Baruch College has announced the valedictorian and salutatorian for the Class of 2022, and for the fourth consecutive year, both honorees are graduating from the Zicklin School. Ashley Mei Bo Torrenti (left), a Macaulay Honors student who is graduating with a... View Article
The Zicklin School of Business, as part of Baruch College, has made diversity, equity, and inclusion a top priority. Faculty at the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics noticed that while they have been on a positive trajectory in enrolling women in... View Article
Sara Ryoo, a lecturer in the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management, has been named to Poets & Quants‘ 2021 list of Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors. “I believe the classroom is a place where everybody learns,” says Dr. Ryoo,... View Article
Techies, rejoice. The Technology Leadership Development Program (TLDP) is wrapping up its second year, and counting. The three-semester program, which is sponsored by the Starr Career Development Center and the Shulman Family Foundation, provides Baruch students who are interested in... View Article
Dewan Nazmul Hasan (Executive MS in Finance, ’22) is the CEO of Trust Axiata Pay (Tap), a digital financial services company based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Tap recently won an innovation award from the Bangladesh government for its work with rickshaw... View Article
There is a doctor in the house, and her name is Iris Lopes. Iris (MBA ’23), who has a medical degree from Brazil, enrolled in Zicklin’s Full-Time MBA program last fall. She sat down for an interview with Zicklin News... View Article
Audite Talukder (BBA, ’23) is one of a kind. Last fall, Audite (pronounced “O-D-T”), a computer information systems major, was the only Baruch College student accepted into the inaugural cohort of Break Through Tech AI, a free, highly competitive program... View Article
The Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College is pleased to announce that Dr. Edwin Chiu (Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration, ’23) has been selected as the winner of the 2022 James Lam Risk Management Fellowship. This fellowship is designed to provide foundational skills... View Article
If the cliché that tall people are natural leaders is true, then it’s no surprise that Dean Gavindane (MBA ’23), who’s six foot five, has founded three successful ventures. Dean, formerly known as Dean Brown, started out at City College, where... View Article
Here are some surprising facts about Jacky Wright (BBA, ’85), chief digital officer of Microsoft and recently named the most influential Black person in Britain by U.K.-based Powerful Media. One: She’s based in the U.S. (Jacky was born in London... View Article
When CBS News was looking for an expert to interview for a segment on why Black women in the United States have three times the risk of dying from pregnancy as white women, it’s not surprising they chose Errol Pierre.... View Article
In 2015, Mayer Kamkhatchi (BBA, ’19) was a freshman at Baruch College, balancing schoolwork, a part-time job, and an unpaid side hustle helping his older sister Adina sell her homemade jewelry online. By 2018, from just $1,000 in seed money, Adina’s Jewels had become a multimillion-dollar company, worn by celebrities from Billie Eilish to Ariana Grande to... View Article
Denvol Haye, Jr. started his new job at McKinsey before he’d even finished his MBA. The Long Island native, who received his MBA in December 2021, is head of communications for the McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility, a research institute and thinktank dedicated to advancing racial equity and... View Article
A team of Zicklin undergraduate students finished 31st out of 496 teams in the 2021 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge, placing them in the top six percent of teams competing worldwide. In the Bloomberg Trading Challenge, student teams use a Bloomberg terminal over seven weeks to build and manage a hypothetical stock portfolio with... View Article
The Zicklin School of Business has joined forces with the Deloitte Foundation to support diverse talent entering the accounting profession. Over the next year, the Deloitte Foundation Accounting Scholars Program and the Zicklin School will fund scholarships for five Zicklin... View Article
Alla (Karachun) Aynbund (BBA, ’07) returned to her alma mater last November as a panelist for “Ensuring Integrity,” the audit conference held annually at the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. Now in its 16th year, the conference brings together... View Article
When you sip your morning coffee, do you ever think about the design of the mug you’re holding? Chances are you don’t—you take this simple act for granted. But imagine if you had tremors from Parkinson’s disease or were missing... View Article
After an extensive national search, Cat Alves (MBA, ’14) was recently named Director of Athletics and Recreation for John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She sat down for an interview with Zicklin News. Zicklin News: You’re an athletics director with... View Article
The State of New York has approved the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program at the Zicklin School of Business. It is the first DBA program in the state. “The DBA program exemplifies Zicklin’s commitment to delivering relevant, academically rigorous... View Article
In September, undergraduates from the Zicklin School of Business had the unique opportunity to share original research at an international conference held online, where they presented findings on such varied topics as the resilience of New York City restaurants, hiring candidates with autism, and cryptocurrency. Zicklin students majoring in computer information systems, international marketing, industrial... View Article
