Demonstrating the reach of the alumni network, members of Columbia Business School?s Board of Overseers hosted nearly one hundred MBA students over the course of the annual Take a Student to Breakfast program.
Two thought-provoking guest panels held during orientation introduced first-term students to the School’s Individual, Business and Society curriculum. The discussions, CEO Perspectives on Leadership and Corporate Integrity and Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line, brought together corporate executives and business leaders to debate the issues of personal and corporate responsibility.
Doron Nissim, associate professor of accounting, has won Baruch College’s Stan Ross Department of Accountancy Prize for Outstanding Academic Contribution to Practice.
Columbia University is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Joseph Stiglitz to a joint chaired professorship at Columbia Business School, the Economics Department of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of International and Public Affairs.
The Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund, now in its ninth year of supporting student ventures, recently announced seed capital investments totaling $250,000 in four student ventures.