Zicklin Leadership Series — Peter Jovanovich
December 7th, 2011 Newman library saw Peter Jovanovich, President of Alfred Harcourt Foundation and a veteran of the publishing business, for the last installment in this semester’s Zicklin Leadership Series. Frank Fletcher introduced Mr. Jovanovich and Professor Donald Vredenburgh conducted the discussion. DV: What’s it like to be in the publishing business? Is it really … Continue reading
Guest Speakers: Philip Marra + Robert Fraher – KPMG
October 19th brought Philip Marra and Robert Fraher to the Oak Room in Newman Hall. Mr. Marra is the Partner in Charge of Northeast Real Estate Practice at KPMG and Mr. Fraher is a Partner, Finance Services, Real Estate. In short, their team at KPMG helps RE companies through their life cycle (e.g. acquisition / … Continue reading
Russell Banks Lecture Series: Richard Grasso
November 17, 2011 Newman Library Dean Elliot welcomed the audience to the 10th-annual Russel Banks lecture series. It started in ’97 with Richard Grasso as the inaugural guest. Introductory remarks by distinguished Baruch Alumnus, Marty Kaplan of KR Capital Elliot: In your view, what the role of education in leadership? Grasso: Hired lots of people … Continue reading
GREC: Real Estate Alumni Panel
November 17th, 2011 Oak Room Newman Hall Joe Berko, President of Berko Associates and head of the Baruch RE Alumni association; Roget Lerner, Owner & CEO of The Music Building; David Roth, Palladium Management; and Eddy Antar, VP of Acquisitions MAS Management What’s a recent or memorable deal? JB: We are working on an asset … Continue reading
GSA Weekly Newsletter – Nov 7
Your weekly GSA newsletter. Welcome to Week 10! Header image courtesy of Lem Morrison News . . . Do not miss the opportunity too be photographed for the 2012 Lexicon Yearbook Senior portraits for the class of 2012 will be taken Monday, Nov 7th to Friday, Nov 11th and Monday Nov 14th to … Continue reading
Guest Speaker: Kenneth Bernstein
November 2nd brought Ken Bernstein, of Acadia Realty Trust, to the Oak Room of the Newman Building. Mr. Bernstein started with a simple question. Where in Real Estate did members of the audience want to be? Development, management, capital markets were some of the responses. Mr. Bernstein offered to the audience an overlooked area — … Continue reading
GSA Weekly Newsletter Oct 31st
Your weekly GSA newsletter. Week 9! Happy Halloween! Header image courtesy of nyc10best.com News . . . Do not miss the opportunity too be photographed for the 2012 Lexicon Yearbook Senior portraits for the class of 2012 will be taken Monday, Nov 7th to Friday, Nov 11th and Monday Nov 14th to friday Nov 18th … Continue reading
ZWIB: Societas- Meet a Mentor
by Maria Shpokayte, MBA Candidate 2012 Human Resources / Organizational Behavior and Information Systems On Thursday, October 13th, 2011 Zicklin Women in Business (ZWIB) held a mentorship event for Zicklin’s graduate students. The “Societas –Meet a Mentor” event was created to help our graduate students find a mentor. The objective of the event was to … Continue reading
The Graduate Baruchian 