Event Archive

Event Archive

View pictures from India: An Emerging Giant, Sir Gordon Wu Distinguished Speaker Forum featuring Mr. Stephen
Yung & Mr. Frank Tang, and The Jerome A. Chazen Lecture featuring Dr. John Taylor.
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World Leaders Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility
April 17, 2007
New York City

Leaders from the corporate sector, academia, civil society and the media discussed the treatment of workers in developing countries. As outsourcing of labor-intensive production from rich to developing countries grows, controversy also grows over how best to ensure that employees are treated with respect and dignity, and receive a fair and reasonable wage for their labor. Is this the responsibility of the corporations accountable for outsourcing? Can they assume responsibilities that local governments choose not to? For more information please visit www.worldleaders.columbia.edu

Fourteenth Annual Chazen/CIBER International MBA Career Services Conference
March 22-23, 2007
New York City

Career services professionals from U.S. and international MBA programs gathered in New York for a program planned to enhance their ability to deliver the best possible career services to students from different countries as well as to global recruiting organizations. 

Thirteenth Annual Chazen/CIBER International MBA Career Services Conference
March 23-24, 2006
New York City

One hundred career services professionals from 58 US and 14 international MBA programs gathered in New York  for the Thirteenth Annual Chazen/CIBER International MBA Career Services Conference. On the opening day of the two day event, Lehman Brothers graciously partnered with Columbia Business School, the Chazen Institute and the Columbia University CIBER to host participants at their state-of-the-art offices in midtown Manhattan. Columbia Business School's Dean, Glenn Hubbard shared his views and engaged attendees in a dialogue on "The Value of an MBA", and Professor Charles Calomiris, Academic Director of the Chazen Institute and the CIBER, and Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, focused on the "Landscape of the Global Labor Market". Lehman Brothers' Managing Directors, Ellen Miller and Lawrence Band, remarked on MBA recruiting including opportunities for MBAs in the international employment market.

China at the Crossroads: FX and Capital Markets Policies for the Coming Decade
February 2-3, 2006
New York, NY

China at the Crossroads, the capstone of a two-year research project, explored public policy and successful business strategies in China by outlining the challenges China's financial system faces while considering practical, timely solutions. The conference examined privatization and reform in the Chinese banking sector, securities liberalization, corporate governance transformations, the privatization of state-owned enterprises and the change from a fixed to a flexible exchange rate system.

Participating speakers included Peter Garber of Deutsche Bank, David Malpass of Bear Stearns, Shang-Jin Wei and Eswar Prasad of the IMF, Professors Barry Eichengreen of the University of California, Berkeley, and Loren Brandt and Xiaodong Zhu of the University of Toronto. Among the list of prominent Columbia Business School academics participating are Professors Geert Bekaert, Lee Branstetter, Charles Calomiris, Robert Hodrick, Frederic Mishkin, and Jialin Yu. Please check back with the Chazen website for updates on the ongoing book project. For more information please visit Research Programs.

Managing Global Accounts
Book Event January 24, 2006
Columbia Business School

Noel Capon, R.C. Kopf Professorship of International Marketing and Chair of the Columbia Business School Marketing Division, and his coauthors, Dave Potter and Fred Schindler, discussed key issues from their new publication, Managing Global Accounts.

About the Book
Global companies are increasingly making purchase decisions for products and services from a single supplier on a global scale. The suppliers that get the business will be firms able to develop and manage relationships with these global customers. The scale and commitment required is dramatic; the competition is ferocious. While the necessary changes are among the biggest challenges facing any business, the results are critical to survival and profit. Strategic global customers are key assets to companies that learn to service their global procurement needs.