Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Omar Besbes
- Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Omar Besbes's primary research interests are in the area of data-driven decision-making with a focus on applications in e-commerce, pricing and revenue management, online advertising, operations management and general service systems. His research has been recognized by multiple prizes, including the 2019 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize, the 2017 M&SOM society Young Scholar Prize, the 2013 M&SOM best paper award and the 2012 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section prize. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science and Operations Research.

David L. Bendes
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Daniel Guetta
- Associate Professor of Professional Practice
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
- Director
- Center for Pricing and Revenue Management and Business Analytics Initiative

Daniel Guetta
- Associate Professor of Professional Practice
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
- Director
- Center for Pricing and Revenue Management and Business Analytics Initiative
Daniel Guetta is Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School. His research focuses on the ways companies can harness the power of data and analytics to drive value. He teaches classes in business analytics, including data science, pricing, supply chain management, and technical tools such as python and cloud computing. He has authored award-winning case studies in the area with a number of companies, and co-authored "Python for MBAs".

Ezra Mehlman
- Associate in Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Ezra Mehlman is a managing partner at Health Enteprise Partners, a healthcare IT and services focused growth equity firm whose investors include some of the leading hospital systems and health plans across the country.

Moran Cerf
- Academic Director in Executive Education
- Executive Education
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Marketing Division

Moran Cerf
- Academic Director in Executive Education
- Executive Education
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
With nearly 90 academic publications, over 50 students, half a dozen patents, and nearly 10 million online followers, Moran Cerf is one of the leaders in the research and applications of neuroscience in business.
Cerf holds a PhD in neuroscience (Caltech), an MA in Philosophy, and a BSc in Physics (Tel-Aviv University. He has taught leadership and marketing at NYU and the Kellogg School of Management, where he was a professor of neuroscience and business for nearly a decade.

Hannah Li
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Hannah Li is an Assistant Professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on developing data science methods for social systems--marketplaces, education systems, and online platforms. Her research combines techniques from operations research, statistics, and economics to develop theoretical insights for practically motivated problems. She informs her work with industry experience, working for and collaborating with large online platforms.

Daniel Russo
- Philip H. Geier Jr. Associate Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Daniel Russo
- Philip H. Geier Jr. Associate Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Dan joined the Decision, Risk, and Operations division of the Columbia Business School in Summer 2017. He teaches a core MBA course on statistics and a PhD course on dynamic optimization. His research lies at the intersection of statistical machine learning and online decision making, mostly falling under the broad umbrella of reinforcement learning. Outside academia, he works with Spotify to apply reinforcement learning style models to audio recommendations.

Alex Mills
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Professor Alex F. Mills is an expert in operations management and business analytics. His research focuses on the service sector, with a particular emphasis on healthcare. He has published in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and other top business journals. Professor Mills is a member of the full-time faculty at Baruch College, and a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, both in the City University of New York. He earned his PhD in Statistics and Operations Research from the University of North Carolina.

Matthew Dell Orfano
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Matthew Dell Orfano is a Senior member at Discovery Capital, focusing globally on multiple sectors, thematic trade construction, and special situations, in addition to managing their data efforts. He is responsible for individual positions and the internal thematically driven portfolio, which assimilates bottoms-up analysis and macro thematic from over 55 countries into actionable insights.

Ciamac Moallemi
- William von Mueffling Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Ciamac C. Moallemi is the William von Mueffling Professor of Business in the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, where he has been since 2007. He also develops quantitative trading strategies at Bourbaki LLC, a quantitative investment advisor. A high school dropout, he received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1996).

Oded Netzer
- Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Vice Dean for Research
- Dean's Office

Oded Netzer
- Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Vice Dean for Research
- Dean's Office
Professor Netzer's expertise centers on one of the major business challenges of the data-rich environment: developing quantitative methods that leverage data to gain a deeper understanding of customer behavior and guide firms' decisions. He focuses primarily on building statistical and econometric models to measure consumer preferences and understand how customer choices change over time, and across contexts. Most notably, he has developed a framework for managing firms' customer bases through dynamic segmentation.

Farah Gasmi
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Farah is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. She teaches an a Product Management course with a focus on AI and Data products. Farah is also a founder at Dioptra, a legal tech startup backed by YCombinator.
Before that, she held different ML and PM roles at Spotify, Argo, and ZS Associates. She received her MS in Operations Research from Columbia Engineering School and another MS in Engineering from Centrale Nantes.

Kinshuk Jerath
- Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise; Chair of the Marketing Division
- Marketing Division

Kinshuk Jerath
- Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise; Chair of the Marketing Division
- Marketing Division
Kinshuk Jerath is the Arthur F. Burns Chair of Free and Competitive Enterprise, Professor of Business in the Marketing division at Columbia Business School. He is also the Chair of the Marketing Division. His research is in technology-enabled marketing, primarily in online advertising, online and offline retailing, sales force management and customer management. His research has appeared in top-tier marketing and operations management journals, such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science and Operations Research.

Dan Wang
- Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise in the Faculty of Business
- Management Division
- Co-Director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change
- Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change

Dan Wang
- Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise in the Faculty of Business
- Management Division
- Co-Director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change
- Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change
Dan Wang is Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and (by courtesy) Sociology at Columbia Business School, where he is also the Co-Director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change. His research examines how social networks drive social and economic transformation through the analysis of global migration, social movements, organizational innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Paul Glasserman
- Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Professor Glasserman's research and teaching address risk management, quant finance, Monte Carlo simulation, statistics and operations. Prior to joining Columbia, Glasserman was with Bell Laboratories; he has also held visiting positions at Princeton University, NYU, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In 2011-2012, he was on leave from Columbia and working at the Office of Financial Research in the U.S. Treasury Department, where he continues to serve as a part-time consultant.

Hortense Fong
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Hortense Fong uses machine learning, econometric, and experimental methods to study how emotions impact consumer behavior. A distinguishing feature of her interests involves going beyond ML’s use in prediction to study how to incorporate domain-specific theoretic and managerial knowledge into ML systems and make them more interpretable. She also has a broader interest in questions at the interface of marketing and society (e.g., fairness).

Costis Maglaras
- Dean
- Dean's Office
- David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Costis Maglaras
- Dean
- Dean's Office
- David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Costis Maglaras is the 16th Dean of Columbia Business School, and the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business at Columbia University. Costis received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London, in 1990, and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1991 and 1998, respectively. He joined Columbia Business School in 1998, when he joined the Decision, Risk and Operations Division.

Mattan Griffel
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Mattan Griffel is a recipient of the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. Mattan is a two-time Y Combinator-backed entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Ophelia, a company that helps people quit opioids without having to go to rehab.

Andrey Simonov
- Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Andrey Simonov is the Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research covers various topics related to the marketing and economics of media products, such as measuring advertising effectiveness, media persuasion, product design, and competition in media and digital product markets.

Olivier Toubia
- Glaubinger Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Olivier Toubia is the Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research focuses primarily on innovation, customer insights, and creative industries. Specifically, he combines methods from social sciences and data science in order to study human processes such as motivation, choice, and creativity. He previously served as the Editor-in-Chief at the journal Marketing Science. He teaches Foundations of Innovation, Generative AI for Business and the core marketing course. He received his MS in Operations Research and PhD in Marketing from MIT.

Tianyi Peng
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Tianyi Peng is an Assistant Professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at Columbia Business School. He is broadly interested in AI for decision-making, with a focus on enhancing real-world systems using techniques like generative AI models, reinforcement learning, and experimentation/simulation methods. He is a founding member of Cimulate.AI, a startup that deploys generative AI for e-commerce. His research has received multiple prizes, including the Daniel H.

Mark Broadie
- Carson Family Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
- Academic Advisory Board Member
- Program for Financial Studies
- Chair of Decision, Risk, and Operations
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Mark Broadie
- Carson Family Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
- Academic Advisory Board Member
- Program for Financial Studies
- Chair of Decision, Risk, and Operations
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Professor Broadie currently teaches the elective courses Security Pricing: Models and Computation, Computational Finance, and Programming for Business Research. He is an Academic Advisory Board Member for the Program for Financial Studies. His research interests include the pricing of derivative securities, risk management and, more generally, quantitative methods for decision-making under uncertainty.

Yuval Ariav
- Associate in Business
- Marketing Division
Yuval Ariav is a founder and an investor who specializes in Fintech and AI with over 20 years of experience operating large, complex, cross-geo operations in both startup and corporate environments. As the Founder and Managing Partner of Symbol, a leading Israeli first-check VC, he is the first investor in several breakout companies in the areas of financial technology, AI, and Deep Tech. Yuval is also the Founder of Fundbox, one of the fastest-growing Fintech startups to emerge in recent years, and was its founding CTO and the head of its operations office in Tel Aviv.

Carri Chan
- John A. Howard Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
- Faculty Director Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program
- Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program

Carri Chan
- John A. Howard Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
- Faculty Director Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program
- Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program
Professor Chan teaches the MBA core Operations Management course and the MBA electives, The US Healthcare System: Structures and Strategies; Healthcare Management, Design, and Strategy; and The Analytics Advantage. Her research is in the area of healthcare operations management. Her primary focus is in data-driven modeling of healthcare systems. Her research combines empirical and mathematical modeling to develop evidence-based approaches to improve patient flow.

Jing Dong
- DeRosa Family Associate Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Jing Dong is the DeRosa Family Associate Professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. Her primary research interests are in applied probability and stochastic simulation, with an emphasis on applications in service operations management. Her current research focuses on developing data-driven stochastic modeling to improve patient flow in hospitals.

Hongseok Namkoong
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Hongseok Namkoong is an Assistant Professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at Columbia Business School. His research and teaching interests lie at the interface of operations research, machine learning, and statistics. In particular, his research develops reliable machine learning methods for decision-making problems.

Lisa Liu
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Lisa Yao Liu joined Columbia University in 2020. Her research interests include financial reporting regulations and information technologies, with a particular focus on auditing and ESG/stakeholder-related matters. Professor Liu uses different research methods including empirical archival methods, structural estimation, and field survey and interviews. Her research has been presented at leading conferences and published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research.

Marco Morales Barba
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science and Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Marco Morales Barba
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science and Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Will (Wei) Ma
- Roderick H. Cushman Associate Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Will (Wei) Ma
- Roderick H. Cushman Associate Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Will Ma is the Roderick H. Cushman Associate Professor of Business at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. His research centers around online algorithms in e-commerce systems, both for supply-side problems like inventory and fulfillment, and revenue management problems like dynamic assortment optimization. He specializes in designing simple online algorithms with performance guarantees, that can be tuned to historical data. Will also has miscellaneous experience as a professional poker player, video-game startup founder, and karaoke bar pianist.

Santiago Balseiro
- Associate Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Santiago R. Balseiro is an Associate Professor of Business at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He is the Research Director of the Deming Center and a part-time research scientist at Google Research. He teaches the core MBA classes Business Analytics and Operations Management, and the core Ph.D. class Foundations of Optimization.

Harry Mamaysky
- Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business
- Finance Division
- Faculty Director
- Program for Financial Studies

Harry Mamaysky
- Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business
- Finance Division
- Faculty Director
- Program for Financial Studies
Harry Mamaysky is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, where he serves as the Director of the Program for Financial Studies. He is also on the Steering Committee of the Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Technology. Harry teaches capital markets and asset pricing to MBA, Masters and PhD students, as well as Executive Education courses on the use of text data in finance, and on corporate bonds. He has consulted for a quantitative investment firm and for a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

Malek Ben Sliman
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Malek Ben Sliman is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School in the Marketing Department. Malek’s research interests lie in the application of machine learning, computer vision and NLP tools in the context of art valuation, social networks, marketing analytics and online retailing. As a practitioner, he had previously worked at Sotheby’s where he built models to track the evolution of artists’ prestige over time and to automatically predict the price of art during auctions.
Asset Management

Michael Johannes
- Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business; Chair of Finance Division
- Finance Division
Professor Johannes’s research analyzes the empirical content of fixed-income and derivative securities pricing models. He is particularly interested in developing econometric methods to investigate models with jumps and stochastic volatility. Johannes teaches the elective Capital Markets and Investments.

Tano Santos
- Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Asset Management and Finance
- Finance Division
- Director
- Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing

Tano Santos
- Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Asset Management and Finance
- Finance Division
- Director
- Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing
Professor Tano Santos is the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Asset Management and Finance and the Academic Director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, where he has taught since 2003. Previously he was an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. At Columbia, he teaches courses on Value Investing, Modern Value, and Modern Political Economy.

Doron Nissim
- Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting & Finance
- Accounting Division
Professor Nissim earned his PhD in Accounting at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined Columbia Business School in 1997. He was granted tenure in 2005, and full professorship in 2007. He served as the Chair of the Accounting Division during the years 2006–2009 and 2014–2016.

Adam Birnbaum
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Finance Division

Adam Birnbaum
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Finance Division

Mark Zurack
- Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
- Finance Division
- Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
- Executives in Residence Program
- Areas of Advising:
- Capital Markets, Portfolio Construction, Risk Management & Quantitative Research

Mark Zurack
- Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
- Finance Division
- Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
- Executives in Residence Program
- Areas of Advising:
- Capital Markets, Portfolio Construction, Risk Management & Quantitative Research
Mark A. Zurack teaches Capital Markets and Investments, Equity Derivatives and Equity Markets and Products at Columbia Business School. Mark is currently on the Board of Directors of the Binghamton University Foundation and also serves on the Boards of the Alzheimer's Association, Teach For America, Upper West Success Academy, ETC, Southampton Bath and Tennis and the Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Program. Prior to coming to Columbia, Professor Zurack worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years. He joined GS in 1983 and started the equity derivatives research group.

Michael Weinberg
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Finance Division
For 29 years Michael has invested directly at the security level and indirectly as an asset allocator in traditional and alternative asset classes. He is a Managing Director, Head of Hedge Funds and Alternative Alpha, and on the Investment Committee at APG, a world leader in Environmental, Social and Governance Investing. Previously he was the Chief Investment Officer at MOV37 and Protege Partners.

Stephen Penman
- George O. May Professor Emeritus of Financial Accounting in the Faculty of Business
- Accounting Division
- Director
- MS in Accounting & Fundamental Analysis Program

Stephen Penman
- George O. May Professor Emeritus of Financial Accounting in the Faculty of Business
- Accounting Division
- Director
- MS in Accounting & Fundamental Analysis Program
Stephen Penman is the George O. May Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University where he is also co-director of the Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis and director of the Masters Program in Accounting and Fundamental Analysis.

Achilles Venetoulias
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Achilles Venetoulias has 30 years’ experience in taking and managing risk, and in creating and running businesses. He has founded and run two hedge funds, taken proprietary risk for large institutions, supervised the investment process for a European fund of hedge funds, and served on the Board of a fund of hedge funds for an international wealth management firm. He has also founded a fintech company that

Geert Bekaert
- Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Geert Bekaert is Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School Before joining Columbia, Geert was a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University's Economics Department, with his dissertation winning the 1994 Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics.

Jane (Jian) Li
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Professor Jian Li joined Columbia Business School in 2021. She graduated with a PhD from the Joint Program of Financial Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research interest lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. She is particularly interested in how financial intermediaries affect the real economy and how different types of financial institutions can contribute to financial instability.

Karl Mergenthaler
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Karl Mergenthaler, CFA is an Executive Director in the J.P. Morgan Investment Analytics & Consulting Group. His principal responsibility is to provide analytical and consulting services to pension funds and other institutional investors. Karl has more than 14 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2007, Karl was an equity analyst and portfolio manager at Avatar Associates, where he was actively involved in the management of portfolios of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).

Kevin M. Yuan
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division

Paul Tetlock
- Alexandra Morgan Ciardi Professor of Finance and Economics
- Finance Division
- Senior Vice Dean for Curriculum and Programs
- Dean's Office

Paul Tetlock
- Alexandra Morgan Ciardi Professor of Finance and Economics
- Finance Division
- Senior Vice Dean for Curriculum and Programs
- Dean's Office
Paul Tetlock is the Alexandra Morgan Ciardi Professor of Finance and Economics. He currently serves as the Senior Vice Dean for Curriculum and Programs, overseeing the MBA and Executive MBA programs.

Matthew Dell Orfano
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Matthew Dell Orfano is a Senior member at Discovery Capital, focusing globally on multiple sectors, thematic trade construction, and special situations, in addition to managing their data efforts. He is responsible for individual positions and the internal thematically driven portfolio, which assimilates bottoms-up analysis and macro thematic from over 55 countries into actionable insights.

Harry Mamaysky
- Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business
- Finance Division
- Faculty Director
- Program for Financial Studies

Harry Mamaysky
- Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business
- Finance Division
- Faculty Director
- Program for Financial Studies
Harry Mamaysky is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, where he serves as the Director of the Program for Financial Studies. He is also on the Steering Committee of the Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Technology. Harry teaches capital markets and asset pricing to MBA, Masters and PhD students, as well as Executive Education courses on the use of text data in finance, and on corporate bonds. He has consulted for a quantitative investment firm and for a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

Pierre Yared
- MUTB Professor of International Business
- Economics Division
- Senior Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs
- Dean's Office
- Vice Dean, Executive Education
- Executive Education
- Co-Director
- Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University

Pierre Yared
- MUTB Professor of International Business
- Economics Division
- Senior Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs
- Dean's Office
- Vice Dean, Executive Education
- Executive Education
- Co-Director
- Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
Pierre Yared is the MUTB Professor of International Business, Senior Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, and Vice Dean for Executive Education at Columbia Business School. His research, which has been published in leading academic journals, focuses on macroeconomic policy and political economy. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Yared teaches Global Economic Environment, a Core MBA course in macroeconomics for which he received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

Jesse Schreger
- Associate Professor of Business
- Economics Division
Jesse Schreger is an associate professor of macroeconomics in the Economics Division at Columbia Business School. His research is primarily on international finance and macroeconomics, focusing on sovereign debt and exchange rates. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of International Economics.

David Glazek
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
David has over 15 years of experience investing in distressed, special situations and all-weather credit strategies, including as a Partner and Portfolio Manager of Standard General, LP. and Sunago Capital Partners LP. He also serves as Executive Chairman of Turning Point Brands, Inc. (NYSE: TPB), a Director of National Cinemedia, Inc.

Ciamac Moallemi
- William von Mueffling Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Ciamac C. Moallemi is the William von Mueffling Professor of Business in the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, where he has been since 2007. He also develops quantitative trading strategies at Bourbaki LLC, a quantitative investment advisor. A high school dropout, he received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1996).

Bruce Greenwald
- Robert Heilbrunn Professor Emeritus of Asset Management and Finance
- Accounting Division

Bruce Greenwald
- Robert Heilbrunn Professor Emeritus of Asset Management and Finance
- Accounting Division
Professor Bruce C. N. Greenwald is the Robert Heilbrunn Professor Emeritus of Finance and Asset Management at Columbia Business School and the academic Director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing. Described by the New York Times as "a guru to Wall Street's gurus," Greenwald is an authority on value investing with additional expertise in productivity and the economics of information.

Paul Glasserman
- Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Professor Glasserman's research and teaching address risk management, quant finance, Monte Carlo simulation, statistics and operations. Prior to joining Columbia, Glasserman was with Bell Laboratories; he has also held visiting positions at Princeton University, NYU, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In 2011-2012, he was on leave from Columbia and working at the Office of Financial Research in the U.S. Treasury Department, where he continues to serve as a part-time consultant.

Aamir Rehman
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Economics Division

Aamir Rehman
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Economics Division
Aamir A. Rehman is a Senior Fellow at the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University. His contributions to the Center focus on investors’ ESG considerations and the public aspects of private investments.

Kairong Xiao
- Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Kairong Xiao is Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research interests span financial intermediation, corporate finance, monetary economics, industrial organization, and political economy.
Brand and Product Management

Len Sherman
- Executive in Residence
- Executives in Residence Program
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Management Division
- Areas of Advising:
- Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Product Development and Customer Experience

Len Sherman
- Executive in Residence
- Executives in Residence Program
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Management Division
- Areas of Advising:
- Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Product Development and Customer Experience
Len Sherman brings over thirty years of business experience and academic research on growth strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship to Columbia Business School. At CBS, Professor Sherman teaches “Strategy for Long-Term Growth” and "Entrepreneurship in Large Enterprises to MBA and EMBA students, earning the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2013.
JP Kuehlwein
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
JP Kuehlwein is principal at Ueber-Brands Consulting, advising large CPG groups and start-ups, alike, on brand strategy and execution – brand elevation, in particular.

Bernd Schmitt
- Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business
- Marketing Division
- Faculty Director
- Center on Global Brand Leadership

Bernd Schmitt
- Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business
- Marketing Division
- Faculty Director
- Center on Global Brand Leadership
Professor Schmitt is Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School. He researches, teaches, and advises corporations on branding, innovation, creative strategy, and customer experience.

Oded Netzer
- Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Vice Dean for Research
- Dean's Office

Oded Netzer
- Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Vice Dean for Research
- Dean's Office
Professor Netzer's expertise centers on one of the major business challenges of the data-rich environment: developing quantitative methods that leverage data to gain a deeper understanding of customer behavior and guide firms' decisions. He focuses primarily on building statistical and econometric models to measure consumer preferences and understand how customer choices change over time, and across contexts. Most notably, he has developed a framework for managing firms' customer bases through dynamic segmentation.

Gita Johar
- Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Gita V. Johar (PhD NYU 1993; MBA Indian Institute of Management Calcutta 1985) has been on the faculty of Columbia Business School since 1992 and is currently the Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business. Professor Johar received the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIMC in 2019. She served as the school’s inaugural Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from 2019 to 2021, Faculty Director of Online Initiatives from 2014 to 2017, Senior Vice Dean from 2011 to 2014, and as the inaugural Vice Dean for Research from 2010 to 2011.

Chris LaSala
- Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Marketing in the Faculty of Business
- Marketing Division

Chris LaSala
- Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Marketing in the Faculty of Business
- Marketing Division
Chris comes to Columbia after nearly two decades at Google, where the common theme across Chris’ tenure at Google was working closely with engineering and product teams from ideation through commercial launch, gaining a reputation for leading cross-functional teams to overcome hurdles and make efficient, well-informed decisions. Outside of Google, Chris was active across the digital media industry as a founding board member of both the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (2003) and the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Mobile Advisory Board (2015).

Farah Gasmi
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Farah is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. She teaches an a Product Management course with a focus on AI and Data products. Farah is also a founder at Dioptra, a legal tech startup backed by YCombinator.
Before that, she held different ML and PM roles at Spotify, Argo, and ZS Associates. She received her MS in Operations Research from Columbia Engineering School and another MS in Engineering from Centrale Nantes.

Don Sexton
- Professor Emeritus of Business
- Marketing Division
- Professor Emeritus of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Don Sexton
- Professor Emeritus of Business
- Marketing Division
- Professor Emeritus of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Professor Sexton’s research concerns successful global product and brand strategies and is based on both empirical work and his considerable experience with companies throughout the world. A recipient of the School’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Sexton has taught a wide variety of courses in the fields of marketing, international business and management science.

Esohe Omoruyi
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Professor Omoruyi has 20+ years of experience in D2C commerce, digital tech, business development, international operations, and brand marketing. She has delivered transformational growth in various industries (Luxury, Beauty, CPG, Tech, Retail) and for some of the world’s most recognized and trusted brands.
Professor Omoruyi has worked internationally and in the US. She holds a BA in Political Science with a minor in Public Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Olivier Toubia
- Glaubinger Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Olivier Toubia is the Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research focuses primarily on innovation, customer insights, and creative industries. Specifically, he combines methods from social sciences and data science in order to study human processes such as motivation, choice, and creativity. He previously served as the Editor-in-Chief at the journal Marketing Science. He teaches Foundations of Innovation, Generative AI for Business and the core marketing course. He received his MS in Operations Research and PhD in Marketing from MIT.

Donald Lehmann
- George E. Warren Professor Emeritus of Business
- Marketing Division
Professor Lehmann has taught several different marketing courses. His research focuses on individual and group choice and decision making, the adoption of innovation and new product development, and the management and valuation of marketing assets (brands, customers). He is also interested in knowledge accumulation, empirical generalizations, and information use. Lehmann has published more than 200 articles and books, serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and is the founding editor of Marketing Letters.

Silvia Bellezza
- Associate Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Silvia Bellezza is an Associate Professor of Business in Marketing at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on status signaling in consumption. Specifically, her work examines traditional status signals (e.g., conventional luxury brands and products) and alternative status signals (e.g., minimalism, vintage, sustainable luxury).

Ellen Schapps
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Ellen J. Schapps has over 20 years’ experience in the corporate arena, beginning her career in advertising, in both Media and Account Management. She has extensive product management experience and was the first female Vice President of Marketing at the consumer household products division of American Home Products (now Pfizer), where she had profit responsibility for many well-known national brands such as Woolite, Pam Cooking Spray, Black Flag Insecticides, Wizard Air Freshener, Easy-off Oven Cleaner and Old English Furniture Polish. Ms.
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Michael Morris
- Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership
- Management Division
Michael Morris is the Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership at CBS and also serves as Professor in the Psychology Department of Columbia University.

Gernot Wagner
- Senior Lecturer in Discipline of Economics in the Faculty of Business
- Economics Division
- Faculty Director, Climate Knowledge Initiative
- Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change
- Faculty Fellow
- CESifo
- Board Member
- CarbonPlan
- Columnist
- Project Syndicate
- Senior Fellow
- Jain Family Institute

Gernot Wagner
- Senior Lecturer in Discipline of Economics in the Faculty of Business
- Economics Division
- Faculty Director, Climate Knowledge Initiative
- Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change
- Faculty Fellow
- CESifo
- Board Member
- CarbonPlan
- Columnist
- Project Syndicate
- Senior Fellow
- Jain Family Institute
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School. His research, writing, and teaching focus on climate risks and climate policy.

Parinitha Sastry
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Professor Parinitha (Pari) Sastry is an assistant professor of finance at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on climate change, financial intermediation, and real-estate markets. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and her finance Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has worked previously at the Department of Treasury, Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, Brookings Institution, and New York Fed.

Moran Cerf
- Academic Director in Executive Education
- Executive Education
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Marketing Division

Moran Cerf
- Academic Director in Executive Education
- Executive Education
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
With nearly 90 academic publications, over 50 students, half a dozen patents, and nearly 10 million online followers, Moran Cerf is one of the leaders in the research and applications of neuroscience in business.
Cerf holds a PhD in neuroscience (Caltech), an MA in Philosophy, and a BSc in Physics (Tel-Aviv University. He has taught leadership and marketing at NYU and the Kellogg School of Management, where he was a professor of neuroscience and business for nearly a decade.

Shivaram Rajgopal
- Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing; Chair of the Accounting Division
- Accounting Division
- Chartered Accountancy, 1987

Shivaram Rajgopal
- Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing; Chair of the Accounting Division
- Accounting Division
- Chartered Accountancy, 1987
Shiva Rajgopal is the Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.

Rachel McDonald
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Management Division
Professor McDonald earned her Ph.D. at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research examines social psychological influences on sustainable behavior and responses to environmental issues like climate change.

Eric Johnson
- Norman Eig Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Director
- Center for the Decision Sciences
- Fellow
- Association for Psychological Science

Eric Johnson
- Norman Eig Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Director
- Center for the Decision Sciences
- Fellow
- Association for Psychological Science
Eric Johnson is a faculty member at the Columbia Business School at Columbia University where he is the inaugural holder of the Norman Eig Chair of Business, and Director of the Center for Decision Sciences. His research examines the interface between Behavioral Decision Research, Economics and the decisions made by consumers, managers, and their implications for public policy, markets and marketing.

Bruce Usher
- Professor of Professional Practice; Co-Director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change; Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director
- Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change

Bruce Usher
- Professor of Professional Practice; Co-Director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change; Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director
- Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change
Bruce Usher is a Professor of Professional Practice and the Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia Business School. The Tamer Institute educates on the use business knowledge, entrepreneurial skills, and management tools to address social and environmental challenges. Professor Usher teaches courses on climate change, finance and business, and is a recipient of the Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom, the Lear Award, and the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

Nicole DeHoratius
- Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Nicole DeHoratius
- Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Lisa Liu
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Lisa Yao Liu joined Columbia University in 2020. Her research interests include financial reporting regulations and information technologies, with a particular focus on auditing and ESG/stakeholder-related matters. Professor Liu uses different research methods including empirical archival methods, structural estimation, and field survey and interviews. Her research has been presented at leading conferences and published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research.

Adam Birnbaum
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Finance Division

Adam Birnbaum
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Finance Division

Sandra Matz
- David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business
- Management Division
Sandra Matz takes a Big Data approach to studying human behavior in a variety of business-related domains. She combines methodologies from psychology and computer science – including machine learning, experimental designs, online surveys, and field studies – to explore the relationships between people’s psychological characteristics (e.g. their personality) and the digital footprints they leave with every step they take in the digital environment (e.g. their Facebook Likes or their credit card transactions).

Thomas Bourveau
- Associate Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Thomas Bourveau joined Columbia University in 2018. He previously served on the faculty at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained in PhD in Management Science from HEC Paris. He teaches financial statement analysis in Columbia Business School's MBA program. Professor Bourveau primarily conducts empirical research. His research lies at the intersection of accounting, law, and economics. He is most interested in evaluating the implications of regulatory interventions in financial markets, often through the role of information disclosure.

Vanessa Burbano
- Donald C. Waite III Associate Professor of Social Enterprise
- Management Division
Vanessa Burbano is the Donald C. Waite III Associate Professor of Social Enterprise in the strategy area at Columbia Business School.

Geoffrey Heal
- Donald C. Waite III Professor Emeritus of Social Enterprise in the Faculty of Business
- Economics Division
- Bernstein Faculty Leader
- Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics

Geoffrey Heal
- Donald C. Waite III Professor Emeritus of Social Enterprise in the Faculty of Business
- Economics Division
- Bernstein Faculty Leader
- Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics
Geoffrey Heal, Donald C. Waite III Professor Emeritus of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, is noted for contributions to economic theory and resource and environmental economics. He holds bachelors (first class), masters and doctoral degrees from Cambridge University, where he studied at Churchill College and taught at Christ’s College. He has also taught at Sussex, Essex, Yale, Stanford, École Polytechnique, Stockholm and Princeton. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Universite´ de Paris Dauphine.
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Kamel Jedidi
- Jerome A. Chazen Professor of Global Business
- Marketing Division
Kamel Jedidi is the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of Global Business at Columbia Business School, New York. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Tunis and Master and Ph.D. degrees in Marketing and Statistics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Jedidi has extensively published in leading marketing and statistical journals. His research interests include pricing, product positioning, and market segmentation.

Stephen Zagor
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Management Division
Stephen Zagor is a New York City based Consultant and Educator, focusing on restaurants and food businesses. He has developed an extensive knowledge of the culinary industry, specializing in the business side of food enterprises.
As a consultant Steve has provided comprehensive support to a wide variety of clients including entrepreneurs starting restaurants, food retail businesses and food products. His clients have included large public companies, investment funds, government agencies, lawyers, large restaurant groups and small food business owners.

Larry Selden
- Professor Emeritus of Business
- Economics Division
Professor Selden teaches debt markets and lectures on shareholder value creation for business groups around the world. A recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation and the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Selden has analyzed models of portfolio allocation and preference determination. His current research focuses on linking sales and marketing efforts to a corporation’s share price. He is also applying his findings to Executive Education programs.

Melanie Brucks
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Melanie Brucks is interested in creativity and innovation. Her research focuses on the processes involved in generating and selecting innovative ideas and on the cognitive and behavioral consequences of technological innovations. Her findings help marketers better design ideation activities to maximize productivity and fuel innovation.
Before joining Columbia, Melanie Brucks received a PhD in Marketing from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Silvia Bellezza
- Associate Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Silvia Bellezza is an Associate Professor of Business in Marketing at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on status signaling in consumption. Specifically, her work examines traditional status signals (e.g., conventional luxury brands and products) and alternative status signals (e.g., minimalism, vintage, sustainable luxury).

Ran Kivetz
- Philip H. Geier, Jr. Professor of Marketing
- Marketing Division
Professor Ran Kivetz is a tenured professor at Columbia University Business School, where he holds the Philip H. Geier, Jr. Professorship of Marketing. Professor Kivetz is a leading expert in the areas of behavioral economics, decision-making, marketing, customer behavior, incentives, and innovation. His experience in these fields includes over twenty years of research, management, consulting, and teaching. His latest research explores political science and political psychology through the lens of behavioral economics and decision research.

Elizabeth Friedman
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Elizabeth Friedman is a faculty member at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business. She researches consumer decision making. Her research explores why consumers are often reluctant to buy certain items even when the items provide value, how consumers’ active goals can affect their decision process, and how small changes to the choice context can affect what consumers consider and the resulting choices they make.

Nicole DeHoratius
- Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Nicole DeHoratius
- Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Morris Holbrook
- William T. Dillard Professor Emeritus of Business
- Marketing Division
Professor Holbrook has taught marketing strategy, sales management, consumer behavior, and commercial communication in the culture of consumption. He has conducted research on the validity of perceptual and preference mapping and on consumer aesthetics applied to responses toward radio listening, jazz recordings, and classical music.

Eric Johnson
- Norman Eig Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Director
- Center for the Decision Sciences
- Fellow
- Association for Psychological Science

Eric Johnson
- Norman Eig Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Director
- Center for the Decision Sciences
- Fellow
- Association for Psychological Science
Eric Johnson is a faculty member at the Columbia Business School at Columbia University where he is the inaugural holder of the Norman Eig Chair of Business, and Director of the Center for Decision Sciences. His research examines the interface between Behavioral Decision Research, Economics and the decisions made by consumers, managers, and their implications for public policy, markets and marketing.

Donald Lehmann
- George E. Warren Professor Emeritus of Business
- Marketing Division
Professor Lehmann has taught several different marketing courses. His research focuses on individual and group choice and decision making, the adoption of innovation and new product development, and the management and valuation of marketing assets (brands, customers). He is also interested in knowledge accumulation, empirical generalizations, and information use. Lehmann has published more than 200 articles and books, serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and is the founding editor of Marketing Letters.

Sandra Matz
- David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business
- Management Division
Sandra Matz takes a Big Data approach to studying human behavior in a variety of business-related domains. She combines methodologies from psychology and computer science – including machine learning, experimental designs, online surveys, and field studies – to explore the relationships between people’s psychological characteristics (e.g. their personality) and the digital footprints they leave with every step they take in the digital environment (e.g. their Facebook Likes or their credit card transactions).

Oded Netzer
- Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Vice Dean for Research
- Dean's Office

Oded Netzer
- Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Vice Dean for Research
- Dean's Office
Professor Netzer's expertise centers on one of the major business challenges of the data-rich environment: developing quantitative methods that leverage data to gain a deeper understanding of customer behavior and guide firms' decisions. He focuses primarily on building statistical and econometric models to measure consumer preferences and understand how customer choices change over time, and across contexts. Most notably, he has developed a framework for managing firms' customer bases through dynamic segmentation.

Bernd Schmitt
- Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business
- Marketing Division
- Faculty Director
- Center on Global Brand Leadership

Bernd Schmitt
- Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business
- Marketing Division
- Faculty Director
- Center on Global Brand Leadership
Professor Schmitt is Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School. He researches, teaches, and advises corporations on branding, innovation, creative strategy, and customer experience.

Kristen Lane
- Senior Lecturer in Discipline in the Marketing Division
- Marketing Division
Kristen Lane is a faculty member in the Marketing Division at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on the psychology of (mis)information. Specifically, her work examines the social and identity-based processes that drive what people read, believe, and share online. Her findings inform efforts to understand and reduce the spread of misleading and deceptive information.

Gita Johar
- Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Gita V. Johar (PhD NYU 1993; MBA Indian Institute of Management Calcutta 1985) has been on the faculty of Columbia Business School since 1992 and is currently the Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business. Professor Johar received the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIMC in 2019. She served as the school’s inaugural Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from 2019 to 2021, Faculty Director of Online Initiatives from 2014 to 2017, Senior Vice Dean from 2011 to 2014, and as the inaugural Vice Dean for Research from 2010 to 2011.

Rajeev Kohli
- Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Rajeev Kohli is the Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research interests are in mathematical models of non-compensatory choice, product design and recommendation systems. He has published papers in leading journals in marketing, operations research, discrete mathematics and mathematical psychology. He has also served on the editorial boards of leading journals including Management Science and Operations Research.

Moran Cerf
- Academic Director in Executive Education
- Executive Education
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Marketing Division

Moran Cerf
- Academic Director in Executive Education
- Executive Education
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
With nearly 90 academic publications, over 50 students, half a dozen patents, and nearly 10 million online followers, Moran Cerf is one of the leaders in the research and applications of neuroscience in business.
Cerf holds a PhD in neuroscience (Caltech), an MA in Philosophy, and a BSc in Physics (Tel-Aviv University. He has taught leadership and marketing at NYU and the Kellogg School of Management, where he was a professor of neuroscience and business for nearly a decade.

Stephen Zeldes
- Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Economics and Public Policy
- Economics Division
- Co-director
- Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University

Stephen Zeldes
- Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Economics and Public Policy
- Economics Division
- Co-director
- Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
Stephen P. Zeldes is the Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He serves as co-director of the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University. He served as chair of the school’s Finance and Economics division from 2014-17.

Marco Morales Barba
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science and Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Marco Morales Barba
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science and Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Vicki Morwitz
- Bruce Greenwald Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Vicki Morwitz is the Bruce Greenwald Professor of Business and Professor of Marketing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Professor Morwitz earned a B.S in applied mathematics and computer science from Rutgers University, an M.S. in operations research from Polytechnic Institute of New York (now NYU’s Tandon School), and an M.A. in statistics and a Ph.D. in marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Columbia, she served on the faculty of the Stern School at NYU for 28 years.

Robert Morais
- Lecturer in Business
- Marketing Division
Robert J. Morais is an anthropologist with a career in advertising and market research, and a Lecturer at Columbia Business School. He has taught in the full time MBA, EMBA, and Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Latin America, Africa, and America programs. Morais was a Principal/Co-owner of a market research firm for 11 years, preceded by 25 years with advertising agencies rising to Chief Strategic Officer.

Mohamed Hussein
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
Dr. Mohamed Hussein is a faculty member in the Marketing Division at Columbia Business School. Using survey experiments, conjoint analysis, and natural language processing techniques, he studies the psychology of persuasion, politics, and the intersection of the two. Dr. Hussein’s research has been published in top-tier academic journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and Personality and Social Psychology Review.

Michael Morris
- Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership
- Management Division
Michael Morris is the Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership at CBS and also serves as Professor in the Psychology Department of Columbia University.
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Michael Ewens
- David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance
- Finance Division
- Co-director
- Private Equity Program

Michael Ewens
- David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance
- Finance Division
- Co-director
- Private Equity Program
Michael Ewens is the David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance and co-director of the Private Equity Program. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies, Associate Editor at Management Science, Associate Editor at the Journal of Corporate Finance, and co-editor of the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. He received a Ph.D.

Jane (Jian) Li
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Professor Jian Li joined Columbia Business School in 2021. She graduated with a PhD from the Joint Program of Financial Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research interest lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. She is particularly interested in how financial intermediaries affect the real economy and how different types of financial institutions can contribute to financial instability.

Parinitha Sastry
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Professor Parinitha (Pari) Sastry is an assistant professor of finance at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on climate change, financial intermediation, and real-estate markets. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and her finance Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has worked previously at the Department of Treasury, Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, Brookings Institution, and New York Fed.

David Tamburri
- Lecturer in Continuing Education, Lecturer in Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

David Tamburri
- Lecturer in Continuing Education, Lecturer in Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
David is a Managing Partner with Health Enterprise Partners having joined the firm 16 years ago. Previously he was a Vice President for Susquehanna Growth Equity, a private equity group focused on growth stage technology companies. He was formerly the President and Chief Operating Officer of Onward Healthcare, Inc., a Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe portfolio company. Prior to Onward, Dave was an Executive Vice President of Pinnacor, Inc., a General Atlantic portfolio company, which went public.

Enrique Arzac
- Professor Emeritus
- Finance Division
Professor Arzac is an expert on corporate finance and valuation. He teaches the advanced corporate finance courses in the MBA and Executive MBA programs, directs the Merger, Buyouts and Corporate Restructuring program for executives, and co-directs the Mergers and Acquisitions program for executives at London Business School. He is the author of the book Valuation for Mergers, Buyouts and Restructuring and has published many articles in finance and economics journals.

Patrick Bolton
- Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor Emeritus of Business and Professor Emeritus of Economics
- Finance Division

Patrick Bolton
- Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor Emeritus of Business and Professor Emeritus of Economics
- Finance Division
Patrick Bolton is the David Zalaznick Professor of Business. He joined Columbia Business School in July 2005. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1986 and holds a BA in economics from the University of Cambridge and a BA in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He began his career as an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to Harvard University, joining their economics department from 1987-1989. He was Chargé de Recherche at the C.N.R.S.

Anne Heinrichs
- Assistant Professor
- Accounting Division
Anne Heinrichs joined Columbia University in 2014 with PhD and MBA degrees from the University of Chicago and five years of work experience in investment banking, private equity and accounting. She is a CFA Charterholder and has financial advisor licenses in securities, derivatives and regulations. Professor Heinrichs develops a new elective course titled "Corporate Transactions and Financial Modelling" that she teaches to MBA and EMBA students in Spring.

Luigi Rizzo
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Professor Luigi Rizzo is Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, based in London (United Kingdom).
Prior to Morgan Stanley, he held leadership positions at Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.

Jay Dahya
- Lecturer in Business
- Finance Division
Jay Dahya's primary areas of expertise are corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate valuation, and international financial markets. He has taught finance at the undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and PhD level, and is the recipient of several teaching awards for his efforts in the classroom. His research has been published in leading finance journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, among others.

David Weinstein
- Professor (by courtesy)
- Finance Division
- Director
- Center on Japanese Economy and Business

David Weinstein
- Professor (by courtesy)
- Finance Division
- Director
- Center on Japanese Economy and Business
David E. Weinstein is the Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at Columbia University. He is also the director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), co-director of Columbia’s APEC Study Center, co-director of the Japan Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and he was appointed Global Advisor to Global Financial City Tokyo by Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

David S. Erickson
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Business
- Finance Division
David Erickson joined CBS in the Fall of 2024 as an Adjunct Professor in the Finance Department.
Prior to joining CBS, David spent ten years at The Wharton School as a Senior Fellow and Lecturer in the Finance Department and Co-Director of the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance. He earned the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award each of his last six years there. David was also a Lecturer in Law at Penn Law/University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Xavier Giroud
- Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics
- Finance Division
Xavier Giroud is the Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

Ellen Carr
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Business
- Finance Division
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing

Ellen Carr
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Business
- Finance Division
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing
Ellen Carr has over two decades of experience as a high yield bond portfolio manager, most recently at Weaver C. Barksdale (WCB), a majority-women-owned, institutional fixed income investment management firm based in Nashville, TN. She specializes in the construction and management of high yield and core plus bond portfolios. Prior to joining WCB, she served as senior vice president and a high yield portfolio manager for institutional separate accounts and mutual funds for The Capital Group Companies/American Funds in Los Angeles, CA.

Daniel Wolfenzon
- Nomura Professor of International Finance
- Finance Division
Daniel Wolfenzon is the Nomura Professor of International Finance at Columbia Business School. He received a Masters and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and holds a BS in economics and a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT. Professor Wolfenzon previously taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago and NYU. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests are in corporate finance and organizational economics.

John Moon
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Professor Moon is a Partner and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Private Equity. He initially joined Morgan Stanley Private Equity in 1998 and was promoted to Managing Director in 2002. He serves on the Investment Committee of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. Prior to rejoining Morgan Stanley Private Equity in 2008, he was a Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings LLC where he served on the Investment Committees of the Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy & Power Funds III and IV. Previously, Prof.

Matthew Dell Orfano
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Matthew Dell Orfano is a Senior member at Discovery Capital, focusing globally on multiple sectors, thematic trade construction, and special situations, in addition to managing their data efforts. He is responsible for individual positions and the internal thematically driven portfolio, which assimilates bottoms-up analysis and macro thematic from over 55 countries into actionable insights.

David Glazek
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
David has over 15 years of experience investing in distressed, special situations and all-weather credit strategies, including as a Partner and Portfolio Manager of Standard General, LP. and Sunago Capital Partners LP. He also serves as Executive Chairman of Turning Point Brands, Inc. (NYSE: TPB), a Director of National Cinemedia, Inc.

Kairong Xiao
- Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Kairong Xiao is Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research interests span financial intermediation, corporate finance, monetary economics, industrial organization, and political economy.

Robert Willens
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Since 2008, Robert Willens has been the president of his own tax and accounting service. Previously, he was a Managing Director in the Equity Research department at Lehman Brothers, Inc in New York for 20 years. Mr.

Daniel Keum
- Associate Professor of Business
- Management Division
Daniel (Dongil) Keum is an Associate Professor of Management at Columbia Business School. His research interests lie in innovation, organizational structure, labor market policy, and their application to public policy formation. He holds a PhD from NYU Stern School of Business and an AB with high honors in economics and mathematics from Dartmouth College. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Daniel worked at McKinsey & Company for four years. His primary industry experience is in retail, fashion, and corporate portfolio restructuring.

Lawrence Glosten
- S. Sloan Colt Professor Emeritus of Banking and International Finance in the Faculty of Business
- Finance Division

Lawrence Glosten
- S. Sloan Colt Professor Emeritus of Banking and International Finance in the Faculty of Business
- Finance Division
Lawrence R. Glosten is the S. Sloan Colt Professor of Banking and International Finance at Columbia Business School. He is also co-director (with Merritt Fox and Ed Greene) of the Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets at Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School and is an adjunct faculty member at the Law School. He has been at Columbia since 1989, before which he taught at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and has held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota.

Donna Hitscherich
- Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
- Finance Division
- Co-director
- Private Equity Program
- Bernstein Faculty Leader
- Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics
- Private Equity Program Co-Director
- Private Equity Program Co-Director

Donna Hitscherich
- Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
- Finance Division
- Co-director
- Private Equity Program
- Bernstein Faculty Leader
- Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics
- Private Equity Program Co-Director
- Private Equity Program Co-Director
Professor Donna M. Hitscherich currently serves as a senior lecturer of Finance, director of the Private Equity Program, and a Bernstein Faculty Leader at the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. Professor Hitscherich’s courses include Corporate Finance as well as the elective courses Business Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Advanced Corporate Finance. In 2002, she was nominated for the Dean’s Award for Innovation in the MBA Curriculum for her presentation of the Advanced Corporate Finance course.

Matthias Breuer
- Associate Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Matthias Breuer is an Associate Professor of Business in the Accounting Division of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. In his research, he examines issues of corporate transparency and information verification, with a particular focus on the role of regulation in addressing corporate information issues. His research has been recognized with multiple awards (e.g., the 2019 and 2021 Best Paper Awards of the American Accounting Association’s FARS Midyear Meetings), presented at leading universities and conferences, and published in reputable journals (e.g., the

Yiming Ma
- Regina Pitaro Associate Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Yiming Ma is the Regina Pitaro Associate Professor in the Finance Division at Columbia Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2018 and a B.A. in Economics & Mathematical and Global Affairs from Yale University in 2013.

Owen Davis
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Owen is a General Partner at Contour Venture Partners and previously from 2008 to 2016 was the Managing Director of NYC Seed, a very early seed stage venture capital fund in New York City. He also founded the NYC Seedstart accelerator and Overlap, an artificial intelligence software company for scheduling.

Olivier Darmouni
- Associate Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Professor Olivier Darmouni is a financial economist whose research interests span corporate finance, banking and industrial organization. He applies a variety of empirical methods to understand how frictions, in particular asymmetric information, affect credit markets. Prior to joining Columbia, Olivier graduated from a PhD in Economics from Princeton University.

Clayton E. Sachs
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Management Division
Clayton Sachs brings over a decade of investing and operating experience. Clayton currently serves as Vice President of Datacor overseeing two business units, professional services and customer support, go-to-market strategy, and corporate development (M&A). During his 7-year tenure at Datacor Clayton has executed on and integrated 8 acquisitions, opened a 40 person development center in Costa Rica, launched an integrated payments offering, and aided in building out the Datacor executive team.

Robert Herz
- Executive in Residence
- Executives in Residence Program
Bob Herz’s current activities include serving on the boards of directors and various board committees of Fannie Mae ( Chairman of Audit Committee), Morgan Stanley (Chairman of Audit Committee), Workiva Inc., Paxos, and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Foundation, on the Independent Investment Committee of UNOPS, on several advisory boards, as an Ambassador for the International Integrated Reporting Council, and as a member of the Audit Committee Chair Advisory Council of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He is also an executive in residence at Columbia Busi

Shivaram Rajgopal
- Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing; Chair of the Accounting Division
- Accounting Division
- Chartered Accountancy, 1987

Shivaram Rajgopal
- Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing; Chair of the Accounting Division
- Accounting Division
- Chartered Accountancy, 1987
Shiva Rajgopal is the Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.

Lisa Liu
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Lisa Yao Liu joined Columbia University in 2020. Her research interests include financial reporting regulations and information technologies, with a particular focus on auditing and ESG/stakeholder-related matters. Professor Liu uses different research methods including empirical archival methods, structural estimation, and field survey and interviews. Her research has been presented at leading conferences and published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research.

R. Glenn Hubbard
- Dean Emeritus; Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics
- Economics Division
- Director
- Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business
- Chazen Institute Board
- Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business

R. Glenn Hubbard
- Dean Emeritus; Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics
- Economics Division
- Director
- Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business
- Chazen Institute Board
- Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business
Professor Hubbard is a specialist in public economics, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions. He has written more than 100 articles and books on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics and public policy, including two textbooks, and has authored The Wall and the Bridge and coauthored Balance, The Aid Trap, and Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise.

Doron Nissim
- Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting & Finance
- Accounting Division
Professor Nissim earned his PhD in Accounting at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined Columbia Business School in 1997. He was granted tenure in 2005, and full professorship in 2007. He served as the Chair of the Accounting Division during the years 2006–2009 and 2014–2016.

Charles Calomiris
- Henry Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Financial Institutions in the Faculty of Business and Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs
- Finance Division

Charles Calomiris
- Henry Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Financial Institutions in the Faculty of Business and Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs
- Finance Division
Charles W. Calomiris is Henry Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Financial Institutions in the Faculty of Business and Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia Business School, Director of the Business School’s Program for Financial Studies Initiative on Finance and Growth in Emerging Markets, and a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. His research spans the areas of banking, corporate finance, financial history, and monetary economics.
Corporate Governance

Lisa Liu
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Lisa Yao Liu joined Columbia University in 2020. Her research interests include financial reporting regulations and information technologies, with a particular focus on auditing and ESG/stakeholder-related matters. Professor Liu uses different research methods including empirical archival methods, structural estimation, and field survey and interviews. Her research has been presented at leading conferences and published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research.

Shivaram Rajgopal
- Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing; Chair of the Accounting Division
- Accounting Division
- Chartered Accountancy, 1987

Shivaram Rajgopal
- Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing; Chair of the Accounting Division
- Accounting Division
- Chartered Accountancy, 1987
Shiva Rajgopal is the Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.

Anne Heinrichs
- Assistant Professor
- Accounting Division
Anne Heinrichs joined Columbia University in 2014 with PhD and MBA degrees from the University of Chicago and five years of work experience in investment banking, private equity and accounting. She is a CFA Charterholder and has financial advisor licenses in securities, derivatives and regulations. Professor Heinrichs develops a new elective course titled "Corporate Transactions and Financial Modelling" that she teaches to MBA and EMBA students in Spring.

R. Glenn Hubbard
- Dean Emeritus; Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics
- Economics Division
- Director
- Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business
- Chazen Institute Board
- Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business

R. Glenn Hubbard
- Dean Emeritus; Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics
- Economics Division
- Director
- Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business
- Chazen Institute Board
- Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business
Professor Hubbard is a specialist in public economics, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions. He has written more than 100 articles and books on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics and public policy, including two textbooks, and has authored The Wall and the Bridge and coauthored Balance, The Aid Trap, and Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise.

Geoffrey Heal
- Donald C. Waite III Professor Emeritus of Social Enterprise in the Faculty of Business
- Economics Division
- Bernstein Faculty Leader
- Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics

Geoffrey Heal
- Donald C. Waite III Professor Emeritus of Social Enterprise in the Faculty of Business
- Economics Division
- Bernstein Faculty Leader
- Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics
Geoffrey Heal, Donald C. Waite III Professor Emeritus of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, is noted for contributions to economic theory and resource and environmental economics. He holds bachelors (first class), masters and doctoral degrees from Cambridge University, where he studied at Churchill College and taught at Christ’s College. He has also taught at Sussex, Essex, Yale, Stanford, École Polytechnique, Stockholm and Princeton. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Universite´ de Paris Dauphine.

David Glazek
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division
David has over 15 years of experience investing in distressed, special situations and all-weather credit strategies, including as a Partner and Portfolio Manager of Standard General, LP. and Sunago Capital Partners LP. He also serves as Executive Chairman of Turning Point Brands, Inc. (NYSE: TPB), a Director of National Cinemedia, Inc.

Matthias Breuer
- Associate Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Matthias Breuer is an Associate Professor of Business in the Accounting Division of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. In his research, he examines issues of corporate transparency and information verification, with a particular focus on the role of regulation in addressing corporate information issues. His research has been recognized with multiple awards (e.g., the 2019 and 2021 Best Paper Awards of the American Accounting Association’s FARS Midyear Meetings), presented at leading universities and conferences, and published in reputable journals (e.g., the

Patricia Angus
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Finance Division
Patricia Angus, JD, MIA, TEP, is Founder and CEO of Angus Advisory Group LLC, an Adjunct Professor and Founder of the Global Family Enterprise Program Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

Robert Herz
- Executive in Residence
- Executives in Residence Program
Bob Herz’s current activities include serving on the boards of directors and various board committees of Fannie Mae ( Chairman of Audit Committee), Morgan Stanley (Chairman of Audit Committee), Workiva Inc., Paxos, and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Foundation, on the Independent Investment Committee of UNOPS, on several advisory boards, as an Ambassador for the International Integrated Reporting Council, and as a member of the Audit Committee Chair Advisory Council of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He is also an executive in residence at Columbia Busi

Jonathan Glover
- George O. May Professor of Financial Accounting in the Faculty of Business
- Accounting Division

Jonathan Glover
- George O. May Professor of Financial Accounting in the Faculty of Business
- Accounting Division

Thomas Bourveau
- Associate Professor of Business
- Accounting Division
Thomas Bourveau joined Columbia University in 2018. He previously served on the faculty at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained in PhD in Management Science from HEC Paris. He teaches financial statement analysis in Columbia Business School's MBA program. Professor Bourveau primarily conducts empirical research. His research lies at the intersection of accounting, law, and economics. He is most interested in evaluating the implications of regulatory interventions in financial markets, often through the role of information disclosure.

David S. Erickson
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Business
- Finance Division
David Erickson joined CBS in the Fall of 2024 as an Adjunct Professor in the Finance Department.
Prior to joining CBS, David spent ten years at The Wharton School as a Senior Fellow and Lecturer in the Finance Department and Co-Director of the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance. He earned the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award each of his last six years there. David was also a Lecturer in Law at Penn Law/University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Decision Making & Negotiations

Oded Netzer
- Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Vice Dean for Research
- Dean's Office

Oded Netzer
- Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Vice Dean for Research
- Dean's Office
Professor Netzer's expertise centers on one of the major business challenges of the data-rich environment: developing quantitative methods that leverage data to gain a deeper understanding of customer behavior and guide firms' decisions. He focuses primarily on building statistical and econometric models to measure consumer preferences and understand how customer choices change over time, and across contexts. Most notably, he has developed a framework for managing firms' customer bases through dynamic segmentation.

Eric Johnson
- Norman Eig Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Director
- Center for the Decision Sciences
- Fellow
- Association for Psychological Science

Eric Johnson
- Norman Eig Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
- Director
- Center for the Decision Sciences
- Fellow
- Association for Psychological Science
Eric Johnson is a faculty member at the Columbia Business School at Columbia University where he is the inaugural holder of the Norman Eig Chair of Business, and Director of the Center for Decision Sciences. His research examines the interface between Behavioral Decision Research, Economics and the decisions made by consumers, managers, and their implications for public policy, markets and marketing.

Clayton E. Sachs
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Management Division
Clayton Sachs brings over a decade of investing and operating experience. Clayton currently serves as Vice President of Datacor overseeing two business units, professional services and customer support, go-to-market strategy, and corporate development (M&A). During his 7-year tenure at Datacor Clayton has executed on and integrated 8 acquisitions, opened a 40 person development center in Costa Rica, launched an integrated payments offering, and aided in building out the Datacor executive team.

Michael Slepian
- Associate Professor of Business
- Management Division
Michael Slepian is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics in the Management Division of Columbia Business School. His program of research examines secrecy and trust. He studies the psychology of secrets and how keeping secrets affects two important variables that govern social and organizational life: trust and motivation. He has studied the consequences of keeping secrets, including how they change our behavior, judgments and actions.

Ashli Carter
- Lecturer in the Discipline of Management in the Faculty of Business
- Management Division

Ashli Carter
- Lecturer in the Discipline of Management in the Faculty of Business
- Management Division
Ashli Carter is a Lecturer in the Management Division at Columbia Business School. Currently, she teaches topics in leadership, negotiations, and cultivating a growth mindset in the MBA and Executive Education programs, as well as for CBS administrators and staff. Prior to joining CBS faculty, she taught MBA and undergraduate courses in leadership and professional ethics at NYU Stern where she was an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Management and Organizations.

Shai Davidai
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Management Division
Shai Davidai is Assistant Professor in the Management Division of Columbia Business School. His research examines people’s everyday judgments of themselves, other people, and society as a whole. He studies the psychological forces that shape, distort, and bias people’s perceptions of the world and their influence on people’s judgments, preferences, and choices. His topics of expertise include the psychology of judgment and decision making, economic inequality and social mobility, social comparisons, and zero-sum thinking.

Adam Galinsky
- Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics
- Management Division
- Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Dean's Office

Adam Galinsky
- Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics
- Management Division
- Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Dean's Office
Adam Galinsky is the Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at the Columbia Business School.
Professor Galinsky has published more than 300 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. His research and teaching focus on leadership, negotiations, diversity, decision-making, and ethics.

Malia Mason
- Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business
- Management Division
Malia Mason teaches the Negotiations elective and co-directs the Women in Leadership Executive Education program at Columbia Business School. In addition to training Columbia graduates, she has brought her expertise to a variety of sectors including financial services, media, tech, telecom, and the arts, providing valuable consulting and training to employees at numerous firms.

Bo Cowgill
- Assistant Professor
- Management Division
Bo Cowgill is an Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School, a research affiliate at CESifo, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His elective, People Analytics and Strategy, won The Aspen Institute's 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award. He was also named to Poets and Quants’ 2020 list of Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40.

Sheena Iyengar
- S. T. Lee Professor of Business
- Management Division
Sheena S. Iyengar is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division at Columbia Business School, and a world expert on choice and decision-making. Her book The Art of Choosing received the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year 2010 award, and was ranked #3 on the Amazon.com Best Business and Investing Books of 2010. Her research is regularly cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist as well as in popular books, such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Aziz Ansari’s Modern Romance.

Ran Kivetz
- Philip H. Geier, Jr. Professor of Marketing
- Marketing Division
Professor Ran Kivetz is a tenured professor at Columbia University Business School, where he holds the Philip H. Geier, Jr. Professorship of Marketing. Professor Kivetz is a leading expert in the areas of behavioral economics, decision-making, marketing, customer behavior, incentives, and innovation. His experience in these fields includes over twenty years of research, management, consulting, and teaching. His latest research explores political science and political psychology through the lens of behavioral economics and decision research.

Rachel McDonald
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Management Division
Professor McDonald earned her Ph.D. at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research examines social psychological influences on sustainable behavior and responses to environmental issues like climate change.

Michael Morris
- Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership
- Management Division
Michael Morris is the Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership at CBS and also serves as Professor in the Psychology Department of Columbia University.

Valerie Purdie-Greenaway
- Affiliated Faculty Associate Professor of Psychology
- Management Division
Valerie Purdie-Greenaway serves as Director for the Laboratory of Intergroup Relations and the Social Mind (LIRSM). She is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University, core faculty for the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program (RWJ Columbia-site), and research fellow at the Institute for Research on African-American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia.

Daniel Ames
- Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Business
- Management Division
Professor Ames's research focuses on social judgment and behavior. He examines how people judge themselves as well as the individuals and groups around them (e.g., impression formation, stereotyping). He also studies the consequences of these judgments on interpersonal dynamics, including prosocial behaviors (e.g., trust, cooperation, helping) and competitive interactions (e.g., negotiations, conflict, aggression). A central aspect of this work is how people "read minds" to make inferences--whether right or wrong--about what others think, want, and feel.

Harborne Stuart
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Professor Stuart teaches Managerial Negotiations and Game-theoretic Business Strategy. His research focuses on the development of business theory using game-theoretic approaches. It includes the further development of "value-based strategy," which studies businesses as the central players in economic value creation, and “interactive decision theory,” which takes strategic uncertainty as the primary focus of strategic interaction. Application of the research is principally to the fields of strategy, negotiation, and operations.

Michael Brown
Michael is a Founder & General Partner at Bowery Capital based in New York. The firm invests in the next generation of b2b market leaders with a particular emphasis on digital transformation and legacy replacement cycles. Prior to Bowery Capital, Brown was a Co-Founder and General Partner at AOL Ventures. Before AOL Ventures, Brown worked for the investment arm of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. He began his career at Morgan Stanley as an equity research analyst.

Moran Cerf
- Academic Director in Executive Education
- Executive Education
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Marketing Division

Moran Cerf
- Academic Director in Executive Education
- Executive Education
- Adjunct Professor of Business
- Marketing Division
With nearly 90 academic publications, over 50 students, half a dozen patents, and nearly 10 million online followers, Moran Cerf is one of the leaders in the research and applications of neuroscience in business.
Cerf holds a PhD in neuroscience (Caltech), an MA in Philosophy, and a BSc in Physics (Tel-Aviv University. He has taught leadership and marketing at NYU and the Kellogg School of Management, where he was a professor of neuroscience and business for nearly a decade.