Dean John Elliott

John Elliott, PhD
Dean, Zicklin School of Business





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"The main purpose of the
stock market is to make
fools of as many men as possible."

Bernard Baruch

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Zicklin Leadership on YouTube

Dear Zicklin Community,

Six months ago we issued the inaugural edition of the Zicklin School of Business Dean’s Newsletter.  At that time, I invited your reactions and suggestions.  The airwaves have been silent.  Optimist that I am, I interpret that to be a sign that the newsletter was great, incredibly well executed and very useful.  This second edition follows the pattern of the first.  We provide quick summary information on multiple issues that we hope you find interesting and give you the opportunity to “click through” to more extensive coverage of the topic.

Our faculty meetings communicate information on important topics and I refer faculty and staff members alike to the minutes of those meetings if you were unable to attend.    Included are numerous references to new faculty and staff hires and other staffing changes, to enrollments for fall 2008, and to ongoing plans for the curriculum at both the graduate and undergraduate level.

We continue to invest in the web; this serves as the key portal of information for people inquiring into programs at Baruch College.  It captures much of what is going on currently.  I encourage all members of the campus community to visit the Baruch and Zicklin homepages regularly as a way to stay current with school events.  When I recently viewed the Baruch homepage it provided access to U.S.News & World Report and Princeton Review rankings released this summer, to the announcement of Baruch’s Graduate Entrepreneurship Program ranking among the top 25 in the nation, to the latest joint Baruch/FEI (Financial Executives International) CFO survey and Baruch’s recently announced status as one of the top five in New York Area fundraising for higher education

The Zicklin homepage celebrates our MBA team’s recent victory in the national Executive Leadership Council Business Case Competition, the new MS degrees in Financial Statement Analysis and Real Estate,  a report on small business global involvement created by our Weissman Center for International Business in collaboration with the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, and a special recognition for the Weissman Center by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The semester began with great orientation activity for new students (see story in this newsletter).  We have already begun the process of open houses and other recruiting activity for the spring and fall of 2009.  Thank you one and all for the extraordinary commitment to our mission, to our students and to each other.  I look forward to another great year.

Best regards,
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John A. Elliott
Dean, Zicklin School of Business


PS Please be sure to answer the “Dean’s Poll” question at the bottom of this page. We will publish results in the next Dean’s Newsletter.


Program Spotlight
Are Leaders Born or Made
This colloquial question constitutes an appropriate springboard for students in Management 9302, Developing Managerial Skills, to appraise their leadership behavior. Through self-assessment scales, interpersonal feedback, exposure to leadership concepts, case analyses, and information about practicing leaders, students gain an understanding of how they can enhance their leadership development. Read More


Marketing Spotlight
India – Reaching Beyond New York
The Zicklin School of Business currently enrolls 153 graduate students from India. They constitute the largest group from any one country (6.7%). This represents a 51% increase since 2003 and growth is likely to continue with our added efforts to recruit in India since 2006 with The MBA Tour. Read More


Heard in the Corridor
Zicklin School of Business Graduate Orientations
What a great start to the 2008-2009 academic year! The last few weeks of August were buzzing with activity as we welcomed a record setting 475+ MBA and MS students during four distinct orientation programs. Read More


Student Spotlight
From Vine to Wine
For many of us wine appreciation means relaxing over dinner and having someone else choose the wine, dashing into a shop for that bottle of wine closest to the door, or choosing a wine with a really funky label. For Jared M. Skolnick, a student in the Flex-Time Program who received his MBA in June 2008 from Baruch College, wine is a joyful and complicated avocation that is fast becoming a serious business venture. Read More


Faculty Spotlight
The Portrait of This Musician as a Young Dog
People who know me know that my first career was in music—during the late 1970s and early eighties I made my living performing mostly in New England and New York. That was a relatively nasty time on the job market for new college students, and I was one of the few people I knew who was actually working in the field of their college degree (BA in Music). Read More

Special News Flash

The Changing Landscape for our Undergraduate Accounting Students
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Dean's Quick Poll

Past Newsletter Archive
Contact the Office of the Dean:
Newman Vertical Campus, Room 13-260
One Bernard Baruch Way, New York, NY 10010
Telephone: 646-312-3030
W: www.baruch.cuny.edu/zicklin