Eric Abrahamson is the Hughie E. Mills Professor of Business Management at Columbia Business School. After teaching at New York University, Abrahamson joined the Columbia Business School faculty where he teaches courses on leadership, strategic management, managing organizations, and on the use of power and influence in organizations to achieve... Read More
Program Faculty
Lecturers
Eric Abrahamson
Hughie E. Mills Professor of Business Management
Peter Kreisky
Lecturer
Peter Kreisky is founder and president of The Kreisky Media Consultancy, LLC., a top management consulting boutique that specializes in strategy and business transformation issues in the media and entertainment industry, particularly at the interface with technology. He is also a Senior Advisor to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He focuses on... Read More
Rita McGrath
Lecturer
Rita McGrath is a professor at Columbia University?s Business School. She is one of the world?s leading experts on strategy in highly uncertain and volatile environments. She works with both Global 1,000 icons and smaller but fast-growing organizations. Some current clients include F-Secure, Nokia, Microsoft (and its CEO Summit), AXA Equitable,... Read More
Michael Schudson
Lecturer
Michael Schudson is a professor of communications in the M.A. and Ph.D. degree programs at Columbia Journalism School.
Schudson is co-author of "The Reconstruction of American Journalism," a report which received significant publicity when it was published in 2009. He is the author of many books and articles on the history and sociology... Read More
Amy Webb
Lecturer
Amy Webb is the CEO and Principal Consultant for Webbmedia Group. She is an author, speaker and future thinker, adapting current and emerging technologies for use in communications. She has spent more than 15 years working with digital media, founding several web-based companies and now advising various startups, journalism associations and media... Read More
Amir Ziv
Lecturer
Amir Ziv is Vice Dean and Professor of Accounting and Samberg Faculty Director at Columbia Business School. Professor Ziv teaches Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting in MBA, Executive MBA, various Executive Education programs, and in Doctoral programs. He taught in Executive Development programs for, among others, Goldman Sachs, Philip... Read More
Project Advisors
Charles Baum
Project Advisor
Charles Baum is the founder of Starting Point, a consulting practice that helps organizations use immediate performance successes to build momentum and capability for larger-scale improvement and change.
Baum worked for six years with Robert Schaffer & Associates, the firm that founded the breakthrough approach for managing performance-driven... Read More
Karen Gordon
Project Advisor
Karen Gordon is the founder of Strategic Horizons, Inc., a boutique management consulting firm established in 1991, providing strategic, organizational, and communication guidance, as well as executive coaching, to a wide range of companies.
Her twenty-five years of consulting experience includes six years at McKinsey... Read More
Quentin Hope
Project Advisor
Quentin Hope is an independent consultant with more than 20 years of experience serving clients across a broad range of industries in the areas of business strategy, organization design, organization effectiveness and change management. He also has extensive experience in public radio and public media management and consulting.
From 2001 to 2009... Read More
Administrators
Arlene Morgan
Associate Dean of Prizes and Programs
When Arlene Notoro Morgan joined Columbia Journalism School staff in 2000, one of her goals was to create an executive leadership program that would help change the news industry. Thus, when the sisters of Punch Sulzberger came up with the idea to honor their brother on his 80th birthday, she was ready with a proposal that would be unique... Read More
Faculty
Doug Smith
Executive Director
Doug Smith is a consultant, writer, teacher, lawyer and inventor concerned with organization performance, innovation, strategy, and change. A former co-leader of McKinsey & Company’s worldwide organization practice, Smith’s work has been cited for innovation and impact in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes,... Read More