Columbia Business School Announces Exclusive Partnership with NY 2014
Columbia Business School announced that its entrepreneurship experts will be available at NY TechDay 2014 to consult with entrepreneurs who visit the Columbia Business School booth. Using a model based on speed dating events, CBS startup gurus will offer ‘Speed Mentoring’ to budding entrepreneurs. Visitors will have the opportunity to deliver their best one-minute pitch to the CBS gurus and receive 2-3 minutes of expert feedback. The School, which has signed on as NY TechDay’s exclusive higher education partner, has also chosen nine successful young alumni startup ventures to showcase at the event, including Betterment, Hopscotch, Kookopa, MphRX, Necklish, PERK.LA, Shake, Compass, and Yarly.
“There are so many undiscovered entrepreneurs who have brilliant ideas but who feel stuck because they’re unsure how to go from idea to execution,” said Vince Ponzo, director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School and one of the experts who will be providing on–site advice during the event. “Columbia Business School is rapidly becoming a preeminent force in the NYC startup scene, and our goal is to be a resource for all of these potential startups and help them identify the right next step. I’m very much looking forward to speed–mentoring anyone looking for help at TechDay.” Taking place on April 24th at Pier 92 in New York City, NY TechDay will bring together an estimated 10,000 attendees comprised of entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, and members of the media.
Columbia Alumni Give $40 Million for New Campus
Arthur Samberg and Mario Gabelli, both 1967 graduates of Columbia Business School, have pledged a combined $40 million to go towards the school’s new Manhattanville campus, about a mile from the main campus in Morningside Heights.
Samberg is the chairman of the private jet charter company JetSuite, and Gabelli is the chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors. Not only did they graduate together, but both alumni sit on Columbia’s Board of Overseers.
Between this gift and generous other alumni donations, Columbia has raised almost $500 million for construction of the new campus. The campus will include two brand new buildings named after other generous donors, Ron Perelman and Henry Kravis. These facilities will be a fresh alternative from Uris Hall, the nearly fifty year old building out of which CBS operates, and Warren Hall, which CBS shares with Columbia Law School.
The new Columbia Business School campus is projected to open in 2018.
