Conference Celebrates the Work of Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz
The 2001 Nobel laureate in economics will be honored
at a conference on October 24–25. He will receive a
Festschrift, “Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph
Stiglitz,” compiled by his students, teachers and coauthors.
Columbia Business School Launches Center to Address Tough Issues in Accounting and Security Analysis
Columbia Business School
announces the launch of
the Center for Excellence
in Accounting and Security
Analysis (CEASA). CEASA’s
Advisory Board is led by
former SEC chairman Arthur
Levitt. Levitt, who is currently
an adviser to the investment
firm the Carlyle Group,
said, “The center
will bring together the
best ideas in academia and
practice to provide objective
solutions to current and
anticipated issues facing
regulators and practitioners.” CEASA will be codirected
by Stephen Penman, the George
O. May Professor of Accounting
at Columbia Business School,
and Trevor Harris, a former
Columbia Business School
faculty member and current
managing director at and
head of the Global Valuation
and Accounting Team in Equity
Research at Morgan Stanley.
Columbia Business School Ranked #2 by Forbes Magazine
Columbia Business School ranks #2 in the biannual Forbes MBA survey,
which appears in the magazine’s October 13, 2003 issue. Based on return
on investment, the Forbes ranking surveyed the members of Columbia
Business School’s Class of 1998 on their pre-MBA and post-graduate salaries.
Columbia Business School’s Dean Meyer Feldberg ’65 informed
the School community that he is stepping down effective June
30, 2004. The announcement caps a successful 15-year renaissance
for Columbia Business School, which has capitalized on its New
York City location and vast network of business leaders to become
one of the world’s preeminent business schools.
Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald Team up in London
Professor Joseph Stiglitz, a 2001 Nobel Laureate
in Economics, and Professor Bruce Greenwald, the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management,
are teaching Globalization and Markets and the Changing Economic
Landscape to Executive MBA students this week in London. More
than 125 students are participating from across Columbia’s
portfolio of executive degree programs: EMBA-Global, the
Berkeley-Columbia EMBA and the New York–based EMBA program.
President Bush Appoints Eli Noam and Judith Klavans
President George W. Bush has appointed Eli
Noam, professor of economics and finance at the School
and director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
(CITI), and Judith L. Klavans, director of
Columbia’s Center of Research on Information Access (CRIA) to
the President’s Information and Technology Advisory Committee
(PITAC). Noam and Klavans are among 25 nominees representing
the leading information technology experts in both industry
and academia.