Blog: Archive for the “Columbia University (Columbia Business School)” Category

Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when choosing a business school, but the educational experience is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we focus on Joel Greenblatt from Columbia Business … Read More  

When you select an MBA program, you are not just choosing your learning environment, but are also committing to becoming part of a community. Each Thursday, we offer a window into life “beyond the MBA classroom” at a top business school. The end of each semester at Columbia Business School (CBS) is marked with CBS … Read More  

Update: Click here for the 2015-2016 Columbia Business School Essay Analysis  Applicants to Columbia Business School (CBS) this year must complete one short-answer question and two essays. Perhaps CBS is returning to the mind-set that “less is more” by getting rid of the third full essay from last year and adding a 200-character, career goal mini … Read More  

Columbia Business School (CBS) has received a pledge of $25 million from Leon G. Cooperman (CBS ’67) for facilities construction in its new Manhattanville campus. Cooperman, who is the chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors and a member of CBS’s Board of Overseers, endowed the Leon Cooperman Professorship of Finance and Economics in 1995, started … Read More  

Columbia Business School offers its students a variety of entrepreneurial programs—the Lang Fund grants up to $25,000 to student ventures, the entrepreneur’s organization makes $10,000 available to the students who win the outrageous business plan competition, and the Entrepreneurial Greenhouse program provides support for those who intend to start a business immediately upon graduation. But … Read More