Columbia Business School’s Executive Education Division is holding its 7th annual Value Investing course June 1-2 in New York City.

The course is open to professional and individual investors. The program covers quantitative valuation techniques as well as strategic methodologies for estimating franchise values. It is grounded in the original principles of value-based investment theory developed by legendary value investors, professors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd of Columbia Business School.

The course content includes quantitative valuation techniques such as arbitrage, asset-based approaches and the earning power method. Real world case studies are used to illustrate precise estimation of investment risk and the management of value portfolios.

The course will be presented by professor Bruce Greenwald, the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management at Columbia Business School, and the academic director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing.

“Value Investing, taught by ‘standing room only’ professor Bruce Greenwald, is a must for any portfolio manager or serious private investor,” says Ethan Hanabury, associate dean for Executive Education at Columbia Business School. ”The work of Graham and Dodd remains of unparalleled importance – Warren Buffett was a student of theirs here at Columbia. We are seeing unprecedented interest in the course this year – and the topic seems to be of increasing interest outside the U.S. as well.”

“Some participants have returned to take this course a second time,” comments Hanabury. “The lessons of value investing are perennial.”