At the Zicklin School’s Honors and Recognition Ceremony, held on May 5, 2023, 102 undergraduate and graduate students were inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the international business honor society. Beta Gamma Sigma is the most prestigious honor society for business students... View Article
Daniel Ugalde, a Zicklin undergraduate majoring in finance, was the salutatorian, or second-highest ranking student, of the Class of 2023. He sat down for an interview with Zicklin News. “My parents always instilled in me the idea that education is... View Article
We spoke to Zicklin students who just graduated to find out where they’re headed next. Here’s what they told us. “I’m joining McKinsey & Company as a Business Insights fellow for their Business Insights Leadership Development Program (BUILD). It’s a... View Article
Melanie Hill-Cantey (MBA, ’25), a student in the Zicklin School’s Evening MBA program, led a team of Baruch and Brooklyn College students to victory in an international “design sprint” hosted by the University of Hertfordshire in England. The competition was... View Article
Three Zicklin graduate students — Mariia Mohyla (MS, ’24), Hyejin Ryoo (MS, ’24), and Poulomi Tarania (MS, ’24)—and an undergraduate—Qi Xia (BBA, ’23)—were the winners of this year’s Baruch College Data Challenge with Pitney Bowes, a five-week-long competition among students... View Article
Zicklin undergraduates Nikala D’Aguiar (BBA, ’23) and Jenny Ho (BBA, ’24) were two-thirds of a Baruch College team of students who traveled to the United Kingdom in April to present their original research on climate change. The trip was funded... View Article
When the Harvard Business Review celebrated its centennial recently, Assistant Professor Tsedale Melaku, PhD (Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management), was invited to the event by her HBR editor. That wasn’t surprising, as Dr. Melaku frequently publishes in the magazine.... View Article
The University of Texas at Dallas has released its annual Top 100 Business School Research Rankings and the Zicklin School of Business climbed seven spots to reach number 68 in North America. Based on calculating the number of faculty... View Article
It’s not every day you meet someone who goes from Morgan Stanley to the music business—and not because he was laid off, either. But that’s exactly what Drew de Leon (BBA, ’06) did 13 years ago. He’s now president of... View Article
Baruch as a Climate Change Hub, an all-day, interdisciplinary event sponsored by the Zicklin School of Business, took place on March 10, and featured research from across the College. The conference was spearheaded by the Zicklin School’s Lin Peng, Professor... View Article
On March 9, Bruce W. Weber, PhD, was appointed the new Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, after a three-month national search following the retirement of H. Fenwick Huss, PhD, at the end of... View Article
We’re in harmony! The Zicklin School’s Executive MS in Human Resource Management program is officially academically aligned with the Body of Applied Skills & Knowledge (BASK) of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Zicklin News sat down with Stephan... View Article
In 2015, Dominican-born Stephanie Nuesi (BBA, ’21) moved to New York City with her family, speaking no English. Today, only eight years later, she’s a full-time financial analyst at Google with a lucrative second career as the CEO of Max... View Article
An article co-written by Prof. Nanda Kumar (Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics) and published in Organization Science has won the 2022 Best Paper Award from the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Women’s Network College, a college... View Article
Three undergraduate students in the Zicklin School — Jack Kasindorf (BBA, ’24), Lily Lo (BBA, ’23), and Kristov McKinnon (BBA, ’23)—have each won $1,000 in the preliminary round of the Blackstone LaunchPad Ideas Competition, a nationwide contest that encourages entrepreneurship... View Article
Three Zicklin MBA Class of ’23 candidates — Omar Alrifai, Daniel De Blois, and Dean Gavindane — were named the winners of the 2022 Zurich Enterprise Challenge, an international competition hosted by Zurich Insurance Group. The challenge gives graduate business... View Article
Zicklin School alumna Lisa Radcliffe (MBA, ’17) has been named an AACSB 2023 Influential Leader in the social impact category. She is the founder and CEO of PunkinFutz, a Brooklyn-based designer and maker of toys and accessories for children with... View Article
Like many college students, Zicklin undergraduate Arash Lahijani (BBA, ’24) decorates his room with inspiring quotations. His all-time favorite is courtesy of Albert Einstein: “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” “Albert Einstein’s words have had... View Article
On December 31, H. Fenwick Huss, the Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business since 2014, will retire. During his eight-and-a-half years of leadership, Huss presided over crucial updates of undergraduate and MBA curricula, extended the Zicklin School’s... View Article
Three years ago, JC Alejaldre (Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration, ’18), lost his mother, Aurora, to cancer. An avid runner, she frequently told her son that her dream was to one day run a marathon. “Sadly, she died before she... View Article
