Press Release Archive

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.

By Sarah Scrogin '03, Bottom Line.

By Rebecca Stich '03, Bottom Line.

In some quarters the tech revolution lives on. By Rani Deshpande '03, Bottom Line.

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.

By Sherri Scribner '02, Bottom Line.

By Keith Timko '02, Bottom Line.

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

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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.

Professor of Finance and Economics Joseph Stiglitz was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Professor of Finance and Economics Joseph Stiglitz was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Stiglitz shares the award with George Akerlof and A. Michael Spence for their “analyses of markets with asymmetric information.” Click here to view, via streaming video, remarks made by Stiglitz and others at a School celebration marking the honor.

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The Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund has selected five students’ plans to receive $50,000 each in seed money. 

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Columbia Business School celebrated its 25th Annual Dinner, chaired by Henry Kravis ’69 of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, at the Waldorf-Astoria. 

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Experts from industry and academia will meet with students and alumni during the seventh annual Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference to discuss the effects of the changing marketplace on the private equity sector. 

Henry R. Kravis ’69, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and chairman of the School’s 25th Annual Dinner, announced the selection of Jacques Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company as the 2001 Distinguished Leader in Business.

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The $6 million center was established through a successful $3 million challenge grant from Eugene Lang, MS ’40, founder of Refac Technology Development Corporation and founder and chairman of the I Have a Dream Foundation. The Lang Center for Entrepreneurship was created to serve as a living laboratory for students’ entrepreneurial endeavors. Faculty members, alumni and students gathered on November 30 to celebrate the opening of the center. “When Gene Lang has an idea, we listen,’ stated Dean Meyer Feldberg. “It is very exciting to celebrate the opening of the center bearing his name, which is dedicated to exposing all students to entrepreneurship, regardless of their career choices.”