On Friday, November 18th, graduate students from the Real Estate programs at Columbia, MIT, and NYU gathered in Uris Hall for the 5th annual Coming to Terms: Negotiating Real Estate Joint Ventures workshop. The event which is co-sponsored by the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, the MIT Center for Real Estate, the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Grosvenor, provided students from each of the different programs the opportunity to spend a full day discussing key issues in a real estate joint-venture (JV) agreement and to engage with seasoned professionals from both the legal and business sides of the real estate industry.
On November 17th, the University of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business hosted the 14th Annual National Real Estate Challenge sponsored by Invesco. Twenty of the top MBA programs participated in the competition. Columbia Business School, represented by Mark Abramowicz ’18, Samuel Fenwick ’18, Anthony Feenick ’17, Daniel Liu ’17, Nicholas Mellis ’17, and Joe Noon ’17, placed 3rd in the competition behind the host university and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
The Columbia Business School community has lost an extraordinary colleague and friend in Margaret M. Cannella '76, who passed away peacefully over the Thanksgiving weekend.
The Bernstein Center brought together titans of industry, sports, and entrepreneurship to discuss the role of leadership in promoting an ethical culture — in both the workplace and society at large.