Advancing academic and industry knowledge through multi-disciplinary and collaborative research, the Research Group seeks to serve as a nexus of ideas and scholarly cooperation in the field of corporate environmental sustainability research, with the goal of elevating the reputation of the College and University.
The Research Group at the WCIB aims to continue the tradition of ESG research by linking environmental risks and impacts to market outcomes, offering an alternative stream of academic research activities at the College, and thereby establishing the Research Group as a leader in climate finance research across Baruch/CUNY. The Research Group’s activities raise the reputation of the Center and the College in an area where it can contribute significantly and establish collaborations with motivated scholars and organizations to advance academic knowledge about what is often argued to be the most pressing issue that humanity faces: climate change.
The Research Group also produces its own data in the form of two prominent projects. In the first the Group conducts a systematic evaluation of the comprehensiveness of environmental disclosures in corporate ESG reports. The data created allows for effective analysis of and comparisons between companies in our international sample: the Fortune Global 500™. In the second project, the Corporate Sustainable Development-Disclosure Monitor, the Research Group maps the environmental disclosure data onto the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to measure the alignment of company disclosures to the SDGs. These projects offer a novel data set to assist with both general and specific research questions for academia and business professionals, and thereby provide a public good for a wide range of stakeholders.
In addition, the Group’s activities provide a unique opportunity for select Baruch graduate and undergraduate students to gain experience in both the theoretical and practical aspects of corporate environmental disclosures. As analysts, they actively participate in several academic and industry research projects led by the program directors, and following comprehensive training on our proprietary scoring rubric, are responsible for the textual analysis of ESG reports in our environmental disclosure scoring.
Contact Information
Alex Schwarz, CSR-S Monitor Lead Analyst:
646-312-2234 or alex.schwarz@baruch.cuny.edu
Annual Baruch College/CUNY and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) Research Symposium
The Baruch College /SWUFE Research Consortium was established over a decade ago. Its goal is to deepen the research ties between our two great institutions by fostering joint PhD education, encouraging joint research projects and facilitating the exchange of visiting scholars.
A key event is the annual Baruch/SWUFE research symposium held on alternate years in New York City and Chengdu. PhD students and professors from the Zicklin School of Business and SWUFE are invited to share their latest research, often joint projects. Over the years these conferences have facilitated dozens of research collaborations, which in turn have resulted in numerous publications
International Business Research Seminar
The International Business (IB) Research Seminar hosts IB scholars from around the world presenting their unpublished and work-in-progress work and engaging with faculty and PhD students at Baruch College. It provides a forum for debate and discussion of cutting-edge ideas that are at the forefront of the development of IB theory and scholarship.
2025 Events
Speaker: Dr. Stelios Zyglidopoulos, Carleton University
Topic: The Tolerance of Corruption in the Greek Public Sector Organizations
Date/Time EST: April 29, 2025, 12:30 – 2 pm
2024 Events
Speaker: Dr. Markus Taussig, Rutgers University
Topic: Facilitating Regulatory Co-Creation by Government and SMEs in Emerging Economies: A Field Experiment in Online Public Consultation of Informal Hotels in Thailand
Date/Time (EST): May 14th, 12:30PM
Speaker: Dr. Saeed Samiee, University of Tulsa
Topic: An overview of country-of-origin research, based on the recent publication, “Research on country-of-origin perceptions: review, critical assessment, and the path forward,” JIBS, 2024, 53(3)
Date/Time (EST): April 19th, 12:30PM
Speaker: Dr. Ishva Minefee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topic: Whose Side Are You On? An Historical Analysis of Firestone’s Interactions With Armed Groups During The First Liberian Civil War
Date/Time (EST): March 28th, 12:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. Bill Newburry, Florida International University
Topic: Does International Activity Impact the Initiative of Firms to Adopt LGBTQ-Supportive Policies in U.S. Firms?
Date/Time (EST): Feb. 29th, 12:30PM
2023 Events
Speaker: Shyamala Sethuram, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY
Topic: The role of institutional differences in influencing the timing of initiating and implementing corporate divestitures and venture capital investment timelines
Date/Time (EST): Nov. 20th, 12:30PM
Speaker: Rajneesh Narula, Henley Business School, University of Reading
Topic: The role of multinational firms in development, innovation and industrial policy, R&D alliances and outsourcing.
Date/Time (EST): Nov. 6th, 12:30PM
Speaker: Andrew Spicer, University of South Carolina
Topic: The intersection of business and society in a global economy
Date/Time (EST): Oct. 25th, 12:30PM
Speaker: Jonathan Doh, Villanova School of Business
Topic: NAFTA
Date/Time (EST): Oct. 11th, 12:30PM
Speaker: Lilac Nachum, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY
Topic: The Domain of Organizational Identity and Firms’ International Growth
Date/Time (EST) April 27th, 1:30pmRegister in advance for this event
Speaker: Xavier Martin, University of Michigan
Topic: Board effectiveness and internalization benefits: Theory and evidence from value creation in cross-border acquisitions with Tao Han, Emlyon
Date/Time (EST) March 27th, 12:30pm
Speaker:James A. Robinson, University of Chicago
Topic:Reconceptualizing State Capacity
Date/Time (EST) Feb. 15th 12:30pm
2022 Events
Speaker: Rajeev J. Sawant, Florida Atlantic University
Topic: Effect of New Product Market Entry Scale, Copycats and Foreign Ownership on Firm Performance in a Transition Economy
Date/Time (EST) Sep 22nd, 2 pm
Speaker: Robert Seamans, Stern School of Business, New York University joint with Nan Jia (USC Marshall School of Business) and Qiren Liu (Guangzhou University)
Topic:Robots at Work in China
Date/Time (EST) Oct. 21st 2pm
Speaker: Christina Lubinski, Copenhagen Business School
Topic:Leviathan Unleashed: Business Responses to the Indian “Foreign Exchange Regulation Act” in Historical Perspective
Date/Time (EST) Nov. 1st, 2pm
Speaker: Valentina A. Assenova, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Poised for Growth: Startup Accelerators and their Effects on Post-Accelerator Startup Growth
Date/Time (EST) Nov. 10th 12.30pm
Speaker: Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia Business School
Topic: Measuring the Cost of Regulation
Date/Time (EST) Nov. 28th 12.30pm
Speaker: Stephen J. Redding, Department of Economics & School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Topic: TBA
Date/Time (EST)Dec. 6th 12.30pm