Columbia Business School

Intro

Columbia University's MBA program offers a wealth of classes, both core and electives. The number of courses favors topics relating to finance. Columbia also prides itself on offering students an international setting among global peers and faculty.

Learning Style

Students build community by learning together in assigned clusters of 60 to 65 fellow students, who take most of the first-year core classes together.

Electives

Students can choose to focus on one area to gain deeper knowledge in a specific discipline and have a "major." Columbia Business School offers the following areas of focus:

* Accounting
* Decision, Risk and Operations
* Entrepreneurship
* Finance and Economics
* Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management
* Human Resource Management
* International Business
* Management / Leadership
* Marketing
* Media
* Private Equity
* Real Estate
* Social Enterprise
* Value Investing

Students may also focus on a subspecialty within an area. For example, a student interested in finance can choose to focus in investment management, corporate finance or private equity.

Students have more than 130 elective courses to choose from. Below are some of the most popular electives.

Economics of Strategic Behavior

For consultants, managers and corporate finance generalists, this course examines successful business strategy — from entering an industry and the imperatives of competition to competitive advantage sources.

Financial Statement Analysis and Earnings Quality

Students learn how to glean information about a firm’s current and past performance from financial statements. Students also gain a deeper understanding of specific financial statements from a user’s perspective, particularly focusing on issues of earnings quality, as well as more advanced topics related to mergers and acquisitions and consolidated financial reporting.

Introduction to Venturing

This course offers an overview of the entrepreneurial process and covers topics like characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, techniques for finding and screening ideas, finance, the politics of new ventures, valuation and deal making, writing a business plan, buying a business, family business dynamics and managing crisis and failure.

Launching New Ventures

Students work individually or in teams to develop a comprehensive and effective presentation of a real business concept. Faculty, industry mentors and others help students distill business opportunities into a written and oral presentation ready to seek funding and commence operations.

Master Classes

The newly developed Master Classes focus on specific industry contexts (e.g., media, real estate, consulting) and draws input from the professional community via group projects, guest speakers, adjunct faculty and alumni participation and involves substantial project work.

Managerial Negotiations

Recognizing the critical role that negotiations play in management, this course — one of the most celebrated electives at the School — uses actual negotiations, as well as concepts from the behavioral sciences, economics and game theory, to hone students’ negotiating skills.

Modern Political Economy

Retailing: Design and Marketing of Luxury Goods

Security Pricing: Models and Computations

Seminar in Value Investing

Top Management Process

Turnaround Management

International Perspective

Businesses worldwide need MBAs who have the tools to succeed globally, including leadership skills, cultural awareness, foreign-language proficiency and an understanding of the intricacies of the world marketplace. Columbia Business School prepares students to meet those demands.

Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business

The Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business is the focal point for international programs at Columbia Business School. Among its initiatives is the annual Chazen / CIBER International MBA Career Services Conference, the first global forum devoted specifically to international career and employment issues.

Its Language Program offers eight-week courses for students, faculty members, staff and their spouses. Courses are built around two hours of language immersion each week in small classroom settings of no more than nine students. Advanced levels emphasize business terminology. The Chazen Language Program is available in the fall, spring and summer semesters.

Chazen MBA Exchange Program

Students have access to spend a semester at 24 leading business schools worldwide through the Chazen MBA Exchange Program. Study tours explore business practices and innovation in more than 25 countries, most recently in India, China and South Africa.

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