Business

A panel of successful entrepreneurs talks about how they started their businesses, their educational and professional backgrounds, and the common challenges and opportunities facing entrepreneurs.

Panelists include: Bill Hayduk, Director of Professional Services, RTTS; Luke Mangal, founder of Herrick Greyson Corporation; Cathal Kennedy, owner of Hersco Ortho Labs; Xiaoning Wang, founder of ChinaSprout; and Jim Mumm, CEO, 1st Wave Sales & Marketing.

The event is hosted by the Graduate Career Management Center and moderated by Edward G. Rogoff, Professor of Management at Zicklin School of Business and Academic Director at the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship.

The event takes place on September 24, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-280.

A Panel of IT representatives discuss their college and career experiences and offer advice and tips to students interested in CIS. Topics include: their roles at jobs; their college experience at Baruch; networking; passion and career goals, the role of internship, etc. Panelists include Ziad Gemayel, Technology Product Manager, Morgan Stanley; Michael Drexler, Senior Director of Corporate Development, Sony Music's Global Digital Business Group; Sarah Hoffman, Software Engineer, Factset Research Systems, Inc.; and Avinaash Bhuvaneshwar, Market Data Management Services, Goldman Sachs.

The event is moderated by Karl Reiner Lang, Professor of Computer Information Systems, Baruch College. Professor Linda Weiser Friedman makes additional comments. The panelists answer questions from the audience at the end.

The event takes place on September 22, 2008 at the Newman Conference Center, Room 763.

Doug Lattner, Chairman and CEO, Deloitte Consulting LLP, talks about Deloitte Consulting, its businesses and community involvement, and shares his insights on sustainability issues and corporate responsibilities.

The event takes place on September 10, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220, as part of the Zicklin Graduate Leadership Speaker Series.

"Larry Zicklin (Baruch BBA ’65), chairman of the board at Neuberger Berman, trustee of the Baruch College Fund, alumnus, financier and New York University Professor, addresses the graduating students at the MBA Honors Graduation Reception. He stresses the importance of making good judgements in a business career and other qualifications such as problem-solving and willingness to take risks. Mr. Zicklin is introduced by John Elliot, Dean of the Zicklin School of Business.

John Albanese, Director of the Full-Time Honors MBA Program, makes the welcoming remarks.

The event takes place on May 27, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220."

Shelly Lazarus, Chairman & CEO, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, shares her career experiences and talks about leadership as part of the Zicklin Graduate Leadership Speaker Series.

Shelly has been a frequent industry honoree. Advertising Women of New York selected her as Woman of the Year in 1994. She was honored by Women in Communications with their Matrix Award in 1995, was named Business Woman of the Year by the Partnership for New York City in 1996, and Woman of the Year in 2002 by the Direct Marketing Association. She has appeared in Fortune magazine's annual ranking of America's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business since the list's inception in 1998. Shelly was also the first woman to receive the Columbia Business School Distinguished Leadership in Business Award.

The event takes place on April 9, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220.

"Kenny Moore, Director of Human Resources & Corporate Ombudsman, KeySpan Corp., presents an alternative leadership model addressing four levels of energy at workplace: physical energy, mental energy, emotional energy and spiritual energy. He discusses how companies are engaged in these four levels of energy and how to keep sanity, sense of humor and soul in the workplace. A Q&A session follows.

Mr. Moore is co-author of The CEO and the Monk: One Company’s Journey to Profit and Purpose (John Wiley and Sons), rated as one of the top ten best selling business books on Amazon.com. Reporting to the Chairman, he is primarily responsible for awakening joy, meaning and commitment in the workplace.

The event takes place on March 26, 2008, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750, as part of the Zicklin Graduate Leadership Speaker Series."

Marc Goldstein, CEO of Group M, North America, discusses what's happening in the media world today, as compared to what it was five, ten, and twenty years ago. Mr. Goldstein also talks about his role as chair of the Media Policy Committee of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), and points out that one of the agenda items of the committee is to bring more individuals to the industry from the New York City school systems. He offers advices on how students prepare themselves for their careers in the media industry.

The event takes place on February 27, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220, as part of the Zicklin Graduate Leadership Speaker Series.

David Landau, President and CEO, David Landau & Associates, LLC, talks about entrepreneurship and leadership based on his own experience as part of the Zicklin Graduate Leadership Speaker Series. Topics include: entrepreneurship vs. leadership; key characteristics of an entrepreneur; types of leadership; leadership styles; management vs. leadership; and tips on how to lead a team.

The event takes place on December 5, 2007, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220.

Marc Hodak, Managing Director, Hodak Value Advisors, talks about leadership with emphasis on how great leaders make good decisions as part of the Zicklin Graduate Leadership Speaker Series. A Q&A session follows.

The event takes place on November 7, 2007, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220.

Shyam Sunder, Professor of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Yale University, delivers the Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lecture "Adverse Effects of Accounting Uniformity on Practice, Education, & Research" hosted by the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, Zicklin School of Business. Professor Sunder states that the pursuit of uniformity in accounting diminishes the effectiveness of financial reporting; discourages he artful classroom discourse, attracts less talent to accounting programs and ultimately the accounting profession; induces follow-the-rule attitude among accountants at the expense of developing their professional judgments; and discourages research and debate in academies and shuts the door of learning through experimentation. Professor Sunder is introduced by Hugo Nurnberg, Professor of Accounting at Baruch College.

The event takes place on October 22, 2007, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.