Columbia Business School : a century of ideas /
edited by Brian Thomas, written by the faculty of Columbia Business School.
- x, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Glenn Hubbard -- Finance and economics / Andrew Ang, Ann P. Bartel, Patrick Bolton, Wouter Dessein, Frank Edwards, Larry Glosten, Geoffrey Heal, Gur Huberman, Charles Jones, Chris Mayer, Frederic Mishkin, Eli Noam, Andrea Prat, Jonah Rockoff, Lynne Sagalyn, Stephen P. Zeldes, and Brian Thomas -- Value investing / Bruce Greenwald and Paul Johnson -- Management / Kathryn R. Harrigan -- Marketing / Morris Holbrook, Donald R. Lehmann, and Bernd Schmitt -- Decision, risk, and operations / Peter Kolesar, Costis Maglaras, Assaf Zeevi, Awi Federgruen, Fangruo Chen, Linda Green, Paul Glasserman, Garrett J. van Ryzin, and Mark N. Broadie -- Accounting / Trevor S. Harris -- Entrepreneurship / Murray Low -- International business / Shang-Jin Wei -- Social enterprise / Ray Horton and Sandra Navalli -- Contributors -- Index.
Featuring interviews with topflight scholars discussing their work and that of their colleagues, this retrospective of the first hundred years of Columbia Business School recounts the role of the preeminent institution in transforming education, industry, and global society. From its early years as the birthplace of value investing to its seminal influence on Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham, the school has been a profound incubator of ideas and talent, determining the direction of American business. In ten chapters, each representing a single subject of the school's research, senior faculty