Archive for May 2009
33rd Annual Dinner Honors Whitman and Booker
The School's annual gala event honored former eBay president and CEO Meg Whitman and Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, commemorated the 75th anniversary of Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd ’21 and generated $2.7 million in unrestricted funds for Columbia Business School programs and activities.
Columbia Business School in the News
In a recent Wall Street Journal oped, Dean Glenn Hubbard outlined a new approach to recapitalizing the banking system. Read the op-ed and learn about other community members in the news.
Columbia CEO: Going Global with a ‘Game-Changing Effort’
Rebecca Masisak ’90, co-CEO of TechSoup Global, talks about connecting NGOs with cutting-edge technology and introducing her 80-year-old mother to Twitter.
From Columbia Business School Executive Education: Anticipating Your Next Great Idea
In times like these, what you’ve done in the past may not suffice. You need to innovate. Best-selling author and professor William Duggan talks about how creative ideas come about in an excerpt from his program on strategic intuition.
Alumni Leadership Summit Draws Record Number
If you’re not leveraging your Columbia network, you’re not maximizing the value of your MBA, says Rachel ten Brink ’01, who joined more than 30 fellow alumni-club leaders from around the world for the School’s sixth annual Alumni Leadership Summit.
Two Alumni Named ‘Champions of the Earth’ by the United Nations Environment Programme
Kevin Conrad ’05, executive director of the Coalition of Rainforest Nations, and Ron Gonen ’04, cofounder and CEO of RecycleBank, developed their business plans when they were students at Columbia.
Alumni Poll: How Did Your Find Your Job?
Did an ad, recruiter or friend lead your to your current job? Weigh in and send us your job-search success stories.