With an emphasis on excellence, integrity, and accountability, the Zicklin School of Business is devising new initiatives that will ready the school for AACSB International reaccreditation and carry it through the next 10 years. Included in these initiatives are new leadership, a revised strategic plan, and a new advisory council.
For academic year 2012–13, the school is being led by Interim Dean Myung-Soo Lee. The Zicklin School’s associate dean from 2006 to 2009, former chair of the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business, and a faculty member since 1990, Lee is guiding the revision of the school’s strategic plan as well as expanding and deepening connections with external stakeholders.
One of the most significant aspects of the strategic plan is the hiring of 29 new full-time faculty members, the first of whom will begin in Fall 2013. The group will be “one of the largest infusions of new faculty in Baruch’s history, certainly Zicklin’s history,” says Donald Schepers, new associate dean for academic affairs at Zicklin. “The challenge will be to hire faculty with a view to what business education should look like in the next 10 years,” he says. A professor of management, Schepers is the former academic director of Baruch’s Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity.
The Executive Programs also have new leadership. Professor of Marketing and International Business Kapil Bawa, an expert in marketing research and marketing management, has taken the reins. With degrees from the University of Delhi, the Indian Institute of Management in Kolkata, and Columbia University, Bawa has conducted executive development programs in Singapore, Taipei, India, and New York. On the Baruch faculty since 1999, he has taught in Zicklin’s Executive MBA and MS programs.
With the establishment of the Zicklin Advisory Council, headed by the school’s namesake, Lawrence Zicklin (’57, LHD [Hon.] ’99), the Zicklin Dean’s Office will have many expert hands to help move the school forward. The 15 or so members, ranging from alumni to prominent local business leaders, will work closely with the dean on a variety of matters.
“We are reinvigorating and revitalizing the school and its faculty to prepare the businessperson of the future,” says Interim Dean Lee. “The next 10 years will be momentous for the Zicklin School.”
—Barbara Lippman