Last spring, while other college students were sunbathing in Cancun and Daytona Beach, a group of Zicklin School undergraduates was doing something less hedonistic: offering their business skills for free to small business owners in rural Panama. The weeklong visit,... View Article
Four marketing majors in the Class of 2026 at the Zicklin School of Business have won scholarships from the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), a nonprofit industry association whose members include advertisers, ad agencies, research firms, and media companies. Danny Chen,... View Article
You might say Zicklin School of Business graduate Ari Kimmelfeld (BBA, ’22) is a pedal pusher. In just six months, the Brooklyn-born entrepreneur has built his startup, TradeMyStuff.com (which recently changed its name from TradeMySpin), into a nationwide distributor... View Article
We asked second-year students in the Zicklin School’s Full-Time MBA program, “What is one thing you learned from your MBA experience?” Here’s what they told us. “How to network effectively. It’s not about figuring out how other people can... View Article
Debbie Kaminer would like to thank the Academy. The Academy of Legal Studies in Business, that is. Professor Debbie Kaminer (Department of Law) has received the 2024 Hoeber Memorial Award from The Academy of Legal Studies in Business for... View Article
For the eighth year in a row, students from the Zicklin School of Business have been awarded scholarships from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a Washington D.C. nonprofit established by Congress to oversee audits of public companies. Accounting... View Article
What kind of teenager would give up a month of summer vacation to study stock tips? At least 25 New Yorkers would—if Baruch’s recent High School Stock Market Challenge is any indication. The challenge, sponsored by the Subotnick Financial Services... View Article
Assistant Professor Zeda Li (Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics) has won a National Science Foundation grant for his project, entitled “Covariate-Assisted Analysis of Spectral Matrices with Applications to Physiological Signal.” Researchers across many different fields study... View Article
To get to the Zicklin School of Business, Shafaath Khan had to travel 16,000 miles. Though he was born in America, Shafaath grew up mostly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the capital city his mother was from. The family faced many hardships... View Article
Aya Kikimova (MBA, ’11) was always an entrepreneur at heart. Growing up in Kazakhstan, she was surrounded by family members who ran small businesses. “My grandma had a deli shop, and my mom worked in real estate and was also... View Article
Two years ago, the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University in Boston awarded a grant to the Zicklin School of Business to undertake a deep analysis of the gender distribution of its undergraduate computing information systems (CIS) classes.... View Article
Meet some Zicklin School of Business alumni (shown clockwise from upper left): celebrity real estate broker John Gomes (MBA, ’02), ice skater Laura Gressin (MBA, ’24), data enthusiast Mariia Mohyla (MS, ’24), and international sales executive Cameron Freed (Executive MBA,... View Article
Like thousands of Zicklin School alumni, Andrea Pelaez-Martinez (PhD, ’24) was born outside the United States. The Colombian native moved to New York from Medellin in 2015 when her husband got accepted into a graduate program at CUNY. Three years later, Andrea... View Article
For the second year in a row, a team of Zicklin School of Business undergraduates has won the Student Cybersecurity Case Competition, organized by the New York metropolitan chapter of ISACA, an international professional association focused on risk governance. The... View Article
Zicklin School of Business student Luke Steinhauer (MBA, ‘25) is in the business of voice training. The Evening MBA candidate recently gave a presentation called “How You Say It Matters,” offering tips for using your voice to “engage, excite, empathize,... View Article
At Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business, we know that if students learn to use AI in the classroom, they will have a better chance of knowing how to leverage it in the workplace. Here, four Zicklin instructors share their insights... View Article
The popular image of business consultants is that they travel for work frequently, to places like Boston, Chicago, or maybe Miami. It’s not too often you hear about them visiting Italy on a consulting gig. Yet that’s exactly what... View Article
On an unseasonably warm day in early April, a group of Zicklin School of Business undergraduates sat in the lobby of 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, surrounded by nautical cables, old pallets, and panels of shipping crates—items repurposed from the days... View Article
In a new report entitled “Beyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges with Highest ROI,” Bloomberg places Baruch among the best colleges for return on investment. Drawing on data from Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the... View Article
The valedictorian of Baruch College’s Class of ‘24 is Zicklin School of Business student Samantha Liu. A Macaulay Honors scholar, Samantha is a statistics and quantitative modeling (SQM) major, with a double minor in human resource management and the arts... View Article
