December 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
I’d like to take this opportunity to honor some of the unsung heroes of the Zicklin School of Business: staff members who work behind the scenes every day to fulfill our School’s mission. Or should I say “formerly unsung” heroes, because they are now winners of the Zicklin School’s inaugural Process Innovation Awards!
Seven staffers received Process Innovation Awards this year in categories of gold, silver, and bronze, for designing or adopting novel solutions to everyday back-office issues. In the gold category, which garnered a $5,000 prize, our winners are Taneisha Green, associate director of graduate programs, and Ken Eng, who recently transitioned from assistant director of undergraduate to graduate programs. Taneisha got the top prize for her timely update of DegreeWorks to enable our MBA and MS students to easily track their academic progress, while Ken won for creating a live-chat function in Microsoft Teams that helps undergraduates receive prompt responses to pressing questions.
In the silver category, with a $2,500 prize, our winners are Christopher Laudando, CRM communications manager; Alison Lund, deputy director of graduate admissions and recruitment; and Nahida Rahim, assistant director of graduate programs. Chris was recognized for devising a method of automating transcript evaluations in the Graduate Programs office, while Alison built a Qualtrics inquiry form to facilitate introductions between our Graduate Student Ambassadors and current and potential students. Nahida won for her overall work on the Graduate Student Ambassadors program, including virtual cafes and other social events, new student orientations, and recruitment initiatives, as well as the Graduate Buddies program.
In the bronze category, our winners are Marlene Leekang, executive director of the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship, and Rezaullah (Rez) Mahmud, webmaster, who each took home $1,000. Marlene was honored for her many efforts at the Field Center, where she coordinates such activities as Entrepreneurial Lunch & Learn workshops, the Entrepreneurial Test Kitchen, and the Essence of Entrepreneurship design competition. Rez won for his technical wizardry on the Zicklin website’s WordPress content management system and on application forms for everything from programs and majors to graduate assistantships, new student orientation sessions, and graduate student appeals. Congratulations to all!
Congratulations are also due to the Zicklin School faculty and staff who presented last month at the CUNY Experiential Learning Conference. Law Professor Donna Gitter gave a presentation on how she partners with nonprofit organizations to devise meaningful, authentic writing assignments for a seminar for Macaulay Honors students. These talented undergraduates, three out of four of whom are Zicklin students, have written biographical sketches of young immigrants and created country condition reports to support the legal claims of immigrants seeking asylum.
Professors Karl Lang, Sonali Hazarika, and Tracy Henry talked about the Data Science Fellowship offered to fifth-year PhD students in business or economics. Data Science Fellows work with real, anonymized data on undergraduate students to glean insights into student performance at Baruch College; their findings are used in the Dean’s Office to design data-driven ways to improve student outcomes.
Distinguished Lecturer Tony Farina explained how the Zicklin School’s business consulting capstone course gives MBA candidates hands-on experience helping solve real-life business problems for organizations of all sizes, from a family-owned spice company to the United Nations Capital Development Fund.
Finally, Professor Nanda Kumar partnered with Justyn Makarewycz of the Graduate Career Management Center on a presentation about the highly popular Baruch College Data Challenge with Pitney Bowes, in which students use machine learning models to predict the likelihood of a very real business problem: a failed mailing meter.
In my tenure as Dean of the Zicklin School, I’ve made a point of ensuring that experiential learning is a hallmark of the student experience at the Zicklin School, so I was very gratified to see such efforts recognized.
Finally, I would be remiss in not mentioning that this is my last official communication with you, as I retire at the end of the month. As I told the Zicklin News team, it’s been a privilege and an honor to work with you all, and the highlight of my career.
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
November 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
I wanted to bring to your attention the involvement of our faculty in some important conferences. Last month, Professor Nizan Packin of the Department of Law hosted a forum on transatlantic blockchain law, in which more than 100 attendees joined a daylong discussion of crypto and financial regulation. One of the highlights was Nizan’s “fireside chat” with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce about, among other topics, “the good, the bad, and the ugly, and how the blockchain industry should be regulated,” as Nizan put it.
Also last month, Distinguished Professor Robert A. Schwartz of the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance (and the namesake of the Robert A. Schwartz Center for Trading and Markets Research) held his annual conference on trading, liquidity, and market structure. Out of concern that trading isn’t well taught in business schools, Bob has used this annual gathering to help improve students’ education in how investments take place in the real world by facilitating dialogue between industry practitioners and academics. Sponsors included Nasdaq and the Security Traders Association; as one participant said, “Industry connections are the secret sauce of this workshop,” noting its “amazing 50/50 balance of academics and practitioners.”
And speaking of annual conferences, the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity will host its Ensuring Integrity: The 17th Annual Audit Conference later this month, moderated by Professor Douglas Carmichael of the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy. Our own Paquita Davis-Friday, soon to be the Interim Dean of the Zicklin School, will conduct a “fireside chat” with Erica Williams, chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). I look forward to welcoming participants to that conference and catching up with my old friends from the accounting world.
See you next month!
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
October 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
Since May 2020, our benefactor Larry Zicklin (BBA, ’57) has led a monthly series of Zoom webinars, first called “The New Normal in Business” and, since 2021, “Zicklin Talks Business.” These lively discussions, which typically include business professionals and expert faculty from here at Baruch and the Zicklin School, have covered an impressive variety of topics — everything from COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to the dark side of social media, to the effectiveness of whistleblower laws.
So far, Larry has led 32 such conversations, with no signs of slowing down. He’s not a journalist (for those who don’t know, he’s the retired chairman of financial services firm Neuberger Berman), but you might think he was from the skillful way he conducts these interviews.
“I read the newspapers,” he says simply. “I find topics I’m interested in and ask questions I think the audience might want to ask.” He also gleans ideas from the seminar on business ethics he teaches for the Zicklin School, where he spends a few minutes during each class discussing current events. (I can personally report that Larry also accepts suggestions for topics from others, including myself and Associate Dean Gwen Webb, who moderates the question-and-answer portion of each webinar.)
As for why he does it, “I think people are looking for subjects of interest beyond the babble that’s on TV and radio,” Larry replies. “They’re looking for experts to share their expertise in a non-hysterical manner.” In contrast to the “hysterical” approach he sees permeating mass media, Zicklin Talks Business webinars feature calm, thoughtful conversations about a particular issue, the questions surrounding it, and possible solutions, if applicable. Larry also takes the conversation nationwide via CUNY-TV, where rebroadcasts of the webinars provide the added benefit of familiarizing the rest of the country with Baruch College and the Zicklin School of Business.
Larry was fortunate enough to grow up at a time when New York City had at least 20 daily newspapers; by comparison, today’s students don’t seem especially well informed, he observes. How can we as faculty members encourage students to cultivate their intellectual curiosity? By modeling it for them: Professors could spend a few minutes in each class talking about the news of the day in a relevant but nonpartisan manner, he suggests. “Professors owe it to their students to do that.”
If you want to see a master interviewer at work, I encourage you to spend some time perusing the recordings of past Zicklin Talks Business webinars, from 2022, 2021, and 2020.
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
September 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
At the Baruch College faculty convocation ceremony a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of watching a fascinating presentation, “Wherefore Marketplace Morality?,” given by our own Sankar Sen, the Lawrence and Carol Zicklin Chair in Corporate Integrity and Governance here at the Zicklin School. Sankar is a professor of marketing whose research focuses on corporate social responsibility — in particular, how consumers and employees respond to companies’ CSR activities.
According to Sankar’s research, when employees perceive their company as having a higher purpose, they take ownership of the company’s sustainability efforts and are more likely to behave more sustainably themselves in the workplace. In a similar fashion, the faculty of Baruch College — ”an institution,” as Sankar noted, “that literally helps transform lives” — can connect to our own higher purpose by fostering deeper connections with the very people who give us this sense of higher purpose: our students.
How can we do this? First, by recognizing that the mental health of American college students is fragile (Sankar cited recent research to this effect) and then benchmarking our students in this regard; two popular tools for mental health assessment, the PERMA Profiler and Diener’s Flourishing Scale, are readily available online, he noted.
“A higher purpose,” Sankar added, “is key to a meaningful, fulfilling life.” He urged Zicklin faculty to ensure that our classrooms are not just places to learn valuable skills, but also ones where students can gain an understanding of their values, the world, and their place in it. Activities beyond the classroom — extracurricular activities, volunteer work, internships, and travel — can help students discover their path. And professors can also model what it means to be inspired by a higher calling, thereby helping students flourish not just professionally, but personally.
Sankar himself models this in his own career path. Twenty-odd years ago, he was recruited away from the Zicklin School to another institution, where his career prospered, but he missed that sense that he was transforming students’ lives. At the end of his year away, he contacted his former chair at Zicklin and asked for his job back. These last 20 years, he concluded, have been “the most fulfilling years of not just my professional life, but my life, period.”
I haven’t been at the Zicklin School as long as Sankar has, but looking back on the eight years I’ve been here, I wholeheartedly agree.
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
August 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
Welcome back to campus! Our fall semester is off to a strong start; last week, we greeted one of the largest incoming classes in our history. And in an expansion of our global footprint, we are welcoming global dual-degree students from various partner institutions, including the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, University of Padova, Renmin University of China, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Shanghai International Studies University, and Xi-an Jiaotong University. As part of our 3+1 program partnership, we have also received 69 students from the Southwest University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China.
Faculty hiring also hit a record high this year. The Stan Ross Department of Accountancy welcomes D. Edward Martin, Michael Meisler, Ronyhel Peguero, Arthur Troast, Edgar Rodriguez Vazquez, and Diana Weng. The newest members of the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance are Aref Bolandnazar, Leonard Kostovetsky, Michael Richter, and Quiping (Jane) Zhang, while Ramah Al Balawi, Berhanu Alemayehu, Chengxin Cao, and Sooin Yun have joined the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics. The Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management has hired Arthur Chivvis, Morris Didia, David Fung, and Roger McKechnie. Lastly, we welcome Murray Mizrachi, Amitai Touval, and Yun (Alicia) Wang to the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business.
In other staff news, the Baruch Business Academy welcomes Annie Forman as director of community college partnerships. In addition to nurturing our alliance with the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Annie will be working to build collaborative relationships with other community colleges in the CUNY family.
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
July 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
Summer is upon us, and I hope you are taking advantage of the more relaxed schedule to enjoy some much-deserved vacation time. I also hope you’ll take some time to nominate your colleagues for the inaugural Zicklin Process Innovation Award, which will be presented this fall to two Zicklin staff members. Innovations can include everything from technology-enabled solutions for answering frequently asked questions, to devising ways to assess student progress toward their degrees, to supporting student clubs and extracurricular activities, and more. Nominations should be submitted to Anne Rudder by September 15.
I’m delighted to report that many of our faculty members have received grants this summer to conduct research. These grants were awarded competitively based upon the faculty members’ publications in the Financial Times 50 (the top 50 academic journals used by the Financial Times to calculate its research rankings) and the most prestigious journals in their respective disciplines. From the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, they are Donal Byard, Masako Darrough, Mingcherng Deng, Heedong Kim, Seil Kim, Kalin Kolev, Heemin Lee, Hagit Levy, Edward Li, Brandon Lock, Carol Marquardt, and Igor Vaysman. From the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance, they are Linda Allen, Xi Dong, Guillaume Haeringer, Sonali Hazarika, Armen Hovakimian, Jian Hua, Yehuda Izhakian, Theodore Joyce, Lin Peng, Laetitia Placido, Robert Schwartz, Jun Wang, Yajun Wang, Liuren Wu, and Dexin Zhou. From the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics, they are Raquel Benbunan-Fich, Yuangeng Cai, Qiang Gao, Nanda Kumar, Zeda Li, Kamiar Rahnama Rad, Adel Yazdanmehr, and Yu Yue. From the Department of Law, they are Marc Edelman, Matthew Edwards, Donna Gitter, Yafit Lev-Aretz, Nizan Geslevich Packin, Robert Wagner, and Valerie Watnick. From the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management, they are Lauren Aydinliyim, Tolga Aydinliyim, Ajay Das, Stephan Dilchert, Naomi Gardberg, Maria Halbinger, Aditya Jain, Molly Kern, Romi Kher, Shan Li, Ivan Montiel, Scott Newbert, Jared Peifer, and Xiaoli Yin. From the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business, they are Mahima Hada, Diogo Hildebrand, Chul Kim, Zhuping Liu, Pragya Mathur, Lilac Nachum, Sankar Sen, and Ana Valenzuela. Finally, from the William Newman Department of Real Estate, they are Sophia Gilbukh, Pavel Krivenko, Waldo Ojeda, Yildiray Yildirim, and Albert Zevelev. Congratulations to all!
Finally, I offer congratulations and gratitude to Shulamith Gross of the Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics and Donald Vredenburgh of the Loomba Department of Management, on their January retirements. Each served at the Zicklin School of Business for more than three decades. They will be missed. Five additional colleagues will join the ranks of the retired in August. From the Loomba Department of Management, they are Ta-lung William Chien, Peter Pepper and Hannah Rothstein, from the Aaronson Department of Marketing & International Business Eleonora Curlo, and from the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, Anthony Tinker. Thanks to all for their years of service.
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
June 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
Baruch College held its commencement ceremony in person again at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn last month. I’m delighted to welcome 3,160 undergraduates and 1,293 graduate and executive students to our family of Zicklin School alumni. They join a global network of more than 120,000 graduates of our business programs.
Guiding our students along their journey to commencement are our dedicated faculty, many of whom were honored last month for their devotion to classroom learning. The following Zicklin School professors have received awards for teaching excellence: Jay Dahya of the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance, Gabriel Fernandez of the William Newman Department of Real Estate, Diogo Hildebrand of the Allen G. Anderson Department of Marketing and International Business, Romi Kher of the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management, Ina Kupferberg of the Department of Law, Carol Marquardt of the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, and Adel Yazdanmehr of the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics. In addition, Professor Andreas Grein of the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business was inducted as the faculty honoree of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international business honor society. Congratulations to all!
Congratulations are also due to the BMCC-Baruch Business Academy, which recently received a $200,000 grant from the College Completion Innovation Fund. This is in addition to prior grants the Academy was awarded by the Heckscher Foundation for Children, the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation, and Dennis Gilbert.
The Office of Executive Programs has successfully gained full approval from the New York State Education Department for revisions to several executive degree programs. This includes the introduction of the new ZEP courses, short for “Zicklin Executive Programs.” Our executive degree programs have always been designed for students at later stages of their careers than the traditional graduate programs, but the courses and programs didn’t clearly reflect that. The new ZEP courses incorporate those features, and the program revisions include modifications that provide better fits for the executive students, such as replacing several 1.5-credit courses with 3-credit courses. These changes are effective for students entering in the Fall 2022 semester.
This spring, Executive Education hosted Executive MBA students from two European universities for the international experience component of their degree programs. Two groups of EMBA students from NEOMA Business School in France attended programs on fintech and asset management. EMBA students from the Warsaw University of Technology Business School participated in a program on “Business Digital Transformations: Challenges and Opportunities.”
We look forward to hosting more international groups in the coming months.
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
May 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
As I write this, the Zicklin School has just wrapped up a series of highly successful events. On May 4-5, the 20th annual Financial Reporting Conference took place, with an introduction by conference chair and Zicklin alum Norman Strauss (BBA ’63; MBA ’69). This was also the first public forum for keynote speaker Erica Y. Williams, the new chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), who held a “fireside chat” with Senior Associate Dean Paquita Davis-Friday.
Dr. Davis-Friday, with Dr. Karl Lang, also co-chaired the PhD Project – Baruch College Research Symposium at the end of April, with Baruch College’s Provost Linda Essig and Executive Chief Diversity Officer Elliott Dawes in attendance. One of the participants, Nicholas Brown, a PhD candidate in information systems at Virginia Tech, perhaps said it best: “I have the highest regards for Baruch and the PhD Project for giving underrepresented minorities a platform to tap into Baruch’s rich reservoir of knowledge capital.”
And speaking of doctoral candidates, the Doctor of Business Administration program is graduating its first eight students. Congratulations to Edward Aw, James D’Arcangelo, Joan Miao, Julie Monroid, Errol L. Pierre, Jihoon Rim, Vivian Williams, and Schiro Withanachchi for becoming our inaugural group of DBA graduates. We look forward to their future accomplishments in business and the academy, as well as to many future DBA students and graduates.
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
April 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
April, wrote Shakespeare in Sonnet 98, “hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” I couldn’t agree more. The warmer weather has renewed everyone’s energy here at the Zicklin School!
Also energizing was the recent, eagerly awaited release of the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. I’m delighted to report that once again, all three of our graduate MBA programs (Full-Time, Evening, and Accounting) are ranked #1 among public institutions in New York City and New York State. Our Full-Time MBA program jumped 15 positions this year to rank #62 among 363 public and private institutions, while the Evening MBA moved up 10 spots to #36 among 278 schools. Congratulations to everyone involved in this tremendous effort.
Our faculty are receiving much-deserved recognition. Professor Marc Edelman (Department of Law) just won the Abraham J. Briloff Prize in Ethics for his forthcoming, co-authored Florida Law Review paper on how the NCAA placed their commercial interests above the safety of the student-athletes they were supposed to protect. Professor and Krell Chair Lin Peng of the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance co-published research in the Journal of Accounting Research analyzing the importance of first impressions about financial analysts. Interestingly, one of Prof. Peng’s coauthors was Yakun Wang, who earned his MBA and PhD right here at the Zicklin School.
Also on the research front, I’m looking forward to our hosting the PhD Project – Baruch College Research Symposium on April 28-29 — in person for the first time since the pandemic. PhD candidates from underrepresented backgrounds will present their original scholarship on a variety of topics, from algorithmic decision delegation to whether business roundtable members are more socially responsible. As always, participants hail from a wide range of institutions, including Arizona State, UNC Chapel Hill, Yale, and more.
Of course, we value classroom teaching just as much as research, which is why I’m pleased to announce a new, $10,000 award for innovation in teaching. Innovations can be in such areas as curricula, pedagogy, or classroom technology. All full-time faculty are eligible but must be nominated by their department chair.
As for teaching, Sara Ryoo, a lecturer in the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management, has been named to Poets & Quants‘ list of Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors for her caring, collaborative work in the classroom. And speaking of undergraduates, three BBA students in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics — two of them women, by the way — were the winners of “Best First-Time Hack” at the 2022 HackNYU Hackathon. Congratulations to Hao Kai (Kevin) Liao (BBA, ’22), Cirill Florenz Dalangin (BBA, ’23), and Ying Mai (BBA, ’23)!
I look forward to seeing you around campus.
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
March 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
As Emerson said, March weather is “savage and serene in one hour.” But have no fear — spring is just around the corner! Meanwhile, the Zicklin School has held a number of events since our last update.
For the March Zicklin Talks Business webinar, our benefactor Larry Zicklin (BBA, ’57) led a lively discussion on the future of the NYC office market that included a Zicklin alum, Michael Morris (MBA, ’07), vice chairman at Newmark. At the Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, Assistant Professor of Law Yafit Lev-Aretz moderated a conversation on building more ethical tech by reducing ethical debt. In Graduate Admissions, Senior Associate Dean Paquita Davis-Friday led a webinar on diversity in our graduate programs with participation by Zicklin graduate students and alumni from underrepresented minority groups.
In other news, our marketing and communications team has been busy producing new videos for our #WhyZicklin campaign. Please visit the Zicklin YouTube channel to see just-released videos featuring our esteemed colleagues, Professor of Marketing Sankar Sen (who is also the Lawrence and Carol Zicklin Chair in Corporate Integrity and Governance) and Assistant Professor of Information Systems Alain Claude Tambe Ebot.
Finally, I’m delighted to announce that the Wasserman Trading Floor of the Subotnick Financial Services Center has reopened after a hiatus of nearly two years.
I hope to see you all soon!
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
February 2022
Dear Zicklin Community,
Happy Lunar New Year! We are now in the Year of the Tiger, which I find most appropriate, as it is a symbol of strength and resilience in the face of adversity. It’s been energizing to see more of you around campus with our spring semester off to a strong start.
The Zicklin School welcomed 13 new faculty members this academic year. The Stan Ross Department of Accountancy has hired Eduardo Fuste (Florida State University), Eunhee Kim (Carnegie Mellon University), and Yanrong Jia (Washington University in St. Louis). Babak Somekh (University of Oxford), Alexander Chinco (New York University), and Bruce Iwadate (London School of Economics) are the newest hires in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance. The Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics welcomes Ecem Basak (University of Illinois Chicago), Jooho Kim (Washington University in St. Louis), Isaac Vaghefi (McGill University), and Chung Eun Lee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Finally, the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management has hired Sara Ryoo (University of Michigan), Tsedale Melaku (CUNY Graduate Center), and Yuan-Mao Kao (Duke University). Congratulations to all!
On April 28-29 we will host 15 business doctoral candidates from other institutions as part of the fourth annual PhD Project – Baruch College Research Symposium, which is focused on diversifying business school faculty. This annual event is an excellent opportunity to build a hiring pipeline for faculty from underrepresented minority groups.
Speaking of pipelines, the BMCC-Baruch Business Academy, which launched in Fall 2021, has 25 BMCC students currently enrolled. The Academy team here at Zicklin is collaborating closely with our counterparts at BMCC to ensure that these students make appropriate progress in the program. We are also working on expanding the Academy through partnerships with LaGuardia Community College and Queensborough Community College.
Also on the undergraduate level, Professors Lipner and Hazarika led a faculty development seminar in information literacy this past summer, with assistance from three staffers at the Newman Library. The goal was to create a research guide for Zicklin students, identifying and describing the research skills used generally in business and specifically working in fields in which students major. In addition, undergraduates now have the option of minoring in fintech, an interdisciplinary minor that brings together courses in finance, computer information systems, and law.
Senior Associate Dean Paquita Davis-Friday has been busy with some prestigious speaking engagements. She just finished moderating a panel discussion on what investors need to know about audits for the CFA Society’s New York chapter, and in May she will be holding a “fireside chat” at the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity’s Financial Reporting Conference with Erica Y. Williams, the new Chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).
The Zicklin Talks Business webinars continue monthly, managed by the Office of Executive Programs and led by our benefactor Larry Zicklin (BBA, ’57). Recent sessions have covered everything from New York City office space to cryptocurrency to ESG, DEI, and other timely topics.
Finally, as the pandemic appears to be winding down, study abroad is picking up. The Weissman Center for International Business will send six students to South Korea this spring and plans to send more students abroad in both the summer and fall terms.
I look forward, and I’m sure all of you do too, to a return to normalcy in 2022.
Sincerely,
Fenwick Huss
Willem Kooyker Dean, Zicklin School of Business
