On February 13, 2007, the Program on Alternative Investments of CJEB presented a lecture by Sir Deryck Maughan, Chairman of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.(KKR) Asia. Summary report and Video of "KKR in Asia: A Strategic View" are now available.
Nearly 200 people gathered for the Eighth Annual Mitsui USA Symposium, Investors Unleashed: The Rise of Shareholder Activism in Japan, held on January 30, 2007 at Columbia Business School.
“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.
On Thursday November 30th, the Real Estate Association and the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate hosted the 2006 annual Real Estate Alumni Reception.
President Lee C. Bollinger invites students to nominate faculty members for the 11th annual Presidential Teaching Awards, a University-wide honor that recognizes Columbia’s outstanding professors.
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.
If we follow the Commission on Health Care Facilities for the 21st Century’s recommendations to eliminate nearly 20 local hospitals and downsize dozens of others, “we may create a hospital crisis even worse than the last one,” Professor Linda V. Green of the Decision, Risk and Operations Division wrote in an op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times.
When Carlos Ghosn became CEO of Nissan in 1999, he vowed to return the Japanese manufacturer to profitable status within two years or resign. Within months, Ghosn cut thousands of jobs and began to reorganize the company’s product lineup.
Corporate executives, alumni, faculty members and current and prospective
students convened last week for the Black Business Students Association’s (BBSA)
25th annual conference, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.”
Paul Glasserman, the Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business, received the 2006 Lanchester Prize for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English from INFORMS.
Paul Glasserman, the Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business, received the 2006 Lanchester Prize for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English from INFORMS.
Prominent investors, faculty members and students gathered at the Marriott Marquis Times Square for the 16th Annual Graham & Dodd Breakfast last week. Tom Russo delivered the keynote address.
Columbia Business School congratulates CJEB on "Japan's Economic Future: Policy, Politics, and Producers", the Center's twentieth anniversary conference.