Potential Flaw in MBA Rankings Shuffles Results
Rankings of MBA schools are a dime a dozen. Just about every publication focused on business offers a yearly report of business school rankings. Most people accept the rankings for what they are, but recently, Glenn Hubbard, the dean of Columbia Business School, published an essay that examines the methodology of the ranking system. Continue reading…
Columbia Dean Gives Advice for Choosing a Business School
An article written by Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School was featured on the Fortune Magazine website. The article discusses whether or not business school rankings really matter. Dean Hubbard tells readers that rankings for business schools do matter, but prospective students should rely more on how the school will fit their needs instead of where and how the school is ranked.
Dean Hubbard begins by discussing how prospective students can measure the quality of a business school. Hubbard tells readers that instead of looking at the number of successful alumni or how the dean perceives the school, it is important for prospective students to look at the students that are enrolled in the school and how many applications that the school receives every year and if applications are going up or down over the past few years.
Columbia Alum Donates to Manhattanville Project
Columbia Business School alumnus Louis Bacon ’81 has made a generous donation to the school from the Moore Charitable Foundation. His donation will go toward supporting the new facilities at the school, which are a part of Columbia University’s Manhattanville project. Bacon founded the Moore Charitable Foundation in 1992 and serves as the Chairman. He is also the founder, chairman, chief executive officer, and principal investment manager of Moore Capital Management, LP, and a member of Columbia Business School’s Board of Overseers.
The Manhattanville project will create a new campus for Columbia in Upper Manhattan. The campus will be located just north of the University’s Morningside Campus. So far, the school has raised over $440 million for the project. The new campus will serve as a center of academic and civic life, ensuring that Upper Manhattan remains a world-class center of pioneering research and teaching.
Columbia Early Admission Deadline Jan. 12
The early admission deadline for the Saturday Executive MBA program at Columbia Business School is Jan. 12. This early deadline is for the May 2015 entry for the EMBA program. The early decision option for admission is ideal for prospective students who have decided that Columbia Business School is the school that they would like to attend.
Applications submitted by the early decision deadline are reviewed before the regular decision applications. Candidates who apply for early decision and are offered admission to the program have up to two weeks to submit their nonrefundable $6,000 deposit for tuition.
Columbia Offers New Exec. Ed. Program
The Columbia Business School is offering a brand new Executive Education program. “Brand Leadership: Strategy, Management, and Performance,” will first be offered Nov. 3-5, 2014. It will be held at the Columbia University campus in New York.
Brand Leadership: Strategy, Management, and Performance will teach students how to build a strong brand identity, a superior brand experience, and lasting brand loyalty. Participants will be able to differentiate your brand from the competition, sustain its differentiation and competitive advantage and maximize its impact and profitability.
Booth Professor Wins Award For Top Doctorate Paper
Jonathan Dingel, assistant professor of economics at the Booth School of Business, has received the 2014 World Trade Organization Essay Award for Young Economists.
Dingel won the award for “The Determinants of Quality Specialization,” a paper that examines why high-income locations tend to manufacture high-quality goods. In the paper, Dingel assessed two competing theories that could explain this pattern. What he found was that the composition of local consumers’ income levels plays as large a role as local manufacturing workers’ skills in determining manufacturing quality across U.S. cities.
“The evidence suggests that market access plays an important role in quality specialization. I’m absolutely delighted that the WTO has chosen to honor my work on this topic,” Dingel said.
To be considered for this honor, papers must focus on trade policy and international trade cooperation issues. In addition, authors must either be working toward a doctorate or no more than two years past having received a doctorate. Dingel’s paper was written while he was working on his Doctorate at Columbia University.
“This paper addresses a central question in trade theory in an extremely competent way and has potentially important trade policy implications,” The selection committee said.
“This paper is part of a broader research agenda in which co-authors and I are exploring what causes different kinds of people and different kinds of businesses to choose different locations. Those choices have consequences for trade, growth, and inequality,” Dingel said.
