School News

At a time when organizations urgently need workers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math, new research suggests that women, and especially women of color, might be leaving STEM fields thanks to pervasive gender and racial bias.

Effective January 5, Zelon Crawford ’96TC will serve as Columbia Business School’s new Assistant Dean and Dean of Students, Full-Time MBA Program.

Ed Reynolds ’16 is the first recipient of the newly created Bernard Gray Fellowship. The Fellowship, which will be awarded annually, provides for the education of an MBA student who has been engaged in a form of rigorous public service and has a proven record of leadership.

David Stern, the commissioner emeritus of the National Basketball Association, was awarded the 2014 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics during a ceremony on Tuesday, September 9 at Uris Hall.

Binu Nair has been named Chief of Staff of the Dean’s Office of Columbia Business School, effective September 8.

Incoming Columbia Business School students joined thousands of people around the country in taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and engaging in a friendly rivalry with other top business schools.

Wei Jiang, the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise in the Finance and Economics Division, has been appointed Director of the School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business.

School entrepreneurs were recently given a chance to take their business ideas prime time when ABC’s Shark Tank held a private casting call for students and alumni on campus Wednesday, June 11.

Two Columbia Business School adjunct faculty members have received Dean’s Prizes for Teaching Excellence.

Three Columbia Business School graduates have been chosen as Columbia University Alumni Medalists for 2014: Mitch Freinberg ’77, Philippa Feldman Portnoy ’90, and Sabin Streeter ’67.