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Columbia Business School welcomed back its alumni for a spirited reunion weekend.

Reviewing 77 entries from around the country, judges representing a mix of venture capitalists, social venture investors and entrepreneurs determined the finalists in the first annual National Social Venture Competition. The competition, a partnership between Columbia Business School, the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Goldman Sachs Foundation, is unique in its requirement that all submissions include an emphasis on the social as well as financial bottom line.

Moving away from the hype of the dot-com era, the Columbia Entrepreneur’s Organization is hosting its first annual conference, Entrepreneurship 101: Back to Basics.

Columbia Business School is proud to announce the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate. Endowed with a generous grant of $5 million from the Milstein family, the center will further the School’s reputation as an innovator and educational leader in real estate finance and investment management.

On December 11, Professor Sheena Sethi-Iyengar was selected to receive the National Science Foundation Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in the Social Sciences. Each year, one Presidential Award is given in all of the social sciences. The recipient is chosen from an already highly select group of the year’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award winners.

The Columbia-Berkeley Executive MBA blends the distinctive strengths of the two schools: Wall Street and Silicon Valley; New York and California.

More than 600 students, faculty members and administrators packed Miller Theater to listen to Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric, discuss his distinguished career and the publication of his new book, Jack: Straight from the Gut.

Columbia Business School’s Executive MBA Program ranks No. 2 worldwide in the inaugural Financial Times Executive MBA survey. The EMBA Program also ranks No. 1 for its graduates’ career progress and No. 2 for graduate salaries in 2001.