School News

Assaf Zeevi, the Kravis Professor of Business in the School’s Decision, Risk, and Operations Division, will become Vice Dean for Research, effective July 1, 2011.

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, in consultation with Dean Glenn Hubbard and members of the Columbia Business School Board of Overseers, has chosen Elizabeth Diller of the New York-based architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design the School's new facilities in Manhattanville.

Frank Lichtenberg, the Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business, is the recipient of Research!America's 2010 Garfield Economic Impact Award, which recognizes the outstanding work of economists who demonstrate how medical and health research impacts the economy.

Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School have partnered to create the Columbia Three-Year JD/MBA Program. Accepting its first class in the fall of 2011, this accelerated course of study gives select students the opportunity to earn degrees from both schools in just three years.

Columbia Business School lost a vital member of its community on Tuesday, when Paul Calello '87 passed away. He was 49.

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.

Samuel Palmisano, chairman and CEO of the IBM Corporation, is the inaugural recipient of the Deming Cup, which recognizes a business practitioner who demonstrates and promotes excellence in operations.

For the third year in a row, Columbia MBA students captured a first-place award in the case study category of the Turnaround Management Association's Carl Marks Student Paper Competition.

The recipients of the annual award are chosen by the Dean’s Office, which is guided by course evaluations submitted by students.