Admissions Columbia Business School Uris Hall 3022 Broadway, Room 216 New York, NY 10027 212-854-1961 [email protected] gsb.columbia.edu/mba COLUMBIA Columbia Business School is the only MBA program that offers you wide-ranging thought leadership combined IMMERSE with unparalleled real-time immersion in global business. Learn from professors whose ideas are transforming industry and shaping public discourse. Interact with YOURSELF dynamic real-world companies and leaders in and out of the classroom. An MBA from Columbia gives you the IN BUSINESS knowledge and tools to make a powerful impact on business and the world. The most successful leaders have a perspective that reaches across disciplines, across geographic borders, and across time, seeing what has come before and anticipating what will be needed in the future. At Columbia, we challenge you to connect ideas beyond traditional boundaries by immersing yourself in real-world business challenges. You will develop the skills and broad perspective required to lead the businesses of tomorrow.
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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE ELECTIVES 152 Learn from the Best Minds in Business With an emphasis on seeing the bigger picture and connecting the dots across FULL-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS 9 NOBEL LAUREATES different functional areas, our innovative curriculum and renowned faculty CURRENTLY ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FACULTY challenge you to solve complex business problems and prepare you to find opportunity in any environment. INTERNATIONAL 61% FACULTY MEMBERS Learn from professors whose work has a deep and direct impact on business. Columbia’s passionate teachers and leading scholars, who are also sought-after consultants, give you an insider’s view into their industry and the tools you’ll OVER 150 ADJUNCTS A YEAR need to apply those lessons in your chosen field. Through our 25 centers, (ALL ARE WORKING PRACTITIONERS) programs, and institutes, you are exposed to the latest big ideas across critical business areas. When you have the opportunity to see groundbreaking theory play out in practice, you develop both a deeper understanding of business forces and the decision-making skills to shape those forces. Hands-On Learning, Big-Picture Thinking Your coursework will be rigorous and relevant, and will encourage practical INTEGRATED LEARNING Operations Accounting application. Our core curriculum, responsive to business’s evolving needs, Our integrated case focuses on a specific provides essential building blocks for any career. With hundreds of electives challenge faced by a major company. across 14 areas of study, you can focus on your own passions and challenge Studying the problem in several core yourself to make new discoveries. Master Classes and other hands-on offerings courses, students examine key decisions INTEGRATED connect you directly with corporate and government clients to make business made by different functions within the CASE decisions in real time. Further enrich your learning through courses at company. Mirroring the way real-world, real-time business decisions are made, Columbia’s other renowned graduate schools. the integrated case challenges you to use incomplete information from different Collaborative learning is an integral part of the Columbia MBA experience. Your functional areas to craft successful class is divided into clusters and small learning teams, each carefully designed Corporate Strategy solutions to complex business problems. Finance to reflect diverse backgrounds and work experiences. Working closely with your peers on group assignments and leading projects, you develop close bonds, learn by doing, and address problems from multiple perspectives, teaching yourself to recognize opportunities others miss. FLEXIBLE ELECTIVES Break from the normal CHOOSE FROM OVER class schedule and take 200 ELECTIVES OFFERED a block week class, enroll IN 14 AREAS OF STUDY in an Executive MBA • Accounting course, or arrange an • Decision, Risk, and Operations independent study. CORE REQUIRED COURSE • Entrepreneurship SUMMER INTERNSHIPS • Finance and Economics August-entry students ELECTIVES SAMPLE ELECTIVE explore functional or • Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry areas and apply MASTER CLASSES Management 3 full-term new skills to the workplace. These project-based • Leadership and Ethics electives electives challenge • Management AUGUST ENTRY • Marketing second-year students Take an elective on • Media AUGUST TERM 1 JANUARY TERM 2 JUNE SUMMER to master core concepts entrepreneurship. by applying them to • Private Equity INTERNSHIP real-world business • Real Estate problems. PRE-TERM CLASS • Retail and Luxury Goods 2 half-term Lead: People, Teams, • Social Enterprise electives Organizations • Value Investing
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PRE-TERM CLASS 3 full-term Lead: People, Teams, electives Organizations Choose electives TERM 1 TERM 2 JANUARY JUNE from more than 4,000 Cross-register for a GRADUATE-LEVEL Columbia Law School course. CLASSES ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY. THE J-TERM JANUARY ENTRY January entry allows qualified students 2 half-term to skip the summer internship and earn electives their degree in just 16 months.
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connects teams of students across The Power of Access the Universitybold ideas with into resourcessuccessful to businesses. transform Columbia positions you in Manhattan, the heart of New York City, and at the nexus of global business. Our location combined with our premier role in take students behind the scenes business and business education mean that you have unparalleled access to 16 EXECUTIVES of diverseCOMPANY businesses VISITS in and practitioners and industry leaders. IN RESIDENCE beyond New York City. In addition to offering their own expertise, your professors frequently invite legendary executives to discuss key business trends in class. You also benefit from dynamic practitioners teaching as adjunct professors and top business of business. SILFENdraws LEADERSHIP influential SERIESspeakers leaders who join Columbia’s community as Executives in Residence. These from the highest echelons luminaries teach classes, help students network, give one-on-one advice, and often stay in touch with students beyond graduation. Columbia Is New York COLUMBIA WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SMALL With so many business leaders based in or traveling to New York, we draw an MEDICAL BUSINESS CENTER extraordinary concentration of icons, innovators, and rising stars to campus CONSULTING for speaker series and guest lectures. Student-led conferences bring industry PROGRAM FUTURE experts to campus, tap the knowledge and resources of our research centers, COLUMBIA and give you the chance to serve in leadership positions and participate in UNIVERSITY the latest debates in a range of industries. Gain insight into the daily workings CAMPUS 135TH STREET of business through field trips that include the New York Stock Exchange MANHATTANVILLE downtown, Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, our popular Silicon Valley trek, COLUMBIA RETAILING MASTER CAMPUS and many international opportunities. CLASS Partner with fashion students to MORNINGSIDE consult for luxury HEIGHTS In addition, Columbia Business School alumni are generous with their time and ORIENTATION goods companies. 116TH STREET expertise to help our students with internships, job strategies, and individualized SCAVENGER HUNT
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This co-working space PARK AVENUE GRAND CENTRAL The Columbia curriculum is very much brings together graduating 2ND AVENUE Just a train ride intertwined with New York and New York entrepreneurs, offering them INTERNATIONAL 6TH AVENUE SILICON ALLEY to hedge funds in office space for a year, CAREER business. For example, my Operations Westchester and mentorship, the chance to 14TH STREET RECRUITING Connecticut. class this week has a tour to the Steinway collaborate, and resources piano factory in Queens. There’s a tour to to help build their JFK AIRPORT new ventures. (QUEENS) the Brooklyn Brewery. What I love about SOHO HOUSTON STREET the curriculum is that it’s not just CANAL STREET WINE SOCIETY TOUR theoretical—it’s extremely practical. LOWER AND TASTING AT VISIT TO THE NEW YORK EAST SIDE BROOKLYN WINERY STOCK EXCHANGE BROOKLYN BROADWAY COMMUNITY Nyambura Gichohi ’14 RECRUITING WALL STREET SERVICE DAY AT Nairobi, Kenya EVENT AT SPRING NYC MASTER CLASS ROOFTOP FARMS AMERICAN GALA AT Students consult on real city IN GREENPOINT EXPRESS FINANCIAL CIPRIANI projects with deputy mayors. DISTRICT Sample events I just went on a Chazen Study Tour to Spain. The highlight was visiting Inditex, the company that owns the clothing line Zara, which we did a case study on in our core strategy course. The COO gave us a tour of their operating facilities—it’s one thing when you read about a company’s operations in the classroom, but it’s another when you witness the implementation of it firsthand. And you can see how true that lesson you took away from that class really is.
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Whatever industry you choose, your Columbia MBA will equip you with the skills, insights, and cross- cultural exposure to succeed in the global marketplace. We attract professors and students from around the world who share their knowledge and perspectives in and out of class. The Chazen Institute draws on the expertise of renowned faculty members and business executives to help 15 INTERNATIONAL CHAZEN TRAVEL PROGRAMS EACH YEAR shape the thinking and discourse on major global business issues. You can travel with a Chazen • Brazil • India • Mexico • South Korea • Turkey Study Tour to get firsthand exposure to the • China • Israel • Poland • Spain • Tunisia • Cuba • Japan • South Africa • Thailand • UAE businesses and cultures of other countries or sign up for a Global Immersion class to build your Locations change year to year. international experience. Through Pangea Advisors, our International Development Club’s pro bono consulting group, you can change the world one entrepreneur at a time, from helping at-risk women start companies in the West Bank to strengthening microfinance programs in Nepal. Our admissions officers travel all over the world, hosting information sessions for international students, and our alumni can be found in more than 130 countries. Our reach is as global as our curriculum. Community is woven into every aspect of the CBS experience and is the primary reason I chose Columbia. It was apparent at my first information session, which was organized by Cluster Q, the LGBT group on campus. It was clear that the group was entirely student-led, was highly visible, and had the support of the entire CBS community. That’s a perfect example of the culture students here are immersed in from day one: open, inclusive, and supportive.
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Diverse, Supportive Community The warm, lively, supportive energy of Columbia’s community is infectious. Our students exchange stimulating business ideas in class or over coffee. They plan conferences, explore the city with one another, or launch a start-up together. From the opening days of Orientation, our diverse and talented students create CBS MATTERS is a dedicated forum within your a close community that both values collaboration and promotes the individual. cluster to discuss what you are most passionate about. At Columbia you’ll find ample opportunity and support to follow your own passion. Students give spirited narrative presentations—ranging Our students are as varied and vibrant as today’s global business environment. from light-hearted to thought-provoking—on the question, They come from nearly 100 nations with backgrounds in virtually every business “What matters to you and why?” You’ll deepen your sector. You benefit from the experiences and insights of your classmates, and, relationships with classmates by discovering common working closely together in clusters and learning teams, you forge lifelong ground and sharing sources of inspiration. personal and professional relationships. Connect with seasoned professionals in the Executive MBA Program, too, as well as students in other prestigious graduate programs across the University. SS SCH Discover. Connect. Expand. USINE OOL C CLUB B OF EMERGING EUROPE • CLUSTERO Q •M COLUMBIA BASKETBALL CLUB • COLUMBIA Through a vast array of clubs, entrepreneurial opportunities, and student-led BIA M BETTER HALVES • COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOLM CANUCKS • COLUMBIA DANCE CLUB • COLUMBIA UDIVERSEN ASSOCIATION • COLUMBIA events and projects, you advance your leadership experience, develop hands-on LU IT ENTREPRENEURSCO ORGANIZATION • COLUMBIA FINANCE ORGANIZATION • COLUMBIAY management skills, expand your network—and have a whole lot of fun. Delve GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS • COLUMBIA MIDWEST CLUB • COLUMBIA MUSIC AFICIONADOS • COLUMBIA POLITICS deeply into your own interests or explore new ones through a wide range of AND BUSINESS CLUB • COLUMBIA STUDENT INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION • COLUMBIA SURF CLUB • COLUMBIA TEXAS CLUB • student-run professional, industry-themed, and social networks. Connect with COLUMBIA WEALTH MANAGEMENT CLUB • COLUMBIA WOMEN IN BUSINESS (CWIB) • COMMODITY CLUB • COMMUNITY ACTION REWARDS others who have a passion for social enterprise, green business, real estate, or EVERYONE (CARE) • CYCLING CLUB • DEAN’S ADVISORY BOARD • DUAL DEGREE STUDENT ASSOCIATION • EMERGING EUROPE CLUB • ENERGY CLUB • EQUITY RESEARCH CLUB • EUREKA! • EUROPEAN SOCIETY • EVENTS COMMITTEE • FAMILY BUSINESS CLUB • FINANCIAL EDUCATION microbrewing. Give back to the community through our popular Small Business SOCIETY • FOLLIES • FOOTBALL CLUB • GENERAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION • GERMAN SOCIETY • GOLF CLUB • GOURMET CLUB • GRADUATE Consulting Program, tutoring children in Harlem, or coaching welfare-to-work BUSINESS ASSOCIATION • GREATER CHINA SOCIETY • GREEN BUSINESS CLUB • HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM • HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY recipients on interviewing skills. You’ll find the best of both worlds here: the ASSOCIATION • HEALTHY LIVING CLUB • HERMES SOCIETY • HER MAJESTY’S SOCIETY • HISPANIC BUSINESS ASSOCIATION • HONOR BOARD • expertise, connections, and opportunities of a large, diverse city and student HOSPITALITY AND TRAVEL ASSOCIATION • INTERNATIONAL STUDENT100+ ADVISORY CLUBS BOARD • I-PREP • INNOVATION + CREATIVITY IN BUSINESS community crosscut into many smaller communities for you to celebrate and SOCIETY • INSITE • INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CLUB • INVESTMENT BANKING CLUB • ISRAELI BUSINESS ASSOCIATION • ITALIAN CLUB (NOVA) share your culture, knowledge, and background. • JAPAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION • JEWISH BUSINESS STUDENTS ASSOCIATION • KOREAN BUSINESS STUDENTS ASSOCIATION • LEAD • LATIN AMERICAN • LE FRENCH CLUB • MANAGEMENT CONSULTING ASSOCIATION • MARKETING ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA • MEDIA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION • MICROBREW SOCIETY • MILITARY IN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION • MUSLIM BUSINESS STUDENTS ASSOCIATION • ODYSSEY • OUTDOOR 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O WITH 10+ MILLION LECTURE C VOLUMES SERIES BE A PART OF BENEFITS THAT LAST COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL’S POWERFUL NETWORK A LIFETIME OF MORE THAN A Columbia MBA Never Stops Working for You The alumni network has made 40,000 a meaningful contribution to me The personal and professional network you build here will endure—and throughout my career, first in ALUMNI expand—over time. When you come to Columbia, you join a welcoming global finance, then running a nonprofit, network of more than 40,000 people who have walked these halls before you and now working in hospitality. There and are now some of the most exciting and innovative talents in the business, are Columbia alumni all over the world, in government, and nonprofit sectors. The passion our alumni have for Columbia every industry, and they’re often eager to help is reflected in the time and access they give to current students through each other out. The skills become very transferable. mentoring, lectures, internships, and more. That foundation was really laid at Columbia. Take advantage of our lifelong resources to refresh or advance your skills as you tackle evolving professional challenges throughout your career. Audit a Jeff Flug ’88 New York, NY class, attend a guest lecture, participate in a conference, or connect with the President, active Columbia alumni network in New York City, across the country, or Union Square Hospitality Group around the globe. Columbia’s Career Advantage
We provide you the tools, connections, and support to develop into a leader right After a summer internship in banking, I decided midway for the times—over a lifetime. Our dedicated Career Management Center carefully through the MBA program to look in a new career direction. prepares you to shape your ideal career, from your first job after graduation to your The Career Management Center guided me throughout the long-term success, wherever your passion leads you. Across the private, public, process—from the listing I found on the School’s job board and nonprofit sectors, the CMC connects you with industry insiders through up to negotiating a starting package. The advisors at the on-campus and alumni events, helps you refine your skills through workshops, CMC really bend over backwards to help students here. mock interviews, one-on-one career coaching, and second-year student advisors, TARGETED and offers you a wealth of up-to-the-minute online resources and research in EDUCATIONAL Diana Yen ’13 your desired industry. With their remarkable business acumen and innovative EVENTS AND Dallas, TX WORKSHOPS Associate, Corporate Development, approaches to problem solving, our MBAs are actively sought by corporate AT&T INDIVIDUAL recruiters, who represent hundreds of employers each year. CAREER ADVISING
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