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March 19, 2025 Money Stuff’s Matt Levine Talks Meme Stocks, Crypto, and More with the Zicklin School’s Lin Peng

The Rackow Conference Room of the Information & Technology Building was packed recently for a high-profile “fireside chat” between Matt Levine, a financial journalist who writes the daily “Money Stuff” newsletter for Bloomberg News, and Lin Peng, PhD, Krell Chair... View Article

March 13, 2025 Baruch Climate Finance and Sustainability Conference Examines How Finance Can Address Climate Change

More than 100 professors and doctoral candidates filled a 14th-floor conference room in the Newman Vertical Campus on March 6 for the kickoff of the Baruch Climate Finance and Sustainability Conference, co-sponsored with the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis... View Article

March 11, 2025 Bookkeeper By Day, Bernie the Bearcat By Night: Meet Isabella Doring (BBA, ’25)

By day, Macaulay Honors student Isabella Doring (BBA, ’25) studies accounting and works as a bookkeeper for Million Dollar Women, a social venture for female entrepreneurs. But a whole different personality came out recently when Isabella donned the Bernie the... View Article

March 11, 2025 How This Zicklin MBA Student Morphed a Viral Social Media Stunt into a Marketing Startup

MBA student Fan Yang had been managing a small noodle shop in Greenwich Village for about two months when he came up with a marketing plan that quadrupled his revenue in just three days. How did he do it? With... View Article

March 10, 2025 Three Cheers for Innovative Zicklin Faculty!

Three Zicklin faculty members have won the Zicklin Innovation in Teaching Awards for 2025, announced Marios Koufaris, interim associate dean for administration and finance. Each award came with a $7,000 stipend. Associate Professor Mahima Hada (Allen G. Aaronson Department of... View Article

February 25, 2025 Accentuate the Positive: Zicklin Prof Researches Effective Charity Appeals

Diogo Hildebrand, PhD, admits to getting “emotional” when watching TV ads—but not in a good way. “I was always bothered when ads for charities used images of people suffering, like the Save the Children appeals showing a starving child,” says... View Article

February 25, 2025 From Cellist to Coder and Career Coach: Meet Zicklin Alum Paden Gayle (BBA, ’19)

Paden Gayle (BBA, ’19) didn’t start out wanting to be a coder. He wanted to be a cellist, but after getting into Juilliard, he decided to leave after just one semester. “I guess the fear that musicians don’t make much... View Article

February 25, 2025 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? It’s true. Professor Linda Weiser Friedman (Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics), PhD, teaches a Baruch College course on Jewish humor and... View Article

February 25, 2025 Zicklin School Gets Two Thumbs Up from AACSB

After an intensive review that included a two-day visit by a peer review team, the Zicklin School of Business was officially notified earlier this month that its dual accreditations in business and accounting were extended by the Association to Advance... View Article

January 30, 2025 Meet Musician and Future Financier Noah Tobing (BBA ’23, MS ’25)

If you happened to be at the Baruch Performing Arts Center last November, you might have caught a bunch of students enthusiastically singing along to Stephen Sanchez’s nostalgic hit “Until I Found You.” It was the second number performed by... View Article

January 30, 2025 The Apprentice: How This Zicklin Alum Built Multiple Internships into a BlackRock Career

Many Zicklin students work two or three internships while getting their BBAs. But six? That’s what Ramgelly Espinosa (BBA, ’23) did. Through six internships, she developed professional networks and gained invaluable insights into the finance world that she used to... View Article

January 30, 2025 From Online to IRL: Zicklin Prof Shows How Facebook Connections Influence Elections

A few years ago, Ecem Basak, PhD, was poring over Facebook’s Social Connectedness Index (SCI), which measures the strength of social ties between different geographic areas as represented by Facebook friendship connections. As her cursor hovered over an interactive map... View Article

January 2, 2025 Zicklin Grad Students Win Silver in Neuberger Berman Sustainable Investing Challenge

It was Friday, December 13th in a chilly conference room on the 14th floor of the Newman Vertical Campus, but for a quartet of Zicklin graduate students, it was a very lucky day. SJ Beaumont, Esq. (MS Finance, ’25), Samuel... View Article

January 2, 2025 Zicklin Fantastic Four Win Regional Deloitte FanTAXtic Case Competition

The Zicklin School of Business/Baruch College team was named as one of 16 regional winners of Deloitte FanTAXtic 2024, Deloitte’s student Tax Case Study Competition. More than 70 teams representing more than 40 colleges and universities participated in the regional... View Article

January 2, 2025 How Zicklin’s Co-op Program Helped This Undergrad Get a Job at Deloitte

Federico Della Monica (BBA, ’25) is a man with a plan. He doesn’t graduate until later this month, but he already has a job lined up at Deloitte, courtesy of the Zicklin Business Co-op Program and a plan hatched seven... View Article

December 18, 2024 How Can 27 Million Newspaper Articles Predict GDP? This Zicklin Prof Explains

It’s no secret that people make spending decisions based on what they think of the state of the economy. If you have a stable job and you think the economy is in good shape overall, you’re more likely to make... View Article

December 1, 2024 Zicklin School’s Accomplished Professors Are Among the World’s Top Scientists

The annual list from Stanford University and publishing company Elsevier of the world’s most influential researchers has been released, and five Zicklin School of Business professors are on it. Out of more than six million researchers around the world, the... View Article

December 1, 2024 How U.S. Bankruptcy Law Leaves Legal Cannabis Companies High and Dry

In October, the Zicklin School’s William (Billy) Organek, an assistant professor in the Department of Law, published “Up in Smoke: Bankruptcy by Contract in the Legal Cannabis Industry,” in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. He sat down for an interview... View Article

December 1, 2024 Zicklin MBA Is a Baruch Changemaker—and an Immigrants’ Dream Maker

Stefanie Trice Gill (MBA, ’06) started her company because of a chance encounter with a janitor.  After earning an Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration (EMBA HCA) from the Zicklin School, the native Mainer had returned to her home state to raise... View Article

November 27, 2024 Business Academy Grows to Include New Community College Partner

Baruch College’s Business Academy—which provides a transparent, predictable, and smooth path for transfer students to obtain a top-notch business education at the Zicklin School of Business—celebrated a significant milestone this month by signing a partnership agreement with Guttman Community College. “The... View Article

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