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The Columbia MBA and Your Career


Welcome from Professor Glenn Hubbard
Dean of Columbia Business School

Welcome to Columbia Business School’s Web site, featuring our blog, Public Offering. I hope you enjoy your visit as you read about the academic programs and community that make Columbia Business School one of the world’s foremost business management institutions.

You will discover a lot that’s new at the School. Columbia CaseWorks, our innovative approach to the case method, presents students with incomplete data and challenges them to make decisions out of uncertainty. Master Classes, co-led by faculty and business practitioners, tackle real-world issues. The Program on Social Intelligence (PSI) imparts interpersonal skills across disciplines. A revamped core curriculum offers first-year MBAs an extra elective geared toward their career interests.

Innovation has characterized the Columbia Business School curriculum for nearly a century. We pioneered active learning, entrepreneurial training and bridging research and practice. We developed instructional models that combine teaching top-notch quantitative skills and critical thinking. We made global institution building a priority to offer students the broadest international business perspective possible. And what has, and always will, set us apart are the people who make up our diverse yet close-knit community — exceptional students, leading faculty, influential alumni, dedicated staff and extraordinary business partners.

Columbia Business School holds innate advantages too. New York City, with its thousands of multinational companies, diverse real estate market and major stock, bond and commodity exchanges, is a living laboratory. Students can tap the broader intellectual resources of the University to add depth to their studies in engineering, law, medicine and social sciences. Our renowned alumni network reaches into every industry and power structure in the world, giving students unlimited access to information, mentors and jobs.

Whatever the goal of your visit, I hope that you find the answers you are seeking and return again and often to one of the most innovative and dynamic business communities in the world.
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Re: MBA and Your Career

MBA and Your Career
Columbia MBA graduates don’t just join the workforce — they influence it, shape it and change it for the better. The Columbia MBA Program goes beyond those of other business schools to instill in students a complete entrepreneurial mindset. The program teaches students to recognize opportunity and provides the skills to take full advantage of it, all of which leads to dynamic and gratifying careers.

The Columbia MBA focuses on the following:

Skills
A Columbia MBA offers you the tools that prepare you to lead and manage in today’s ever-changing business landscape. You will learn not just theory but how to apply cutting-edge concepts to real, relevant business problems. And the skills afforded by a Columbia MBA go beyond functional capabilities. They include less tangible but equally important skills like communication, leadership and teamwork.

Initiative
Columbia is one of the most selective business schools in the world. The Columbia MBA Program starts with superior students and instills the necessary learning to succeed in the rapidly changing, competitive world of business. A Columbia MBA lets the business world know that you are indeed a rare find.

Hard Work
Through a rigorous and constantly evolving curriculum, the Columbia MBA Program teaches its students how to work smarter. Be more efficient. Create a better way. Do all the things that successful companies expect their people to do.

Creating Opportunity
The Columbia MBA Program provides a distinctive business school education that is a blend of cutting-edge research and industry practice that gives you precisely the right classroom for unlimited professional and personal development. Through the Master Class Program, students are immersed in real-time issues, applying what they have learned in the program to actual business projects.
 
Re: Why a Columbia MBA?

Why a Columbia MBA?
Columbia Business School offers a comprehensive business education with an exceptional faculty, groundbreaking academic programs and an incomparable network. Its location in one of the world’s most dynamic cities makes it a program of choice for exceptional applicants worldwide.
Beyond simply acquiring the business and management skills that will bolster your career path, the Columbia MBA offers you a one-of-a-kind learning experience in which your own personal development takes center stage. We invite you to peruse this site to learn in even greater detail what distinguishes a Columbia MBA from all the rest.
 
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Executive MBA

The Degree
A Columbia MBA degree offers you the opportunity to expand your business knowledge while simultaneously transforming your career and network accessibility. Taught by Columbia Business School’s full-time faculty, you will take a series of core courses during your first year. With that strong foundation, the second year adopts an executive education approach characterized by application-based course work that is complemented by a wide variety of elective choices. You will complete 25 courses (10 core, four distribution requirements, 11 electives), totaling 60 credits over five consecutive terms.
Beyond the natural advantages of the Columbia Business School classroom, as an Executive MBA student you are also part of the larger Columbia University community and have access to its robust intellectual capital. Upon graduation, you have full alumni status of Columbia University.
Executive MBA Program Traditional MBA Program
X Taught by full-time faculty X Taught by full-time faculty
X Same core curriculum X Same core curriculum
X Same total courses taken X Same total courses taken
X Same credits earned X Same credits earned
X Access to state-of-the-art facilities X Access to state-of-the-art facilities
X Access to professional development X Access to professional development
X Access to University speakers and events X Access to University speakers and events
X Confers Columbia University alumni status X Confers Columbia University alumni status
 
Re: Core Curriculum

Core Curriculum

The Columbia MBA Core Curriculum represents about 40 percent of the degree requirement — two full courses and 12 half-term courses. A specific feature of the new core being offered as of fall 2008 is the introduction of a “flexible core.” In the second half of the second term, students will select their core classes from three prespecified menus (Organizations, Performance and Markets), choosing a single course from each area.
The courses that make up the core curriculum follow. Click on a course name to view the course description.
First Term

1st half
Corporate Finance
Financial Accounting
Managerial Statistics*
Managerial Economics
Strategy Formulation
2nd half
Marketing Strategy*
Operations Management
Leadership Development

Second Term

1st half
Global Economic Environment
Decision Models
Managing Marketing Programs
Elective 1
Elective 2

2nd half
Menu 1: Organizations
Menu 2: Performance
Menu 3: Markets
 
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Electives
Students may choose from more than 130 elective courses at Columbia Business School and supplement them with more than 4,000 graduate-level classes from the University’s other graduate and professional schools.
Among the most popular electives at Columbia Business School are the following:
Master Classes
Among students’ many elective options are the newly developed Master Classes. Each Master Class focuses on a specific industry context (e.g., media, real estate, consulting) and draws significant input from the professional community via group projects, guest speakers, adjunct faculty and alumni participation. With substantial project work and practitioner involvement, Master Classes provide students with a unique exposure to real-time business challenges.
Economics of Strategic Behavior
Offering an excellent background for all consultants, managers and corporate finance generalists, this course examines the economics of successful business strategy — from the dynamics of entering an industry and the strategic imperatives of competitive markets to the sources of competitive advantage.
Financial Statement Analysis and Earnings Quality
Recent events underscore the importance of this course, in which students learn how to glean information about a firm’s current and past performance from financial statements. Students will also gain a deeper understanding of specific financial statements from a user’s perspective, particularly focusing on issues of earnings quality, as well as more advanced topics related to mergers and acquisitions and consolidated financial reporting.
Introduction to Venturing
This course challenges students to consider how appropriate an entrepreneurial career may be for them. An overview of the entrepreneurial process, the course covers such topics as characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, techniques for finding and screening ideas, entrepreneurial finance, the politics of new ventures, valuation and deal making, writing a business plan, buying a business, family business dynamics and managing crisis and failure.
Launching New Ventures
Students work individually or in teams to develop a comprehensive and effective presentation of a real business concept. Faculty, industry mentors and others help students distill business opportunities into a written and oral presentation ready to seek funding and commence operations.
Managerial Negotiations
Recognizing the critical role that negotiations play in management, this course — one of the most celebrated electives at the School — uses actual negotiations, as well as concepts from the behavioral sciences, economics and game theory, to hone students’ negotiating skills.
Modern Political Economy
Beginning with Adam Smith, this course examines leading political economists’ theoretical contributions to the development of capitalism. It focuses on the effects of international business on the development of American capitalism and the nation-state.
Operations Consulting
This Master Class is a hands-on laboratory in which student teams work on real-world consulting projects representing diverse industries and varied problem types. The course has been designed and is delivered with substantial participation by major consulting firms. Students learn consulting skills and leading-edge practices through guest lectures by senior consultants at these firms. Throughout the term the teams will interact intensely with the client organization and receive feedback and critiques on their work.
Retailing: Design and Marketing of Luxury Goods
Bringing together Columbia MBA students and the Parsons School of Design undergraduates, this course provides students with the tools to address the idiosyncrasies of the luxury industry by studying issues various aspects of the business, from design, production and management to distribution and promotion. Students work in teams on company-sponsored projects focusing on product design, communication design and interior design.
Security Pricing: Models and Computations
This course examines the development of models for security pricing, portfolio analysis and risk management. Particular attention is given to computer-based models for option pricing and hedging; mean variance analysis; multi-period portfolio optimization; analysis of the term structure; and interest rate-sensitive securities, including swaps, “swaptions” and mortgage-backed securities. Techniques include binomial methods, Monte Carlo simulation, linear and quadratic programming and regression.
Seminar in Value Investing
Designed to develop the approach to investments and security analysis pioneered by Columbia professors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, this course details the comprehensive statistical evidence in favor of such an approach and the types of investments that are likely to be fruitful targets of a value approach. Lecturers and visiting speakers — successful practicing value investors — have included Warren Buffett, MS ’51; Robert Bruce, MBA ’70; Mario Gabelli, MBA ’67; and Charles “Chuck” Royce, MBA ’63.
Top Management Process
How do general managers get things done? Typically, they work through processes, or sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time. This course explores six top management processes: strategy, resource allocation, decision making, learning, managerial decision making and change.
Turnaround Management
Turnarounds require an integrated view of accounting, corporate finance, cash flow and balance-sheet projections, debt restructuring and liquidation analysis, and credit relationships. Students examine these concepts from the general manager’s perspective through group-oriented projects.
 
Re: Global Outlook Mba

Global Outlook
An International Education
Columbia Business School is widely acknowledged as one of the finest international business schools in the world. Businesses worldwide need MBAs who have the tools to succeed globally, including leadership skills, cultural awareness, foreign-language proficiency and an understanding of the intricacies of the world marketplace. Columbia Business School prepares students to meet those demands.
Cosmopolitan Culture
Columbia Business School students are at home around the world. More than a third of students in recent classes hold non-U.S. passports; more than 40 percent were born outside the United States and most have lived, worked and studied abroad — making internationalism a personal, as well as an academic, exercise. Current students come from more than 60 countries and speak more than 40 languages.
Worldly Experience
Teaching and research at Columbia Business School are oriented to the global economic environment. The School’s 116 full-time faculty members integrate an international component into their academic research and teaching. The faculty members themselves are citizens of the world — more than half have lived or worked abroad, and one-quarter spend several weeks teaching or consulting overseas in any given year.
Worldwide Beacon for Business Education
The Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business, founded in 1991 with a gift from Jerry Chazen, MBA ’50, chairman of Chazen Capital Partners and chairman emeritus of Liz Claiborne, is the focal point for international programs at Columbia Business School. Among its initiatives is the annual Chazen / CIBER International MBA Career Services Conference, the first global forum devoted specifically to international career and employment issues.
Another hallmark of the Chazen Institute is its Language Program, which offers eight-week courses for students, faculty members, staff and their spouses. The courses are built around two hours of language immersion each week in small classroom settings of no more than nine students. Advanced levels emphasize business terminology. The Chazen Language Program is available in the fall, spring and summer semesters.
For more information, visit the Chazen Institute Web site.
From New York to the World
Because there is no substitute for personal experience in learning about language, culture and international business, Columbia Business School’s exchange programs and study trips take place in almost every part of the world. More than 250 students have spent a semester at one of 24 leading business schools worldwide through the Chazen MBA Exchange Program. MBA and Executive MBA student study tours have explored business practices and innovation firsthand in more than 25 countries, most recently in India, China and South Africa.
International Connections
Half of the School’s recent graduates accepted jobs that include a significant international component or are based outside their home country. Some 6,500 MBA graduates — about 20 percent of the School’s total alumni population — live and work abroad, and dozens of alumni clubs span the globe.
 
Re: Dual Degrees in MBA

Dual Degrees in MBA
Columbia Business School has dual-degree programs with 10 other schools at Columbia University. Students must apply to both schools; each school makes admission decisions independently.
Dual degrees are offered with the following schools:
• Architecture: MBA and MS in Urban Planning
• Dental and Oral Surgery: MBA and DDS
• Engineering and Applied Science: MBA and MS
• International and Public Affairs: MBA and MIA
• Journalism: MBA and MS
• Law: MBA and JD
• Nursing: MBA and MS in Nursing
• Physicians and Surgeons: MBA and MD
• Public Health: MBA and MPH
• Social Work: MBA and MS in Social Work
Students may apply to dual-degree programs simultaneously or at any time before reaching the halfway point of their studies at one school.
For details on dual-degree program requirements, visit the Office of Student Affairs site.
 
Re: MBA Curriculum

MBA Curriculum

Columbia’s MBA curriculum prepares students to lead, build and manage enterprises that create value for stakeholders and constituencies in a dynamic, global economy.
By encouraging independent thought, assessment and learning, the curriculum provides students with essential tools for success applicable across industries and functions. It also fosters an awareness of ethical issues and an understanding of the impact that business decisions can have on society at large.
The revised core curriculum, launching in fall 2008, is reflective of Columbia Business School’s ongoing curricular innovation and commitment to providing the best-in-class management education for the next generation of business leaders. The revised core combines the rigor and content necessary for solid business management, while offering a flexibility that allows students to choose core classes that best enhance their skills and experience.
 
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