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06/08/2026
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Business Bruno Pellegrino on receiving the SAIF Annual Conference’s Best Paper in Corporate Finance award.
The paper was selected for presentation at the SAIF Annual Conference, a top, high-profile, and highly selective conference in the Asia-Pacific Region. Learn more about this distinction here: https://www.cafr.cn/events/SAIF_Conference_2026.html
06/07/2026
🎙️ ICYMI: New episodes of the Value Investing with Legends podcast are now live! Hosted by Tano Santos, the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, this podcast features some of the world's greatest investing minds. Catch up on the series now: https://business.columbia.edu/heilbrunn/resources/value-investing-legends-podcast
We're still not over it. Congratulations to all our grads! BRB, watching this on loop. 🎓
“Today, the person who has been coding for 6 weeks can do what it used to take someone 5 years to learn how to do."
That's according to Assistant Professor Mattan Griffel, who talked with us during the AI Startup Challenge presented by the AI in Business Initiative at Columbia Business School. The Challenge tasked 13 teams from top schools in the AI space, including Columbia University, Cornell University Tech, and Yale University, with pitching their best startup idea to a panel of expert judges.
"The best way to see what's going to happen in two to three years, before anyone else," Griffel added, "is to be at the edge of what's currently possible today."
06/04/2026
Congratulations to MS grad Yufei Chen '26 on receiving the FARS Excellence in Reviewing Award from the American Accounting Association!
You can see the full list of recipients, featuring other Columbia community members, here: https://aaahq.org/FARS/Awards/Excellence
06/04/2026
The world's biggest sporting event comes to North America this summer. Beyond the goals and global attention, what will the World Cup mean for business?
At The Columbia Global Football Forum, soccer industry insiders unpacked the economic opportunities, tradeoffs, and lasting effects of a tournament expected to reshape cities and industries alike.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is a market test for U.S. soccer | Columbia Business School At Columbia Business School’s Global Football Forum, leaders from across the soccer community examined how the World Cup can translate the sport’s commercial growth into lasting impact.
06/03/2026
How can new entrepreneurs stand out in the age of AI?
As part of NY Tech Week, Columbia Business School brought Andreessen Horowitz Partner Bryan Kim in to address that question for a standing-room-only crowd. He was joined by Assistant Professor Mattan Griffel as well as Perpetua Founder Jacqueline Deprey '26.
The lively panel discussion, moderated by Associate Dean Gracy Sarkissian, focused on the qualities investors look for in founders now, optimal paths for MBAs, and the disruption opportunities available to startup founders, among other topics.
"It’s about building the growth mindset,” Professor Griffel said. “In AI, it’s all available to you. My job is to give people the sandbox, the safety, and the permission to try.”
06/03/2026
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence!
Each year, Columbia Business School's Deming Center for Operational Innovation and Excellence honors executives whose leadership has advanced operational distinction and fostered a culture of continuous improvement. Recent honorees include Beth Ford of Land O'Lakes, Inc., Julie Sweet of Accenture, Michele Buck of The Hershey Company, and Brian Cornell of Target.
If you know an executive whose leadership has delivered meaningful impact, submit them for consideration: https://business.columbia.edu/demingcenter/demingcup/application
06/02/2026
What's the best advice the Class of 2026 received around graduation?
🔹 Don't optimize for a life you don't actually want
🔹 Whom you work with matters more than what you work on
🔹 Don't mistake change for failure
At Columbia Business School's 2026 Commencement, alumni entrepreneurs Deepak Narula '89 and Cyrus Massoumi '03 expanded on these and other key points:
Don’t optimize for a life 'you don’t actually want’ and 4 more key takeaways from the 2026 Commencement speakers | Columbia Business School Deepak Narula ’89 and Cyrus Massoumi ’03 urged graduates to lead with purpose, resilience, and the courage to keep refining their path.
06/01/2026
"AI is to fire as educators are to Prometheus." That was just one takeaway from today's riveting symposium, “MBA Transformed? AI and Beyond.”
Columbia Business School convened faculty from some of the nation’s leading higher education institutions, including the Yale University School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, and more, to share bold experiments, practical tools, and big ideas for how to prepare the next generation of MBAs for an increasingly digital world.
As AI transforms how business gets done, business schools must reimagine everything from leadership strategy and entrepreneurship to tech applications and case studies.
This event was presented by the AI in Business Initiative at Columbia Business School: https://business.columbia.edu/ai-in-business