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…
LBS Team in Top Four at Sustainable Investing Challenge
Four London Business School students are celebrating after coming within the top four out of 380 teams at the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge.
The LBS team, EnPower Capital, presented its proposal to bring electricity to the poorest people in Africa during the final stage of the challenge, which took place at Morgan Stanley’s London headquarters on April 17th.
Radhika Gupta, Juan Pablo Mejia Caicedo, Elizabeth Swanton and Amrita Kundu (MBA2016s and a PHD2014, respectively) had just five months to put their case together. EnPower sees investors’ capital held in an escrow account to fund distributed energy service companies (DESCOs) that create solar power generators in Africa. Projected returns for investors are between 10 per cent and 15 per cent.
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Morgan Stanley CEO Talks Shop With McDonough Students
It’s not every day that you get to have the CEO of a huge corporation give you business advice, but nearly 200 Georgetown McDonough students were granted that opportunity when James Gorman, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, addressed them on February 5.
For a company like Morgan Stanley that receives more than 100,000 resumes a year, standing out can come down to finding the area of the company that that is the best fit, but interestingly enough many students present had already accepted full-time positions and internships at the company. Continue reading…
