Elke U. Weber appointed to the Jerome R. Chazen Professorship of International Business
 
Doing Well, Doing Good: Social Enterprise Conference Packs Uris Hall
By Jessica Banks '04, Bottom Line.
MIDI organizes panel on Partnerships in International Development
By Diana Yousef '03 and Carol Yang '05.
Columbia Hosts Global Social Venture Competition Symposium
By Gautam Nivarthy '04 and Elizabeth Bury '04, Bottom Line.
Conference Celebrates the Work of Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz
The 2001 Nobel laureate in economics will be honored
at a conference on October 24–25. He will receive a
Festschrift, “Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph
Stiglitz,” compiled by his students, teachers and coauthors.
Columbia Business School Launches Center to Address Tough Issues in Accounting and Security Analysis
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.