Business

Marc Hodak, founder of Hodak Value Advisors, discusses scandals from history and the present day, and explores why business scandals tend to proliferate during economic downturns, how history repeats itself, and what lessons can be learned from scandals. A Q&A session follows.

This program is sponsored by the CEO Trust in partnership with the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. The event takes place on December 7, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.

Bill Roskin, an attorney and the president of Roskin Consulting, and formerly a Senior Advisor and Executive Vice President at Viacom Inc., speaks on leadership and his experience in human resources, consulting, and labor law. The event is moderated by Professor Donald Vredenburgh, Professor of Management at Baruch College. A Q&A session follows.

Baruch MBA student Ruchi Gupta introduces the speaker.

The event takes place on November 11, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center Room 750, as part of the Zicklin Graduate Leadership Speaker Series.

Susan F. Haka, Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting, Michigan State University, delivers the 2009 Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lecture "Accounting at a Tipping Point: The Ascent of the Finance Industry" hosted by the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, Zicklin School of Business. Professor Haka is introduced by Hugo Nurnberg, Professor of Accounting at Baruch College.

The event takes place on October 26, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.

This is a penal discussion on the ethical challenges American corporations face when they participate in the judicial electoral process. The program is co-sponsored by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, Baruch College; Center for Political Accountability; and Carol & Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania as part of the David Berg Foundation Lecture Series.

Donald Shepers, Director, The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate, Integrity, makes the opening remarks. The panel is moderated by Marya Cotten, Assistant Professor of Law, Baruch College. Speakers include:

Dorothy Samuels, Member, New York Times Editorial Board; author of The Selling of the Judiciary

James Sample, Professor, Hofstra Law School; formerly director of the Judicial Elections Project at the Brennan Center, New York University

Jeffery Berger, Associate, Mayer Brown

The Hon. Penny White, Professor, University of Tennessee College of Law; former justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court

Roy Schotland, Professor of Law, Georgetown University

The event takes place on September, 17, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.

"A panel of industry leaders detail how the public relations profession has changed, how it has remained the same, and what direction it will take going forward. Panelists also discuss what role the Internet has played, how down-sized newspapers have impacted their clients’ goals and objectives and how direct to consumer opportunities have changed the ground rules, as well as what qualities and skills sets are necessary for beginners to be successful in a public relations career.

Panelists include: Don Middleburg, CEO of Middleburg Communications; Peter Himler, Founding Principal of Flatiron Communications, LLC; Jeffrey Gluck, Manager of Communications at IBM; and Bill Southard, President of Southard Communications; Dave Armon, former President of PR Newswire, moderates. A discussion and Q&A session follows.

Professor David Luna, Director of MarkLab, makes the opening remarks.

The event takes place on October 15, 2009 at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750."

A panel of professional consultants speaks about their individual career paths, job responsibilities, consulting as a way of life and how to balance work and life, how they got where they are now, and skills and qualifications necessary to be successful in consulting.

Panelists include: Aashish Chheda, Associate in the Information Technology Advisory Services Division at KPMG; Eric Powers, non-profit and small business consultant at Powers Consulting; Roshan Robert, of PricewaterhouseCooper; and Jennifer Ziegler, Marketing Director for the TAI Group.

The event is hosted by the Graduate Career Management Center and moderated by Professor Moshe Banai in the Department of Management at the Zicklin School of Business.

The event takes place on September 21, 2009 at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-270.

A panel of real estate executives discusses their respective backgrounds, job responsibilities, skills and qualifications needed in real estate, and how they got where they are now in real estate business.

Panelists include: Richard Field, Program Director, CB Richard Ellis; Shaunak Tanna, Vice President, Terra Capital Partners; Dhaval Parikh, Vice President, BlackRock; and Mike Tranfalia, Associate Director, Newmark Knight Frank.

The event is hosted by the Graduate Career Management Center and moderated by Gerd Welke, Professor of Real Estate, Baruch College.

The event takes place on September 24, 2009, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-270.

A panel of marketing professionals speaks about their individual career paths, job functions, experiences within the marketing industry, and offers tips and suggestions on job hunting.

The event is sponsored by the Graduate Career Management Center, and moderated by Professor Kapil Bawa, Chairman of Marketing Department.

Speakers include: Ian Au, Senior Marketing Manager at McGraw-Hill; Yaron Dekel, Lead Analytics Manager for Microsoft's Consumer Online business; Rachel Jacobs, Research Manager at Turner Broadcasting, a division of Time Warner; and Nikkia Reveillac, Associate Manager of Strategic Insights & Analytics on the Home Care business at Colgate-Palmolive.

The event takes place on September 21, 2009 at the Baruch Newman Conference Center, Room 750.

A panel of financial professionals discusses their careers and job responsibilities, offers valuable tips and advice based on their experiences, and shares their perspectives on what is happening the current financial market.

Panelists include Aaron Heisler, Product Controller at Credit Suisse; Kris Monaco, Director of New Product Development at the International Securities Exchange (ISE); Jason I. Cohen, Senior Vice President and Pharmaceuticals Analyst at GE; and Deepak Mulani, Financial Analyst, Colgate-Palmolive company.

The event takes place on September 23, 2009, at the Baruch Newman Conference Center, Room 750.

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

The event is hosted by the Graduate Career Management Center and moderated by Monica Rivera Dean, Administrative Director of the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship.

Panelists include: Ricardo Rezk, Owner, Rico M. Panada, LLC; Mike Germano, Co-Founder and President, Carrot Creative; Stanislav Mamonov, CEO/CTO, Mintfinder; and Sam Saverance, CEO, embark:LLC.

The event takes place on September 23, 2009, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-270.