Centers and Institutes

The Islamic financial industry plays an ever increasing role in the global economy. Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity and the Baruch College Muslim Student Association as we explore how American businesses successfully navigate the world of Islamic finance and operate in predominately Muslim nations. Our guest Omar Wohabe, President, Arab Bankers Association of North America will partake in an evening Q&A with RZCCI Director David Rosenberg. Mr. Wohabe will discuss his experiences advising governmental, institutional and private clients from the Arab Gulf in connection with their investments in private equity, venture capital and real estate, both on a conventional and Islamic basis, and their commercial transactions in the United States.

The Islamic financial industry plays an ever increasing role in the global economy. Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity and the Baruch College Muslim Student Association as we explore how American businesses successfully navigate the world of Islamic finance and operate in predominately Muslim nations. Our guest Omar Wohabe, President, Arab Bankers Association of North America will partake in an evening Q&A with RZCCI Director David Rosenberg. Mr. Wohabe will discuss his experiences advising governmental, institutional and private clients from the Arab Gulf in connection with their investments in private equity, venture capital and real estate, both on a conventional and Islamic basis, and their commercial transactions in the United States.

This is the 5th Annual Symposium on Sustainable Business on Profits and Politics: Sustainability and the Global Corporation. The symposium starts with remarks provided by Michael B. Goodman, Professor and Director of Corporate Communication International. The first panel includes Gary Sheffer, Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs in General Electrics and Amy Davidsen, Executive Director of The Climate Group for debate over human contributions to global warming and investigates the influence of large and powerful corporations on the energy and economic policy making of sovereign nations.

This is the 5th Annual Symposium on Sustainable Business on Profits and Politics: Sustainability and the Global Corporation. The second panel starts with remarks provided by David Matthew, Professor at Baruch College Zicklin School of Business. This panel includes Jorge Perez-Lopez, Executive Director of Fair Labor Association and Nathan Fleisig, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager in Outerstuff, Ltd. The panelists discuss the current practices of major global corporations of their labor and trade standards to meet the emerging global social standards for corporate responsibilities.

This is the 5th Annual Symposium on Sustainable Business on Profits and Politics: Sustainability and the Global Corporationthe third panel includes Peter Duda, Executive Vice President of Weber Shandwick, Jeanette M. Franzel, Board Member of PCAOB, and Olajobi Makinwa, Head of Transparency and Anti-Corruption Initiatives of UN Global Compact Office. The panelists discuss the challenges between transparency and stakeholder engagement for corporate governance in business of global corporations.

Introduced by Dean David Birdsell of Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs, the theme of the conference focuses on the issues of media coverage for nonprofit organizations and connections between both. Moderated by Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent and reporter of the New York Times, the program includes the speakers of Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO/Executive Director of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Courtney Gross, Political Reporter of NY1, Jennifer March-Joy, Executive Director of Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, and Carla Zanoni, Social Media Editor of DNAinfo.com New York. The program was sponsored by Baruch College’s Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management of the School of Public Affairs, as part of the series in its Nonprofit Seminar throughout the fall 2012 semester.

Baruch College has been asked to create a plan for the potential redevelopment of a 400,000, plus air rights, square foot building on the corner of 1st Avenue and 29th Street. The purpose of this MBA course will be to develop a series of site and financial analyses of the feasibility for building-out and transforming the site. The course involves a series of talks and discussions by invited speakers coming to the class focusing on the redevelopment of the Bellevue Building. This video focuses on the discussion from developer’s point of view, as well as site selection and financing. Robert Ezrapour, Artimus Construction Inc. and Board member of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, is the speaker in the class.

Sponsored by Corporate Communication International and Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, this conference offers discussion on the impact of Citizens United in political advertisements. Introduced with remarks by CCI Director Michael B. Goodman, the speakers include experts in global advertising of Keith Reinhard and Allen Rosenshine.

The Field Center for Entrepreneurship of Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business offers free workshops geared towards starts-ups and established businesses. The speaker of this lecture, Alon Hillel-Tuch, Founder and CFO of RocketHub, relates his company’s experience about the present and future of crowdfunding.

We all know that nonprofits need excellent Boards, but finding out how and what can they do to maintain excellent governance practices is an issue that yet to be explored. The winner and finalists of the 2012 Brooke W. Mahoney Award for Outstanding Board Leadership will sit down with Dean David Birdsell of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs for a conversation about what makes their Boards and their organizations successful.