Welcome to the start of another week! For today’s Campus Chronicles column, let’s turn our focus to those two great New York City business schools – Columbia and NYU Stern – and check in on the campus happenings, as reported in The Bottom Line and The Stern Opportunity.
On the academic front, Stern’s Association of Investment Management held its sixth annual conference recently. The conference focused on “changes impacting equity and fixed-income research, differing investment strategies, and the challenges of investing globally.” Over 120 Stern participants came out for the event, which featured keynote addresses by Margaret Cannella, JP Morgan Managing Director and Director of Americas Corporate Research, and Shane Finemore, Head of Proprietary Trading at UBS. Other speakers and panelists were drawn from a number of top Wall Street firms. Meanwhile, Columbia students took quite a field trip recently, as Class of ’51 graduate and world-famous investor Warren Buffett played host to almost 150 students from Professor Greenwald’s Value Investing course. On their trip, the students toured the famous Nebraska Furniture Mart and afterwards spent a two-hour Q&A session with “Oracle of Omaha” – for full coverage of the exchange, be sure to read the three-page cover story!
Although conferences and field trips are two great opportunities of business school, the recruiting process still looms large for many students. For those first- and second-years still seeking to secure an internship or full time offer, the recent papers have some advice and support. First, the Stern Opportunity offers a reminder that current students can sign up for CAP, the online career mentoring program. Through CAP, students can search for and connect with up to three alumni mentors each month, getting valuable advice on industries, companies, or the career development process. At Columbia, an article on page 5 exclaims “Still No Job? You’re Not Alone…” The article goes on to introduce a new addition the career center’s support resources – online films, called Career Chronicles, that profile individual Columbia students’ job searches.
In social news, the 2007 Stern Follies show went off with a bang, with several of the school’s deans and professors joining in the fun on stage. However, if listening to students and professors sing isn’t your style, The Perfect Beat offers up some great recommendations for local music, from the unknown to the well-known. A Columbia student also offers some recommendations on New York cultural attractions, in a page 13 article entitled “My Little Piece of New York.”
Finally, although the Columbia Business School is slated to move to the University’s new Manhattanville campus in several years, the school is still making improvements to the current facilities. An article on page 11 discusses the planned summer construction on Columbia’s Uris Hall, which among other benefits, should add 34 group study rooms – much more than the zero the building currently has!
That’s the news for this week. Tune in next week for more of the news and views from campus!
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