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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