Join CWiB and the MCA for a breakfast panel featuring women from top consulting firms. 

RSVP required. To register, email club leader Alan Hoffmanner.

San Diego: Columbia Ventures Community Meeting
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 | 5:30-7 p.m.
AleSmith Brewing Company, 9990 AleSmith Ct, San Diego, CA 92126

Columbia Ventures Community will meet this coming Wednesday at AleSmith, a somewhat central location given that we have a number of attendees from North County and a number from downtown. If you have an interest in startups as an investor or working in a start-up or starting your venture in the future, please consider joining in. If you haven't registered before, please register by return email so we have an accurate count.

We'll keep 5:30 to 6 p.m. for networking and then start the meeting at 6. A key goal is to decide who and what we will do regarding San Diego Start-up week and panels and speakers. Applications are due 12/1, so we'll have to move fairly quickly on that. Another key goal is to set up the plan and structure for 2020.

Look forward to seeing you there!

For those not familiar, some more info on CVC:
https://www.columbiaventurecommunity.com/what-we-do
https://medium.com/@ColumbiaVenture

RSVP required. To register, click here.

San Diego: Understanding Angel Investing
Sponsored by Sloan MBA Alumni Club
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 | 6-8:30 p.m.
Rock Bottom Brewery, 8980 La Jolla Village Dr, San Diego, CA 92037
Cost: $10

Come and hear a panel of experts share their wisdom to further your angel investing passion. Our panelists are:

• Bill Eigner - Partner, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
• Alison Gerlach - Serial entrepreneur, angel and venture investor, and portfolio company executive
• Irwin Rodrigues - CTO global tech company, Tech Coast Angel member and investor.

Networking reception at 6 p.m. (drinks and hors d'oeuvres) followed by the panel discussion session, moderated by Alison Gerlach, between 7 and 8:30 p.m. 

There's a $10 sign-up fee to help the club confirm attendance count.

RSVP required. To register, click here.

New York: MBA Singles - Multi-school Happy Hour
Presented by the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 | 6:30-9:30 p.m. 
Location: SideBar, 118 East 15th Street, bet. Union Sq. East and Irving Place, New York, New York 10003

Due to popular demand, we’ve partnered with several schools to organize another singles happy hour! It’s a great chance for alumni from Columbia Business School to mix and mingle with MBA alums from other schools.

Alums from Tuck and a few other schools will be joining us as well. It should be another terrific evening of making new connections!

PLUS, the first drink is on the house for all patrons!
REGISTRATION IS FREE, BUT YOU MUST REGISTER.

RSVP required. For registration, please visit https://www.druckerforum.org/registration/.

Vienna: 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum 2019 
Presented by the Peter Drucker Society Europe
Thursday & Friday, November 21-22, 2020  
Location: Hofburg Imperial Palace, Heldenplatz – 1010 Vienna, Austria
Registration: €2,370 including VAT

Columbia Business School alumni and guests are cordially invited to attend the 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum. The Forum features a robust lineup of speakers, including Professor Rita McGrath. The theme of the 2019 Forum is “Discover the Power of Business Ecosystems.” Additional details can be found online, with the full program available here. We hope you can attend this special event!

If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the Drucker Forum Secretariat (co/Confero) events@druckersociety.eu.

You're cordially invited to Huyen Nguyen's presentation on her research about gender disparities in debate speeches & evaluations. In her research, Huyen uses a variety of methods from text & argument mining and econometric techniques to investigate the existence and magnitude of subtle biases in strategic interactions. Specifically, she studies gender differences in the context of (i) inter-collegiate debate tournaments and (ii) negotiation exchanges. For more information, you can check her website here https://huyenttnguyen.com/

Join us for a presentation by Amanda Joseph, a 2019 Darden MBA grad who made the decision to take the plunge and become a full time founder! A self-proclaimed travel addict who has visited 50+ countries, Amanda honed in on Millennial dissatisfaction with anonymous reviews, generic top-10 lists, and messy Google docs. Previously, Amanda was a Buyer at Bloomingdale’s, managing diverse areas of business, from footwear to bedding, and developing her consumer-centric mindset. Come hear more about her journey!

Conference on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds

	ESG in Public Pension and Sovereign Wealth Funds Keiko Honda Former Executive Vice President Former Chief Executive Officer Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
	Key Requirements for Sustaining the Global Expansion John Lipsky Peter G. Peterson Distinguished Scholar Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs Johns Hopkins University; Former Deputy Managing Director International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Session topics:

• ESG Investment: Will It Make Returns Higher? 
• The Macroeconomic Environment: How Long Will Low Interest Rates Continue?

Other participants include: 

• Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School 
• Gauti B. Eggertsson, Professor of Economics, Brown University
• Takatoshi Ito, Professor, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
• Patricia Mosser, Director, MPA Program in Economic Policy Management; Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

• Koji Nakamura, General Manager for the Americas, Bank of Japan

• Eric Ngiam, Senior Vice President, GIC Asset Management

• Hugh Patrick, Chairman, CJEB, Columbia Business School 
• Lukasz Pomorski, Managing Director, AQR Capital
• Sudhir Rajkumar, Representative of the Secretary-General (RSG) for UN Pension Fund Investments
• Maria Vassalou, PhD, Chief Investment Officer, VASSALOU C?PIT?L MANAGEMENT

 

RSVP required. To register, click here.

Connecticut: Stage2Startups Panel
Event is co-hosted by Columbia University Club of Fairfield County and CU MBA CT/Westchester
Thursday, November 21, 2019 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. 
Location: Cos Cob Library, 5 Sinawoy Rd, Cos Cob, CT 06807
Price: $20 for members and their guests / $25 for non-members and their guests

Agenda

• 6:30-7 p.m. - Register & Network
• 7:00-8 p.m. - Panel Discussion/Q&A
• 8-8:30 p.m. - More Networking

Join us for an adventure filled evening of Stage2Startups founder stories and networking. Come to get motivated to start your passion project to change the world by taking that leap of faith!

The Stage2Startups founders panel discussion is led by Betty Wong, the serial entrepreneur founder of State2startups.org, who will probe to uncover how founders' passion led them to want to prove themselves, save the world, and make a difference. She will explore, and you will learn, how they took that leap of faith leaving nine to five jobs for new ventures.

On the registration page linked above, please input the number of attendees in the appropriate member or non-member box, then click PURCHASE TICKETS to following steps and register. 

Register to learn about:

• The motivations for the companies.
• How the founders planned and executed their launches.
• How their families and friends supported them, and what their plans are for growth  

In addition, opportunity to network with other alums, their family and friends over light refreshments as you exchange ideas with speakers.

RSVP required. To register for this event, please click here. 

Kuala Lumpur: Alumni Alliance: Third Thursday Happy Hour 
Presented by the Alumni Alliance
Thursday, November 21, 2019, 7-10pm
Pacific Standard Bar at Alila Bangsar, 58 Jalan Ang Seng, Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur 50470, Malaysia

Alumni Alliance is pleased to announce the location for the meet up in November 2019. This month's event is hosted by the London Business School, at

Pacific Standard Bar at Alila Bangsar

Step into pacific standard and be transported back to the old-school allure of mid-20th century Los Angeles. A chic cocktail lounge and bar inspired by the glamour and romance of vintage Hollywood, paying homage to an ear of film noir intrigue and soulful jazz blues.

Join the Family Business Club on a visit to the Nuts.com factory in Cranford, NJ, hosted by the CEO Jeff Braverman.

We will meet the bus to depart campus at 12:30pm on Friday, November 22, returning around 5pm that afternoon. Signup below:

https://forms.gle/6C2ttFYU2a6pajgQ8

Please note that space is limited and that priority will be given to FBC members.

SBCP will be hosting it’s Case Competition on November 22 from 3-7pm. We expect around 60 attendants. 

If you would like to attend, please notify Anastasia Gromova-Schneider in advance.

Vienna: Event with Professor Rita McGrath
Friday, November 22, 2019 | 5-7:30 p.m.
Location: Julius Meinl am Graben - Weinbar, Graben 19, 1010 Vienna

Please join us for a casual event with guest Rita McGrath. We will have a relaxed after-work glass of wine with alumni and chat about the outcome of the forum and Rita‘s experience.

The bar is a 5 min walk away from the Drucker Forum (Hofburg).

Winston Ma, author of China Mobile’s economy and China Data’s Economy, managing director of China Sovereign Fund CIC, Speaker of World Economy Forum, NYU adjunct professor in Global Digital Economy. Prior to that, he served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/winston-wenyan-ma/

Todd Baker, Senior Fellow at Richard Paul Richman Center, managing principle at Broadmoor Consulting, LLC, which provides strategic consulting services to CEOs of fintech and financial services companies. He has written for publications including Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, American and Banker, speaks frequently at industry conferences, and is widely quoted in the financial and technology press as an industry expert. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/richman/todd-baker

RSVP required. To register for this event, please click here. 

Madrid: Beatriz González (Seaya Ventures) on Venture Capital investing
Wednesday, November 27, 2019 | 7-8:30 p.m.
Seaya Ventures, Alcalá 54, 1º Dcha, 28014 Madrid
Tickets: 5 euros per person for dues-paying members of the CBS Club of Spain; 10 euros per person for rest of participants. One guest may be invited at indicated prices.

Columbia Business School Club of Spain and London Business School Spain Alumni Club are proud inviting you to participate in a thoughtful session on Venture Capital investing with CBS alum Beatriz González, Founder and Managing Partner of Seaya Ventures - a leading and successful VC in Spain, with stakes in high-growth companies such as Cabify, Glovo, Muy, Savana, Spot-A-Home, Clicars and others (visit website here).

Beatriz will open the session introducing her view on key levers for success at VC investing, drawing from examples of her own experience. The session will then be opened to participation of attendees via a Q&A round on the VC topic in general: finding best practices to identify and work with entrepreneurs, fundamentals of VC investment analysis, exit timing and strategies, involving governments at fostering and supporting entrepreneurship (and VC industry's role in this)...

We look forward to meeting you at this lively session on such an interesting hot topic! 

The meeting is informal, and drinks will be available during the session.

Signups to the event and corresponding payment is to be conducted according to your registration status at the website:

Alumni already registered at the Club's website should first log into the website with their Username (or, alternatively, their valid e-mail address) and Password that have been previously provided (please contact us if you need a new registration at the website or require a reminder of the Username or a new Password) and, second, click on the "Sign up" button that appears at the top of this page, which will take to the signup and payment steps to be followed thereafter with the user data being filled in automatically.

All other alumni and participants should first enter their e-mail adress and then click on the "Sign up" button above which will take to the order page where the personal details are requested.

Payment is processed through a secure platform, and the signup will be confirmed via e-mail once the payment has been successfully completed.

Guests: Alumni may bring one guest to this event, at the same price per person as the host. The guest's e-mail address and name/last name are also requested during the registration process for attendance control purposes. Guests receive a confirmation e-mail of their signup.

Signup deadline: Sunday, November 24, 2019.

Language: The session will be conducted in Spanish and there will be ample opportunity to ask questions and network in English as well.

Dress code: Business or smart casual.

Inquiries or questions about this event may be forwarded to events@cbsclubspain.org

RSVP required. To register for this event, please click here. 

Moscow: Columbia Business School Networking (in cooperation with LBS)
Presented by Columbia Business School’s Alumni Club of Russia 
Wednesday, November 27, 2019 | 7-10 p.m.
Open Club, Ulitsa Spiridonovka, 9/2 Ulitsa Spiridonovka, Moskva, Moskva 123001, Russian Federation (entrance from the yard)

?olumbia Business School Alumni Club in cooperation with London Business School Alumni Club is inviting you to join us for the networking event on November, 27th at Open Club venue at Spiridonovka, 9/1.

This time we have a great speaker with an “alarming” topic -"Ecology, Energy, Climate = Sustainable?".

Our guest, Mr. Valery Petrosyan, is a world-renown scientist, Distinguished Professor of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Chemical Sciences at the Department of Chemistry of Moscow State Lomonosov University and Vice-President of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. From 2008 to 2010 he was a United Nations expert of chemical security. He has published more than 500 papers in reputed journals.

Since August 2018 he is the Deputy director for research and development at RT-Invest, the company, which is dealing with the creation of the new system of municipal waste management in the Russian Federation. At the same time he is teaching at MGU and leading the Open Ecological University.

Mr Pozner's TV show with Valery Petrosyan held in October this year at Channel 1 awoke a lot of interest among the Russian audience to the global ecological problems, and the situation in Russia, in particular.

The world's scientists are already warning of a climate emergency. It is a fact, that the climate crisis is closely linked to excessive consumption of the wealthy lifestyle, and most of us who are reading this are its contributors . On November 27th, we will have a unique opportunity to exchange our thoughts on these problems and discuss possible solutions with our distinguished guest.

RSVP required. RSVP to info@cbscj.org providing the necessary information prompted below.

Tokyo: CBSCJ Annual Meeting and Family Dinner 
Presented by the Columbia Business School Club of Japan
Thursday, November 28, 2019 | 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Tokyo American Club (“TAC”) B1F Shinoda Suite, 2-1-2, Azabudai, Minato-ku Tokyo 108-8649 (TAC B2 Brooklyn Ball Room)

In 2019, CBSCJ has been actively organizing monthly meetings, JST welcome party, summer outing, admission events, happy hours and so on. To wrap up this year, CBSCJ cordially invites you to its Annual Meeting and Family Dinner for 2019 to be held as follows. We have many dishes that kids will also enjoy. Please bring your family and have fun!

The admission will be on a first come first served basis until the 60 seats are booked. Please see details below.

1.) Annual Meeting

Agenda:

• Presentation of Chairman’s Report ?Presentation of Financial and Audit reports
• Review of Club activities for 2019

Participation:
Please note that CBSCJ Full Members and Associate Members may participate in the Annual Meeting provided that only Full Members may vote on any agenda. In case of any inquiry on your membership status, or should you wish to become a CBSCJ member, please do not hesitate to contact our Administrative Office by e-mail at info@cbscj.org
 
2.) Family Dinner
Following the Annual Meeting, you are invited to participate in the Annual Family Dinner (seated buffet dinner) in the Brooklyn Ball Room of TAC. You will enjoy a fabulous selection of foods specially prepared to celebrate the Thanksgiving festivities. Souvenirs will also be available for you and your kids thanks to the generous gifts by our members.

Please note that Seats in the Family Dinner may be available to CBSCJ members and their family and friends (if accompanied by them), and also to CBSCJ non-members.

“Member” means the alumni who paid 2019 CBSCJ membership fee.

If you haven’t paid the CBSCJ membership fee, you can pay it following the directions below and participate in the dinner as the member.

In case of any inquiry on your membership status, please do not hesitate to contact our Administrative Office by e-mail at info@cbscj.org

Participation Fee:

• Member: 8,000 yen
• Spouse, Partners or Friends: 7,000 yen
• Children (age 4-17): 3,000 yen
• Under 3 of age: Free of charge
• (Includes free sparkling wine, red/white wines, beer, and soft drinks)

• Non Member: 9,000 yen
• Non Member’s Spouse, Partners or Friends: 8,000yen
• Non Member’s Children (age 4-17): 4,000 yen
• (Includes free sparkling wine, red/white wines, beer, and soft drinks)

Kindly note that you will be admitted in the Family Dinner on a first come first served basis as only 60 seats are available.

To RSVP, email info@cbscj.org with the following information:

Your name:
Graduation year?
Attend Annual Meeting? Y/N
Attend Family Dinner? Y/N

If you attend the Family Dinner, please fill in the number of attendees according to the participation fees above. 
                              
NOTE: if you have changed your address or any contact information, please provide the new contact information in your RSVP mail.

If you have not paid your CBSCJ membership fee you may pay at the reception desk of the Annual Meeting.

You may also make payment by your credit card through your Paypal account or wire the amount to the following bank account:

Bank Name: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Branch Name: Honten (Branch code 001)
Account Type: Futsu-yokin
Account #: 4275824
Account Name: ?????????????????
(Account name is available in Japanese only)
 Please kindly put your graduation year before your name (example. 90 Hiroshi Akao)
(For more information, visit our website.)

We look forward to meeting you at the Annual meeting!

In case of any inquiry, please do not hesitate to contact:
Masayo Shiraki (86) ?ma-shiraki@gem.hi-ho.ne.jp
Nobuhiko Seki (95) nobuhikoseki@gmail.com
Hajime Kosai (96)  hkosai96@alumni.gsb.columbia.edu
Hisanori Kataoka (99)  Tel. 090-8809-5598 kataoka@qg7.so-net.ne.jp
Noriaki Sakamoto (10) nori.saka@gmail.com
Junichiro Mimaki (11) mimaki-junichiro@meti.go.jp