CBS RE vs Alma

The Columbia Business School Real Estate Alumni Community platform – a place to connect and interact with fellow CBS classmates and colleagues. Search for alumni by real estate industry segment and geographic location, share news, RSVP to events, post and view job opportunities and advertise new ventures.

Alma is a private concierge for your community — the people you already share a room with every week, finally connected by something calmer than a group chat. Close-knit groups already have what a network needs: trust, proximity, and a reason to stay in touch. What they don't have is one place to keep any of it. Alma is that place — who's hosting, who's free, who's sitting next to you, and what everyone will remember afterward. Start a community for your graduate cohort, your team, your alumni chapter, or any circle that meets often enough to matter. WHAT ALMA DOES • The Table — standing dinners, morning runs, and one-off gatherings hosted by your members. See exactly who's going and take a seat in one tap. Hosts fill a table without a forty-message thread, and everyone confirmed gets a quiet reminder the day before. • Ask Alma — your concierge. Ask the way you'd ask a person: "who's free for lunch Thursday?" or "who should I meet before the fintech intensive?" Alma checks schedules, proposes a plan, and makes the introduction — always showing you exactly what she is about to do, and acting only after you say yes. • Class — your enrolled courses and which members are in the room with you this term, so you meet your section before the first session instead of after the last one. • Network — your whole community in one searchable directory, with direct messages and visibility you control. A constellation view maps who shares classes with whom, so an introduction has somewhere to start. • Album — the shared photo record of dinners, milestones, and everything in between. What the group chat loses, the Album keeps. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Alma works inside a bounded, high-trust community rather than the open internet. Every suggestion is grounded in who is actually in the room with you, not a stranger who matched on keywords. And she never acts behind your back. Anything Alma does on your behalf — a dinner, an introduction, an invitation — is shown to you first, done only with your say-so, and reversible for a few minutes afterward. No feed to perform for. No streaks, no badges, no notification pressure. Alma is quiet on purpose. Anyone can create an account and start or join a community. What's posted inside a community stays inside it — never on the open web.