School News

A recent panel discussion at Columbia Business School launched a critical report evaluating conflicts of interest in the financial services industry. The event attracted industry leaders, alumni, students and media.

The Financial Times announced today that Columbia Business School ranks # 3 worldwide for the third year in a row. The annual survey of international MBA programs also ranks Columbia Business School # 2 for current alumni salary and #2 for alumni salary growth since graduation.

A number of organizations presented CBS faculty members with awards in recognition of achievement within their fields.

Columbia Business School is proud to announce that President George Bush nominated Brian Carlton Roseboro ’83 to be under secretary of the treasury for domestic finance. The position would make Roseboro the Treasury’s top domestic finance official, overseeing a number of areas including debt management and enterprise policy.

The 2001 Nobel laureate in economics will be honored at a conference on October 24–25. He will receive a Festschrift, “Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz,” compiled by his students, teachers and coauthors.

Columbia Business School announces the launch of the Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis (CEASA). Arthur Levitt, who is currently an adviser to the investment firm the Carlyle Group, said, “The center will bring together the best ideas in academia and practice to provide objective solutions to current and anticipated issues facing regulators and practitioners.” 

Columbia Business School ranks #2 in the biannual Forbes MBA survey, which appears in the magazine’s October 13, 2003 issue. Based on return on investment, the Forbes ranking surveyed the members of Columbia Business School’s Class of 1998 on their pre-MBA and post-graduate salaries.

Columbia Business School’s Dean Meyer Feldberg ’65 informed the School community that he is stepping down effective June 30, 2004. The announcement caps a successful 15-year renaissance for Columbia Business School, which has capitalized on its New York City location and vast network of business leaders to become one of the world’s preeminent business schools.

Professor Joseph Stiglitz, a 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Professor Bruce Greenwald, the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, are teaching Globalization and Markets and the Changing Economic Landscape to Executive MBA students this week in London. More than 125 students are participating from across Columbia’s portfolio of executive degree programs: EMBA-Global, the Berkeley-Columbia EMBA and the New York–based EMBA program.

President George W. Bush has appointed Eli Noam, professor of economics and finance at the School and director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), and Judith L. Klavans, director of Columbia’s Center of Research on Information Access (CRIA) to the President’s Information and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). Noam and Klavans are among 25 nominees representing the leading information technology experts in both industry and academia.