Press Release Archive

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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.

A Columbia Business School team took home the top honors in the second annual Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition. 

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Some familiar Columbia Business School faces graced the covers of two leading business magazines earlier this month. In the same week, Fortune and Business Week featured, respectively, Columbia Business School graduates Sallie Krawcheck ’92, chairman and CEO of Smith Barney, and Lewis Frankfort ’69, CEO of Coach.

For the fourth year in a row, the Financial Times ranks Columbia Business School’s Executive Education program No. 1 worldwide in its annual survey of nondegree executive development programs.

The Chazen Web Journal of International Business launches its spring issue, an in-depth analysis of Asian corporate finance and business strategy. This issue, the journal’s second, offers research — by faculty members and students alike — that explores the region’s banking and automobile industries as well as its securities markets. Video interviews with experts on the global economy, including 2001 Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz, are also included.

Frank Lichtenberg, the Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business, has won the 2003 Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research. Honoring the best research in the field of economics, the Milken Institute Award was presented to Professor Lichtenberg for his study of pharmaceutical research and its contribution to human longevity.

Four winners emerged at the final judging round of the National Social Venture Competition, held at Columbia Business School on Saturday, April 12. Winners and finalists shared prizes totaling $80,000.

R. Glenn Hubbard, the Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance, returns to Columbia Business School after a two-year appointment in Washington as chairman of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers.

The recent Social Enterprise Program alumni-student reception drew more than 200 participants from private, nonprofit and government sectors, providing a forum to explore trends in the industry. Event coordinators detailed the steady growth of the program and its commitment to developing business leaders who seek opportunities to add value beyond the bottom line.

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For the second year in a row, Columbia Business School ranks No. 3 in the Financial Times global survey of MBA programs.

Columbia Business School is saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Emeritus Eli Ginzberg. Professor Ginzberg’s proposals on desegregation, monetary regulation and health care greatly influenced the national debate on the leading issues of his time. As an educator, he also touched countless students during the six decades that he taught at Columbia University, his alma mater.

By Kivanc Onan '04, Bottom Line.

By Ben Kornfeind '04, Bottom Line.

By Adam Lenter '04 and Melvaleen Berry '04, Bottom Line.

A packed auditorium of 650 MBA and Executive MBA students enthusiastically greeted Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, who gave a lecture at the School as part of the Silfen Leadership Series.

Columbia Business School is proud to announce that an alumnus and member of its Board of Overseers, Gabriele Galateri Di Genola ’72, was recently named CEO and COO of Fiat SpA.

Earth Institute conference, Professor Geoffrey Heal speaks on "Conservation of Biological Resources".

More than 200 alumni, professors, real estate experts and students gathered at the Columbia Club to discuss rebuilding lower Manhattan after September 11. 

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Columbia Business School and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, welcomed the inaugural Berkeley-Columbia EMBA class with a week-long series of guest lectures and classes.

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Columbia University's role in community development, including the Small Business Consulting Program.