Friday Factoid: Columbia’s Program for Financial Studies
July 19, 2011 – 5:30 pmAlready well known as a finance powerhouse, Columbia Business School steps up its finance game with the recent (2010) establishment of the Program in Financial Studies. The umbrella initiative connects faculty who approach financial studies from a variety of disciplines, students, alumni and external organizations. The main goals of the program are to support research, enhance the Columbia finance curriculum and related opportunities for students, and create opportunities for the exchange of ideas with Columbia students and faculty with members of the external finance community. Finance wonks will enjoy the program’s finance case studies, including The Norwegian Government Pension Fund: The Divestiture of Wal-Mart Inc., written by Professor Andrew Ang and Don’t Be Evil: Google’s 2004 Dutch Auction Initial Public Offering, written by the Program’s Director, Professor Laurie Hodrick.
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