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Professor Joseph Stiglitz, a 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Professor Bruce Greenwald, the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, are teaching Globalization and Markets and the Changing Economic Landscape to Executive MBA students this week in London. More than 125 students are participating from across Columbia’s portfolio of executive degree programs: EMBA-Global, the Berkeley-Columbia EMBA and the New York–based EMBA program.

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In July 2003, Sheena Iyengar was appointed as the first Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School.

President George W. Bush has appointed Eli Noam, professor of economics and finance at the School and director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), and Judith L. Klavans, director of Columbia’s Center of Research on Information Access (CRIA) to the President’s Information and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). Noam and Klavans are among 25 nominees representing the leading information technology experts in both industry and academia.

A Columbia Business School team took home the top honors in the second annual Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition. 

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Geoffrey Heal, the Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility at Columbia Business School, joined an esteemed panel of scientists, business leaders and senior elected officials, including Governor George Pataki of New York, to critically evaluate U.S. conservation laws and policies. 

Some familiar Columbia Business School faces graced the covers of two leading business magazines earlier this month. In the same week, Fortune and Business Week featured, respectively, Columbia Business School graduates Sallie Krawcheck ’92, chairman and CEO of Smith Barney, and Lewis Frankfort ’69, CEO of Coach.

Columbia Business School launched the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics with a roundtable on leadership, ethics and corporate governance. The event featured industry leaders Lewis Sanders, CEO of Alliance Capital Management; Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and Ira Millstein, senior partner at Weil, Gotshal and Manges.

For the fourth year in a row, the Financial Times ranks Columbia Business School’s Executive Education program No. 1 worldwide in its annual survey of nondegree executive development programs.

The Chazen Web Journal of International Business launches its spring issue, an in-depth analysis of Asian corporate finance and business strategy. This issue, the journal’s second, offers research — by faculty members and students alike — that explores the region’s banking and automobile industries as well as its securities markets. Video interviews with experts on the global economy, including 2001 Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz, are also included.

Industry leaders from around the world joined Columbia Business School to celebrate its 27th Annual Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on May 5. The gala event, which was chaired by Arthur J. Samberg '67, chairman and CEO of Pequot Capital, attracted 1,000 prominent business figures, alumni and faculty members to salute achievement in business and government.

Frank Lichtenberg, the Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business, has won the 2003 Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research. Honoring the best research in the field of economics, the Milken Institute Award was presented to Professor Lichtenberg for his study of pharmaceutical research and its contribution to human longevity.

Four winners emerged at the final judging round of the National Social Venture Competition, held at Columbia Business School on Saturday, April 12. Winners and finalists shared prizes totaling $80,000.

A team of recent graduates of the EMBA-Global program won top honors at Innovation ’03, one of Europe’s premier venture competitions for high-technology startups. 

R. Glenn Hubbard, the Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance, returns to Columbia Business School after a two-year appointment in Washington as chairman of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers.

The recent Social Enterprise Program alumni-student reception drew more than 200 participants from private, nonprofit and government sectors, providing a forum to explore trends in the industry. Event coordinators detailed the steady growth of the program and its commitment to developing business leaders who seek opportunities to add value beyond the bottom line.

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Columbia Business School is proud to announce that the World Economic Forum has selected José A. Fourquet ’96, U.S. executive director of the Inter-American Development Bank, and Sallie Krawcheck ’92, chairman and CEO of Smith Barney, for the Global Leaders for Tomorrow program. The prestigious honor is conferred annually upon individuals demonstrating leadership in the corporate and public sectors.