Steven B. Lilien, PhD, CPA, is director of the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity and Weinstein Professor of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. A member of the Board of Governors of the New York Chapters of Financial Executives International and the Institute of Internal Auditors, he is an expert in financial accounting and auditing and in the discovery of accounting information in litigation actions.   He has served as a consultant in these areas to international and regional CPA firms, as well as to government agencies and law firms. He is co-editor of the eighth and ninth editions of the Accountants' Handbook.   He has written on governance issues and is the co-author of forthcoming articles on executive compensation for the Journal of Business and on pro-forma earnings for the Harvard Business Review.

Douglas Carmichael, PhD, CPA, is the founding director of the Center for Corporate Integrity. In April 2003 he was named chief auditor of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). In 1983, he came to Baruch, where he is now the Morton Wollman Distinguished Professor of Accountancy, from over a decade with the American Institute of CPAs, where he focused on auditing standards. He has been a consultant for the Securities and Exchange Commission and an expert witness on forensic accounting and independence issues. Accounting Today selected him as one of the100 most influential accountants in the country, one of only three academics listed, citing him as “a strong advocate for safeguarding ethics and integrity in the profession.” An award-winning author, he has been a frequent source about the financial statements of public companies in the business press, including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times . He recently co-authored The CPA's Guide to Professional Ethics (John Wiley, 2000) .

Robert Laud, Ph.D., was named Distinguished Lecturer, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College CUNY when he joined the management faculty in 2004. Dr. Laud has been at the forefront of innovation and growth for over 20 years with some of the world’s most prestigious organizations. He was a partner at Accenture and founder of its Organization Change practice, Global Managing Partner of Innovation & Research at Andersen Worldwide, Innovation Strategy Advisor at Deloitte, and an Officer at SRI -Stanford Research Institute. Dr. Laud’s focus is on creating cultures of innovation generating new engines of growth and profitability. He works with top executives and boards to drive innovation across the organization. His clients have included: Xerox, Microsoft, Motorola, GE, PepsiCo, and AT&T.  Robert has authored numerous articles and contributed to several landmark books that feature his writings on innovation. He has received prestigious innovation awards from Ford, Philip Morris, and NCR. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and is a Diplomate in the American College of Forensic Examiners. 

David Rosenberg, Esq., is an Associate Professor in the Law Department in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College and Associate Director of the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. He teaches the law of business organizations and other business law subjects in the Zicklin School’s undergraduate and Master’s degree programs.   Professor Rosenberg holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School where he was an Editor of the Cornell Law Review.  He received a B.A. from Oberlin College.

Professor Rosenberg is an expert on the fiduciary duties of corporate directors and other business leaders.  He has published scholarly articles on corporate governance, limited partnerships, venture capital funds and other areas of business law.   His two most recent articles addressed the debate in the Delaware courts over the meaning of the term “good faith,” as it applies to a director’s duties to a corporation and its shareholders. He is currently a Director/Trustee of the Fred Alger family of mutual funds.

Donald H. Schepers, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Management at Baruch College, City University of New York.  His teaching includes Business Policy and Strategy, as well as Business and Government.  His current research interests include influences on ethical decision making, and socially responsible investing.  His articles have appeared in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Human Resource Management, Business and Society Review, and Business and Society.  He is a member of the Academy of Management, the International Association for Business and Society, and the Society of Judgment and Decision Making. 

Norman N. Strauss, MBA, CPA, Ernst & Young Executive Professor in Residence at Baruch College, has a broad background in accounting as well as specialized expertise in financial reporting. His research and writings have appeared in numerous professional journals, including the Journal of Accountancy and the Harvard Business Review, and he has lectured widely on a broad range of accounting and auditing issues. He has participated in a number of FASB and AICPA initiatives, serving as a member of FASB's Financial Standards Advisory Council and its Emerging Issues Task Force, and chairing the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of AICPA. Currently, he is a trustee of the Financial Executive Research Foundation, and a member of the IASB's Standards Advisory Council. Prior to joining Baruch, he spent 25 years at Ernst & Young, serving as National Director of Accounting from 1993 to 2001. In 1994, he was honored as one of the 100 most influential accountants in the country by Accounting Today.