Overview
1916
The year Columbia Business School was established.
Our advantages
Columbia Business School has been pioneering business practices and educating leaders from around the world for nearly a century. We join rigorous academic theory and real-world practice through broad engagement with the business community. In doing so, we foster in students an entrepreneurial mindset for recognizing and capturing opportunity — critical attributes for global business leaders.
Our logo
Our logo incorporates the Hermes emblem, chosen because of the Greek god’s association with business, commerce and communication.
Faculty
Columbia Business School’s eminence is rooted in the strength, leadership and experience of its 116 full-time faculty members, including Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel laureate in economics; Ray Fisman, the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise; and Bernd Schmitt, the Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business, and established and emerging stars in every management discipline. Students hear concepts directly from the leading experts who developed them, many of whom are also practitioners, advising businesses around the world.
Columbia Business School’s most vital asset is intellectual capital, and an endowed professorship, or chair, is the highest honor bestowed upon a faculty member. It is a distinction awarded by the School to recognize a faculty member’s past and potential contributions to his or her area of expertise and to Columbia Business School.
Academics
Columbia Business School offers a rigorous core curriculum and hundreds of innovative electives — far more than most other schools — that prepare students for success. Employers aggressively recruit our graduates because they know our approach to active learning uniquely equips students with the analytical tools, leadership ability and global knowledge for delivering immediate and sustainable value.
New Curricular Initiatives
The School recently has launched transformative curriculum and programming initiatives that take aim at the global business demands of this new century. Master Classes combine experiential learning and direct contact with the business world, challenging students to make hard-and-fast decisions about actual business problems. The Program on Social Intelligence is based in psychology and social science research and imparts skills across the entire student experience for managing individuals, teams and networks. Our flexible core curriculum offers an additional elective in the first year to align the structure of the core with students’ interests and career paths. Columbia CaseWorks draws from faculty research and presents students with incomplete data to develop the ability to make decisions from uncertainty — as leaders are required to do throughout their careers.
Students
A global perspective is reflected in and reinforced by a student body of well-rounded individuals who show professional promise and have high academic credentials. Forty percent of the student body represents more than 73 nations who speak some 64 languages, and we maintain exchange programs with 24 leading graduate management institutions around the world.
Alumni
With 36,000 influential alumni living in more than 100 countries, Columbia Business School students have an inside track to information, mentors, internships and careers. Many alumni are respected leaders in business and not-for-profit organizations and maintain strong relationships with the School as lecturers and board members.
New York City
As one of the world’s premier financial capitals and headquarters to scores of multinational companies, New York City is a living laboratory for Columbia Business School students. Access to the city’s firms and industry leaders, many of whom are alumni, provides unparalleled opportunities for students.
Global Scope
Education at Columbia Business School is global in scope, ensuring that a Columbia MBA is valued anywhere in the world. The curriculum is infused with an international perspective through Master Classes, study tours and a variety of special projects that send students to Asia, Africa, South America and other locations where they apply lessons to business challenges.
Columbia Business School
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