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

With the month of December creeping up on us, first-year Columbia Business School (CBS) students are entering the last big push of their first semester, with finals wrapping up and the next semester not beginning until mid-January. The end of regular classes at the school is traditionally marked by CBS Follies, a student-run comedy and … Read More  

If Mitt Romney were to win the upcoming presidential election, Columbia Business School (CBS) students would likely lose their dean, Glen Hubbard. Why? Hubbard is a top economic advisor for the Romney campaign, and whispers have been going around that a President Romney just might make Hubbard his Secretary of the Treasury. In an article … Read More  

With the changing of the leaves and the influx of cooler weather on Columbia Business School’s (CBS’s) campus comes a series of student-run conferences that give both first- and second-year students the opportunity to expand their knowledge across a variety of disciplines via panels and keynote speaker addresses, and to network with like-minded students, conference … Read More  

Columbia Business School (CBS) has appointed Amanda Carlson as its new assistant dean of admissions, in charge of overseeing the admissions department of the MBA and Executive MBA programs at CBS. Carlson, who has been at CBS since 2002, most recently as director of admissions, follows Mary Miller in this role. “Mary and Amanda worked … Read More  

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