New York City’s Work/Life Balance Problems, and More – New York City News
Let’s explore some of the most interesting stories that have emerged from New York City business schools this week.
Would You Like Your Boss to be Fined for Making You Reply to Emails? – NBC News
Lehigh University College of Business and Economics management professor Liuba Belkin’s work was recently cited by NBC News regarding a potential new NYC law that would effectively ban workers from being forced to reply to after-hours emails and other messages. The reason behind the proposed law is that the increasingly common practice in the U.S. is decreasing work-life quality, which was a provincial point of Belin and co-author William J. Becker’s study “Exhausted, but Unable to Disconnect: After-Hours Email, Work-Family Balance and Identification.”
The potential new law would not effectively ban those from sending messages after hours, but being forced to work off-the-clock would be subject to a fine of around $500 for each offense. France, NBC News writes, passed a similar law in 2017 “requiring businesses with 50 or more employees to negotiate after-hours email rules with workers, potentially allowing them to ignore post-work correspondence.”
Human resources manager Steve Wang thinks the lofty comparison to France’s work culture is not as easy in the U.S. The country has stricter labor laws, instituting 35 hour max work weeks, and a law preventing people from working 4.5 hours straight without any breaks, for instance.
Click here to read more about the law and Belin’s study.
What are the Best Healthcare MBAs You Can Find in New York City? – MetroMBA
Four of the best health care MBA programs reside in New York; three of which fall right inside the five boroughs. Columbia Business School, the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, the Stern School of Business at NYU, and the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell in Ithaca each offer exemplary healthcare management learning options for any hopeful MBAs, some of which are coupled with dual degrees.
Zicklin’s Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration is one of the few programs in the New York metro that has both AACSB and CAHME accreditation.
Find out more about the best healthcare MBAs you can find in New York here.
Daniel A. D’Aniello speaks on the value of mentorship in driving success – Johnson SOM Blog
Cornell University’s SC Johnson Graduate School of Management recently hosted Carlyle Group co-founder and former Marriot VP of Finance and Development Daniel A. D’Aniello at this year’s Lewis H. Durland Memorial Lecture.
D’Aniello used the talk as an opportunity offer invaluable entrepreneurship, stewardship, and mentorship advice to Johnson students from his distinguished career as co-founder of one of the world’s largest investment firms. He also “emphasized the importance of humility in recognizing one’s errors and understanding how to spend one’s time.” He elaborates:
“Allocate your valuable time to things that are going to scale, grow, and become profitable. Time is your highest opportunity cost.”
You can read more highlights from D’Aniello’s talk here.
What are the Best Healthcare MBAs You Can Find in New York City?
New York City is not only home to a number of the finest business schools in the world—it’s also where you can find some of the best healthcare programs this country has to offer. Continue reading…
What are the Fastest MBA Programs in Boston?
Some students want to complete their MBA coursework as quickly and efficiently as possible—time is money after all! Continue reading…
How a Rutgers Alum Single-Handedly Saved the U.S. Treasury Market After 9/11 – New York News
Let’s explore some of the most interesting stories that have emerged from New York City business schools this week.
9-11 and The Almost Meltdown of the U.S. Treasury Market – Rutgers Business School Blog
Rutgers Business School recently published the incredibly unique and singular story of how Art Certosimo, RBS alum and Senior Executive VP of Bank of New York-Mellon heading the Global Markets Group, almost single-handedly saved the US Treasury market in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
After Art extricated his team to a temporary base in New Jersey on the 12th, Art quickly understood that he needed to procure a “massive fiber-optic cable to the data center in New York City” or risk a meltdown of the entire U.S. Treasury Market and “the possible demise of the credibility of U.S. sovereign debt.”
“Art and Tom Renyi, CEO of BNY (another Rutgers graduate, and dear friend of RBS and REMBA) had a conference with Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and a host of 4- and 5-star generals, and explained to them that this was ‘priority #1’ for that day, 9-12.”
You can read the full account of the event here.
Michael Cline, Founder of Fandango, Shares the Keys to Entrepreneurship – Gabelli Connect
Fandango, Exult, Xchanging, Accretive Health, and Accolade founder Michael Cline recently took part in the Gabelli School of Business Speaker Series at the school’s Lincoln Center campus to share his insights on the “major milestones that occur over the course of starting a new venture.”
Cline explained that the entrepreneurial journey “looks more like an inverted bell curve, swooping down for quite some time before slowly creeping back up until the idea becomes something the creator is proud of creating.”
Gabelli undergrads reportedly got a lot of Cline’s lecture. Undergrad Zach Zimmerman, BS ’19 writes, “It was great to see Mr. Cline’s perspective as a serial entrepreneur and understand the emotional roller coaster behind creating anything great. When you get in a ‘swamp of despair,’ which happens with any great project, it is important to stay focused, driven, and persistent.”
Get the full scoop on Cline’s talk here.
Sharing Ideas, Inspiring Change – Lehigh College of Business and Economics Blog
The Lehigh University College of Business and Economics recently hosted its two-day 2018 Symposium on Teaching and Learning in which staff and students presented new interdisciplinary research techniques and classroom strategies.
Just a few examples include “journalism students using drones to tell stories; biology students exploring the body in virtual reality; urban studies students using outdoor spaces as labs for testing ideas to improve city life; and students in organic chemistry making tutorial videos for their peers.”
Sarah Stanlick, Lehigh professor of practice in sociology and anthropology and director of the CCE, hoped that the symposium opened people’s eyes to “some really interesting, innovative pedagogues, the fact that research can be really impactful outside of the university, that there are partnerships and ethics and humility that need to be brought into these lifelong learning collaborations and that there is power in higher ed to be world-changing.”
Lehigh professor Sarah Stanlick speaks at the recent 2018 Symposium on Teaching and Learning / Photo via lehigh.edu
You can read more about the symposium here.
Cornell Alum Supports Cornell Tech NYC Intensives with Substantial Gift
More students at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management have been able to spend a semester of their time in business school studying at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City thanks to a generous gift by Cornell alumnus Richard G. Schneider (B.S. ’70).
The gift went toward subsidized housing costs for around 25 Ithaca-based students who took part in Cornell Tech’s New York City fintech and digital marketing intensives. The intensives took place during the first seven weeks of the spring 2018 semester and offered MBA students the chance to collaborate and learn from each other in the heart of the Big Apple.
Schneider has spent 35 years in consulting, 25 of those at Deloitte Consulting LLP. At Deloitte his primary focus was on the consumer products and healthcare/life science industries, but he also led the firm’s consulting strategy practice for seven years and was responsible for all MBA campus recruiting for five years. Although his MBA is from Harvard Business School, he served on Johnson’s Advisory Council from 2006 to 2014 and remains an emeritus member.
He saw his gift as an opportunity to give back to Cornell. “I had been involved with Cornell in various ways,” he said in a news release, “but this gave me a chance to play in an area that I knew a lot about—the business school world. It just gave me a chance to give back to the school and really feel like I was contributing.”
Schneider’s decision to invest in the New York City intensives was due in part to Johnson Dean Mark Nelson’s assessment of where Johnson needed help. Nelson explained how crucial it was to make it easier for Ithaca students 
to participate in and benefit from Cornell Tech in New York City. One of the most significant barriers was affordability.
Schneider’s contribution helped to make it easier for Ithaca MBA students to relocate to New York City for half a semester. It was good news for a program that has captured the imaginations of Cornell students since its inception.
According to Cristina Chang (MBA ’18), who completed the fintech intensive this spring, it was one of the most rewarding scholastic experiences she’s had so far.
“There are lots of events co-hosted by Cornell Tech and other organizations, such as the Women in Venture Capital symposium co-hosted with Bloomberg,” she explained. “I never imagined I would have these kinds of opportunities to meet these outstanding leaders in person.”
Julia Heim (MBA ’18) had a similar experience in the digital marketing intensive. “Being so close to the industry in NYC has allowed our professors to get great companies and speakers to campus,” she said. “Having access to the latest trends and industry knowledge is something that is so invaluable, and I am grateful for having had the opportunity to be part of this intensive.”
Overall, Schneider is excited about the opportunities that Cornell Tech presents for students and believes that it “could be the biggest thing for the university … for decades.”
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How Quickly Can You Earn an MBA in New York City?
The time of the two-year MBA is coming to an end. Now, many top schools offer accelerated MBA programs that can be completed in as little as 12 months—with one school offering a nine-month MBA program designed just for business school graduates. So where you can find the fastest MBA degrees in NYC?
For most of these one-year NYC business school programs, the MBA curriculum and experience is similar to that of the traditional two-year MBA but condensed into a more intense 12-month format. These are the ideal programs for business professionals who do not have the time to take off two years of work but want the full MBA experience. Continue reading…
