Centers and Institutes

The Baruch College Investment Club in conjuction with Golden Key Honors Society presents a panel discussion devoted to preparation for Wall Street job interviews. The panel is made up of Baruch College students with full-time offers in investment banking, asset management, sales, trading, and equity research.

The event is introduced by Baruch College Wall Street intern Mohammed Wann, and Heather Krasna, Undergraduate Internship Coordinator of the Career Development Center.

Panelists include: Edrizio de la Cruz; Cathy Saint Louis; Oleg Langbort; Karen Lee; Fritz Charles; Julian Nemirovsky; Enrika Jorgoni and Irina Golub.

Jan Friedrich, Senior Economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit and Ambassador Tom Niles, President of the U.S. Council for International Business provide an overview of the global economic outlook for 2005 and the implications of doing business in Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa in the year ahead.

Prospects for exchange and interest rates, expectations about oil prices and other commodities as well as significant policy issues are discussed.

The event is introduced by Terrence Martell, Director of the Weissman Center for International Business.

The Europe Society and the Weissman Center for International Business present Jean Francois Rischard, former European Vice President for the World Bank, former Senior Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert International Capital Markets, and author of High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them. Mr Rischard speaks about the need for new approaches to global problem-solving in an increasingly complex and inter-linked world, taking extracts from his book.

The event is introduced by Sheila Arora, President and Founder of the Europe Society and Terrence Martell, Director of the Weissman Center for International Business.

This lecture is a result of a partnership made between Baruch College's Weissman Center for International Business and the Europe Society.

Dub Hay, Senior Vice President of Coffee Procurement at Starbucks discusses the international coffee market and Starbucks. Topics covered include Starbucks' strategic positioning and its approach to product development as well as its efforts to promote growing coffee in an environmentally sustainable manner.

The event is introduced by Weissman Center for International Business Director, Terrence F. Martell.

The event takes place on November 11, 2005 in the Newman Conference Center, room 750.

A panel of real estate professionals examine whether or not there exixts a real estate bubble, taking into account perceptions refleced in the media as well as economic and demographic trends.

The event is introduced by Mark F. Pomykacz.

Speakers include Peter F. Korpacz, Director, Global Strategic Real Estate Research Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; Robert A. Knakal, Founding Partner, Massey Knakal Realty Services; and Frank E. Nothaft, Chief Economist, Freddie Mac.

The event is presented jointly by the Metropolitan New York Chapter of the Appraisal Institute and the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute at Baruch College.

The event took place on September 30, 2005 in Vertical Campus, room 14-220.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations speaks with David Wighton, the New York bureau chief of the Financial Times about the priorities of the UK Presidency of the European Union and issues surrounding the EU budget, particularly the current issue of the UK's annual rebate.

Other subjects discussed include the possibility of Turkey's accession to the EU, issues surrounding globalization, foreign policy and the existence of an EU military.

The event is introduced by Sheila Arora, President and Founder of the Europe Society and Terrence Martell, Director of the Weissman Center for International Business.

This lecture is a result of a partnership made between Baruch College's Weissman Center for International Business and the Europe Society.

The event took place on November 2, 2005 in the Vertical Campus building, room 14-220.

"A panel of prominent plaintiff’s class action attorneys discuss the legal parameters for liability in corporate misconduct cases in this seminar hosted by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity.

The event is introduced by Steven B. Lilien, director of the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. Welcoming remarks are made by Kathleen Waldron, President of Baruch College.

The discussion is moderated by Gregory Joseph, one of the country's premier commercial litigators. Panelists include Max W. Berger, Partner, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman; Ralph Ferrara, Partner, Le Boeuf Lamb Greene & McRae LLP; Stanley Grossman, Partner, Pomeranz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross LLP; Edward Labaton, Partner, Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP; David Rosenberg, Assistant Professor of Law, Baruch College; and Melvyn I Weiss, Senior & Founding Partner, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP."

Haim Levy, the Miles Robinson Professor of Finance at Hebrew University of Jerusalem is the inaugural speaker for the Weissman Center for International Business Distinguished Lecture Series. Mr Levy speaks about models used for the evaluation and measurment of risk.

Terrence Martell, Director of the Weissman Center for International Business and Kathleen Waldron, President of Baruch College, introduces the event.

The event took place on September 7, 2005.

The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute hosts a public discussion regarding the Metropolitan Transit Authority's proposed plans to construct a Long Island Railroad facility on the East Side of Manhattan. Attorneys representing East Side neighborhood interests make a case against the proposal.

The event is introduced by Barry Hersh, Associate Director of the Newman Real Estate Institute and Robert Paaswell, Distinguished Professor at City College. Speakers include: Roger M. Roisman, Partner in the Real Estate Department at Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt; C. Virginia Fields, Manhattan Borough President; Michael D. Zarin of the law firm Zarin and Steinmetz; and Douglas Floyd, Toronto transportation administrator.

The event took place on March 17th, 2005.

Professor Richard Cooper (Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University) and John Williamson (Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Economics) explore issues related to exchange rate volatility, including the impact on U.S. deficits.