Chazen International Study Tours travel to various regions globally based on student interest. They are designed to enhance the classroom curriculum and offer students an intense, firsthand experience of local business culture. Past tours have included South Africa and Rwanda.
Strengthening Business Education in Africa: 10,000 Women. Columbia Business School has partnered with Goldman Sachs to launch 10,000 Women, a global initiative that will increase the number of underserved women receiving a business and management education and improve the quality and capacity of business and management education around the world. Columbia Business School will work in partnership with the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya, to develop certificate programs at both schools in the areas of entrepreneurship, banking and finance, and NGO management.
Professor Geoffrey Heal offers his perspectives on the 10,000 Women initiative in the Public Offering.
Private Equity and Entrepreneurship in Africa (PEEA). Part of the Business School’s Master Class program, this course examines how private equity investors and entrepreneurial managers design, negotiate and execute financial agreements that make use of resources and opportunities in the challenging environments of continental Africa (Sub-Saharan and North Africa).
Watch video coverage of MBA student consultations with African entrepreneurs.
Faculty Profiles
Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions
Geoffrey M. Heal, Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility; Bernstein Faculty Leader, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics
Kamel Jedidi, Professor and Chair of the Marketing Division
Murray B. Low, Associate Professor and Director of the Entrepreneurship Program
