More than 800 business leaders and alumni from around the world gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria on Monday night for Columbia Business School’s 31st Annual Dinner, which raised $3 million — one of the highest totals ever — for the School’s programs and initiatives.
“At Columbia Business School, we educate individuals who are global in their perspective and entrepreneurial in their outlook and who contribute to the world around them,” Dean Glenn Hubbard said in his remarks to the packed ballroom. “The Columbia Business School experience is not simply for the next job, but for a lifetime career. And, both in and out of the classroom, we provide a bridge between theory and practice.”
Honorees Lew Frankfort ’69, chairman and CEO of Coach, and Joel I. Klein, chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, received the School’s Distinguished Leadership Award for business and government, respectively. David W. Zalaznick ’78, managing principal of the Jordan Company and chair of this year’s dinner, welcomed the honorees and guests, which included Columbia University President Lee Bollinger.
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