Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand, but the educational experience itself is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we focus on David Beim from Columbia Business School (CBS).
That a core-curriculum finance professor makes the list of notable professors at Columbia Business School may be surprising to some of our readers—especially considering that many of CBS’s core-curriculum professors cycle through and leave the school after just a few years—but we learned that David Beim (“Corporate Finance”) makes an impact on his classroom and his students by delving beneath the numbers. One recent alumnus told mbaMission, “I think that class could have just been about how to run a pretty spreadsheet and be technically proficient, but he made it be about how finance is the lifeblood of a business.” Although students are randomly assigned to their core finance course (with their cluster) and thus may not necessarily be enrolled in Beim’s course, the school offers ways for students to switch to other sections if they are so inclined (i.e., in this case, to get the chance to take the course with Beim). In addition, in 2009, Beim began teaching the elective “International Banking: Value and Risk,” which now allows other students to take advantage of his expertise and teaching methodology.
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