Presented for Students
- MBA Real Estate Program “Open House” Panel (Fall and Spring)
- Careers in Real Estate Workshop: Many Avenues of Real Estate with CBS Executives in Residence, Leanne Lachman and Scott Shapiro ’99
- Student Faculty Lunch with Professor Gregorio Schneider ’96, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
- Instructor-led ARGUS Training (Fall and Spring)
- Real Estate Debt Markets Panel
- Real Estate Excel Modeling Workshop with Chris Byrns ’25
- Coming to Terms: Negotiating Joint Ventures Workshop (with MIT, Harvard, GSAPP, NYU)
- Alexander Bodini Foundation Business Plan Competition
Distinguished Real Estate Speaker Series:
- Pursuing Better Healthcare through Real Estate Solutions featuring James Schmid ’05, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Anchor Health Properties
- Retail, Shopping Centers, and Mixed-Use Assets featuring Conor Flynn, Chief Executive Officer at Kimco Realty Corporation
- Affordable Housing featuring Rachel Diller ’99, Senior Managing Director and CIO, Workforce and Affordable Housing at Bridge Investment Group (PPIL)
- Industrial Real Estate featuring Mike Sacro, Senior Vice President and Market Officer at Prologis
- Erik Gustafson ’05, Global Chief Operating Officer, Real Estate, at Manulife Investment Management, Real Estate
- PropTech featuring Zach Aarons ’13, Co-Founder and General Partner at MetaProp
Bootcamps:
- Data Centers led by Brian Feldman '17, Vice President of Development at Compass Datacenters
- Hotel Ownership and Investment led by Joe Smith '99, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of 1754 Properties
In Partnership with the Real Estate Association:
- Alumni Mentorship Breakfast
- Fall Trek: Los Angeles, CA
- Real Estate Career Forum
- Chazen Institute International Study Tour: Japan and South Korea
- Spring Trek: Dallas, TX
- Columbia Women in Real Estate Summit
- Class of 2026 Lunch with the Alumni Real Estate Circle
- Various Site Tours and Company Visits
Columbia Business School Distinguished Speaker Series (DSS):
- Gilles Dellaert, Global Head of Credit and Insurance, Blackstone
- Hugh Frater '85 and Dave Benson, former CEO and former President of Fannie Mae (respectively)
Conferences:
- Diversity in Commercial Real Estate Conference (Sponsor)
- Real Estate Capital Markets Conference with Goodwin Law (Sponsor)
Presented for Faculty
- Discussion Across Disciplines, Faculty Book Roundtable (Fall and Spring)
- Tri-State "Housing Day" Faculty Research Conference led by Professor Boaz Abramson
- MBA Real Estate Program Faculty Dinners
- National Bureau of Economic Research conference (sponsor)
- American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association conference (sponsor)
- Pre-Western Finance Association Real Estate conference (sponsor)
Presented for Industry and Alumni
- Fall Real Estate Forum Dinner and Discussion
- Annual Spring Real Estate Forum Member Meeting and Dinner
More on Center Programming
18th Annual Columbia Business School Real Estate Symposium – December 2, 2025
View the featured speakers, committee and symposium agenda about the latest Real Estate Symposium below.
Phillips Pathway for Inclusive Leadership (PPIL) and Impact Real Estate Initiatives
The Phillips Pathway for Inclusive Leadership (PPIL) is a co-curricular program designed to provide students with the skills and strategies needed to develop as inclusive leaders.
Introducing Bootcamps
Complementing the core real estate curriculum, the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate introduced a new series of targeted three-hour intensive workshops this year called “Bootcamps.”
Columbia Women in Real Estate Summit
The 2026 Women in Real Estate Summit, themed “Building for the Future: Investing and Generating Real Value,” brought together diverse leaders from across the real estate industry to discuss investment, lending, development, and firm-level strategy.