Columbia Business School
announces the launch of
the Center for Excellence
in Accounting and Security
Analysis (CEASA). CEASA’s
Advisory Board is led by
former SEC chairman Arthur
Levitt. Levitt, who is currently
an adviser to the investment
firm the Carlyle Group,
said, “The center
will bring together the
best ideas in academia and
practice to provide objective
solutions to current and
anticipated issues facing
regulators and practitioners.” CEASA will be codirected
by Stephen Penman, the George
O. May Professor of Accounting
at Columbia Business School,
and Trevor Harris, a former
Columbia Business School
faculty member and current
managing director at and
head of the Global Valuation
and Accounting Team in Equity
Research at Morgan Stanley.