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The Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund has selected five students’ plans to receive $50,000 each in seed money. 

The EMBA-Global launch marks the collaboration of two prestigious schools, Columbia Business School and London Business School, in developing a truly international EMBA program that alternates between London and New York City.

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Columbia Business School celebrated its 25th Annual Dinner, chaired by Henry Kravis ’69 of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, at the Waldorf-Astoria. 

A team of five Columbia Business School students took top honors at the Fifth Annual Financial Engineering Case Competition.

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Experts from industry and academia will meet with students and alumni during the seventh annual Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference to discuss the effects of the changing marketplace on the private equity sector. 

Columbia Business School and London Business School have formed an alliance to jointly offer executive education programs.

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.