Are there toxins in those tater tots? Probably, if recent research by a Zicklin School of Business professor is any indication. But what she subsequently learned about the new leadership in Washington was worse, galvanizing her to pen an article... View Article
Zicklin News recently took an elevator ride at the Newman Vertical Campus with Lecturer Robert Buchsbaum of the William Newman Department of Real Estate. He told us his story and how he ended up at the Zicklin School of Business. Here’s what we learned. ... View Article
The University of Texas at Dallas tracks publications in the top 24 business research journals. Three of these journals specialize in accounting: The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Accounting Research. In 2025, the Zicklin School of Business ranked... View Article
Dana (Weisberg) Zeller (MS, ’05), chief operating officer of BHI, studied statistics at the Zicklin School of Business and went on to build a successful career in banking. She sat down for an interview with Zicklin News. Zicklin News: Tell us about... View Article
Zicklin News took a recent elevator ride at the Newman Vertical Campus with Douglas Carmichael, Eli and Claire Mason Professor of Accountancy in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy. Earlier that day, he had led Ensuring Integrity: The 20th Annual Audit Conference, one of the Zicklin... View Article
Zicklin News spoke to three undergraduates who recently returned from studying abroad on Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarships. The program, operated by the U.S. Department of State, is a competitive, merit-based program offering students of limited financial means the opportunity to... View Article
Taylor Swift sang, “You can’t spell ‘awesome’ without ‘me.’” Now a Zicklin School alumna says, “You can’t spell ‘thrive’ without ‘HR.’” Denise (Messineo) Compitello, who received an MS degree in human resource management (at the time known as industrial and labor relations) from Executive Programs in 2015, recently launched her own HR firm after 15 years in the business. She calls... View Article
The results are in: After five weeks competing against some 10,000 students around the world, a team of Zicklin School undergraduates has placed in the top 3 percent in the 2025 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge. Out of nine Baruch teams... View Article
Maria Halbinger, an associate professor in the Lawrence N. Field Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has watched in recent years as digital competitions across various platforms have become highly popular tools for platform managers to generate new content, attract users... View Article
Ava Monaco (BBA, ’28) loves numbers. In pre-kindergarten, she was already memorizing her times tables. In grade school, she used an abacus. In high school, she visited the New York Stock Exchange to watch her father’s company ring the... View Article
Last month, Zicklin School alumna Karina Chiqui (BBA, ’22) ran the 2025 TCS New York City marathon—and raised over $4,000 for the Baruch College Fund, almost 50 percent more than her original goal of $3,000. Read More
A team of six Baruch students, five from the Zicklin School, joined the world’s largest hackathon recently—and won a prize. The undergrad wonders, mostly students in Vinayak Javaly’s Computer Information Systems 3120 class, competed as Team Mission CTRL in the NASA... View Article
The word “unprecedented” could be heard repeatedly on the seventh floor of the Information and Technology Building one evening in late October, uttered by a group of experts who were discussing the federal government’s targeting of major U.S. law firms. The occasion... View Article
Ever since her days at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Heather Stewart (MBA, ’27) dreamt of matriculating at Baruch and the Zicklin School. “At the time it seemed far-fetched,” admits Heather, who grew up in Jamaica and is... View Article
Army veteran Seijun Hara (BBA, ’24) credits divine intervention with her military career. The daughter of a Venezuelan mother and a Japanese-Venezuelan father, Seijun arrived in New York as a teenager when her mother was granted political asylum. Seijun was... View Article
To paraphrase Joni Mitchell, Zicklin School prof Jooho Kim has looked at “cloud” from both sides now. Dr. Kim, an assistant professor in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics, recently published an article in the Journal... View Article
Move over, Medgar Evers. Step aside, City College. On October 17, Baruch College joined six other CUNYs, including Hunter, Brooklyn, and Lehman Colleges, that all have subway stops named in their honor. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority renamed the Lexington Avenue... View Article
Alanna Correa wasn’t looking to go back to school, exactly. The seasoned marketing data analyst had just volunteered for a new role as director of marketing effectiveness at L’Oréal and needed to broaden her tech skills, but didn’t think she was ready for a full-fledged degree program. Fortunately, she stumbled upon the Zicklin... View Article
Devon Carney (Executive MBA, ’22) has been thinking outside the box lately. As a footwear designer and product line manager for the Overland Sheepskin Company, Devon normally focuses on what’s inside the box, be it a pair of shearling-lined leather sneakers, cowhide Chelsea booties, or slipper-style... View Article
The Zicklin School’s MBA program has been ranked #9 among U.S. public institutions on LinkedIn’s 2025 list of Top MBA programs. Among all U.S. MBA programs, public and private, Zicklin ranked #36, a significant improvement from LinkedIn’s 2024 ranking of #46.... View Article
