Centers and Institutes

David Krell, President and CEO of the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Baruch MBA, and a member of the Weissman Center Advisory Council, speaks in the Zicklin Graduate Leadership Series on March 31, 2004.

Kickoff event celebrating the first ever Baruch College & Merrill Lynch IPO Challenge, a competition pitting teams of selected students from eight New York City High Schools against each other for up to $100,000 in prizes and start-up money to fund new businesses.

The event is hosted by Baruch President Kathleen Waldron. Speakers include: Jason Wright, Senior V.P. for Communications and Public Affairs at Merrill Lynch; CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein; CUNY Chancellor Joel I. Klein; Eddy Bayardelle, First V.P. of Global Philanthropy and Community Relations at Merrill Lynch; Laima Tazmin, recipient of the first annual Baruch College & Merrill Lynch IPO Challenge Award for Leadership & Innovation; Iris Blanc, founding director for Virtual Enterprises International; and Kevin Albert, head of Global Private Equities at Merrill Lynch.

In attendance are mentors from Merrill Lynch who are assigned to the each of the high school student teams as well as the principals and teams from of each of these schools.

The high schools participating are: Flushing High School, Fordham Leadership Academy for Business and Technology, Fort Hamilton High School, Harry Van Arsdale High School, Herbert H. Lehman High School, High School for International Business and Finance, Port Richmond High School and Walton High School.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker

is interviewed by Fortune magazine reporter Bethany McLean on the topic of post-Enron reform of the accounting profession. The event is sponsored by the Baruch College Center for Financial Integrity, and is introduced by Douglas Carmichael, founding director of the Center for Corporate Integrity.

A panel of speakers discuss trading and investment at the opening of the Subotnick Center Trading Floor.

Ellen Haas, Human Resource Professional, talks about the recruiting and staff retention strategies and methods such as using Social Media, the Internet and other methods as tools for recruitment and using creative methods of staff retention as a means to reducing recruitment costs and increasing the bottom line.

The event takes place on March 27, 2012 at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, 14th floor as part of the Consulting Day for New York City's Nonprofit Community.

"This workshop discusses about the entrepreneurial pursuit of a social enterprise/earned income business activity – within the nonprofit’s mission – as a means to generate unrestricted cash flow from human, physical, technological and social/brand assets.

Speakers include:

Joseph Townsend, Senior Vice President, Social Enterprise, National Executive Services Corps (NESC)

Sergio Sedita, Regional Director, Long Island/ Coordinator of Consultants, National Executive Service Corps (NESC)

Ann Marie Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, Spectrum Works, Inc.

The event takes place on March 27, 2012 at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, 14th floor as part of the Consulting Day for New York City's Nonprofit Community."

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, and Professor of Media Studies (on leave), Pomona College, talks about digital scholarly communication and its implications for scholars and universities. The talk is part of the Seminar on Innovative Teaching presented by the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College.

Mikhail Gershovich, Director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, introduces the speaker.

The event takes place on March 29, 2012 at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-270.

The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity at the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business presents "The Story of an Exposed Inside Trader" as part of Baruch College's Ethics Week 2012.

On December 8, 2011 Garrett Bauer pleaded guilty to insider trading, obstruction of justice and money laundering. His crimes spanned 17 years and brought in $37 million. Mr. Bauer now awaits sentencing for his actions. He will explain what constitutes insider trading, how he became involved and the scheme itself.

Mr. Bauer will be joined by Walter Pavlo Jr. Mr. Pavlo oversaw a $2 billion operation at MCI Communications before being caught embezzling $6 million. Mr. Pavlo is author of Stolen Without A Gun: Confessions From Inside History's Biggest Accounting Fraud - the Collapse of MCI/WorldCom and blogger for Forbes on white collar crime. He will provide the audience context for the recent spate of insider trading cases.

Michael F. Bachner, Bachner & Associates, P.C., joins the conversation.

Larry Zicklin, Clinical Professor of Business Ethics, Stern School of Business, briefly introduces the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. Donald Schepers, Director of the Center, makes the opening remarks.

The event takes place on March 27, 2012, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, Room 750.

This is the video of interviews with the advocates highlighted in the case "Education Finance Equity in New York City ", one of the three multimedia cases in New York City Nonprofit Advocacy Case Studies Series.

This case study examines the advocacy work in support of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity v State of New York (1993) that brought together a coalition of education advocacy groups, parent organizations, and community school boards to push for more equitable funding of New York City schools.

Contributors featured in this video include: Michael Rebell, Co-founder of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE); Geri Palast, Executive Director of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE); and Billy Easton, Executive Director of Alliance for Quality Education (AQE).

Funding for the development of the case studies was provided by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.

This is the video of interviews with the advocates highlighted in the case "Education Finance Equity in New York City ", one of the three multimedia cases in New York City Nonprofit Advocacy Case Studies Series.

This case examines the continuing work of community-based organizations and public interest lawyers to promote equitable and environmentally sound solutions to waste handling in New York City.

Contributors featured in this video include: Eddie Bautista, Executive Director of NYC Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA); Gavin Kearney of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI); Alison Cordero of Organizations United for Trash Reduction and Garbage Equity (OUTRAGE); Jim Tripp of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF); and Eric Goldstein of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Funding for the development of the case studies was provided by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.