Columbia Business School hosted its fifth Pan-European Reunion on the weekend of September 22–24, 2000, in Monte Carlo. More than 400 Columbia Business School alumni and guests gathered for the reunion festivities, including a symposium on business and technology featuring Professor Manfred Lahnstein, special representative of the board of Bertelsmann AG, and Mario Monti, the European commissioner of competition, and a black-tie gala at the Monte Carlo Beach Club.