GSA Newsletter 2/20

Your weekly GSA newsletter. Welcome to Week 4!! Header image courtesy of Lem Morrison. News . . . The GSA elected three new members to the board. Jillian Lubarsky will be the SPA/Weissman Liaison, Cassy Yuen will be the new Socials Chair, and Mimi Wang will be the Academics Affairs Chair. Baruch College’s Financial Aid … Continue reading

Spring 2012 Mixer

by Danielle V Hemsley MS Statistics Candidate On February 16th, 2012 Zicklin Women in Business (ZWIB) hosted a Spring Mixer co-sponsored by the Operations Management Club (OMC) & HCM I/O club.  Students gathered in room 2-125 of the Newman Vertical Campus to enjoy conversation, laughter, relaxation, coffee, tea, cookies, and other snacks in between classes.  … Continue reading

How Did We Come to This?

This morning brought news reports that the NYPD infiltrated Muslim student groups at many area colleges.  Baruch was one of them.  Naturally, President Wallerstein and others have condemned this activity, rightfully so, in the strongest terms.  There is no reason to doubt the administration. But And that’ s a big but, how did the NYPD … Continue reading

Gaming Sustainability

by Helen Serebin, MBA Operations Management & Sustainability 2012 A day after everything was red for Valentine’s Day, on February 15th a panel talked about greening the world through ‘gamification.’ Green Gamification: Combining Social Media & Game Mechanics to Promote Sustainability presented by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity and co-sponsored by one of … Continue reading

When I’m 64: A Business Version of Tuesdays with Morrie

When I’m 64:  A Business Version of Tuesdays with Morrie By Danielle V Hemsley, MS Statistics Candidate Mavin Tolkin’s book, When I’m 64 Planning for the Best of Your Life is an easy read full of Tolkin’s real life stories. Marvin owned the Women’s Lingerie company, Jennifer Dale which was sold at major retailers such … Continue reading

GSA Newsletter 2/13

Your weekly GSA newsletter. Welcome to Week 3!!! Happy Valentine’s Day!!! Header image courtesy of Lem Morrison. News . . . The GSA elected two new members to the board. Jillian Lubarsky will be the Academic Affairs Chair and Cassy Yuen will be the new Socials Chair. Baruch College’s Financial Aid Office is now on … Continue reading

The Bucket List – Attend Baruch Graduate Social

by Victoria Danilevskaia  Dual MBA, Accounting and Taxation, 2014 Lately our society seems obsessed with bucket lists.  It has become very common to refer to one’s list in daily conversation to justify an outrageous activity that one may want to do.   Although I have not made one of my own, partially because school and work … Continue reading

What is your status this Feb 14?

By Nisha Shrestha, MS Quantitative Methods & Modeling Valentine’s Day is finally here. There is no way you missed its pompous arrival. Bright red hearts and fat, cute cupid seem omnipresent. And you definitely got that mail with a “great” valentine deal. To me it was most evident by the big bold sign at the … Continue reading

Is Jeremy Lin the Messiah the Knicks have been waiting for?

Unless you have been living under a rock or your name is Kobe Bryant, you should have heard the name Jeremy Lin. In the span of a week the young point guard has managed to excite Knicks fans and lead the team to their longest winning streak of the season. And ladies and gentlemen he … Continue reading

No Angel Funding? 7 Ways to Flex Your Bootstrapping Muscles

I was sitting a bar enjoying a pint of my favorite and bullshitting, er strategizing, with some others who had started their own operations without any funding.  While we d0 very different things, we all were frugal, can-do people. The entrepreneurial skills that made us successful were all things we had “learned in kindergarten.” So … Continue reading