Zicklin to Hold Info Session for Healthcare MBA
Zicklin School of Business is offering an Information Session specifically for those interested in the Baruch College MBA in Healthcare Administration Program. The information session will be held October 21, 2014 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Baruch College Vertical Campus.
The Baruch College MBA in Healthcare Administration Program is dedicated to the graduate business education of practicing professionals in the healthcare industry. The Program is the only one of its kind in the metro New York City region, is accredited by both CAHME and AACSB. It seeks to advance student knowledge in essential business disciplines and to instruct students in the application of this knowledge to managerial issues in healthcare.
Baruch Hosts Watson Case Competition
The Lawrence N. Field center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College and the CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise are hosting the CUNY-IBM Watson Case Competition. All matriculated CUNY students are invited to participate in the event.
The CUNY-IBM Watson Case Competition is an opportunity to learn and develop apps for applying the IBM Watson cognitive technology to improve the operation of organizations and the delivery of services to customers. This competition is an opportunity for CUNY students to be part of the new generation involved in the jobs and businesses that will be created.
Baruch Announces Finalists for THRIVE
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College, in cooperation with the Western Union Foundation and the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, have announced the finalists of the third annual Competition To Help Reach Immigrant Ventures and Entrepreneurs (THRIVE).
Zicklin GEM U.S. Report Issued
The happiness levels of American women entrepreneurs are surging as they assume the role of successful business owner, according to the 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) U.S. Report issued by Babson College and Baruch College. Established female business owners ranked their well-being more than twice as high as non-entrepreneurs and non-business owners.
The GEM U.S. Report is authored by Babson professors Donna J. Kelley, PhD, Abdul Ali, PhD, Candida Brush, PH.D, Andrew C. Corbett, PhD, and Mahdi Majbouri, PhD, with Thomas Lyons, PhD, and Edward G. Rogoff PhD, contributing from Baruch College.
Baruch Professor Inducted to Accounting Hall of Fame
Abraham Briloff, Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Professor of Accountancy Emeritus at Baruch College, was recently elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame at Ohio State University. Briloff, who passed away December 2013 at the age of 96, was elected by the Board of Nominations for his dedication and hard work in the field of accountancy.
The Accounting Hall of Fame was established by the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University in 1950, for the purpose of honoring accountants who have made or are making significant contributions to the advancement of accounting since the beginning of the 20th century.
Zicklin School of Business to Appoint New Dean
After a national search, Baruch College has announced its recommendation to the CUNY Board that Dr. H. Fenwick Huss be appointed as the Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business. In conjunction with that appointment, Dr. Huss will also assume a faculty position in Baruch’s Stan Ross Department of Accountancy.
According to Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs David P. Christy, “Dr. Huss’s lifelong commitment to the field of accountancy and to urban, public education of the highest quality, make him the ideal candidate to lead the Zicklin School of Business”.
Dr. Huss has served as Dean of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University since 2004, where he previously had served as Associate Dean and before that as Director of the School of Accountancy.
H. Fenwick Huss earned his doctorate in accountancy at the University of Tennessee, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Huss also earned a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Connecticut.
At Georgia State, Dr. Huss enriched and expanded academic programs, launching the Global Partners MBA program, a full-time program in which students study on four continents (North America, South America, Europe and Asia). The program was recognized by the Aspen Institute as among the top 100 business schools worldwide for leadership in integrating social, environmental and ethical issues into the MBA curriculum. He also created the Executive Doctorate in Business program for senior level executives to advance the development and practice of effective organizational leadership and the Executive Master of Science programs in the Management of Information Technology, Marketing and Finance.
In addition to his leadership at Georgia State, Dr. Huss has long shown his leadership in global education. He has assisted universities in Russia, the Ukraine and Sub-Saharan Africa in restructuring their business programs. In addition, he served as director to the Robinson College’s USAID-funded development programs in South Africa, Ghana and Egypt. He has lectured extensively on the topic of business information needs in the People’s Republic of China.
