ZICKLINBUSINESS


March 2025

Zicklin Business News Letter 2020
MARCH 2025 Baruch/Zicklin Logo
 
Zicklin School Gets Two Thumbs Up From AACSB
 

The Zicklin School of Business was recently reaccredited in business and accounting, joining just 194 other business schools around the world that have achieved this prestigious dual accreditation.

 
 
From Cellist to Coder and Career Coach: Meet Zicklin
Alum Paden Gayle (BBA, ’19)
 

Zicklin School of Business alum Paden Gayle (BBA, ’19) didn’t start out wanting to be a coder. He wanted to be a cellist

 
 
Accentuate the Positive: Zicklin Prof Researches Effective Charity Appeals
 

Diogo Hildebrand, PhD, admits to getting “emotional” when watching TV ads—but not in a good way.

 
 
Go Figure! This Zicklin School Prof Uses Humor to Teach Stats and Programming
 

Did you hear the one about the statistics professor who was an expert in Jewish humor?

 
 
Mar. 11 Webinar: What’s Going on in Big-Time College Sports?
 

Recent developments raise a host of questions for the athletic programs of the NCAA Division I schools. Are colleges now the paid minor leagues of professional football and basketball? How much does it take a college to recruit a top-notch high school athlete? Larry Zicklin (BBA, ’57) discusses these questions with Marc Edelman, Professor of Law in the Zicklin School Law Department (left), and Marc Sulam, Adjunct Lecturer in Finance in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance and the Chairperson of the Georgetown University Advisory Committee of the Hoyas Rising Group. With an introduction by Dean Bruce Weber and Q&A moderated by Associate Dean Gwendolyn Webb.

 
Zicklin in the Media
 

Graduate students A.B. AlemayehuDoyeon HwangTanay Kapadia, and Nishanth Krishna (all MS, ’25) received an honorable mention in the Urban Land Institute’s ULI Hines Student Competition.

Roger Arrieux Jr. (BBA, ’92) was named to City & State‘s “50 Over 50” list.

Alumna Nikala D’Aguiar (BBA, ’23) was promoted to public relations account executive at IW Group Inc.

Graduate students Larissa Gould (MBA, ’26), Alvaro Lugo Ocon (MS, ’25), and Jon Sheflin (MBA, ’26) won first place in the American University Kogod School of Business case competition.

Alumna Molly John (BBA, ’97) was named to City & State‘s “50 Over 50” list.

Alumnus Joseph LaSala (MBA, ’05) is now vice president of marketing at Ipsos MMA.

Undergraduate Adriana Maria Lopez-Tavares (BBA, ’25) has won a United Nations Association-USA Fellowship.

Assistant Professor Tsedale Melaku (Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management) co-authored a paper in Organization.

Assistant Professor Billy Organek (Department of Law) was quoted in a Law360 article about Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder bankruptcy filing.

Lin Peng, David Krell Chair Professor in Finance (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance), presented a webinar on sustainable finance at Warsaw University of Technology.

Alumna Jacky Wright (BBA, ’85) was interviewed for The Stack.

 
Zicklin Events
 

All events are virtual unless otherwise stated.

Zicklin’s Advanced Certificate Programs Webinar
March 4, 11 am – 12 pm

Zicklin Executive Admissions Guide for Fall 2025 Webinar
March 4, 11 am – 12 pm

Graduate Admissions Live Chat Q&A
March 5, 11 – 11:30 am

MS Programs Open House
March 13, 6 – 8 pm

Evening MBA and Online MBA Programs
March 18, 11 am – 12 pm

Graduate Admissions Live Chat Q&A
March 19, 11 – 11:30 am

Application Workshop Webinar
March 20, 11 am – 12 pm

Graduate Accounting and Tax Programs at Zicklin
March 27, 12 – 1 pm

Financing Your Executive Degree Program
March 27, 12 – 1 pm

Learn more about Zicklin’s graduate and executive programs by registering for information sessions, open houses, and webinars here.

 
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