About the Center

historyLeveraging Premier Intellectual Capital

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate delivers the renowned MBA Real Estate program at Columbia Business School, offering an innovative, robust, industry-led curriculum and a comprehensive research program led by fulltime faculty experts. Leveraging premier intellectual capital and its New York location at the heart of global capital markets, Columbia Business School is at the very center of business. The mission of the MBA Real Estate Program and Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate is to integrate theoretical and practical knowledge of real estate as it relates to the everchanging global market for real estate finance and investment.

The Center, which was endowed by the Milstein Family in 2001, furthers that mission by delivering compelling courses, impactful research, a wide variety of student and alumni activities, and directs all initiatives and functions related to real estate at Columbia Business School, inclusive of employer relations and career advising. The Center also provides and underwrites tools and resources for students and faculty to use both in and out of the classroom and to conduct research.
 

Situated in New York City

Aligned with the Finance Division, the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate is led by Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, David Sherman '82, and Kristin Svenningsen, and is fully supported by a dedicated team of administrators and research associates.

Situated in New York City, a vibrant center of real estate development and capital markets, the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate brings highly respected academics together with industry leaders to produce a premier real estate program that is both comprehensive and rooted in practice.
 

Leading Real Estate Executives

Established in 1995, the Columbia Business School Real Estate Forum is an invitation-only group of leading real estate executives who meet several times each year to candidly discuss issues of strategic importance to the real estate industry.

Members of the Forum are all either real estate CEOs or senior industry executives, who own and manage substantial real estate assets and have significant knowledge of real estate in the US and abroad.

Forum members contribute expertise and resources, and lend their support to the Paul Milstein Center through classroom participation, participation in extracurricular activities, and contributions to case production and research. 
 

Cutting-edge Research and Thought Leadership

We are pleased to share with you the latest Annual Report from the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, as this past academic year has been one of significant milestones. This report encapsulates key curricular and academic achievements, experiential learning opportunities for our real estate MBA students, as well as new and enhanced initiatives. It also showcases alumni and industry engagement, while emphasizing the faculty's thought leadership and the cutting-edge research conducted under the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate.