{"id":28747,"date":"2022-11-13T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=28747"},"modified":"2022-11-13T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T15:00:32","slug":"professor-profiles-jonathan-knee-columbia-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-jonathan-knee-columbia-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: Jonathan Knee, Columbia Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jonathan-Knee-Columbia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-28139 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jonathan-Knee-Columbia-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Profiles: Jonathan Knee, Columbia Business School\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jonathan-Knee-Columbia-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jonathan-Knee-Columbia-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jonathan-Knee-Columbia.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<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. Today, we focus on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www8.gsb.columbia.edu\/cbs-directory\/detail\/jk2110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Jonathan Knee<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em> from Columbia Business School (CBS).<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Knee\u00a0<\/strong>is the Michael T. Fries Professor of Professional Practice of Media and Technology at CBS and the co-director of the school\u2019s Media and Technology Program. He is also still active in the private sector as a senior advisor at the advisory and investment firm Evercore Partners.<\/p>\n<p>Knee is perhaps best known among CBS students for his book\u00a0<em>The Accidental Investment Banker:<\/em>\u00a0<em>Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2006) and, we are told, brings a unique perspective into the classroom by showing where entertainment and finance cross paths. In his latest book,\u00a0<em>Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education<\/em> (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2017), Knee explores investors\u2019 efforts in higher education. Students reported to mbaMission that his \u201cMergers and Acquisitions in Media\u201d class is intense and that the course\u2019s final presentation\u2014made before a guest panel of practicing investors\u2014feels like the real deal. One CBS graduate who took a class with Knee said the benefits of having an active advisor as a teacher were the business insight and guest speakers\u00a0the professor\u00a0brought into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about CBS and 16 other top-ranked business schools, check out our free\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/strong><\/em><\/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. 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. Today, we focus on\u00a0Jonathan Knee from Columbia Business School (CBS). Jonathan Knee\u00a0is the Michael &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-jonathan-knee-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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columbia","category-professor-profiles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor Profiles: Jonathan Knee, Columbia Business School<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No one will affect your education more than your professors. 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