GI Bill Now Accepted to Cover Exec Education Costs at Columbia
The Columbia Business School has recently announced that student veterans are now able to use their GI Bill to cover the costs of the Columbia Executive Education program. The request to include funding for executive education programs by Columbia was approved by The New York State Department of Veterans Affairs. Previously, the GI Bill could only be applied to degree granting programs in New York state. The approval of the coverage expansion will give students the opportunity to complete the Certificate in Business Excellence programs at Columbia.
Columbia offers students several different Comprehensive Management Programs at the executive education level. These programs include, Advanced Management, General Manager Leadership, Columbia Essentials of Management and Mastering Management. The school also provides several other executive education programs as well as programs designed for specific organizations.
Columbia Student Shares MBA Experience
Columbia Business School student Linda Chew recently shared the top five things that she has learned in business school with The Globe and Mail, a Toronto based publication. Chew, originally from Vancouver, enrolled in the two-year, full-time MBA program at Columbia. She completed the MBA program at Columbia this May.
Chew started her business career at Deloitte LLp. She has worked at the Toronto and Vancouver offices. She most recently has worked in mergers and acquisitions with the company. She is a chartered accountant and a Chartered Financial Analysis charter holder. She has contributed to The Globe and Mail over the course of her MBA program education. This is the last entry for the MBA experience stories for the publication. Continue reading…
Support for LGBTQ Community Grows on MBA Campuses
Since the release of the cover of the July issue of Vanity Fair Magazine, the world has been erupting with news about Caitlyn Jenner. According to TIME, there were more than 10 million Google searches for “Caitlyn Jenner” from May 29 to June 5. Caitlyn, formerly known as Bruce, has become the most well-known transgender woman. According to the official Google blog, “Her high-profile transition has put Jenner at the center of an active national dialogue about transgender equality and rights.”
In a preview of the VF story “Call Me Caitlyn,” the magazine reveals some of the conversations that contributing editor Buzz Bissinger had with Jenner over the course of her transition. The two discuss her upcoming eight-part documentary series on the E! network, “I am Cait.” Jenner comments that she is prepared for criticism about creating a show that could be perceived as a publicity stunt. “You don’t go out and change your gender for a television show. O.K., it ain’t happening. I don’t care who you are,” Jenner told Vanity Fair. “I’m doing it to help my soul and help other people.” The E! documentary series will focus on the issues that the transgender community faces.
Tips for Getting Employer Sponsorship for Executive MBA
Many Executive MBA programs accept employer sponsorship to cover program costs. However, the number of companies that provide students with the financial sponsorship has been decreasing because of hard economic times. Poets & Quants reported that, “forty-one percent of EMBA students were fully self-funded in 2013, up from 34 percent in 2009” and that “only 24 percent of students received full financial sponsorship.” So how do students seek full or even partial employer sponsorship for Executive MBA programs?
During an Executive MBA webinar at The Wharton School San Francisco, Professor Peter Cappelli, shared advice on receiving sponsorship. Professor Cappelli explains that because employers are offering fewer sponsorship opportunities and less money than previously, it is important for students who are seeking sponsorship to make a solid case for why they deserve to get company sponsorship. Students should also figure out exactly who in the company that they need to contact about sponsorship because it is often times not your direct supervisor. Cappelli explains that students need to find the person “who has the authority to make the decision.”
Morgan Stanley Donates $5.25 Million to Columbia Business School’s New Facilities
The following post has been republished in its entirety from original source clearadmit.com.
Pop quiz: How many Columbia Business School (CBS) alumni work for Morgan Stanley? Graduates of the New York City business school make up 245 of the investment banking giant’s current employees, CBS reports, including Chairman and CEO James Gorman ’87 and Brad Evans ‘70, managing director and vice president of the firm’s investment banking department. Gorman and Evans, together with CBS Professor Meyer Feldberg ’65, also are members of the school’s Board of Overseers.
Ties between the school and the firm grew even stronger earlier this spring when Morgan Stanley donated $5.25 million toward CBS’s new Manhattanville facilities. The “transformative gift,” as a press release last week called it, will create two Morgan Stanley Suites, one in each of the new buildings now under construction. It represents the largest corporate contribution to the Manhattanville Campus to date. Continue reading…
Columbia Professor Named Co-Director of Center for Social Enterprise
Columbia Business School professor Damon Phillips, has been named the co-director of the School’s Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. Professor Phillips is the James P. Gorman Professor of Business at the school. Professor Phillips will serve alongside Bruce Usher, Executive in Residence and adjunct professor of finance and economics.
As co-director of the Tamer Center, Phillips will lead research and curriculum, as well as develop connections and support for the Center. Professor Usher will retain primary responsibility for working with the Tamer Center advisory board and the School’s External Relations group, networking and providing support for the Tamer Center, advising students, leading event programming and providing general administrative oversight. Professors Phillips and Usher will jointly design and implement program strategy.
