Columbia Business School

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Columbia Business School (of Columbia University) is one of the world's leading business schools. The School is known for its close ties to Wall Street and the seminal work completed in the field of finance by professors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd. The school has an international emphasis, and many alumni have achieved distinction in the public as well as the private sector.

The most represented undergraduate universities in the student body are the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Duke, Princeton, Georgetown, Dartmouth, Virginia, Brown, Stanford and Cal-Berkeley. The acceptance rate in 2005 was 15%, a rate exceeded by only two other MBA programs.

The full-time MBA program is ranked among the top business schools in the world:

   #8 BusinessWeek biennial rankings, 2004
   #9 Economist Intelligence Unit, 2005
   #9 U.S. News & World Report, 2005
   #8 The Wall Street Journal, 2005
   #3 Financial Times, 2004

1 Prominent Alumni
2 Faculty
3 See also
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Prominent Alumni

Cesar Alierta, Chairman, Telefonica
Warren Buffet, Investor
Arthur Burns, Federal Reserve Chairman
Jerome Chazen, Chairman, Chazen Capital Partners
Leon Cooperman, CEO, Omega Advisors
Hazade Dogan, CEO, Dogan
Mario Gabelli, Chairman, Gabelli Asset Management
Robert Kasten, former US Senator from Wisconsin
Sally Krawcheck, CFO, Citigroup. 7th most powerful woman in the world per Forbes magazine.
Frank Lautenberg, US Senator from New Jersey
Erskine Bowles, White House Chief of Staff
Rochelle Lazarus, Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy & Mather
Henry Kravis, Leveraged Buyout Financier
Sidney Taurel, CEO, Eli Lilley and Company
Eudora Welty, Writer

Faculty

The faculty includes Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz and the current Dean is the former Presidential Council of Economic Advisor's Chairman Glenn Hubbard.