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

Job cuts and falling bonuses in the financial services industry are hurting not only Wall Street, they are also hurting Columbia Business School (CBS) and New York University (NYU) Stern’s application volumes. According to a BloombergBusinessweek article, these two schools are reliant on a robust Wall Street hiring environment to fuel applications. So, with hiring … Read More  

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