Meyer Feldberg was the dean of Columbia Business School from 1989 to 2004. He also served as the president of the

Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute in 1940. The university has prog ...

from 1987 to 1989.

Early life and career

Feldberg was born in

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. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the

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in 1962, a Master of Business Administration from

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in 1965, and a Ph.D in Management Strategy from the

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in 1968. In 1972, Feldberg was appointed the Dean of University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business. Then, in 1979, he became an associate dean at

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's business school. Shortly thereafter, Feldberg was appointed dean of

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's school of business. Later, in 1987, he became president of the

. In 1989, he was appointed Dean of Columbia Business School, stepping down from that position in 2004. In 2007 th
Feldberg Fellowship
was created in his honor.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Feldberg, Meyer 1942 births Living people Columbia Business School alumni Presidents of Illinois Institute of Technology University of Cape Town alumni University of the Witwatersrand alumni Columbia Business School faculty