Jeff Gramm '03, portfolio manager, Bandera Partners and Heilbrunn Center adjunct faculty member writes "Bruce Greenwald is an inspiring teacher who showed us how to think clearly about businesses and competitive dynamics. To me, his involvement with value investing is a testament to his brilliance. There are a lot of very smart academic economists out there, but many of them are frustratingly rigid thinkers. Bruce came to Columbia as a superstar academic who had taught at Harvard Business School and served as an economist on a Presidential task force. But when he learned about value investing, instead of dismissing it as many of his peers would have, he immediately realized it worked. How many great academic minds have shown this kind of flexibility?"

Damian Creber '16 and Michael Herman '16, Value Investing Program students and CSIMA Co-Presidents write "Bruce’s impact on the field of value investing cannot be overstated – he’s the modern-day Ben Graham. He has distilled hundreds of years of investing knowledge into two courses at Columbia Business School, and these courses have set the foundation for thousands of investors in the marketplace."

William Simon of William E. Simon & Sons, LLC writes "He is one of the icons, truly the gold standard for teaching value investing, if I’m not mixing my financial metaphors. Thanks to his leadership, I expect more and more schools to develop courses in this critical field."