Soerel '04, Bottom Line.

By Carol Yang '05 and Ben Powell '05, Bottom Line.

Columbia Business School is proud to announce that President George Bush nominated Brian Carlton Roseboro ’83 to be under secretary of the treasury for domestic finance. The position would make Roseboro the Treasury’s top domestic finance official, overseeing a number of areas including debt management and enterprise policy.

Columbia University's Board of Trustees has appointed Professor Elke Weber to the Jerome R. Chazen Professorship of International Business effective November 1, 2003.

By Jessica Banks '04, Bottom Line.

By Diana Yousef '03 and Carol Yang '05.

Do some venture capital investors look beyond financial returns when considering investment opportunities? Do ventures which do social good necessarily have lower capital returns? Can one be successful and satisfied as an entrepreneur if she or he has a higher social commitment, beyond profit maximization? 

By Zev Greenfield '05, Bottom Line.

The 2001 Nobel laureate in economics will be honored at a conference on October 24–25. He will receive a Festschrift, “Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz,” compiled by his students, teachers and coauthors.

Columbia Business School announces the launch of the Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis (CEASA). Arthur Levitt, who is currently an adviser to the investment firm the Carlyle Group, said, “The center will bring together the best ideas in academia and practice to provide objective solutions to current and anticipated issues facing regulators and practitioners.” 

Columbia Business School ranks #2 in the biannual Forbes MBA survey, which appears in the magazine’s October 13, 2003 issue. Based on return on investment, the Forbes ranking surveyed the members of Columbia Business School’s Class of 1998 on their pre-MBA and post-graduate salaries.

By Josh Klenoff '03, Bottom Line.

By Gautam Nivarthy '04, Bottom Line.

By Tom Karlo '04 and Janera Soerel '04, Bottom Line.

By Jamie Kern '04, Bottom Line.

Columbia Business School’s Dean Meyer Feldberg ’65 informed the School community that he is stepping down effective June 30, 2004. The announcement caps a successful 15-year renaissance for Columbia Business School, which has capitalized on its New York City location and vast network of business leaders to become one of the world’s preeminent business schools.