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Alumni at the Leading Edge of Business Shape the World to Come

Initiative Makes Women's Contributions to Business Visible

The Harlem Local Vendor Program Taps Columbia Business School to Boost Food Entrepreneurs

Columbia Business School research focusing on Yu’ebao explores how Fintech can help alleviate Financial Repression in the Developing World 

In new research, Columbia Business School Professor Wei Jiang, the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise, analyzes fintech disruption and finds that it has significantly reduced the demand for jobs overall.

Liz Luckett, '90CC, the managing partner of The Social Entrepreneurs' Fund, and a co-founder of Maycomb Capital, is a pioneer impact investor who has blazed the trail, and set a very high bar, for the billions of dollars and many new entrants to the field.

Liz Luckett, ’90CC, the managing partner of The Social Entrepreneurs’ Fund, and a co-founder of Maycomb Capital, is a pioneer impact investor who has blazed the trail, and set a very high bar, for the billions of dollars and many new entrants to the field.

Four new Tamer Fund for Social Venture awardees were selected after their participation in an application screening round, a due diligence process with student teams from a Columbia Business School course, and a final pitch to the fund’s investment board.

 

Samantha Tweedy, the inaugural president of the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, has spent her career building and leading transformative racial and economic justice initiatives at the intersection of the public, private, and philanthropic sectors.

Samantha Tweedy, the inaugural president of the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, has spent her career building and leading transformative racial and economic justice initiatives at the intersection of the public, private, and philanthropic sectors.

Professor Takatoshi Ito, director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, wrote the Project Syndicate article "The Finlandization of Asia." The article states that "Most Asian countries have refrained from vocal or vociferous condemnations of Russia's war on Ukraine. This makes a united front between the US, South Korea, and Japan all the more important to regional security."

Stephen Grimaldi, the executive director of New York Common Pantry, and John MacDonald and Scott Crawford, the chief marketing and chief merchandising officers of FreshDirect, talk about the extraordinary partnership the two organizations forged in the height of the pandemic.

Stephen Grimaldi, the executive director of New York Common Pantry, and John MacDonald and Scott Crawford, the chief marketing and chief merchandising officers of FreshDirect, talk about the extraordinary partnership the two organizations forged in the height of the pandemic.

Indra Nooyi, former CEO and chairman of PepsiCo, opened up about her leadership journey and her hopes for an ethical and fair future.

 

Large-scale studies find that MBA and JD students of East Asian descent trail their peers in courses with classroom participation criteria, but online courses help to close the gap

Jon Sebastiani ’12 took the audience through his journey joining his family’s businesses and expounded on some of the successes and challenges he faced. He shared practical relational advice for those thinking of joining their family’s business and what to look out for, as well as some career advice from his experience launching his own private equity fund after his family sold their business and he graduated from CBS.

Donnel Baird '13 is the founder and CEO of BlocPower, a clean tech startup based in New York City that develops portfolios of clean energy retrofit opportunities in underserved communities and connects those opportunities to investors seeking social, environmental, and financial returns.