Corporate Finance

New research tracks emerging countries’ economics activity after law changes and finds a boost in access to credit; increase in employment rate; increase in productivity and sales for firms

An extract from "How Finance is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, and Korea" authored by CJEB Director Professor Hugh Patrick, Professor Yung Chul Park of the Division of International Studies of Korea University, and Larry Meissner, an economist with a specialty in financial development, is featured in the World Financial Review.

In new research from Columbia Business School, CEOs are three times as likely to value shares above market value to avoid getting pushed out

Columbia Business School study says analysts’ concerns about fair value accounting clouded the already murky waters, fueling the crisis

The Private Equity Program launched its newsletter on May 31, 2014.Read our what the Program has been doing, and alumni updates.  

Two Columbia Business School adjunct faculty members have received Dean’s Prizes for Teaching Excellence.

New approach exposes irregularities in annual financial statements and can help the SEC, investors, and auditors detect fraud faster

The team representing Columbia at the 17th Annual Global VCIC Competition (http://www.vcic.unc.edu) won first place the weekend of April 10-12, 2014.Hosted at University of North Carolina, the finals events were the culmination of a series of regional competitions where over 66 top universities competed across the globe and over 1,200 graduate students competed.The Columbia team was called “Board Room Fund” due to all of them holding leadership positions with the Private Equity and Venture Capital Club.

 March 25, 2014- Alumni Networking Event and Panel on Regulatory Landscape. 

On February 14, 2014 investment professionals and members of the alumni community, including the Private Equity Program Advisory Board, came to campus to judge three teams that had been selected from submissions by the attendees of the 3rd Annual Deal Camp in Montauk.