{"id":17662,"date":"2015-07-24T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=17662"},"modified":"2022-01-26T04:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:58:00","slug":"friday-factoid-conference-season-at-columbia-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/friday-factoid-conference-season-at-columbia-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Factoid: Conference Season at Columbia Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the changing of the leaves and the influx of cooler weather on Columbia Business School\u2019s (CBS\u2019s) campus comes a series of student-run conferences that give both first- and second-year students the opportunity to expand their knowledge across a variety of disciplines via panels and keynote speaker addresses, and to network with like-minded students, conference sponsors (who are often also big CBS recruiters), and even industry professionals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/central-park-535645_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-17736 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/central-park-535645_1280-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Friday Factoid: Conference Season at Columbia Business School - mbaMission\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/central-park-535645_1280-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/central-park-535645_1280-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/central-park-535645_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In October is the popular\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiasocialenterprise.org\/conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Social Enterprise Conference<\/strong><\/a>, during which speakers discuss the ways leaders and managers can use strategy as a tool to maximize social change and how\u00a0organizations can incorporate a broader spectrum of social gains into their organizational strategies, among other issues.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www8.gsb.columbia.edu\/cbshealthcareconference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CBS Healthcare Conference<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0follows. The 2014 conference featured the chairman and COO of Roche Pharmaceuticals and the president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare as the keynote speakers.The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www0.gsb.columbia.edu\/students\/organizations\/mac\/conference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marketing Association of Columbia (MAC) Conference<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is up next and, like the Social Enterprise Conference, usually enjoys a packed house. The MAC Conference has focused on such topics as the elevation, enhancement, and personalization of the brand experience for today\u2019s mindful consumer.<\/p>\n<p>Conference season at Columbia continues into the second semester and features the India Business Conference and the Columbia Women in Business Conference. CBS often touts its New York advantage\u2014students have the business world right outsidethe school\u2019s door, ripe for exploration. Obviously, however, this advantage does not mean that CBS neglects to bring the business world to its students.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information on CBS or 15 other leading MBA programs, check out the\u00a0<\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the changing of the leaves and the influx of cooler weather on Columbia Business School\u2019s (CBS\u2019s) campus comes a series of student-run conferences that give both first- and second-year students the opportunity to expand their knowledge across a variety of disciplines via panels and keynote speaker addresses, and to network with like-minded students, conference &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/friday-factoid-conference-season-at-columbia-business-school\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&nbsp;<i class=\"fal fa-sm fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columbia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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