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How has Bruce impacted Columbia Business School?

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Columbia Business School Centennial video featuring Bruce, 2015
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Tano Santos, Heilbrunn Center academic co-director writes "Of course first and foremost making Heilbrunn the value investing center of reference in the world is perhaps Bruce’s most important impact on the school. But because Bruce is at heart the greatest of teachers let me pick something else as Bruce’s legacy. I served in the strategy committee for the school a couple of years ago. As part of my responsibilities I had to read many an alum survey. His name, after so many years, repeatedly came up in the surveys as the professor who left the stronger impression on the students. But what was the most intriguing is the reason why they still remembered him. It was not because of his enormous personality, the booming voice or the “fashionable” attires that he wore in class but simply because, as one alum said, he “put it all together for us.” Bruce’s influence in the school is in that sense enormous: The value of a business school education will come in the future not simply in teaching the basics of corporate finance, accounting, marketing or strategy but rather on how these things can be combined to deliver a coherent vision of the world, one that can guide our students through changing conditions and the volatility."
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Meredith Trivedi, director of the Heilbrunn Center writes "Bruce gives his time and talent across the Business School. Whether it's speaking at every Reunion, guest lecturing in his colleagues' classes, spending countless hours speaking to students, mentoring adjuncts or building an investing program unlike anywhere else in the world, Bruce has invested a tremendous amount in every facet of the School which is a much better place because of him"
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Paul Hilal '92 writes "The highest profile and most positively differentiated part of Columbia Business School has been the Heilbrunn Center. Bruce, both the public face and most prolific teacher in that program, is a big part of how it became so. The CBS owes an enormous debt of gratitude to him."
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David Greenspan, President of Slate Path Capital, Heilbrunn Center advisory board member, and Columbia Business School Board of Overseers member shares his perspective on how Bruce has impacted the School and countless students (David included) in the attached document.
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Louisa Schneider, former Heilbrunn Center director writes "This is hard to answer. He is the business school. I had lunch today with the CIO of Dartmouths endowment and she like many said that the value investing program and Bruce Greenwald define Columbia business school. Bruce has given so much of himself because he genuinely loves teaching and he loves the material he teaches. I remember him staying up all night to analyze jcp at the request of a former student who was a very large investor at the time. He literally didnt sleep and went from his office to a fancy upper east side lunch to present his valuation. Which was flawless. Handwritten. He loves the school and the students and the subject of investing and he has given it legitimacy, defended value over efficient markets theory created courses like globalization (courted Nobel prize winning professors). But most of all he has created a home for his students to come back to by creating the worlds foremost center for investing that will succeed him for long after his retirement."
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Jon Salinas of Plymouth Lane Capital and Heilbrunn Center adjunct faculty member writes "Bruce has turned Columbia Business School into the epicenter of all things value investing - classes, conferences, publications - for students and practitioners alike. His efforts have created a vast and deep network of value investors for many years to come."
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Ken Shubin Stein of Spencer Capital and Heilbrunn Center adjunct faculty member writes "Bruce has made Columbia the number one MBA program in the country for those interested in investing. His intellect and leadership, and support of others, made us what we are today."
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Erin Bellissimo , former Heilbrunn Center director writes "Everyone associates Bruce with Columbia and investing. Often overlooked are the diverse number of students, disciplines, programs Bruce has impacted. He teaches consistently in any given year in MBA program, EMBA, Executive Education, or the Journalism school. Delivering thought leadership on not only investing, Strategy in media (he developed that course and backed the Media program), Globalization, Family Wealth Management, and Business for Journalism students. (I am sure the school has the numbers, but I calculate that he teaches anywhere from 400 to 900 students PER YEAR)! He loves Columbia University and loves teaching. His impact on Columbia is greater than people understand."
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Jean-Marie Eveillard, senior advisor at First Eagle Investment Management and Heilbrunn Center Professor of Practice writes "Bruce has contributed in a major way to resuscitating the courses of value investing at Columbia Business School, thereby making the business school the best in the US, indeed in the world, for the teaching of value investing, the most successful money management approach ever."