Faculty
Columbia Business School’s leadership in global business education is due in large part to its 136-member full-time faculty. Their ideas, honed through interaction with students, colleagues and practitioners, are put into action around the world, helping to change management, organizational and financial practices.
Columbia faculty members routinely partner with businesses in New York and around the world to test, refine and implement new ideas. They capitalize on their extensive experience in the corporate world to develop course content that addresses the conditions and challenges of today’s business environment while anticipating tomorrow’s business needs.
Adjunct professors complement the full-time faculty and bring unique, real-time insights from their particular industries. Adjunct faculty members come to us directly from the world of business practice, applying real-life experiences and situations to students’ learning experience. This theory-to-practice connection offers precisely the right environment for students’ professional and personal growth.
More than half of Columbia Business School’s faculty members have lived and worked abroad, and most work interactively with global business organizations. Our internationally renowned faculty members are leading creators of knowledge in their fields of specialty and are drawn to New York as one of the world’s most fertile laboratories for business study.
As professor of finance and economics Laurie Simon Hodrick puts it, “Columbia Business School is the only place that I can teach a theory on Monday, do a case illustrating that theory on Wednesday and have the principal in the case come to the next class to tell us the hows and whys of the real situation. The New York advantage combines the synergy of the best teaching, the best research and the best from business practice. It’s an incredible education.”
In the classroom, lectures and case studies come alive thanks to professors’ extensive real-life experiences in the business world. Academic journals and media outlets seek out their perspectives on current issues. And the Columbia Business School community thrives on its extraordinary access to them — students frequently socialize with faculty members, while alumni call them up years after graduation to discuss business opportunities and ask for advice.
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