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All courses will be remote on Monday, January 26th.

Due to the winter storm, Columbia University will shift to remote instruction on Monday, January 26, for all classes on the Morningside and Manhattanville campuses. Students will receive additional information on how to access their remote courses.
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IKNS Careers - news from our students, alums, and faculty

As an IKNS student, you will train under world-class faculty, including former and current executives from Google, IBM, NASA, and Oliver Wyman. And you will join a powerful, global alum network in coveted positions. Our 400+ alums work in industry, non-profit/NGOs, and government, ranging from Accenture, Alphabet, BCG Digital Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Harvard Business Publishing, Nike, and Pfizer to the United Nations and the World Bank. Typical jobs and roles are:

  • Technology and business analytics professionals with strategic responsibility (e.g., an alum and current lecturer in IKNS is head of business development for Google’s cloud AI services)
  • Chief Operations Officer, Chief Information Officer, or Chief Knowledge Officer (e.g., a recent alum was hired to design, implement, and lead the KM approach at Harvard Business Publishing)
  • Marketing experts and product developers (e.g., an alum directs product development for Nike's North American marketing technology)  
  • Intrapreneurs responsible for special projects that cut across traditional silos of their organization (e.g., a current student is responsible for the design, launch, and roll-out of a new patient record system across several US East Coast hospitals)
  • Consultants and entrepreneurs, including product designers/managers, especially in the digital/gig economy

Read more about the work and impact of our students, alums, and faculty: