School News

On January 4, Dean Glenn Hubbard welcomed Columbia Business School’s newest accelerated-term students to the School.

Professor Noam was cited for “an outspoken ability to preserve and pursue an independent, nonconformist and creative style of scientific thinking.”

This semester, the School featured several provocative guest lectures and panel discussions as part of the Individual, Business and Society: Tradeoffs, Choices and Accountability curriculum. Two events of particular note focused on Emerging Markets and Corruption and Corporate Governance and the Changing Role of Today’s Boards. Both drew capacity crowds of students eager to gain insight from experienced business leaders about workplace conflicts and other issues they will face throughout their careers.

Nearly 1,400 MBA students, professionals and sponsors attended the 2004 Net Impact conference, Business Leaders Building a Better World, which took place from November 11 to 14. The sold-out conference drew participants from 80 business schools, 167 companies and 11 countries.

Professor and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz has joined two University of California, Berkeley, economists in launching the Economists’ Voice, a journal featuring analysis and opinion by leading economists about key national and international policy issues.

Dean Glenn Hubbard presented the annual Dean’s Prize for Teaching Excellence to management professors Toby Stuart and Daniel Ames in recognition of their outstanding teaching in the core curriculum. The annual award was established in 1998 by alumnus George Weigers ’61 to recognize faculty achievements in the classroom.

International finance expert Charles Calomiris is the new academic director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business. His global experience, both as an academic and a consultant, makes him particularly well suited to a role that oversees the School’s integration of international business throughout the academic experience.

SEC commissioners Paul Atkins and Harvey Goldschmid join Dean Glenn Hubbard and incoming MBA students today for a vigorous debate on the merits and costs of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The panel discussion kicks off a new School-wide curriculum titled the Individual, Business, and Society: Tradeoffs, Choices and Accountability.

Continuing an annual tradition, Columbia Business School board members — including Sallie Krawcheck ’92, Henry Kravis ’69 and Mario Gabelli ’67 — carved time out of their busy schedules to meet with small groups of MBA students to discuss industry trends and opportunities.

Professor Rita Gunther McGrath was among the industry leaders and international economists who presented a strategy for ensuring Ireland’s competitive advantage to that country’s government and business community.