Corporate Finance

Hedge funds are moderately leveraged, leverage is counter-cyclical to the leverage of banks and the finance sector, and hedge fund leverage was at its lowest during the financial crisis in 2008

The Sanford C. Bernstein Center, in conjunction with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, has produced a research report on Governance, Executive Compensation, and Excessive Risk in the Financial Services Industry, which addresses the latest academic research and industry best practices on corporate governance and compensation in the financial industry as well as the latest proposals for reform and regulation of these practices.

A team of Columbia MBA students earned the first-place award at the American Bankruptcy Institute's Corporate Restructuring Competition.

A proposal coauthored by Paul Calello '87, head of Credit Suisse's investment bank, to recapitalize failing banks with shareholders' and creditors' money is gaining momentum in Europe.

Paul Milstein, leading New York real estate developer, philanthropist, and friend to the School, died on August 9.

Please join Wall Street analysts, investors, economists, and policy experts for: WALL STREET, REGULATION & BROADBAND: Assessing the Impact Washington Will Have on Jobs, Investment and U.S. Economic Recovery Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:30 ?? 3:30 PM New York Law School 185 West Broadway ( Leonard St.) New York, NY

Read the report on "The Quantitative Revolution and the Crisis: How Quantitative Financial Models Have Been Used and Misused."

A team of Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA students took first place at the Northeast regional finals of the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), held on March 5 at New York University.

In response to the current challenging economic conditions for real estate capital markets, Columbia Business School and Goodwin Procter have partnered to present the 2010 International Real Estate Capital Markets Conference.

The Center on Japanese Economy and Business(CJEB) and The Program for Economic Research(PER) organized a conference titled "Coping with Crisis: Financial Policy in the U.S. and Japan" from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at Columbia Business School. This was the inaugural event of CJEB's new program, "New Financial Architecture-Japan & the U.S."