Capital Markets and Investments

Columbia Business School is pleased to announce eight new members have joined the faculty for the 2009-10 academic year.

The New York Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) is sponsoring a competition among selected graduate business school students for the best paper on topics related to corporate financial distress and bankruptcy.

Eugene Song '04, and Columbia Medical and Law Schools graduate, Snehal Patel, join the 2009 Kauffman Fellows class.

“We are optimistic that in the wake of the worst financial crisis in our lifetime, policymakers will embrace bold reform,” Dean Glenn Hubbard said, speaking on behalf of the committee.

An impressive group of speakers gathered at Columbia Business School last Thursday, February 5 for a symposium titled "Japan's Solar and Wind Ambitions: How Promising is the U.S. Market?" The event, organized by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business with the support of the Mitsui USA Foundation, marked the 10th anniversary of the Mitsui USA Foundation's sponsored symposia at Columbia Business School and was the first-ever to include a remote audience of Columbia Business School's alumni association in Tokyo via live webcast. Columbia Business School's Energy Club, Green Business Club, and Japan Business Association also cosponsored the event.

The Japan Society, Nomura Holding America Inc., The Women's Bond Club of New York, and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) of Columbia Business School cosponsored the symposium, "America Has Voted: Impact of New U.S. President on Asian Markets" on January 29, 2009. Sitting on the panel were three distinguished speakers: Alicia Ogawa, Director of the Program on Alternative Investments at CJEB; David Resler, Managing Director and Chief Economist at Nomura Securities International, Inc.; and Jeffrey Young, Chief Economist at Platinum Grove Asset Management. Leslie Norton, Foreign Editor, Asia at Barron's moderated the discussion.

The Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) of Columbia University held a brown bag lecture titled "Financial Crisis: Impact on Japan and Lessons from Japan" on December 4 featuring Shijuro Ogata, former Deputy Governor of International Relations at the Bank of Japan.

Video available for the symposium "Lessons From the Japanese Bubble For the U.S." held on November 19 in New York.

The Program on Alternative Investments of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University cosponsored the symposium "Lessons From the Japanese Bubble For the U.S." on November 19, 2008. Two hundred and sixty people attended to hear from three distinguished speakers on how the United States can learn from Japan's bubble experience and avoid its own "lost decade."

Revised Agenda and All Speakers Confirmed for "The Japanese Government as a Portfolio Manager: Managing the Nation's Wealth" on October 21st in Tokyo