Executive alumna Heather Marso, who earned her Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree from the Zicklin School of Business in May 2025, was recently promoted to vice president of engagement strategy at MetLife. in part based on her dissertation. She... View Article
Freshly minted MBA in hand, U.S. Army Reserve Captain Dan Johnson (MBA, ’25) is headed to his post-graduation position as a sales associate relationship manager at Cognizant, a technology consultancy. He spoke to Zicklin News about his experiences in the... View Article
One of the courses required for graduation from the Zicklin School of Business’ Executive MBA (EMBA) program is ZEP 9630, Leadership Development and Adaptive Performance. In it, EMBA students “will gain knowledge of traditional and contemporary leadership theories and their... View Article
If you’re a foreign company exporting goods to the United States, how do you make sense of President Trump’s tariffs? For the Tivoli Group, a luxury leather manufacturer based in Calenzano, near Florence, Italy, the answer was to draw on... View Article
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many changes, one of which was a sharp increase in the use of telehealth services in medicine. Under ubiquitous lockdowns, patients could not make appointments to see their healthcare providers in person. Yet providers had... View Article
Zicklin School alumnus Joseph Martin (BBA, ’19) appreciates a challenge. As a young newlywed working entry-level jobs as a doorman and a hospital orderly, he joined the Army to improve his employment prospects and see the world—which he did, spending... View Article
The salutatorian of Baruch College’s Class of 2025 is Zicklin School of Business student Ali Darwish. For those of you whose Latin is rusty, that translates to “number-two student.” (By the way, it’s pronounced sa-LOO-ta-TOR-ee-en.) A Provost Scholar Honors student,... View Article
If you’ve been a troglodyte for the past decade, you might not have heard about The Accountant, a 2016 action movie starring Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, an autistic accountant who, when not adding long sums in his head, is... View Article
Did you know that if you found out your drinking water was contaminated with carcinogens and you joined a class action lawsuit against the polluter, you’d be very unlikely to win damages unless you could prove you had cancer that was... View Article
Zicklin undergraduate Jona Hoxha (BBA, ’25) has won the 2025 James Lam Risk Management Fellowship, established in 2020 by Zicklin alumnus James Lam (BBA, ’83). The fellowship supports students with a strong interest in risk oversight, business strategy, and... View Article
How should policymakers and regulators deal with disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, and their applications, including cryptocurrencies? That’s the question Professor Nizan Packin (Department of Law) poses in an article she recently published in the American University Law... View Article
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. Meet the prodigies of the Baruch Investment Management Group (IMG), a group of Baruch students, mostly... View Article
It’s no wonder seven is a lucky number. For the seventh straight year, U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Zicklin School of Business among the best graduate schools in the country. Both the Evening MBA and the MBA in... View Article
The winners of Baruch College’s 2024 Abraham J. Briloff Prize in Ethics were announced recently, and, not surprisingly, the Zicklin School of Business was a top performer. Valerie Watnick, professor and chair of the Department of Law, won a... View Article
Many in the investment community believe that short-term earnings forecasts do more harm than good. Legendary investor Warren Buffett, for example, has called for CEOs to stop issuing quarterly profit forecasts, out of the view that once forecasts are set,... View Article
As part of Baruch College’s Respectful Dialogue Series last month, Associate Professors Allison Hahn and Eric Gander of the Weissman School moderated a debate about the benefits and drawbacks of technology. Each side was led by an outside faculty expert,... View Article
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
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
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
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
