Jonathan Knee
- Michael T. Fries Professor of Professional Practice of Media and Technology; Co-Director
- Media and Technology Program

- Contact
- Office: 324 Kravis
- Phone: (212) 8545246
- E-mail: [email protected]
- Links
- Curriculum Vitae
Professor Knee teaches Digital Investing and Media and Technology Mergers and Acquisitions, and co-teaches The Media and Technology Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy with Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School and Sports Economics and Policy with Professor Sunil Gulati of the Economics Department. He also serves as co-director of the Media & Technology Program with Professor Sarvary. Professor Knee is a Senior Advisor at Evercore Partners and has been an investment banker for over thirty years, previously at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post and he is the author of The Platform Delusion (2021) Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education (2017), co-author of Curse of the Mogul (2009) and author of The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street (2006)
- Education
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BA, Boston University; MSc, Trinity in Dublin, Ireland; MBA, Stanford; JD, Yale
- Joined CBS
- 2001
All Activities
Columbia Business School Expands Digital Future Initiative
New Book from Columbia Business School Professor Examines the Pitfalls That Have Doomed Investors’ Efforts to Improve America's Education System
- Case ID
- 140308
Bloomberg LP — More Than the Box?
Was the supremacy of the once undisputed leader in the financial information industry being challenged in 2013 by new, less expensive ways of communicating with the investment community?
- Case ID
- 80320
Petersen Publishing (A and B)
Facing skepticism that it overpaid for a magazine publisher, will a young private equity firm find a profitable exit strategy?