{"id":20892,"date":"2016-05-18T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=20892"},"modified":"2022-01-27T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:59:39","slug":"professor-profiles-david-beim-columbia-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-david-beim-columbia-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: David Beim, Columbia Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we focus on\u00a0<\/em><strong>David Beim<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>from Columbia Business School (CBS).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15720 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/David-Beim.jpg\" alt=\"David Beim\" width=\"138\" height=\"184\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>That a core-curriculum finance professor makes our roster of notable professors may be surprising to some of our readers\u2014especially considering that many of CBS\u2019s core-curriculum professors reportedly cycle through and leave the school after just a few years\u2014but we learned that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www0.gsb.columbia.edu\/faculty\/dbeim\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>David Beim<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0made an impact on his classroom and his students by delving beneath the numbers. An alumnus we interviewed included Beim as one of CBS\u2019s \u201camazing\u201d professors with success in top industries, and another, referring to one of Beim\u2019s courses, told mbaMission, \u201cI think that class could have just been about how to run a pretty spreadsheet and be technically proficient, but he made it be about how finance is the lifeblood of a business.\u201d Although Beim\u00a0retired from CBS in 2014, his career serves as a prime example of a professor devoted to the school.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about CBS and 15 other top-ranked business schools, check out the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. 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