Heilbrunn News

Bill Ackman awarded $100,000 to the winners of the Pershing Square Challenge: Thais Fernandes '16, Melody Li '17, and Joanna Vu '17. 

Columbia Business School was the birthplace of value investing. To celebrate the School’s storied history over the past 100 years, Professors Bruce Greenwald and Tano Santos sat down on February 8th to discuss the investing philosophy. View their discussion here.  

Thanks to a generous gift from investor Thomas Russo, the new 5x5x5 Student Value Investment Fund provides students with real-world, long-term value investing opportunities. Read Article

Peter Wiegand of Columbia Business School provides an overview of the remarkable career of Joseph Stiglitz in "The Tenacious Optimist" publised on September 30, 2015. 

Professor Tano Santos takes a close look at the various impacts of credit booms in, “Credit booms: implications for the public and private sector” published by the Bank for International Settlements in January, 2015.

Bruce Greenwald explains his investment strategy for retirement and talks about his single favorite stock in "How 5 Pros are Investing for Retirement" published by Fortune on June 12, 2014.

Michael Guichon '15 wins Ira Sohn Investment Contest.  Read about it in Market Folly.

On Wednesday, April 23, 2014, five teams presented stock pitches before a series of judges at the 7th Annual "Pershing Square Value Investing and Philanthropy Challenge."  This challenge is the culmination of the "Applied Security Analysis" course currently co-taught by Jon Salinas '08 and Naveen Bhatia. Stock Pitches and Finalists Allegion (ALLE) - Matt Ford '15, Oystein Kvaerner '15, and Brian Waterhouse '15 (First Place)

Bruce Greenwald asserts the value of value versus momentum stocks in "A Chance for a Market's Wallflowers to Bloom" published by The New York Times on April 11, 2014.

The "Valuing Research" series includes summaries of recent academic papers with both theoretical and practical implications for the greater value investing community.  These summaries are prepared by Ye Li, a current Ph.D. student at Columbia Business School, under the supervison of Professor Tano Santos.  Professor Tano Santos is the research director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing.