Columbia Offers Personal Leadership and Success Program
Columbia Business School is offering a personal leadership and success program through its executive education program. Personal Leadership and Success integrates recent findings in psychology, neuroscience and cognitive behavior therapy with explorations of the inner lives of great leaders.
The Personal Leadership and Success program takes the view that to succeed professionally one needs to develop another dimension of leadership consisting of the ability to understand and direct one’s internal environment, goals, motivations, mindsets and emotions.
This three-day program offers a distinctive approach that integrates recent findings in psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive behavior therapy with explorations of the inner lives of great achievers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela.
Columbia Places First in Friendfactor Challenge
For the second year in a row, Columbia Business School placed first in the Friendfactor MBA Ally Challenge. The Friendfactor MBA Ally Challenge is a friendly competition among business schools to build the largest and most impactful ally initiatives they can over the course of the school year.
In 2012 Friendfactor presented MBA student leaders with a challenge to build the largest and most impactful ally initiatives they could over the course of the school year. Six top schools took up the challenge. They activated over 900 MBA students and transformed the culture at their schools. The participating schools raised awareness about LGBT issues by an average of 19 percent, and improved the inclusiveness of campus culture by an average of 24 percent.
Columbia Offers New Exec. Education Program
Columbia Business School will be offering a new Business-to-Business Marketing Strategy Program in its Executive Education department. The first session of the new program will run from October 7, 2014 to October 9, 2014.
The program will teach executives to use the marketing function as a pivotal tool in building better customer relationships when the customer is an organization, not an individual or household. Targeted to marketing, sales and product managers involved in the design of marketing strategy, the program is also valuable to general managers who seek to build an efficient marketing and sales function.
Columbia Alums Combine MBAs and Social Enterprises
Two Columbia Business School alumni have created a new social venture in New York City that provides business advisory services to nonprofits and for-profit mission-driven companies. The company is a Teach for America for MBAs interested in nonprofits and social enterprises.
The program, called Inspire Impact, is an incubator fellowship pairing mostly MBA students enrolled in various business schools with social enterprises.
The 10-week program, which has seven MBAs and one engineer, will have classes covering everything from project finance to social media skills. Each student will be matched with an organization to work on a specific project that Nell Derick Debevoise, CEO, and Yael Silverstein, chief strategy and operations officer, have already scoped out, doing a cost-benefit analysis of a new program a group wants to monetize, or looking at different revenue generating opportunities.
“By the end of the summer, they can have a 30,000 foot view of what a career in this field would be like,” says Silverstein. Continue reading…
Columbia Awards Annual Alumni Medals
Three Columbia Business School graduates have received the 2014 Columbia University Alumni Medals. Mitch Freinberg, ’77, Philippa Feldman Portnoy, ’90, and Sabin Streeter, ’67, have all been honored for their distinguished service of 10 years or more to Columbia. Founded in 1933, alumni medals are given to those known to serve all that is Columbia. This includes the school itself, alumni associations, regional Columbia clubs and university-wide initiatives. Continue reading…
Columbia Business School Professor Amit Khandelwal Receives Eccles Research Award
Professor Amit Khandelwal, the Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business in the Finance and Economics Division, has been awarded the 2014 George S. Eccles Research Award by the Columbia School of Business. Continue reading…
