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Message from the Dean
Welcome to the Zicklin School of Business Web site. We appreciate your interest
and hope you will take the time to explore our offerings. Baruch College has
been educating America's business leaders for over 80 years.
The Zicklin School has a full range of business degree programs that are nationally accredited and one of a handful of business schools fully accredited in both business and accounting programs through the Ph.D.
I am deeply gratified by the exciting progress made by our students, faculty, and staff at the Zicklin School during the past year.
As you'll see in the "News" section of our Web site, we are in the midst of unprecedented change. "Floor of the Future" will introduce you to our new Subotnick Financial Services Center, a $3 million educational facility that will revolutionize how we prepare our students for careers in finance and other business fields. With our prime location right on the edge of Silicon Alley, the hotbed of new technology in Manhattan, we are taking advantage of the best and brightest new business thinking to help us adapt our graduate curriculum in e-commerce, as described in "Zicklin Zone." And, in an adaptation of an article that ran in the New York Times, we describe how the College's resident chamber orchestra, Orpheus, is demonstrating the effectiveness of its "leaderless" management style to MBA students.
You'll read of our move to Baruch's brand new, $270 million Newman Vertical Campus, and the launch of several new projects and programs: the Accelerated Part-Time MBA Program; the on-site MBA program developed in partnership with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter; an entrepreneurship competition with as much as $50,000 in start-up funding earmarked for the winning entry; and an executive-in-residence program that will give faculty and students greater access to leaders in business and industry. We also provide an update on the increasing momentum of our still young but growing Full-Time MBA Program, whose students are increasingly being recruited by the very best firms in the world. Laura Wickey (MBA '99) of KPMG Peat Marwick, for example, received the highest score in New York State on the CPA exam and the sixth highest in the nation out of 56,000.
I am also pleased to showcase the work of some our acclaimed faculty. "In Theory and Practice" highlights the research of Robert Schwartz on call-auction markets; Richard Kopelman on "3-D Management"; S. Prakash Sethi on his work with Mattel to develop new codes for ethical business practices; June O'Neill on what's really behind our current federal government surplus; Donald Vredenburgh on the abuse of power in organizations; and Howard Ross on why one should not overlook "the short run" when investing.
I am very pleased to share these and other happenings at the Zicklin School.
Cordially,
John Elliott
Dean, Zicklin School of Business