The Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing
Tom Russo, partner at Gardner Russo Gardner and Heilbrunn Center advisory board member writes "Bruce has ignited passion over his tenure at Columbia Business School for the great legacy of the value investing traditions, initially inaugurated by Benjamin Graham and his partner, David Dodd, and subsequently nurtured by Roger Murray. With the bragging rights of value investing’s best student ever, Warren Buffett, counted among the program’s alums, and with a tireless dedication to introduce priceless practical contribution from adjuncts, the value investing program housed at the Heilbrunn Center has offered decades of students valued insight into the actual practice of investment management. While fluent in the required language of modern portfolio theory, Bruce has nonetheless sheltered students from the seductive lure of seeming certain quantitative outcomes in a world of investing which at the heart remains a trade more than an academic profession. Finally, Bruce has activated one of the world’s most powerful “network effects” through Columbia’s prized network of alumni/alumnae who have forged their careers in money management."