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Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington writes "To me, Greenwald is amongst the strongest cement at Columbia University – he bonds all students who have ever studied with him. So many post graduation questions of fellow alumni start with, 'Did you take any of Greenwald’s classes' and immediately dive into the details and enjoyment of what we learned from him."

Apr 20, 2016

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Leo Cruz '15 writes "Professor Greenwald embodies what it means to be a ‘superstar’ professor. Always engaging, effortlessly funny, and most of all, overly generous with his time and wisdom. I remember countless times seeing him after class talking to the same slacker students who didn’t bother reading the assignments just so he made sure they ‘got it.’ He has this ability to make students feel confident in themselves."

Apr 20, 2016

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Peter Bowley '14 writes "The Value Investing program was core to my overwhelming positive experience at CBS and that is thanks to Professor Greenwald’s dedication to making it an amazing program. Professor Greenwald notably made himself available to the whole CBS community. I saw Professor Greenwald’s impact reach far beyond the Value Investing program. I even had a friend from Argentina come to CBS for a 2-week intensive program for entrepreneurs. His comment on Professor Greenwald’s valuation lecture summed it up – una cosa increible lo de Greenwald (a truly incredible thing listening to Prof. Greenwald!)"

Apr 20, 2016

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Rick Carew ’12 writes "He's been a champion of the value investing philosophy at the school in the honor Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett. Nobody has done more to build on the traditional value investing approach and integrate it into the way that modern hedge fund and long-only investors approach security analysis. No student of the Value Investing Program has left Columbia Business School without a deep impact from his teaching. His willingness to engage with students one-on-one and bring the Socratic method to the classroom has shaped many generations of Wall Street's best investors and will shape many more in the future."

Apr 18, 2016

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Tom Russo, partner at Gardner Russo Gardner and Heilbrunn Center advisory board member writes "Bruce has ignited passion over his tenure at Columbia Business School for the great legacy of the value investing traditions, initially inaugurated by Benjamin Graham and his partner, David Dodd, and subsequently nurtured by Roger Murray. With the bragging rights of value investing’s best student ever, Warren Buffett, counted among the program’s alums, and with a tireless dedication to introduce priceless practical contribution from adjuncts, the value investing program housed at the Heilbrunn Center has offered decades of students valued insight into the actual practice of investment management. While fluent in the required language of modern portfolio theory, Bruce has nonetheless sheltered students from the seductive lure of seeming certain quantitative outcomes in a world of investing which at the heart remains a trade more than an academic profession. Finally, Bruce has activated one of the world’s most powerful “network effects” through Columbia’s prized network of alumni/alumnae who have forged their careers in money management."

Apr 18, 2016

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Michael Mauboussin, Head of Global Financial Strategies, Credit Suisse and Heilbrunn Center adjunct faculty member writes "The selective business schools each have their strengths, and one of CBS’s strengths is value investing. This originates from Ben Graham but has been strengthened meaningfully by Bruce Greenwald. He has been the cornerstone of the program that make CBS the go-to place for aspiring value investors."

Apr 15, 2016

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Lauren Krueger '02, Heilbrunn Center advisory board member and adjunct faculty member writes "For me, Bruce serves as an inspiration. He is able to transcend academic professor and practitioner and in doing so raise the bar for the entire value investing program. As a student, I was enthralled and excited by his class and guest lecturers. As an adjunct, I am impressed by his vast knowledge of and contribution to the value investing community. Bruce is unique and as such has made a lasting impression on Columbia Business School and its many students."

Apr 15, 2016

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Dan Krueger '02, partner and managing director at Owl Creek and Heilbrunn Center adjunct faculty member writes "I still remember the first class I ever attended at Columbia Business School. It was before even matriculating, when a friend invited me to sit in on one of Bruce’s classes where Michael Price was delivering his famous “how to read the newspaper” lecture. It was an eye-opener for me in terms of the excitement and challenge of a career in investment management, and it made the decision to enroll a few months later an easy one. Even more important than the education I received from him while at Columbia was that it was Bruce who had the idea of bringing me onboard as an adjunct professor to teach distressed investing as part of the value investing curicullum. That sort of outside-the-box thinking…and there are hundreds of other examples…is what really separates Bruce from the rest of the field."

Apr 15, 2016

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Peter Lawrence '11, Heilbrunn Center adjunct faculty member writes "Bruce has been the driving force behind the success of Heilbrunn Center and the Value Investing Program. He teaches "must-take" classes centered around important contributions he's made to the fields of valuation and competitive analysis and he attracts the involvement of seemingly every leading practitioner in the field of value investing to Columbia and the Heilbrunn Center. He's a worthy successor to Ben Graham who has a profound impact on both the field of investing and the development of his students."

Apr 11, 2016

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Damian Creber '16 and Michael Herman '16, Value Investing Program students and CSIMA Co-Presidents write "Bruce is the heart and soul of Value Investing at Columbia Business School. Day-in and day-out he’s focused on bringing a world-class experience to students through both theory and practice. One of the things Bruce does incredibly well is bridge the gap between theoretical finance and practical application – and this has had an incredibly positive impact on his students at CBS."

Apr 4, 2016