Placement
When judging a PhD program, a good measure of the program's standing is where it places its graduates. Columbia is proud to say its placement record is among the best in the world.
Recent Columbia PhD placements include the following:
Accounting | Decision, Risk, and Operations | Finance and Economics | Management | Marketing
Accounting
| Name |
Graduation Year |
Initial Placement |
| Hagit Levy |
2010 |
Zicklin School Of Business, Baruch College |
| Bugra Ozel |
2010 |
University of California Los Angeles, Anderson School of Business |
| Divya Anantharaman |
2009 |
Rutgers University |
| Woo-Jin Chang |
2009 |
INSEAD |
| Jing Li |
2009 |
Carnegie Mellon |
| Lei Zhu |
2009 |
Rutgers University |
| Marc Badia |
2008 |
Universidad Pompeu Fabra |
| Feng Chen |
2008 |
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Business |
| Thomas Issaevitch |
2008 |
Minnesota, Carlson School of Management |
| Jaewon Lee |
2008 |
Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology |
| Yong Gyu Lee |
2008 |
Baruch, Zicklin School of Business |
| Marcus Maedler |
2008 |
IESE Business School |
| Mingcherng Deng |
2007 |
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Business |
| Ron Shalev |
2007 |
University of Washington, John M. Olin School of Business |
| Sharon Katz |
2006 |
Harvard Business School |
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Decision, Risk, and Operations
| Name |
Graduation Year |
Initial Placement |
| Denis Saure |
2011 |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Mehmet Altug |
2009 |
George Washington University |
| Wei Ke |
2009 |
Novantas |
| Natalia Yankovic |
2009 |
IESE Business School |
| Omar Besbes |
2008 |
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School |
| Serkan Eren |
2008 |
Barclays Capital |
| Itai Gurvich |
2008 |
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management |
| Kyoung-Kuk Kim |
2008 |
Lehman Brothers |
| Thanavut Pornrojnangkool |
2007 |
Lehman Brothers |
| Sira Suchintabandid |
2007 |
Chulalongkorn University |
| Wenqiang Xiao |
2007 |
New York University, Stern School of Business |
| Nan Yang |
2007 |
Johnson School at Cornell University |
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Finance and Economics
| Name |
Graduation Year |
Initial Placement |
| Vyacheslav Fos |
2011 |
College of Business at Illinois |
| Andreas Stathopoulos |
2010 |
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business |
| Krista Schwarz |
2010 |
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School |
| Yongxiang Wang |
2010 |
University of Southern California, Marshal School of Business |
| Margarita Tsoutsoura |
2010 |
University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| Yael Eisenthal-Berkovitz |
2009 |
Goldman Sachs |
| Sudarshan Gururaj |
2009 |
Lehman Brothers |
| Philippe Mueller |
2009 |
London School of Economics |
| Xiaozheng Wang |
2009 |
Criterion Economics |
| Binu Balachandran |
2008 |
Lehman Brothers |
| Tomer Berkovitz |
2008 |
J.P. Morgan |
| Sze Wah Cheung |
2008 |
Deutsche Bank |
| Andrew Dubinsky |
2008 |
Goldman Sachs |
| Siddhartha Ghosh Dastidar |
2008 |
Lehman Brothers |
| Jorge Murillo Garza |
2008 |
Goldman Sachs |
| Jeong Song |
2008 |
Morgan Stanley |
| Vikrant Vig |
2008 |
London Business School |
| Yu Zhang |
2008 |
Citibank |
| Jing Chen |
2007 |
Soros Fund Management |
| Chang Yong Ha |
2007 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Paul Hsu |
2007 |
University of Connecticut Business School |
| Stanley Peterbursky |
2007 |
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn |
| Ru Zhao |
2007 |
Blackrock, Inc. |
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Management
| Name |
Graduation Year |
Initial Placement |
| Magnus Torfason |
2011 |
Harvard Business School |
| Rebecca Levine |
2010 |
Aon Hewitt Consulting |
| Aurelia Mok |
2010 |
City University of Hong Kong, School of Business |
| Qingyuan Yue |
2010 |
University of Southern California, Marshal School of Business |
| Lily Benjamin |
2009 |
Mercer Development Group |
| Umit Ozmel Yavuz |
2009 |
The University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School |
| Xi Zou |
2009 |
London Business School |
| Yong Joo Chua |
2008 |
Harvard Business School |
| Ariel Fishman |
2008 |
Yeshiva University |
| Rachael Wells |
2008 |
Fordham University |
| Emily Amanatullah |
2007 |
University of Texas, Austin |
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Marketing
| Name |
Graduation Year |
Initial Placement |
| Isaac Dinner |
2011 |
IE University (Spain) |
| Zaozao Zhang |
2011 |
University of Washington (Seattle) |
| Jeffrey Parker |
2011 |
Georgia State |
| Rom Schrift |
2011 |
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School |
| Eric Hamerman |
2010 |
Freeman School of Business, Tulane |
| Andrew Stephen |
2009 |
INSEAD |
| Hannah Chang |
2008 |
Singapore Management University |
| Ricardo Montoya |
2008 |
Universidad de Chile |
| Cecile Cho |
2007 |
University of California- Riverside |
| Anat Keinan |
2007 |
Harvard Business School |
| Oleg Urminsky |
2007 |
Chicago Booth |
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