Interview with Dean Hubbard, Columbia Business School(1)

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　　Glenn Hubbard, Dean of Columbia Business School is to visit Shanghai on March 9th, 2007. Before his visit to China, Xing Zong, the freelance writer from Duke University Chinese Students and Scholar Association (DCSSA) had an interview with him.


　　About Dean Glenn Hubbard
　　Glenn Hubbard was named dean of Columbia Business School on July 1, 2004. A Columbia faculty member since 1988, he is also the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics. Prof. Hubbard is a specialist in public finance, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions. He has written more than 90 articles and books on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics and public policy, including two textbooks, and has co-authored Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System. In a recent book, Tax Policy and Multinational Corporations, he argues that U.S. tax policy significantly affects financing and investment decisions of multinational corporations. Hubbard has applied his research interests in business (as a consultant on taxation and corporate finance to many corporations), in government (as deputy assistant of the U.S. Treasury Department and as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and many government agencies) and in academia (in faculty collaboration or visiting appointments at Columbia, University of Chicago and Harvard).

　　Interview
　　Z: Dean Hubbard. It is my honor to speak with you. As I know, you are going to Shanghai soon. What is the purpose of your trip? How many times have you been to China and what is the status quo of Columbia’s collaboration with Chinese B-schools?

　　H: This trip provides me the opportunity to meet with alumni, business leaders, and partner schools in China. This year, I will meet with Fudan University in Shanghai, where we have an Executive Education program, and Hong Kong, where we have a new partnership with Hong Kong University. This summer, we will be welcoming the first few HKU students as they come to Columbia Business School to complete a semester of study abroad. We are looking to expand that program rapidly and ultimately hop to accommodate as many as 30-40 students from Hong Kong University each year.

　　Z: The home to Columbia Business School, New York, is the center of international business, the financial and communications capital of the world and the most entrepreneurial city anywhere. What does Columbia B-school do to take full advantage of this natural resource?

　　H: Our location in New York City enables our students to gain exposure to, and learn directly from, business executives from across a wide spectrum of industries. We routinely host speakers such as Sir John Brown, Group CEO of BP, Steven Yung, Chairman of Clear Media, Ltd, who come to campus while in New York. Others are based in New York – such as Sandy Weill, Chairman of Citigroup, or Timothy Geithner of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The proximity of New York business leaders to Columbia, and their familiarity with our faculty, means they frequently “drop in” as speakers in class. This semester, students in the “Managing the Growing Company” course have seen no fewer than one CEO or managing director per week visit the class. Our student clubs, such as the Private Equity and Venture Capital Club and the Columbia Investment Management Club, leverage their access to leaders across the New York-based financial services industry to produce highly respected annual conferences that attract considerable attention from area business leaders and an impressive range of coverage by financial media. Lastly, the extensive network of Columbia Business School alumni in the New York area – in finance, media and other industries - provides students with unmatched networking, internship, and mentoring opportunities.