Faculty includes both professors at the forefront of their academic fields and full-time practitioners in social and environmental impact areas who teach as adjuncts. Both are a vital resource for MBA students and graduates. Faculty members expose students to new ideas, theory, and research, offer educational and career advice, and provide a starting point for networking with organizations relevant to social and environmental areas in the nonprofit, public, and business sectors.
Faculty members are involved in research projects, external working groups, conference and student club activities, and student organized study trips.
Dan Wang
Co-director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change; Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise
Inclusive entrepreneurship; tech strategy; management; social movements
Bruce Usher
Co-director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change; Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director; Professor of Professional Practice
Finance and sustainability; renewable energy; climate change; capital Markets and environmental market mechanisms; investment management and socially responsible investing; commercial banking, sustainable international development, and poverty, international project finance
Raymond Horton
Frank R. Lautenberg Professor Emeritus of Ethics and Corporate Governance; Former Director of Social Enterprise Programs in Executive Education; Founder of the Social Enterprise Program
Nonprofit and public management; public/municipal finance and urban affairs; modern political economy; business values and ethics; corporate social responsibility
Geoffrey Heal
Donald C. Waite III Professor Emeritus of Social Enterprise
Business and the environment; environmental conservation; valuation of environmental assets and market mechanisms; socially responsible investing; sustainability; managerial economics; risk management, derivatives and insurance and reinsurance; homeland security
Gernot Wagner
Senior Lecturer in Discipline of Economics in the Faculty of Business; Faculty director, Climate Knowledge Initiative
Climate risks; climate policy
Joseph Stiglitz
University Professor; Founder and Co-President of The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
Economics of information; globalization and global economic policies; international development; political economy; monetary and international economics; and other areas
Suresh Sundaresan
Robert W. Lear Professor of Finance and Economics
Microfinance; microinsurance; delivery mechanisms for emergency aid relief; credit mechanisms in the developing world; asset allocation; debt markets
Linda Green
Cain Brothers & Company Professor Emerita of Healthcare Management; Founder and Co-director of the Columbia Alliance for Healthcare Management
Health care; operational efficiency and effectiveness in health care delivery systems; operations research and management
Medini Singh
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Decision, Risk and Operations
Service operations in the nonprofit and business sectors; nonprofit management; supply chain management; manufacturing and service systems; operations management
Damon J. Phillips
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Faculty of Business; former Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise
Consulting; entrepreneurship; innovation; management; operations management; mass incarceration and business
Sandra Navalli
Adjunct Associate Professor in Management and Social Enterprise
Social Enterprise; social entrepreneurship and ventures; financial literacy and inclusion; mass incarceration and business
Melissa Berman
Adjunct Professor in Management and Social Enterprise
Strategic philanthropy and social venture capital; nonprofit and foundation management; program evaluations; nonprofit governance
Doug Bauer
Adjunct Professor in Management and Social Enterprise
Nonprofit management, effectiveness, and innovation in social sector organizations; philanthropy and foundations; nonprofit finance and reporting; nonprofit boards and governance; fundraising
Julius Mokrauer
Adjunct Assistant Professor in Management and Social Enterprise
Social ventures; social entrepreneurship; early-stage impact venture funds
Mark Zurack
Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business in Finance
ESG investing; capital markets; portfolio construction; risk management; and quantitative research
Anne Eidelman
Adjunct Assistant Professor in Management and Social Enterprise
Nonprofit organizational development; nonprofit management and governance
David Rosenberg
Adjunct Associate Professor in Management and Social Enterprise
Education and leadership; nonprofit consulting and management; social entrepreneurship and education; public education
R.A. Farrokhnia
Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia Business and Engineering Schools; Advanced Projects and Applied Research in Fintech
Fintech, financial inclusion; ESG, data/ML/AI, innovation, deep tech; tech solutions and startups for social impact; cross-Atlantic and cross-Pacific entrepreneurial development