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Gary Appel ’77, who recently retired as Vice Chairman of the global middle market private equity funds manager, Castle Harlan, Inc., has been named Executive in Residence at Columbia Business School.

H. Fisk Johnson, chairman and CEO of SC Johnson, and Paolo Rocca, chairman and CEO of Tenaris S.A., are the winners of the fourth annual Deming Cup awards, given by the School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness.

The MBA Real Estate Program Advisory Board plays an active, participatory role in helping shape and guide real estate education at the Business School. The board is chaired by John R. Klopp, managing director of Morgan Stanley, Co-CEO, and Co-CIO of Morgan Stanley Real Estate. In the summer of 2011 thirteen new members joined the board. The new board members were welcomed with an orientation luncheon hosted by John Klopp at the offices of Morgan Stanley on July 19, 2011. We are pleased that the following real estate leaders have joined:

Gordon Shillinglaw, a Columbia Business School professor for nearly 30 years, died on March 31 at age 86 after a long battle with cancer.

Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, has been tapped to lead presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's economic policy team.

Professor Gerald Curtis was featured in a Financial Times opinion piece.

Gerald Brady '58, a Columbia University faculty member for more than 30 years and a professor emeritus of the Business School, died at home on April 16 at age 84.