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Success Stories

June 2026
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This Zicklin Prof Is on a Mission to Make Students Financially Literate

“Your twenties are your most powerful financial decade and you’re never too young to start learning about personal finance.”

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May 2026
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Zicklin Alum Pivots from Computers to Comfort Food

“I was working as a cashier and security guard at Five Below, the discount retail store. My co-workers said the food I brought to work smelled good, so I let them sample some, and then they started asking me to cook for them!”

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April 2026
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Zicklin Alum Proves “Anything Is Possible, Even If Improbable”

“I went to work every day for a year afraid I’d be fired.”

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March 2026
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The Sky’s the Limit: How a Zicklin Professor Helped This Alum Become a Billion-Dollar Efficiency Ace

“Everything about the way he taught business contracts is applicable to my job now.”

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January 2026
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From Colombia to Kuwait to CUNY: Meet Zicklin Alum Seijun Hara (BBA, ’24)

Army veteran Seijun Hara (BBA, ’24) credits divine intervention with her military career.

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December 2025
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This Zicklin Online MBA Student Is Building Community, Zoom by Zoom

“At BMCC, I heard many success stories of Zicklin students accomplishing their goals, but the thought of enrolling there seemed out of reach.”

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November 2025
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Devon Carney (Executive MBA, ’22) Puts Her Best Feet Forward

Devon Carney is that rare creature: a footwear designer with an MBA.

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October 2025
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Serial Entrepreneur Adam Levy (Executive MBA, ’01) Imbibes the Spirits of Success

Adam especially enjoyed his classes in entrepreneurship and information systems and adds that the program provided “amazing, wonderful” support. But his newfound business chops made him overconfident.

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September 2025
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Zicklin Prof Wins National Science Foundation Grant to Track Patterns in Data

Vast amounts of time-based data are being created in fields from finance to medicine to climate science, but current methods of analyzing such data are not sophisticated enough to detect patterns. Dr. Lee’s research aims to change that.

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August 2025
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Zicklin Executive MBA Students Improve Leadership Skills with Improv

“The goal . . . is to develop your leadership potential and become an adaptive performer in everyday life.”

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July 2025
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From Backpack to Briefcase: Meet Army Vet and Zicklin Alum Joseph Martin (BBA, ’19)

Why Zicklin? “There’s prestige to the name,” Joseph replies. “Being a Zicklin BBA holder has stature.”

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June 2025
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Zicklin Student Is Baruch College Salutatorian, Class of 2025

He followed his older brother (who graduated from the Zicklin School last year) to America and Baruch College.

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May 2025
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Meet the Zicklin School Prodigies Investing Over $1 Million of Baruch’s Endowment

Would you trust a bunch of college students to handle your investments? If you’re a member of the Baruch community, you probably already do.

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April 2025
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Bookkeeper By Day, Bernie the Bearcat By Night: Meet Isabella Doring (BBA, ’25)

“I was especially inspired by my Financial Accounting I instructor, Diana Weng. She’s one of the reasons I stayed in accounting.”

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March 2025
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Go Figure! This Zicklin Prof Uses Humor to Teach Stats and Programming

Did you hear the one about the statistics professor who was an expert in Jewish humor?

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February 2025
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The Apprentice: How This Zicklin Alum Built Multiple Internships Into a BlackRock Career

“With finance and economics, it’s often about how people react to the news and politics. I minored in psychology because I wanted to bridge those two concepts.”

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January 2025
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How Zicklin’s Co-op Program Helped This Undergrad Get a Job at Deloitte

“The Co-op Program gave me a real feel for what it was like to be part of the Deloitte team.”

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