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11 unusual facts about Columbia Business School


Aliza Sherman

She spent 1995 through 1999 running the organization and speaking about the Internet for women at colleges and universities including Harvard Business School, Simmons College Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, New York University, and Columbia University, School of Business.

Andrew Left

In 2012, Left was a panelist at Columbia Business School's China Business Conference.

David Dodd

Professor Greenwald is the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

E. W. Kelley

He was founding partner of Kelley & Partners, Ltd. and taught at the Columbia Business School.

Gerri Willis

A graduate of Columbia Business School where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow, Willis is the author of two business books, “The Smart Money Guide to Real Estate Investing” and “Home Rich.”

Kevin Hassett

He was an assistant professor of economics at Columbia Business School from 1989 to 1993 and an associate professor there from 1993 to 1994.

Marwan Kheireddine

Marwan Kheireddine earned a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and Economics from Richmond College in the United Kingdom, and a MBA from Columbia Business School, New York (NY).

Noel Capon

Noel Capon (born 1937) is an American organizational theorist, and the R.C. Kopf Professor of International Marketing at Columbia Business School.

Pokémon Red and Blue

Papers published by the Columbia Business School indicate both American and Japanese children prefer the actual gameplay of a game over special audio or visual effects.

Samsung Global Scholarship Program

Previously, it was four semesters, including a possibility of spending a semester at one of SKK GSB's top partner universities in the U.S. (MIT Sloan, Columbia, Northwestern's Kellogg, Michigan's Ross, Dartmouth's Tuck or Indiana's Kelly).

Steven L. Heston

Heston was at the Yale School of Organization and Management from 1989 until 1993, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at the Columbia Business School until 1994, and Assistant Professor of Finance at the Washington University in St. Louis until 1998.


Asher Edelman

In 1988, he taught a course called "Corporate Raiding - The Art of War" at Columbia Business School, using as his textbook Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

FGV Management

It maintains international partnerships with universities in Europe − ISCTE (Lisbon), IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) − and the United States − Ohio University, University of California, The University of Tampa, Columbia Business School and The University of Chicago −, where students can take part in short- and medium-term programs.

James P. Gorman

In 1982 he joined law firm Phillips Fox and Masel (now DLA Phillips Fox) before heading to the United States to obtain an Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.

Joern Meissner

Meissner received MA in Business Management in 1997 at the University of Hamburg, and his Ph.D. in Management Science in 2005 from the Columbia Business School under the supervision of Professors Awi Federgruen and Costis Maglaras.

Paul Kazarian

Mr. Kazarian has guest lectured and spoken on both business and philanthropy at Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, Dartmouth's Tuck Business School, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and the National School of Development at Peking University.

The Intelligent Investor

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on value investing, an investment approach Graham began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd.

Yuzaburo Mogi

Mogi obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Keio University in 1958 and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.