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2026 Alexander Bodini Foundation Prize Competition Winners
Alexander Bodini Foundation Prizes Awarded to Top Four Teams of Real Estate Capstone Course
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CBS team places 2nd at 2026 Kellogg Real Estate Venture Competition
Congratulations to Dilan Badshah ’27, Ben Curry ’27, Dalton Redmon ’27, Dominica Wambold ’26, and Wenjia Zheng ’26 for placing 2nd at the 2026 Kellogg Real Estate Venture Competition on April 15th.
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Student Faculty Interview with Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business Jane Yang '10
Jane Yang '10 is a real estate investment professional and professor at Columbia Business School, where she teaches the Real Estate Capstone course. She brings over 18 years of experience spanning $4.5 billion in transactions across all asset types. She is the founder of Cooper Square, a vertically integrated real estate owner, operator, and investor focused on the manufactured housing sector. Before founding Cooper Square, Jane had an extensive career holding roles at leading institutions including Prospect Ridge, Meadow Partners, and Lehman Brothers, building expertise across real estate private equity, distressed investing, and restructuring.Jane holds an MBA from Columbia Business School where she was a Bodini Fellow and the recipient of the Alexander Bodini Foundation Prize Competition. She also holds an AB in Government from Harvard University.
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Columbia Business School Hosts 14th Annual Coming to Terms: Negotiating Joint Ventures Workshop
On Friday, November 21st, 2025, Columbia Business School welcomed more than 80 graduate students from Columbia, NYU, MIT, and Harvard for the 14th annual Coming to Terms: Negotiating Joint Ventures workshop. Co-hosted by the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate and the MIT Center for Real Estate, the full-day program gave students an immersive look into the strategy, structure, and negotiation dynamics that define real estate joint ventures.
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2025 Alexander Bodini Foundation Prize Competition Winners
Alexander Bodini Foundation Prizes Awarded to Top Four Teams of Real Estate Capstone Course
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Student Faculty Interview with Senior Lecturer Brian Lancaster
Brian P. Lancaster is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Finance at the Columbia Business School. Professor Lancaster teaches the following courses: Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Debt Markets, Residential Real Estate Finance: Dirt, Debt and Derivatives, Capital Markets and Investments, Real Estate Entrepreneurship, and Debt Markets in the MBA, EMBA, PhD and MS&E programs. Professor Lancaster received the Robert. W. Lear Award in 2023 which is presented annually to the faculty member who most clearly demonstrates commitment to students through accessibility and an overall contribution to the improvement of student life and education. He was also chosen by the Student Government Executive Board and MBA Class of 2025 as the winner of the 2025 Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom, which is awarded to a full-time faculty member who exemplifies excellence in the classroom, based on his or her dedication to teaching and ability to communicate knowledge and encourage students.He is also a faculty sponsor of Chazen Global Study Tours as well as the faculty sponsor for joint Chazen Institute-Real Estate Association Global Study tours.
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Columbia Business School Hosts 13th Annual Workshop on Negotiating Real Estate Joint Ventures
Columbia Business School Hosts 13th Annual Workshop on Negotiating Real Estate Joint Ventures
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Student Faculty Interview with Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School. Before joining the CBS faculty in 2018, he was on the faculty of New York University’s Stern School of Business for fifteen years. He received his B.A. from the University of Ghent and his M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. from Stanford University.