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He will be focused on the administration of the MBA and Executive MBA programs, including management of the MBA Office of Student Affairs, the Executive MBA Program, and Admissions.

Run by the School’s Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center, the lab is a co-working space where teams of students from across the University can collaborate on their business ventures over the summer.

Elizabeth B. Strickler ’86 and Mark T. Gallogly ’86 have made a generous gift to Columbia Business School to establish the fund in honor of Ms. Strickler’s mother.

A 1949 Columbia Business School graduate and a member School’s Board of Overseers, the senior senator from New Jersey died on June 3 due to complications from viral pneumonia.

Held on Monday, May 6, at the Waldorf Astoria, the event drew 173 gifts in total, including gifts from 53 new donors.

The GBA Commendations were created to recognize students, faculty members, and staff members for outstanding contributions to the Columbia Business School community.

Daron Acemoglu of MIT and James A. Robinson of Harvard were recognized for their book, Why Nations Fail, while Columbia’s Paul Tetlock was honored for his research on finance.

With the help of 526 class committee volunteers, this year’s event drew a record crowd: 2,400 alumni and guests for the three-day weekend, April 19–21.

As part of the annual initiative, alumni spoke at CBS Matters, a recurring student forum, for the first time.

The site is a space for current students and the 41,000-plus alumni around the world to pass knowledge on to future classes, and to share photos, videos, and stories.