The Social Enterprise Program, together with Columbia Business School alumni Keith Timko '02, Real Estate Advisory & Development Services (nonprofit real estate development firm), and Ben Kornfeind '05, Dunn Development Corporation, has launched a Community and Real Estate Development Interest Group. The scope of the group is quite broad and will include discussion in areas at the intersection of:• Community development• Real estate development• Community development finance
In response to the current challenging economic conditions for real estate capital markets, Columbia Business School and Goodwin Procter have partnered to present the 2010 International Real Estate Capital Markets Conference.
The Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business has concluded the first of six modules that make up the new Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Latin America (ECLA) program, which is in collaboration with the Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg awarded $20,000 to Greenext Technology Solutions as the winner of the NYC Next Idea Competition, which was sponsored by the Economic Development Council and co-organized by Columbia Business School.
Shang-Jin Wei, the N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, has been named as director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia Business School.