Chazen Institute Channel

In the past three decades, dozens of investors have tried to improve education by funneling billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing, and they have, with surprising regularity, failed. A just-released book from Columbia Business School Professor Jonathan Knee dissects what drives investors' efforts to improve education and why they consistently struggle to succeed.

In the Financial Times’s ninth annual ranking of MBA programs, the School is No. 2 — in the United States and the world.

In response to feedback from the School community, Uris Deli now serves custom-made sandwiches from 11 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., Monday through Friday.

By Dimple Kaur '06, cochair of the Student Leadership and Ethics Board.

In June, more than 2,000 alumni, current students, and newly admitted students gathered in more than 75 cities around the world in celebration of the Columbia Business School global alumni network as part of the sixth annual Worldwide Alumni Club Event (WACE).

In June, Charles Calomiris, the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, was appointed the new faculty director of the Program for Financial Studies. He succeeds Laurie Hodrick, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics, who served as founding director of the program and guided its establishment and activities since the program’s inception in 2010.

Sallie Krawcheck '92 and Trevor Harris explore recent regulation intended to manage conflicts of interest in equity research.