July 2021

Zicklin School of Business Welcomes Baruch College’s New Provost

Dr. Linda Essig, MFA, PhD, is the new Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Baruch College. Her appointment comes as especially welcome news to the Zicklin School of Business, for not only does Dr. Essig have three decades’ experience in public higher education, but her scholarship and teaching experience have been heavily focused on entrepreneurship and innovation.

Zicklin School and Weissman School Team Up to Launch Financial Engineering Hub

Baruch College President S. David Wu has announced the launch of the Financial Engineering Hub at Baruch — a collaboration between the Zicklin School of Business and the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences.

Zicklin Grad Students Win Pitney Bowes Data Challenge

For the second year in a row, a team of Zicklin graduate students has won the Pitney Bowes Data Challenge, a two-week-long competition among students from across Baruch College and the Zicklin School. The number of students entering the competition more than doubled from last year.

July 13 Webinar: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Has Changed Healthcare Delivery

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed how we live, shop, study, work — and how we experience healthcare. We have witnessed a dramatic expansion of virtual healthcare, additionally spurred by advances in science and technology. Larry Zicklin (BBA, ‘57) discusses how the pandemic is changing healthcare with Dr. Kenneth A. Berkowitz, MD, FCCP, Special Advisor, Veterans Health Administration National Center for Ethics in Health Care and Associate Professor of Medicine and Popular Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who will share insights from his frontline experience in the pandemic and from his ethics perspective, and with Zicklin School Prof. Alex Mills, whose research interests include how the healthcare system responds to disruptions.

Zicklin in the Media

Alumnus Paul Barretta , PhD (BBA ’87, MBA ’91), has been granted tenure at Wagner College.

Alumnus Marc Berman (BBA, ’67) has been appointed to the advisory board of Options Solutions LLC.

Professor Douglas R. Carmichael , Eli and Claire Mason Professor in Accountancy, was quoted in an article in Crain’s New York Business on the struggling fashion house Sequential Brands.

Alumna Ramona Cedeno (BBA, ’01) was named to the 2021-2022 Board of Directors of the New York State CPA Society.

Alumnus Rory Christian (MBA, ’08) has been named a Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission.

Professor Marc Edelman (Department of Law) predicted the National College Athletic Association’s loss of its recent U.S. Supreme Court case and outlined what will happen next. He was also interviewed on the subject by AnnArbor , The Advocate , and Southern California Public Radio .

Undergraduate Bricen Fisher (BBA, ’24) has won a Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship.

Alumnus Alan D. Gaines (BBA, ’76) has been appointed to the board of directors of Vision Marine Technologies.

Assistant Professor Tanuka Ghoshal (Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business) has won a Eugene Lang Junior Faculty Fellowship. She sat down for a Q&A with Zicklin News.

Zicklin undergraduates Tasnia Hussain (BBA, ’22) and Nayancie Matthews (BBA, ’22) won this year’s Up to Us Campus Competition, a nationwide contest to raise awareness of the impact of U.S. fiscal and economic policy issues.

Alumna Katelyn Kogan (MS, ’14) was named to the 2021-2022 Board of Directors of the New York State CPA Society.

Alumnus Ruben D. Marte’ (BBA, ’86), a captain in the Indiana state police, was recognized for 30 years of service.

Alumna Sharon McLennon (MBA, ’91) is now the owner of Coldwell Bank Splendor Realty, the first 100-percent, African American, woman-owned Coldwell Banker franchise in South Florida.

Professor Scott Newbert , Academic Director of the Lawrence N. Field Programs in Entrepreneurship, was a member of the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 Advisory Council , a group of thought leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation who helped CNBC compile the Disruptor 50, its annual list of private companies transforming the economy and challenging established companies. He also published an article in Entrepreneur .

Alumnus Chris Panagiotakos (BBA, ’96) has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Data Storage Corporation.

Distinguished Professor Robert Schwartz (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance) and alumna Deniz Ozenbas (MBA ’00, PhD ’02) co- published the open-access textbook Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action (Springer, 2021).

Alumnus Amit Sharma (MBA, ’06) has joined Hostess Brands as Vice President, Investor Relations.

Professor Abdullah Tansel (Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics) was interviewed about decentralized finance, or DeFi.

Alumna Chelsea Wepy (BBA, ’21) has won a Venture For America Fellowship.