GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! The Zicklin School of Business is playing on a global stage with advertising in World Cup Fan Zones that is reaching soccer fans from around the world—building brand awareness, expanding our reach, and making an impact far beyond the classroom.

How to navigate the working world while AI is rewriting the rules in real time? It’s a question on nearly every student’s mind these days, and one expert is Zicklin School alumnus Yash Upadhyay (BBA, ’05).

It rewards precision, patience, and self-reliance. It’s not running, wrestling, or boxing.

On a recent elevator ride to the 13th floor of the Newman Vertical Campus, Zicklin News found ourselves alongside Dean Bruce W. Weber. We asked him for a highlight of his tenure as Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business. Here’s what he told us.

Zicklin undergraduate My Anh Phan (left) started out as an artist but caught the business bug early.

In the U.S., borrowers with low fixed-rate mortgages often postpone moving because selling their homes would mean giving up the value of their existing low-rate debt. But in Denmark, borrowers can repurchase their mortgages at market value when rates rise, allowing them to capture the gain on their lower-rate debt rather than forfeiting it when they move or refinance. Could Danish-style buy-back rights be adapted to the U.S. mortgage model? Larry Zicklin (BBA ’57) leads this timely conversation with Assistant Professor Fabrice Tourre (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance). With an introduction by Dean Bruce Weber and Q&A moderated by Associate Dean Gwendolyn Webb.

Zicklin School staff member Sara Welch, associate director of marketing and communications, published an article about AI education at the Zicklin School in the AACSB magazine, Insights.

Recent graduate Rateb Bagdady (BBA, ’26) was profiled in the Baruch News Center.

Alumna Samantha Brownlie (BBA, ’26) has joined IceCap Group as a loan documentation specialist.

Alumnus Raymond Cole (MBA, ’02) has joined Gencor Industries as interim CFO.

Graduate student LeKeisha Dawkins (Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration, ’27) received a 2026 Healthcare Leaders of New York Achievement Award of Distinction Scholarship.

Alumnus Paden Gayle (BBA, ’19) has joined Notion as a forward deployed AI engineer.

Alumna Luz Liebeskind (Executive MS in Finance, ’08) spoke at the AICPA Not-for-Profit Industry Conference.

Alumna Heather Marso (DBA, ’25) spoke at the Insurtech Insights conference in New York City.

Doctoral candidate Anthony Meyers (PhD, ’26) won the Mills Tannenbaum Research Excellence Award from the Zicklin School of Business.

Recent graduate Christian Perez (BBA, ’26) gave a speech at Baruch College commencement as president of Undergraduate Student Government.

Recent graduate Ian Saraceni (BBA, ’26) was profiled by the Macaulay Honors College.

Robert Schwartz, Marvin M. Speiser Professor of Finance (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance), has joined the board of directors of Green Impact Exchange.

Graduate student Nafisa Tarannum (BBA ’26, MS in Taxation ’27) was profiled by the Macaulay Honors College.

Recent graduate Stanley Wang (BBA, ’26) was profiled in the Baruch News Center.

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