Capital Markets and Investments

Nearly 200 people gathered for the Eighth Annual Mitsui USA Symposium, Investors Unleashed: The Rise of Shareholder Activism in Japan, held on January 30, 2007 at Columbia Business School. 

Professors Gur Huberman and Wei Jiang of the Finance and Economics Division received the Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Finance Association in Chicago.

Prominent investors, faculty members and students gathered at the Marriott Marquis Times Square for the 16th Annual Graham & Dodd Breakfast last week. Tom Russo delivered the keynote address.

Christian Lee ’07 discusses his Summer Fellowship in Afganistan.

Dean Glenn Hubbard is cochairing a national committee that will conduct a major study on how to improve the competitiveness of U.S. public capital markets.

Appointment of Alicia Ogawa as Director of Program on Alternative Investments

Alicia Ogawa presides over the Roles of Private Equity Investment in the Growing Japanese Economy lecture

Buy Coca-Cola and sell Google, says Columbia Business School professor Bruce Greenwald.

At the annual Graham and Dodd Breakfast, Jean-Marie Eveillard describes his investing style as in between Ben Graham and Warren Buffett.

The story details the School’s history in shaping the principles of the investment strategy, dating from the groundbreaking 1934 book Security Analysis, by professors Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd, to the more recent contributions to the field by Bruce Greenwald.