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Anthony W. Marx is the president and CEO of the New York Public Library, the nation’s largest library system and the world’s preeminent public research library. Over fifteen years, Marx has reimagined this storied institution, building on his transformative leadership in higher education as president of Amherst College. A distinguished scholar and political scientist, Marx’s education — in the power of education — was forged by his experience in South Africa in the 1980s.

On Friday, November 21st, 2025, Columbia Business School welcomed more than 80 graduate students from Columbia, NYU, MIT, and Harvard for the 14th annual Coming to Terms: Negotiating Joint Ventures workshop. Co-hosted by the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate and the MIT Center for Real Estate, the full-day program gave students an immersive look into the strategy, structure, and negotiation dynamics that define real estate joint ventures.

Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School. Before joining the CBS faculty in 2018, he was on the faculty of New York University’s Stern School of Business for fifteen years. He received his B.A. from the University of Ghent and his M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

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