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December 15, 2021 Zicklin Undergrads Place in Top 6 Percent in Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge

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

December 13, 2021 Zicklin School Partners with Deloitte to Fund DEI Scholarships for Fifth-Year Accounting Students

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

December 7, 2021 Zicklin Alum Says Accounting Offers Broad Range of Career Opportunities

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

December 6, 2021 Zicklin’s MBA Business Consulting Program Helps Startup Realize Its Vision of Bringing Inclusive Design to the Masses

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

November 30, 2021 Zicklin Grad Is New Athletics Director for John Jay College

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

November 16, 2021 Zicklin School’s Doctor of Business Administration Program Is Approved

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

November 10, 2021 Zicklin Undergraduates’ Research Shines at International Conference

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

November 8, 2021 Zicklin Professor Wins Seed Grant for Innovative Research

Assistant Professor Shuting Wang (Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics) has been awarded a grant from the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, an organization that promotes collaboration and innovation in data science endeavors. Prof. Wang won a $25,000... View Article

October 29, 2021 Zicklin Alum Leads Successful Clinical Trials for Drug Treating Rare Fatal Disease

Brian Meltzer (Executive MBA, Healthcare Administration, ’00) calls himself the “puzzle master.” As Global Medical Team Leader at Alexion, the rare-disease division of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, Brian leads a large, multidisciplinary team of staffers around the world who are carrying... View Article

October 18, 2021 Zicklin Students Are Co-Founders of Baruch’s Debate Team

Zicklin undergrad Brian Sterling (BBA, ’21) and recent graduate Ace Kang (BBA, ’21) are Statistics & Quantitative Modeling majors and co-founders of the Debate Team of Baruch. That might surprise those who think of debate as more related to law or philosophy, but Brian and... View Article

October 12, 2021 Zicklin Alum Launches Venture Capital Firm Targeting Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

Maurice Ng (BBA, ’15) knows what it means to be a struggling entrepreneur without access to resources and capital. In 2008, when he was 17, he and his family immigrated to the U.S. from Hong Kong, speaking no English. His father’s jewelry... View Article

September 21, 2021 Meet the Class of ’22

The Zicklin Marketing & Communications team is working on a new series of video interviews for our #WhyZicklin integrated marketing campaign. From our conversations with MBA and MS students in the Class of ’22, here’s what they shared about their... View Article

September 13, 2021 Zicklin Alum Brings Alma Mater and Mother Country Together

Ever since alumnus Carlos dos Santos earned his Executive MBA from the Zicklin School of Business in 1999, he’s been searching for ways to build relationships between his alma mater and his native country, Mozambique, which since 2016 he has represented as ambassador to the United States and Canada. Now that collaborative spirit has borne its first fruit: This fall, the business school of Lúrio University in northern... View Article

August 30, 2021 Zicklin Students Land Prestigious Internships

Zicklin students are interning in their chosen fields at well-known companies. Brian Sterling, a first-generation student who is finishing his BBA in statistics and quantitative modeling this semester, had a three-month internship at Credit Suisse as an equity research analyst. ... View Article

August 12, 2021 Zicklin Professor is a “Master Teacher”

Prof. Debbie Kaminer (Department of Law) has been named the 2021 Charles M. Hewitt Master Teacher by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB), the international organization of professors who teach law in business schools. The award recognizes faculty members who... View Article

August 5, 2021 Zicklin Professor’s New Book Teaches How to “Play the Trading Game”

University Distinguished Professor Robert A. Schwartz, Director of the Robert A. Schwartz Center for Trading and Financial Markets Research, is one of the co-authors of a new, open-access textbook: Liqudity, Markets and Trading in Action. The book examines standard business... View Article

July 13, 2021 Music Streaming Declined During Pandemic, Zicklin Professor Finds

The COVID-19 pandemic was expected to change how people consume media. A new study analyzed online music streaming data for top songs for two years in 60 countries, as well as COVID-19 case and lockdown statistics and daily mobility data,... View Article

July 12, 2021 Top Los Angeles Museum Group Hires Zicklin Grad to Lead Strategy in Newly Created Post

“Zicklin MBA degrees aren’t just for Wall Streeters and consultants,” says Zicklin alumna Shana Mathur (MBA, ’06). Case in point: Shana recently became the Chief Strategy and External Relations Officer of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC),... View Article

June 30, 2021 Zicklin Undergrads Win $10,000 in National Policy Competition

Two Zicklin undergraduates representing Baruch College won this year’s Up to Us Campus Competition, a nationwide contest created to raise awareness of the impact of U.S. fiscal and economic policy issues. The duo beat out schools from across the country—including... View Article

June 28, 2021 Will Zillow Make Real Estate Agents Obsolete? This Zicklin Professor Wants to Know

Sophia Gilbukh, Assistant Professor of Real Estate in the William Newman Department of Real Estate, was one of three Zicklin professors awarded a Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Fellowship this year. Prof. Gilbukh received funds to complete her research project,... View Article

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