October 2024

Zicklin School Launches Online MS in Finance

With Zicklin’s Online MS in Finance, professionals can elevate their careers from anywhere. The program imparts the advanced knowledge and analytical tools needed to successfully navigate today’s financial markets.

Zicklin School Prof Receives Award from
Academy of Legal Studies in Business

Debbie Kaminer would like to thank the Academy. The Academy of Legal Studies in Business, that is.

Zicklin Alum Entrepreneur Finds New Homes for Abandoned Pelotons

Ari Kimmelfeld (BBA, ’22) launched a business to rehome Pelotons and other home gym equipment.

Wise Words from Zicklin MBA Students

We asked second-year students in the Zicklin School’s Full-Time MBA program, “What is one thing you learned from your MBA experience?”

Quartet of Zicklin Juniors Win Marketing Scholarships

Clockwise from upper left: Danny Chen, Danielle Colon, Naia Griffith, and Rachel Smith (all BBA, ’26), winners of Workforce Initiative for Diversity and Excellence (WIDE) scholarships from the Advertising Research Foundation.

October 8 Webinar:
Litigation Finance: An Innovation in Legal Services

Imagine you’re a corporate plaintiff with a high-value legal claim, but you don’t want to spend your company’s working capital to pursue it or wait years for the case to resolve to be able to put your expected recovery to use. Enter the world of litigation finance, where leading law firms and Fortune 500 companies use capital to pay for claims to proceed or to accelerate the expected value of pending claims, judgments, and awards. The capital is non-recourse, meaning the financier only receives its money back if the case wins. Thus the risk to corporate clients and law firms is shifted to the legal finance provider.

What is the process for financing cases? What kinds of matters do legal finance providers most often pursue? How does legal finance benefit both law firms and companies? What are some notable cases? Are there disadvantages to using legal finance? What are the broader economic benefits? Larry Zicklin (BBA, ’57) discusses these ideas with Christopher Bogart (pictured), Esq., CEO and co-founder of Burford Capital and the leading innovator in this field. With an introduction by Zicklin School Dean Bruce Weber and a Q&A session moderated by Associate Dean Gwendolyn Webb.

Zicklin in the Media

Recent graduate Fanta Bakele Bah (BBA, ’24) is now a corporate tax specialist at PwC.

Alumnus Chris Dennis (Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration, ’03) is now chief medical officer at Pinnacle Treatment Centers.

Professor Marc Edelman (Department of Law) wrote an article called “Sportswashing with Chinese Characteristics.”

Alumna Essence English (BBA, ’21) was honored in CUNY’s inaugural “50 Under 50” alumni list.

Alumna Laura Gressin (MBA, ’24) is now a leadership associate (assistant vice president) at Citi.

Professor Theodore Joyce (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance) received a grant from the American Talent Initiative and reviewed a controversial paper for the Proceeds of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Graduate student Sara Karlsdottir Andreeasen (MS, ’25) was profiled on the CUNYverse blog.

Associate Professor Leonard Kostovetsky (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance) was interviewed on National Public Radio’s “Marketplace.”

Alumna Cynthia Li (MBA, ’21) is now an associate at McKinsey & Company.

Doctoral candidate Anthony Meyers (PhD, ’26) won the Student Spirit Award of the PhD Project and was elected president of its Management Doctoral Student Association.

Undergraduate Leslie Mendez (BBA, ’25) was profiled in a Wall Street Journal article naming Baruch the #1 best value U.S. college of 2025.

Undergraduate Michelle Murillo (BBA, ’28) was profiled on the CUNYverse blog.

Lin Peng, David Krell Chair Professor in Finance (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance) was recognized for her article, “Face Value: Trait Inference, Performance Characteristics, and Market Outcomes for Financial Analysts,” which is one of the most downloaded articles in the Journal of Accounting Research.

Alumna Hailey Ra (BBA, ’24) was honored in CUNY’s inaugural “50 Under 50” alumni list.

Alumna Luz Rosado (BBA, ’08) was honored in CUNY’s inaugural “50 Under 50” alumni list.

Alumna Lu Tong (PhD, ’23) received the 2024 Outstanding International Accounting Dissertation Award from the American Accounting Association.