RSVP is required. To register for this event, please text or call Tomas Amaral at +1 (917) 822-5152.

Buenos Aires: Chazen Trip CBS Networking
Presented by  the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of Argentina, with sponsorship from the Columbia Business School Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business
Saturday, March 23, 2019 from 1 p.m. 
Quinta Sonia: Cesar Bacle 260, Villa de Mayo, Argentina

Please join us for an afternoon of Networking! 

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

New York: 4a Meet and Greet Cocktail Reception
Presented by Columbia Business School's The African American Alumni Association (4a)
Saturday, March 23, 2019 | 1–4 p.m.
The Casablanca Lounge, 300 Malcolm X Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY

Columbia Business School alumni and guests are cordially invited to a meet and greet cocktail reception honoring the African American Alumni Association (4a) trailblazer Meredith Marshall ’92.
Todd Wiley ’98 will conduct a short Q&A with the event’s honoree. We hope you can attend this special event!

RSVPs are requested by Monday, March 18, 2019. If you have any questions, please contact the event leads, Pierre Nicolas ’99 and Blaire Smith ’00, at pnicolas@gmail.com and blaircsmith@gmail.com.

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

Private Equity Breakfast Series: My Best Turnaround Ever
Presented by the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 | 8–10 a.m.
The Smith, 956 2nd Avenue (corner of E. 51st St.), New York, New York 10022 United States
CBSACNY Alumni members $35; Non members $50; At the door $60

Come to the next event in our PE Breakfast Series targeting operating partner success. Hear John discuss his best turnaround ever! Also, network with fellow alums in the PE industry before and after the presentation and breakfast.

Featuring Professor Urooj Khan presenting: Earnings Quality on the Street

Christian Moser presenting: The Effects of Credit Supply on Wage Inequality Between and Within Firms

Business School students can attend this informal lunch during which faculty members each present a 15 minute talk, discussing their current research. These seminars are videotaped and posted on the Program for Financial Studies website, providing easy access to some of the important and timely research being done by the School's professors.

The Program for Financial Studies at Columbia Business School cultivates initiatives and research in the field of financial studies. Program synergies come from connecting the School's world-class faculty from multiple disciplines with the Business School's talented student body, active alumni community, and engaged external constituencies through a spectrum of initiatives that bridge the theory and practice of finance. To learn more about the program, visit www.gsb.columbia.edu/financialstudies.

Eyal Bino is a Venture Partner at B Capital, a $360M global VC focused on leading growth rounds of game changing startups and a Co-Founder and Partner at ICONYC labs, a value-add investor and accelerator for early-stage Israeli tech startups in NYC. 
Prior to ICONYC, Eyal founded and ran the Global Innovator program, the leading NYC-based platform for global early stage technology startups looking to gain strategic access to NYC-based investors, potential customers and partners so they can accelerate their growth. Passionate about the intersection of Israeli and NY tech, Eyal is also a Contributor for Forbes, writing about Israeli tech, NYC venture and everything in between.

Learn about how marketing differs across industries and new trends in retail, direct to consumer, and technology.

Featuring Panelists:

- Allie Egan, President, Cynthia Rowley

- Leticia Cheng, Senior Product Marketing Mgr, LinkedIn

- Sara Couch, VP of Marketing, Payless

- Howard Blumenstein, Product Marketing Lead, Google

RSVP is not required. For more information, please contact Janet Stuart  or Kimball Halsey.

Boston:  “Fourth Tuesday” Cross Business School Metro West Happy Hour
Presented by Columbia Business School’s Alumni Club of Boston
Tuesday, March 26, 2018 | 6-8 pm
Trail’s End Café: 97 Lowell Road, Concord, MA : Meet in the lower bar area straight ahead as you walk past the hostess stand 
Cost: Cash Bar

This event is designed to give business school graduates and their friends in the Boston area an opportunity to socialize and network in a relaxed yet elegant setting. Participants include the Boston Alumni Clubs of: UCLA (Anderson), Chicago (Booth), Columbia, Virginia (Darden), Duke (Fuqua), UC Berkeley (Haas), Harvard, IMD, INSEAD, Cornell (Johnson), Northwestern (Kellogg), London Business School, Michigan (Ross), NYU (Stern), Stanford, MIT (Sloan), Dartmouth (Tuck), Penn (Wharton), and Yale (School of Management).
 

Over 10 years ago, Zachary Prell made the unconventional leap from finance to fashion and founded his eponymous brand, ZACHARY PRELL (www.zacharyprell.com) while he was a student at Columbia Business School (’05).  Based in New York City, this modern menswear brand has evolved from primarily a sports shirt business into a full lifestyle collection and is carried in over 200 points of distribution across the U.S., including Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s and a number of leading specialty stores.  Zachary is passionate about entrepreneurship and spends time advising other founders and teams on many aspects of the startup process, such as go-to-market and sales strategies, e-commerce, business plan development, and fundraising.  Previously, Zachary worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston and then in venture capital, most recently at Polaris Partners.

DRO PhD students meeting 

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

Stockholm: The INSEAD Knowledge Club Sweden
Presented by INSEAD Alumni Association Sweden
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 | 5:30–8:30 p.m.
Tändstickspalatset, Västra Trädgårdsgatan 15 Stockholm

Please register your interest to participate, a confirmation on attendance will be shared as soon as possible. All Columbia Business School alumni are invited to attend. 
Questions? Please contact the Events Team on: alumni.sweden@insead.edu

Value Based Leadership Driving Business as a Force For Good

In this rapidly changing and demanding world, purposeful companies are in increasing demand.

This event explores the practice of Value Based Leadership with Professor Ludo van der Heyden and Britta Bureau. Fair Process Leadership is an integrative approach to Leadership that emphasizes high levels of transparency and open engagement with stakeholders.

Professor Ludo Van Der Heyden will share insights from his research comparing the leadership styles of Bernadotte versus Napoleon, and how value based leadership made longer impact and affected Sweden. Professor Van Der Heyden outlines the process of Fair Process Leadership, an integrative approach to Leadership that emphasises high levels of transparency and open engagement with stakeholders, resulting in better decision-making and leadership.

Britta Bureau, CEO KPA Pension, will share her story on how she is building the company on the basis of business as a force for good, and how she is utilising value based leadership to facilitate the journey. Britta is also Chairman of the Swedish Scout Association and will share how they are using value based leadership to make an impact.

The presentations will be followed by a facilitated discussion with the presenters and the participants. Food and beverages will be served.

Sponsor - The event is sponsored by Aino Health, another example of a business as a force for good. Aino Health is facilitating a culture of well-being, reducing employee turnover, lower companies health management costs and boost productivity through a SaaS based platform supporting leaders, employees and HR.

INSEAD - The Business School for the World, with a mission to develop responsible leaders who transform business and society. INSEAD is one of the worlds leading and largest graduate business schools, with more than 1400 degree participants annually, and more than 11000 executives and board members participating in executive education programs each year. A global perspective and cultural diversity are reflected in all aspects of its research and teaching, with 154 faculty from 40 countries, campuses in Europe (France), Asia (Singapore) and Middle East (Abu Dhabi) and top alliances.

Ludo Van Der Heyden is the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Corporate Governance, and Emeritus professor of Technology and Operations Management.

Britta Bureau is CEO of KPA Pension and Chairman of Swedish Scout Association

You're invited to the 2019 Alumni Reception hosted by Columbia Business School’s Technology Business Group on March 27th at 6:00pm at Social Bar & Lounge. This event will be a great way to not only strengthen alumni-student relationships but also to form a strong alumni network within the technology space in New York.

Spots are limited to the first 50 students who sign up.

The digitization of information has made a wealth of unstructured data in the form of text, image audio and video available to firms. Such data often include online reviews, customer service call center and chat room conversations, ads, emails, annual reports, and issue press releases.  Additionally, society generates such unstructured data via newspapers articles, movies, songs and books. By some estimates, 80-95% of all business data is unstructured, and most of that unstructured data is text.

These textual data can be used to help businesses and consumers make better decisions.  But by itself, all this data is just that. Data.  For that data to be useful, we have to be able to extract underlying insights from the data in order to measure, track, understand, and interpret the causes and consequences of marketplace behavior.

In this session we will discuss how unstructured data, and in particular text data can be used for business decision making. We will cover case studies ranging from understating competitive market structure from online discussion, to mapping the political affiliation of brands and predicting loan default from loan applications.

Some examples of Professor Oded Netzer's work on the topic

https://www.metromba.com/2017/10/columbia-study-bad-loans/

https://soundcloud.com/ideasatwork/oded-netzer

https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/ideas-work/what-makes-idea-creative

HTA Panel Discussion

Dear PSA members,

Business moves fast, improvisers move faster: Improve your communication and interviewing skills with techniques to provide results when you are put on the spot. Learn how with Professor Jeffrey Golde and Master Improviser Jay Painter. 

Beginners' Improv Classes will be starting in Spring B term. It will be held on all Wednesdays at 7:30 pm starting on March 27th. Each session will take 2 hours and there will be 5 sessions in total. The space is limited up to 25 people.

Note: There is an additional fee for this event - BUT, thanks to the generosity of the Community Engagement Grant, this is the lowest-priced Beginner's Improv ever!

Internship panel of second year students who got internships via enterprise recruiting.

Speaker- Madan Nagaldinne

Thursday, March 28, 2019 | 12:30-1:45 PM (Lunch will be served.)
Room 332, Uris Hall, Columbia Business School
Register

Featuring:
Ryota Kimura, Chief Representative & General Manager, New York Representative Office, Japan Exchange Group, Inc.
Shin Furuya, Impact Investment Strategist, Domini Impact Investments LLC

Moderated by: Alicia Ogawa, Director, Project on Japanese Corporate Governance and Stewardship, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School

You're invited to hear Executive in Residence Neale Godfrey and CMC’s Cecilia Manzolillo share their stories in our special edition of CBS Matters for Women’s Week!

About Neale

Neale S. Godfrey is an acknowledged expert on family and children's finances who has been in the financial field for more than 30 years. Neale became one of the first female executives at The Chase Manhattan Bank. Later, she became the President of The First Women’s Bank and founder of The First Children’s Bank. In 1989, Neale formed her own company, Children’s Financial Network, Inc., whose mission is to educate children and their parents about money. She is the author of 27 books that deal with money, life skills, and value issues, and has been honored with a #1 New York Times Best Seller, Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible Children. Neale was the first to develop money curricula for children and young adults Pre-K through High School, which are available in CD-ROM and iOS game app formats. Neale was also a former Nationally Syndicated Columnist for the Associated Press and currently is a Contributor for Forbes.com.

About Cecilia

Cecilia is focused on advising MBA students on the design and development of their overall career strategies. She has had an extensive career in financial services spanning investment banking, sales and structuring roles where she primarily focused on creating portfolio and investment solutions for US and Latin American clients as part of the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs & Co. and the Global Markets and Global Wealth & Investment Management divisions of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She is a frequent guest speaker in Prof. Mark Zurack’s Derivatives class and a member of the Board of Advisors of Accelerate Investors Foundation, which aims to increase diversity in the investing community. Cecilia earned her MBA from the UCLA Andzerson School of Management and her BA in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Cecilia grew up in Texas with strong Argentine roots. She is the mom of three young boys and enjoys spending time outdoors with them.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: Beginner's training in public speaking skills. Easygoing activity where board members will train new members in public speaking. Low pressure, high fun.  

MMA is hosting an event catering to those interested in the music industry. We will be having a conversation about the trends, challenges, and opportunities available to multiple stakeholders within the music community.

Third Thursday: Social Entrepreneurship
Hosted by Columbia Engineering, in partnership with the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise
Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres with RSVP ?

Third Thursday is a recurring open forum that brings together the Columbia University entrepreneurship community for an evening of networking, info session, and pitch presentations. It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni the opportunity to hear ideas from across campus, form teams, and explore career options. You'll hear from Columbia alumni and other experts on their experiences working in the field, how they’ve applied their Columbia experience in their careers, and more.

Thursday, March 28 will feature entrepreneurs who are using their engineering skills to solve some of today's most pressing social and environmental issues. Please save the date, to hear from alumni who currently run social ventures in this space, pitch an idea during the open mic section of the event, and meet and network with fellow social entrepreneurs. This event is open to all Columbia University alumni, faculty, and students, as well as professionals in the social impact sector. 

For more information on speakers and their bios, please click here.

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

Crush Curatorial with Adama Delphine Fawundu 
Presented by the CAA Arts Access and Columbia University School of the Arts
Monday, March 28, 2019 | 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Crush Curatorial, 526 West 26th Street, Suite # 709, New York, NY 10001

Join CAA Arts Access and Columbia University School of the Arts  for a private exhibition viewing with artist Adama Delphine Fawundu '18SOA for her solo exhibition, Adama Delphine Fawundu: The Sacred Star of Isis at Crush Curatorial, founded by Karen Hesse Flatow '84BUS, '96SOA.

In this newly-conceived body of work, the artist takes the ancient West African deity, Mami Wata, as a departure point and builds on her engagement with her Mende heritage of Sierra Leone. Linking known and under-recognized geographies of the African diaspora, Ms. Fawundu’s work upends national and temporal borders, invoking interconnectivity and transformation across cultural and environmental thresholds.

The exhibition includes video works and a series of photographs titled the The Sacred Star of Isis (2017-ongong) featuring the artist occupying a host of settings that bore witness to events of the diaspora. Documenting herself as a black female agent within these ghostly sites, Ms. Fawundu employs masks, garments, and gestures to mark the specificity of her locations and to unearth stories that sit beneath their surfaces. The artist is also premiering a series of mixed media works inspired by fabrics hand-dyed by her paternal grandmother, Adama, and her aunt of Sierra Leone.

Learn more about the exhibition here.

Zoom call info to be shared with participants who RSVP

Please join the Energy Club for a Project Finance Modeling session, covering basic project finance that is applicable to traditional and renewable energy projects in the energy industry. The price of the workshop will be $50 which includes all class materials and instruction. The session will be useful for anyone pursuing project finance, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, or other related function in Energy.

Please note that payment is required for RSVP, and this session is limited to 25 students. After the seats are filled, a wait list form will be circulated to club members, on first-come-first-serve basis.
Please do not circulate outside Energy Club and GBC.

The MBA Media & Entertainment Conference is the premier conference for MBA students and professionals in the media and entertainment industries. The annual event, jointly hosted by Columbia Business School and NYU Stern School of Business, brings established leaders and groundbreaking pioneers together to share insights on the state of media and entertainment. 

This year’s MBA Media & Entertainment Conference will take place on Friday, March, 29, 2019 at Columbia University. The program will consist of keynote speakers, panel discussions, lunch, opportunities to meet with recruiters, and a cocktail reception. Our speakers will come from companies including Disney, HBO, The New York Times, Comcast NBCUniversal, and YouTube.

Panel discussions during the conference will feature the following topics:

• Game Changers: New Media Ventures in Sports

• Media Consolidation and the Future of Media

• Streaming and Big Data - Creating and Personalizing Content

• Access to Quality News

• Investing in Media

• The Next Big Content Revolution: The Role of Short-Form Premium Content in OTT Services

For more information, please visit www.mbamec.com.

Turns out those Pilates classes weren’t a fad. [solidcore] is unlike any workout you’ve ever done before. If you want to change your body, you need to be doing slow and controlled resistance training. This is how you create long, lean, and strong muscles. The lights are low, the music is on point, and the community is [inspiring].

Learn more: https://solidcore.co/our-workout/

Venmo Cyrus-Mojdehi $5 to reserve your spot for this exclusive event.

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

Kuala Lumpur: Alumni Alliance: Bonding in Colors 
Presented by Columbia Business School’s Alumni Club of Kuala Lumpur
Thursday, March 30th, 2019, 10am-1pm
Serai Bukit Bandaraya: 98 jalan Medang Serai, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur

Rules of the game:

• In small groups, each participant will be given the opportunity topick a colour of his choice and work with the same through a 3-hour exercise.
• Participants will paint on one board and wet paper, with a common brush. In silence, they will work towards finding a symbol that is expressive of the group identity.
• No art pre-requisite for this workshop. Novice most welcome!

Objectives:

• Observing one’s dynamics within a group, breaking shackles and finding new ways to communicate.
• What is the manner in which we perceive and express ourselves?
• What is our personal style when creating, operating and delivering a project?
• How can we expand our creativity and enhance our adaptability?

About Us:
SAYITINCOLOR- ART COACHING is an artistic workshop where our imagination and creativity are used as tools to discover our hidden talents. On a canvas, with animated images, and via olfactory experiences, our past present, and future take shape so we can model our lives the way we dreamed it. The medium acts like a mirror: it brings ideas forward, translates them into projects, and generates concrete actions.

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

Tokyo: Intercollegiate Hanami 2019
Presented by the Georgetown University Alumni Club of Japan 
Sunday, March 31, 2019 | 11a.m. – 4:30p.m.
Komaba Park, 4-3 55 Komaba Meguro-ku, Tokyo 1530041 Japan

Georgetown University Alumni Club of Japan is organizing Hanami get together on March 31. CUAAJ is joining it. A lot of US based schools are joining. Please join us! It is open to our friends and family! 

Current participating school as of Mar 16: Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, UPenn, Stanford, Georgetown, and UC Berkeley.

Location: Komaba Park (not Komabano park) – please note that there is a similarly-named park nearby; we will be going to the park next to the Museum of Modern Japanese Literature.

What to bring/inform your attendees-
Food & Drinks: Please encourage your members  to bring food/drinks. The clubs usually set up some refreshments, but the majority of the food/drinks will come from attendees.
Folding tables: to put snack/food/drinks on
School Flags/Banners/Clothing: If you have some sort of flag or banner, please bring it along so that your members will have an easy time spotting us
Tarps: The ground will most likely be muddy.
Trash bags: Usually we accumulate a good amount of trash- Please also encourage your attendees to help clean and take away whatever they can.
Activities: Please encourage people to bring balls/games/etc

CONTACT    
Hajime Kosai
info.cuaaj@gmail.com
09098144248