Centers and Institutes

spanThe lecture is presented by Andrea

Bonime-Blanc, CEO and Founder of GEC Risk Advisory and author

of amazon-best seller, a href=http://www.amazon.com/The-Reputation-Risk-Handbook-Hyper-Transparency-ebook/dp/B00O24WOIG rel=nofollow target=_blankThe Reputation Risk Handbook: Surviving and Thriving in the Age

of Hyper-Transparency/a.nbsp; Dr. Bonime-Blanc defines reputation

risk, providing cases and examples, and explain why organizational resilience

and integrity can help companies to not only successfully mitigate risk but

even transform their risk into opportunity, value and competitive advantage./span

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spanThe 15th

Annual Symposium on Communication in 2015 kicks off at Baruch College campus.

The first speaker is Ellen Lupton, Sr. Curator of Contemporary Design at the

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Director of the Graphic Design

Program at Maryland Institute College of Art. Ms. Lupton focuses on the

methodology of “design thinking”, its application to an educational context, and how

does it come up with problems and innovative solutions/span

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The

15th Annual Symposium on Communication in 2015 kicks off at Baruch

College campus. The second speaker is Manuel Lima, Founder of

visualcomplexity.com and author of Book of Trees: Visualizing

Branches of Knowledge. The topic of Mr. Lima’s lecture focuses on

the information visualization and the phenomenon of transformation from data to

information, knowledge, and wisdom. brbrbrbr

This video features a discussion by Robert Herz, former Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) (2002-2010) and Sir David Tweedie, first chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) (January 2001-June 2011), who discuss challenges and highlights in the efforts to converge U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) during their years at the IASB and the FASB. The IASB and the FASB cooperated on important joint projects in a special arrangement ushered in with the 2002 Norwalk Agreement that lasted until shortly after Tweedie’s retirement. Both passionate advocates for globalization, they witnessed the adoption of IFRS by most of the industrialized world and the lifting of the reconciliation requirement to U.S. GAAP for foreign issuers listed on U.S. exchanges.

Whitney Tilson discusses current issues of corporate integrity, shares lessons learned from short selling, and takes audience questions.

New York City is a world leader in finance, policy and the arts. A new report published by the Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management indicates it is also a global leader in civil society through its thriving and diverse collection of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs). br /

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This panel will discuss: br /

• What does the INGO Sector in NYC look like in size, focus, and mission? br /

• What added advantage does headquartering an INGO in NYC offer an organization? br /

• What needs of the INGO sector have yet to be met in NYC? br /

• What are the main challenges facing INGOs, large and small, operating from NYC? br /

Is it fair for social media to play a role in determining which patients get access to experimental treatments?br /

Can rescuing individual patients in need be reconciled with an evidence-based regulatory approval process for new therapies?br /

And, if there is a duty to “rescue” terminally ill patients by paying for access to experimental therapies who has that obligation?br /

Dr. Caplin addresses these questions in this lecture.br /

This program is part of Baruch Colleges Ethics Week 2015.

The seminar discusses the National Immigrant Communities Projects (NICP) of the Urban Institute as well as current immigration issues in New York City. Experts talk about online platforms that identify and map immigrant organizations in the United States, resources for researches and practitioners, and interactive tools that allow stakeholders to share information.

The seminar will discuss:br /

• The nature of social impact investment: how it works,

its potential, and its challengesbr /

• What impact investors look for in prospective nonprofit

social impact investeesbr /

• Approaches to measuring social impactbr /

• Successful projects conducted by nonprofits and supported

by impact investment br /

• Expected future activity in the social impact investment field

The seminar will discuss:br /

• The nature of social impact investment: how it works,

its potential, and its challengesbr /

• What impact investors look for in prospective nonprofit

social impact investeesbr /

• Approaches to measuring social impactbr /

• Successful projects conducted by nonprofits and supported

by impact investment br /

• Expected future activity in the social impact investment field