Columbia Business School, established in 1916, is a highly competitive and distinguished graduate program within Columbia University in New York City. Each year, Columbia Business School grants master's and doctoral degrees with such concentrations as accounting, marketing, finance and economics, and management. Brian Thomas is an experienced business writer, most recently the editor and manager of the Climate Change Futures Project, a two-million-dollar, three-year study by the Swiss Reinsurance Company. He is a former consulting editor for Climate Change Adaptation in New York City, part of Mayor Bloomberg's Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. He has also worked with Bear Sterns and Merrill Lynch as a corporate speechwriter and communications director.
After a hundred years, Columbia Business School continues to build on its early programming, but it goes beyond, making decisions aimed at connecting faculty with industry practitioners across disciplines in an effort to link Columbia research with practice. With a strategy grounded in what it takes to succeed in the future, building on the distinctive assets of Columbia's past and present, I know one thing: Anything written for the sesquicentennial and the bicentennial will talk about Columbia's leading role in developing ideas that drive and shape business, nurturing future business leaders and entrepreneurs in its students, and engaging its amazing network of alumni in ideas and talent. -- Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School