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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What does it truly take to advise a family enterprise? This spring break, 19 second-year MBA students set out to find the answer firsthand. Through Columbia Business School's Consulting and Advising Family Enterprises (CAFE) program, developed in partnership with the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, students traveled across five cities and visited ten organizations, moving through Milan, Parma, Rimini, Ravenna, and Florence to meet the families and leaders behind Vibram, Barilla, Ferragamo, Nuova Energia Holding, Castello di Monsanto, Famiglia Cecchi, and Bocconi University, among others. Candid conversations on governance, succession, and legacy unfolded naturally within Italy's culture of trust and authenticity, proving once again to be the perfect classroom for this kind of relational learning.
