School News

Gustavo Cisneros, Mark Gallogly ’86 and Martha Stewart are just a few of the high-profile guests who spoke at student-organized conferences on campus this year.

The Black Business Student Association’s annual auction — newly renamed the Theodora Fonteneau Rutherford Scholarship Auction — raised more than $30,000 for incoming students.

"We have not shown the business community — and even our fellow academics — the substance of management education in the new century," Dean Glenn Hubbard said at a recent international conference for B-school deans. "The challenge before us is to get the word out."

“Just because we have been the center of the world’s financial markets until now does not mean that we can afford to be complacent about prospects for the future,” said O’Neal.

"The work that we do is not rocket science — it’s harder," Geoffrey Canada of Harlem Children’s Zone told the nearly 400 people at the Social Enterprise Program’s annual reception. "We know we can’t save everyone, but you do what you can to make a difference."

Kelley Blanco ’02, director of development and individual giving, has been named assistant dean for Executive MBA Programs (EMBA).

“The partnership between Columbia Business School and IIM-Ahmedabad reflects our mutual interest in entrepreneurship, a shared worldview and a joint quest for innovation in a rapidly changing world,” said Dean Hubbard.

Professors Gur Huberman and Wei Jiang of the Finance and Economics Division received the Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Finance Association in Chicago.

Troy Eggers ’05, former assistant dean of the School’s Executive MBA Program, has been named associate dean for executive education.

In two recent studies by Professors Ray Fisman and Ran Kivetz — touted in the New York Times Magazine as “ingenious” — the common thread is a sense of guilt, or the lack thereof.