The return on investment of Columbia Business School Executive Education’s finance programs is immediate and lasting. Value investing, corporate financial analysis, accounting, and portfolio management bring you a deeper understanding of professional and personal finance strategies. This is your opportunity to learn from the world’s finance experts.
Explore programs in this category below — and find yourself at the very center of business.
Advanced Value Investing
Building on our popular Value Investing program, the Advanced Value Investing program provides a deeper dive into the world of value investing. It explores how the practice has evolved since its inception and provides cutting-edge insights and best practices for the future of investing in a world of disruption and ever-changing trends in the market.
Blockchain for Business (Online): Beyond the Hype
This online program offers a very practical understanding of blockchain, both its opportunities and its challenges. You'll decipher how cryptocurrencies work and how the underlying blockchain technology could transform your organization and industry.
Building Your Venture Capital Investment Thesis
To work in venture capital, it is critical to have an investment thesis. This program equips participants with the knowledge and skills they need to develop and build their own thesis. Participants will learn best practices and gain insights from experts on what has and hasn’t worked.
Deal Camp: Preparing for Private Equity
In partnership with Columbia Business School’s Private Equity Program, this high-intensity program immerses you in the world of private equity with interactive presentations, instruction, and case studies from Columbia faculty and industry professionals.
Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive
Learn to speak the language of financial professionals by mastering key finance and accounting concepts, including the opportunity to analyze your organization’s finances with expert coaches, and identifying red flags in financial statements for better management and decision-making capabilities.
Financial Analysis and Valuation
Gain a deeper understanding of corporate finance, financial statement analysis, and valuation methodology to understand the financial consequences of business decisions on your organization.
Macroeconomics for Executives (Online): Navigating Global Risk and Trends
Nurturing the ability to make strategic decisions that account for various macroeconomic forces is the focus of the Macroeconomics for Executives (Online) program. Join us for this ten-week, online program to discover how to steer your organization toward a more prosperous future.
Real Estate Investing
Integrating theoretical and practical knowledge, this program provides participants with a high level of expertise in the ever-changing global market for real estate finance and investment.
Value Investing
Our most popular program. Based on the Ben Graham or Warren Buffett approach to allocating capital, Value Investing teaches the frameworks and processes of investing that some of the most successful investors in the world employ to manage and preserve capital.
Value Investing (Online)
This two-month online program teaches the Ben Graham or Warren Buffett approach to allocating capital that is used by some of the most successful investors in the world today in a convenient virtual format.
Venture Capital: Investing in Early-Stage Startups
Current and aspiring startup investors get equipped to evaluate and monitor potential early-stage investing opportunities and receive the knowledge they need to lower risk and increase returns.