School News

Columbia Business School is proud to announce the Dong-Bin Shin Fellowships, four two-year, full-tuition fellowships open to students entering in August 2014. To be considered, students must apply by January 6, 2014.

Making work/life trade-offs according to personal beliefs is crucial for success, said Ann Glover, chief marketing officer of ING US, during her keynote speech at the 21st Annual Columbia Women in Business Conference. The event was held November 15 at the University Club of New York.

Organized in conjunction with the MIT Center for Real Estate, the event gave more than 60 graduate students from Columbia, MIT, and Harvard a chance to learn about joint ventures.

Columbia University and Business School alumni, faculty members, students, and staff came together on Friday, November 8, to answer a “big, big question,” per the symposium title: Can my company, university, or organization change?

H. Fisk Johnson, chairman and CEO of SC Johnson, and Paolo Rocca, chairman and CEO of Tenaris S.A., are the winners of the fourth annual Deming Cup awards, given by the School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness.

The program will offer a select group of students the opportunity to combine research and practice to design efforts that seek to drive capital toward investments that promote sustainable economic growth.

Columbia Business School today launched a new, comprehensive brand positioning campaign to better define and communicate the core elements that make it one of the best business schools in the world.

On October 23, more than 920 Columbia Business School alumni, friends, students, and faculty and staff members took part in the second annual Columbia University Giving Day, helping the Business School raise more than $575,000 in gifts and University-wide Challenge Match funds.

Vince Ponzo ’03 has been named Director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center.

David E. Simon ’85, chairman and CEO of Simon Property Group and a member of the School’s Board of Overseers, has pledged a gift of $5 million to Columbia Business School.