August 2023

A New Dean in New York

The Zicklin School of Business welcomes Willem Kooyker Dean, Bruce W. Weber, to New York City. In an interview with Zicklin News, he told us his vision for the Zicklin School and what he hopes to accomplish in his first year on the job.

Inspired by Mom, Zicklin Undergrad Wins U.S. State Department Fellowship

Zicklin School undergraduate Mohina Abdullaeva (BBA, ’25) has won a Foreign Affairs Information Technology (FAIT) fellowship from the U.S. Department of State. It will pay for her junior and senior years at Zicklin and also include domestic and international internships. To tell us more, Mohina sat down for an interview with Zicklin News.

Nobel Winner Harry Markowitz, Former Zicklin Professor, Dies

Harry M. Markowitz, PhD, who was a distinguished professor in the School of Business at Baruch College when he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1990, passed away on June 22 at age 95. Dr. Markowitz “revolutionized the way that individuals and institutions invest,” Investopedia wrote.

Zicklin School Hosts Joint Research Symposium with Chinese University

Faculty members and doctoral candidates from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), one of China’s top universities for business, were hosted by the Zicklin School in June for this longstanding annual event. Panel discussions covered current topics like “memeonomics” (how viral social media content shapes financial markets) and the impact of climate change on real estate prices.

Zicklin Alum Inspired by Memories of MLK Creates Accounting Scholarship

Last semester, while alumnus Ed Mendlowitz (BBA, ’63) was teaching a graduate seminar at the Zicklin School of Business, he remembered that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been the commencement speaker at Mendlowitz’s graduation ceremony exactly six decades ago. “King was a rising star, but he hadn’t become the national leader of the civil rights movement yet,” Mendlowitz recalls.

September Webinar: Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Risks for Teaching and Learning

New technologies like Artificial Intelligence pose challenges as well as opportunities to business schools and their students. What are the key potential benefits of this revolutionary technology to students and teachers? The potential risks? How might schools best manage the adoption of AI to benefit students? And what should we fear from a technology that seems to be coming faster than previously imagined? Larry Zicklin (BBA, ’57) discusses these questions with Bruce Weber, Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business. With a Q&A session moderated by Associate Dean Gwendolyn Webb.

Zicklin in the Media

The Zicklin School of Business Full-Time MBA program was ranked #1 for ROI (return on investment) by Poets & Quants.

The CPA Journal wrote extensively about the 21st Annual Financial Reporting Conference, held at the Zicklin School in May.

Alumna Lara Abrash (MBA, ’94) was profiled in Accounting Today.

Associate Provost Raquel Benbunan-Fich (Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics) published an article in Ethics and Information Technology.

Aumnus Dan Clivner (BBA, ’85) has been named to the Los Angeles Business Journal‘s “Leaders of Influence: Private Equity Investors & Advisors” supplement for the fourth straight year.

Alumnus and adjunct lecturer Louis Cohen (MBA ’10; Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business) was named a Crain’s New York Business 2023 Notable Leader in Advertising, Marketing, and PR.

Professor Marc Edelman (Department of Law) was interviewed by Yahoo! News about the proposed merger of the PGA Tour with Saudi-backed LIV Golf.

Undergraduate Naomi James (BBA, ’26) was featured in Caribbean Life for her home-based bakery business.

Professor Debbie Kaminer (Department of Law) wrote about the recent Supreme Court case, Groff v. DeJoy, in The Hill.

Recent graduate Yun Yati Naing (BBA, ’23) was profiled in a New York Times article on pay transparency.

Associate Professor Jared Peifer (Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management) was interviewed by Fast Company about faith-based investing.

Lin Peng, Krell Chair Professor of Finance (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance) was interviewed by Fast Company about the effect of social media attention on Palantir stock.

Alumnus Petar Petrov (BBA, ’08) is now Chief AI Officer for Eleven Ventures.

Alumnus Errol Pierre (DBA, ’21) co-authored a book that was reviewed in the New York Daily News.

Yildiray Yildirim, William Newman Chair Professor in Real Estate Finance (William Newman Department of Real Estate), was quoted in China Daily about office space.

Alumna Jennifer Ziegler (MBA, ’06) had her wedding profiled in The New York Times