Columbia Offers Finance and Accounting Program
The Executive Education Program at Columbia Business School is offering a Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive program. The program will be held September 8, 2014 through September 12, 2014. The program will be held at Columbia University’s campus in New York City.
The program is five days of hands-on, interactive sessions. Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive provides attendants with a unique opportunity to deepen expertise of finance and accounting for better management and decision-making capabilities.
The program features sessions on the role of accounting, key concepts of managerial and financial accounting, ratio calculation, and analysis of your company and shareholder value management.
Lubin to Hold Open House For EMBA
Pace University’s Lubin School of Business will host an Executive MBA open house on August 23 and August 24, 2014.
Attendants will join current Executive MBA students during an actual residency, participate in classroom activities and team project meetings, and meet all of the EMBA faculty and staff. Participants will have ample opportunity during lunch and coffee breaks to talk to students about the EMBA application process, options on financing an EMBA degree program, how to balance the time demands of job, home and your studies.
The Pace University Executive MBA program provides experienced managers and professionals with the opportunity to pursue a first-rate MBA in 20 months of experiential, project-based work. The program is designed with maximum flexibility, combining online instruction with weekend residencies conveniently held in New York City every ten weeks.
Columbia Offers Personal Leadership and Success Program
Columbia Business School is offering a personal leadership and success program through its executive education program. Personal Leadership and Success integrates recent findings in psychology, neuroscience and cognitive behavior therapy with explorations of the inner lives of great leaders.
The Personal Leadership and Success program takes the view that to succeed professionally one needs to develop another dimension of leadership consisting of the ability to understand and direct one’s internal environment, goals, motivations, mindsets and emotions.
This three-day program offers a distinctive approach that integrates recent findings in psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive behavior therapy with explorations of the inner lives of great achievers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela.
Columbia Offers New Exec. Education Program
Columbia Business School will be offering a new Business-to-Business Marketing Strategy Program in its Executive Education department. The first session of the new program will run from October 7, 2014 to October 9, 2014.
The program will teach executives to use the marketing function as a pivotal tool in building better customer relationships when the customer is an organization, not an individual or household. Targeted to marketing, sales and product managers involved in the design of marketing strategy, the program is also valuable to general managers who seek to build an efficient marketing and sales function.
Columbia Alums Combine MBAs and Social Enterprises
Two Columbia Business School alumni have created a new social venture in New York City that provides business advisory services to nonprofits and for-profit mission-driven companies. The company is a Teach for America for MBAs interested in nonprofits and social enterprises.
The program, called Inspire Impact, is an incubator fellowship pairing mostly MBA students enrolled in various business schools with social enterprises.
The 10-week program, which has seven MBAs and one engineer, will have classes covering everything from project finance to social media skills. Each student will be matched with an organization to work on a specific project that Nell Derick Debevoise, CEO, and Yael Silverstein, chief strategy and operations officer, have already scoped out, doing a cost-benefit analysis of a new program a group wants to monetize, or looking at different revenue generating opportunities.
“By the end of the summer, they can have a 30,000 foot view of what a career in this field would be like,” says Silverstein. Continue reading…
Columbia Business School Announces Exclusive Partnership with NY 2014
Columbia Business School announced that its entrepreneurship experts will be available at NY TechDay 2014 to consult with entrepreneurs who visit the Columbia Business School booth. Using a model based on speed dating events, CBS startup gurus will offer ‘Speed Mentoring’ to budding entrepreneurs. Visitors will have the opportunity to deliver their best one-minute pitch to the CBS gurus and receive 2-3 minutes of expert feedback. The School, which has signed on as NY TechDay’s exclusive higher education partner, has also chosen nine successful young alumni startup ventures to showcase at the event, including Betterment, Hopscotch, Kookopa, MphRX, Necklish, PERK.LA, Shake, Compass, and Yarly.
“There are so many undiscovered entrepreneurs who have brilliant ideas but who feel stuck because they’re unsure how to go from idea to execution,” said Vince Ponzo, director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School and one of the experts who will be providing on–site advice during the event. “Columbia Business School is rapidly becoming a preeminent force in the NYC startup scene, and our goal is to be a resource for all of these potential startups and help them identify the right next step. I’m very much looking forward to speed–mentoring anyone looking for help at TechDay.” Taking place on April 24th at Pier 92 in New York City, NY TechDay will bring together an estimated 10,000 attendees comprised of entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, and members of the media.
