Columbia Business School

About

Columbia Business School leverages its New York City location and deep ties to the financial community to offer MBA students strong exposure to acquisition entrepreneurship. The school's finance and entrepreneurship curricula include courses on leveraged buyouts, private equity operations, and small business management that are directly relevant to the search fund model. Columbia's Entrepreneurship Club and Private Equity Club both include members pursuing ETA, and the school has hosted panels and workshops featuring search fund investors and operators. The proximity to major search fund capital providers in the Northeast gives Columbia students a natural advantage in fundraising and deal sourcing. The school's value investing heritage, established by Benjamin Graham, provides a strong analytical foundation for evaluating small business acquisition targets. Columbia graduates have launched search funds across various sectors in the US and internationally.