May 2021

Down to Earth: Yana Edinovich (BBA ’19, MS ’22)

Maybe it’s because she’s been dancing since the age of eight, but Yana Edinovich has a knack for pivoting. In 2013, Yana, a Russian native, immigrated to the United States for a job as a circus acrobat at an Atlantic City casino. A year later, that property declared bankruptcy, and she found herself out of work….

Zicklin School Launches New Video Campaign: #WhyZicklin

We traveled to five boroughs to speak with 10 undergraduate, graduate, and executive students and alumni, who shared their personal stories and academic journeys with us. Each selected a word or two encompassing their experience at the Zicklin School.

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Zicklin School Scores Top Marks on U.S. News’ 2022 List of Best Graduate Schools

The Full-Time MBA, Part-Time (Evening) MBA, and specializations in Accounting and Business Analytics were all ranked highly among New York city and state institutions.

May 11 Webinar: Caught in the Vise: Corporate Responsibility and Political Spending

Following the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and the new election laws in Georgia, several major corporations were criticized for supporting certain politicians financially with treasury funds. Many responded by suspending their corporate political action committee and other political spending and announcing they would re-think their programs. How are corporations likely to view and employ these programs in the future? What risks are there to the American political process? Larry Zicklin (BBA, ‘57) discusses these issues with Bruce Freed, President and Co-Founder of the Center for Political Accountability, and Associate Professor of Management Naomi Gardberg, whose research interests include the analysis of corporate governance, reputation, and social responsibility. With an introduction from Dean Fenwick Huss and a Q&A led by Professor Gwen Webb.

Zicklin in the Media

Highlights from “Ensuring Integrity,” the 15th Annual Audit Conference held at the Zicklin School in December, were covered in the CPA Journal.

Alumna Jasmin Chitrakar (MBA ’06) was promoted to managing director of Madison International Realty.

Alumnus John Davidson (EMBA HCA, ’17) has been appointed to the board of the New York chapter of the American Case Management Association.

Professor Marc Edelman (Department of Law) was quoted in Deadspin about Major League Baseball’s Georgia boycott, wrote about the same topic for Forbes, and opined on professional soccer for that publication.

Alumnus Andrew Furman (MBA, ’02) wrote about purpose-driven marketing for TotalRetail.

Research on “flavor fatigue” by Assistant Professor/alum Diogo Hildebrand (PhD, ’13; Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business) and alumni Rhonda Hadi (PhD, ’14), Thomas Kramer (BBA ’95, MBA ’98), and Dan Rubin (MBA ’15, PhD ’16), was cited in Forbes as part of the number-one trend defining food and lifestyle in 2021.

The wedding of alumnus Ilya Hoffman (BBA, ’09) to the daughter of a famous basketball player was covered by The New York Times.

Alumnus Randall F. Holcombe (MBA, ’15) has been named Director of the University of Vermont Cancer Center and Chief of Hematology and Oncology in the university’s Department of Medicine.

Alumna Jin Hu (BBA, ’95) has joined UBS as First Vice President, Wealth Management.

Alumnus and adjunct professor Charles Hwang (MS, ’15) was quoted in an article about the cryptocurrency Coinbase.

Professor Debbie Kaminer (Department of Law) wrote an editorial about COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the New York Daily News, was quoted in the Anchorage Press about this topic, and had a paper on this subject chosen for a colloquium at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business annual conference.

Alumnus Mohit Kohli (MBA, ’07) has been appointed Managing Director of the New York City office of 20/20 Foresight, an executive search firm.

Alumna Nina Kubota (MBA, ’99) has been appointed President and CEO of Schools Construction Authority, becoming the first Japanese-American woman to lead the agency.

Lecturer Christopher Meyer (Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management) co-authored an article in Entrepreneur about the limits of artificial intelligence.

Associate Professor Joseph Onochie (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance) co-published an article on “green and inclusive” finance.

Former faculty member Jennie May Palen (1891-1990), who taught accountancy at the School of Business from 1957 to 1962, was honored in a special CPA Journal article as a pioneer—the highest ranking and highest paid woman CPA from the 1920s to 1940s.

Alumnus Brian Robb (MBA, ’14) was appointed Senior Vice President, Head of Cyber/MTL/Tech in the US for Berkshire Hathaway.

Alumna Stacey Ryan-Cornelius (BBA, ’92) has been elected to the Marymount Manhattan College Board of Trustees.

The Association of National Advertisers Education Foundation has awarded the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business a one-year membership in the ANA. Benefits for students and faculty include access to training seminars, certification programs, and the ANA’s marketing content library. For more information, please contact department chair Nermin Eyuboglu.