Columbia Business School
What Columbia Business School Amounts To
Club-led, with investor introductions.
At a Glance
- Courses
- 1 named course, below.
- Club
- Columbia Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, whose stated aim is producing search fund entrepreneurs rather than introducing the idea.
- Money
- Lang Summer Fellowship: a salary supplement for rising second-years working full-time at an early-stage company, a small VC, or a search fund, 35 hours a week for 8 to 12 weeks, one stipend per host. The host pays at least $400 a week, the center tops the total up to a ceiling of $1,000 a week, and its own share is capped at $4,000 for the summer.
- Conference
- Nothing published.
The Classes
- Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (B8523)Taught by William Bressman and Gerald King take one autumn half-term section, Tom Jackson and Clayton Sachs the other.
What Else It Runs
- Summer internships with working searchers, private equity firms and family offices.
- A speaker series running from industry ideation through deal sourcing to the transaction itself.
Open to readers outside the school
- A club-run calendar of panels and workshops with investors and operators.
Where to Look
Other Schools
The Intern & Job Board carries the programs that pay a salary to search, and Investors the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the materials for ETA clubs.