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Steve Schurr is a former senior managing director of Fundamental Equities and portfolio manager at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM). He is also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Schurr joined BAM in 2021 from Point72, where he was an equities portfolio manager. Before that, he was a managing director at Brahman Capital and held investment-focused roles at Harrier Hawk Management and K...

In Renu's interactive workshop, you will reframe your career journey, realign with your values, and release expectations.

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation and networking event with Dan Durn ‘00 & Gracy Sarkissian in Los Altos, CA!

Join fellow Columbia and MBA/SD alumni for an evening of ideas, connection, and collaboration on the Mezzanine (upstairs). You will have the opportunity to network with local alumni and hear from visiting CBS Professor Stephan Meier who will share insights from his book The Employee Advantage. There will be complementary hors d'oevres and a cash bar available.

In this talk, Silvia Bellezza will discuss a novel framework that systematically unifies existing conceptualizations, findings, and observations on alternative status symbols. The proposed framework organizes alternative signals in terms of their distance from traditional status symbols and categorizes them along six focal dimensions: time (new/old), quantity (many possessions/few possessions),...

Career Panel on Private Credit moderated by Eric Rogoff Hear from panelists who have spent their entire career in leveraged finance. Panelists come from a variety of backgrounds including banking, and entrepreneurship. The panelists will discuss the multiple hats they wear in their firms, including origination, underwriting, and executive management. Some of the panelists used their MBA deg...

Join the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of Toronto for a live, demo-style lecture with CBS Professor Daniel Guetta as he breaks down how large language models like ChatGPT really work — and why they matter for the next generation of business leaders. The world is going through an AI revolution, and large language models are at its center. Models like ChatGPT are poised to change the wa...

Professor Guzman will share a condensed version of his executive class: Thinking Like an Entrepreneur. The session shows how entrepreneurs make decisions differently—navigating uncertainty and championing ideas that others may overlook—and explores how executives can adopt these skills and foster entrepreneurial thinking within their organizations.