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President George W. Bush has appointed Eli Noam, professor of economics and finance at the School and director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), and Judith L. Klavans, director of Columbia’s Center of Research on Information Access (CRIA) to the President’s Information and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). Noam and Klavans are among 25 nominees representing the leading information technology experts in both industry and academia.

A Columbia Business School team took home the top honors in the second annual Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition. 

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Geoffrey Heal, the Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility at Columbia Business School, joined an esteemed panel of scientists, business leaders and senior elected officials, including Governor George Pataki of New York, to critically evaluate U.S. conservation laws and policies. 

Some familiar Columbia Business School faces graced the covers of two leading business magazines earlier this month. In the same week, Fortune and Business Week featured, respectively, Columbia Business School graduates Sallie Krawcheck ’92, chairman and CEO of Smith Barney, and Lewis Frankfort ’69, CEO of Coach.

Columbia Business School launched the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics with a roundtable on leadership, ethics and corporate governance. The event featured industry leaders Lewis Sanders, CEO of Alliance Capital Management; Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and Ira Millstein, senior partner at Weil, Gotshal and Manges.

For the fourth year in a row, the Financial Times ranks Columbia Business School’s Executive Education program No. 1 worldwide in its annual survey of nondegree executive development programs.

The Chazen Web Journal of International Business launches its spring issue, an in-depth analysis of Asian corporate finance and business strategy. This issue, the journal’s second, offers research — by faculty members and students alike — that explores the region’s banking and automobile industries as well as its securities markets. Video interviews with experts on the global economy, including 2001 Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz, are also included.