There was considerable news coverage and much excitement in the business education community last spring when President Ned Regan announced that Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, in addition to naming John Elliott as its new dean, would be hiring 21 new business faculty as of the Fall 2002 semester. That extraordinary number of new full-time faculty, hired in just one year, is only the first round of an extensive two-year faculty hiring plan.
At the same time, the College’s Weissman School of Arts and Sciences and School of Public Affairs (SPA) are in the midst of ambitious hiring programs as well. This year, Weissman added eight new faculty members to its roster, and SPA added six.
As with the Zicklin hires, the Weissman and SPA additions are a combination of new positions, replacements of annual appointments, and the filling of vacancies left by retirement or departure. Zicklin is to add 20 more faculty by Fall 2003 and Weissman will add 13. Zicklin’s hires are a strategic component in its re-accreditation process and its long-term aim to move up radically in the major rankings of U.S. business schools (see Dean Elliott’s commentary in The Last Word).
With curricular changes that extend undergraduate business majors’ liberal arts requirements by nine additional credits into their junior and senior years, Weissman will need the new faculty and then some: “The expanded curriculum demands that we provide our students with a broader engagement with the arts and sciences and help them especially with writing and communication skills,” says Weissman Dean Myrna Chase. “That is what these excellent new faculty members will help to accomplish.”
Dean Chase points to the professional experience and interdisciplinary approaches that the new faculty bring, two examples being Sarah Bartlett, the well-known business journalist who was appointed to the Bloomberg Chair, and the joint interdisciplinary hiring of Maria Andrade, who “resides” in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature but whose appointment was co-sponsored by the Department of Black and Hispanic Studies.
“Our new staff and all the new faculty across the College represent a major success in diversifying the Baruch faculty in terms both of experience and background,” says Stan Altman, dean of the School of Public Affairs.

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Joining the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences faculty in 2002–2003 (left to right, from front): Maria M. Andrade, Elena Kosygina, Hector Cordero-Guzman, Sarah C. Bartlett, Irene Hueter, Richard Wilkins, Chandrika P. Kulatilleke, Katherine Pence.

Maria M. Andrade
Assistant Professor,
Modern Languages and Comparative Literature (joint appointment with Black and Hispanic Studies)
PhD, SUNY Stony Brook
Research: Latin American culture and literature.

Sarah C. Bartlett
Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism
MPhil, Institute of Development Studies, England
Former assistant managing editor of BusinessWeek; former editor-in-chief of Oxygen Media; author of The Money Machine: How KKR Manufactured Power and Profits (Warner Books, 1991).

Hector Cordero-Guzman
Chair,
Black and Hispanic Studies
PhD, University of Chicago
Research: Immigration, labor markets, race/ethnicity, “transnationalism.”

Irene Hueter
Associate Professor,
Mathematics
PhD, University of Berne, Switzerland
Research: Probability theory, stochastic geometry, fractals, dynamical systems.

Elena Kosygina
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics
PhD, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Research: Probability theory.

Chandrika P. Kulatilleke
Assistant Professor,
Natural Sciences
PhD, Wayne State University
Research: Bioinorganic chemistry: reaction mechanisms, metal complex formation; environmental chemistry: pesticides.

Katherine Pence
Assistant Professor,
History
PhD, University of Michigan
Research: Postwar Germany, with special interest in government manipulation of consumers.

Richard Wilkins
Assistant Professor,
Communication Studies
PhD, University of Massachusetts
Research: Intercultural and international communication, interpersonal communication, qualitative/quantitative research methods.

Joining the School of Public Affairs faculty in 2002–2003 (left to right, from front): Ryan Alan Smith, Elaine Ruiz-Lopez, Harold Wenglinsky, Nancy Foner, Stephen Immerwahr. Not shown: Marcellus W. Andrews.

Marcellus W. Andrews
Professor
PhD, Yale University
Research: Economics and social justice.

Nancy Foner
Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Visiting Professor of Equality and Justice in America
PhD, University of Chicago
Research: Immigration and ethnic history.

Stephen Immerwahr
Lecturer
MA, Columbia University
Research: Survey design and analysis.

Elaine Ruiz-Lopez
Assistant Professor
EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University
Research: Urban and bilingual education.

Ryan Alan Smith
Associate Professor
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Research: Race, labor relations, workplace stratification, human resource policy.

Harold Wenglinsky
Associate Professor
PhD, New York University
Research: Urban education, education policy, standardized testing.

Joining the Zicklin School of Business faculty in 2002–2003 (left to right, from front): Charlotte Strunk Hansen, John Elliott, Naomi Gardberg, Hammou El Barmi, Sankar Sen, Jay Dahya, Burton G. Rothberg, Lin Peng, Lilach Nachum, Ying Li, Matthew Johnson, Hayden Noel, Rui Yao, Isak Taksa, Randy I. Anderson, Nanda Kumar, Karl Reiner Lang, Hyeong Min Kim, Mehmet Ozbilgin, Donal Byard, Ping Zhou.
Not shown: Carl Ullman.

Randy I. Anderson
Associate Professor,
Economics and Finance
PhD, University of Alabama
Research: Real Estate Investment Trust performance; real estate brokerage firm efficiency; portfolio construction and management.

Donal Byard
Assistant Professor,
Accountancy
PhD, University of Maryland at College Park
Research: The role of financial analysts as information intermediaries in financial markets.

Jay Dahya
Assistant Professor,
Economics and Finance
PhD, Dundee University
Research: Corporate finance and governance.

Hammou El Barmi
Associate Professor,
Statistics and Computer Information Systems
PhD, University of Iowa;
DEA, University Mohamed V, Morocco
Research: Order-restricted inference; categorical data; selection bias; stochastic processes.

John Elliott
Dean and Vice President and Irwin and Arlene Ettinger Chair in Accountancy
PhD, Cornell University
Research: The role of financial information in decision making.

Naomi Gardberg
Assistant Professor,
Management
PhD, New York University
Research: The impact of national institutional environments on stakeholder perceptions of firm performance.

Charlotte Strunk Hansen
Assistant Professor,
Economics and Finance
PhD, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Research: Options, volatility, term structure, empirical corporate finance, financial econometrics.

Matthew Johnson
Assistant Professor,
Statistics and Computer Information Systems
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Research: Bayesian statistics; psychological measurement, including educational testing and the measurement of attitudes; categorical data.

Hyeong Min Kim
Assistant Professor,
Marketing
PhD, University of Michigan
Research: Behavioral pricing, brand and corporate image, context effects.

Nanda Kumar
Assistant Professor,
Statistics and Computer Information Systems
PhD, University of British Columbia
Research: Behavioral aspects of B2C e-commerce, computer-mediated communication, information visualization and retrieval, information security and knowledge management.

Karl Reiner Lang
Associate Professor,
Statistics and Computer Information Systems
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Research: Information economics and strategy, digital media, virtual communities, technology-supported learning systems.

Ying Li
Assistant Professor,
Accountancy
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research: Executive compensation, executive incentives, corporate stock option and stock ownership plans.

Lilach Nachum
Associate Professor,
Marketing
PhD, Copenhagen Business School
Research: Foreign direct investment and international competitiveness in knowledge- and information-intensive industries.

Hayden Noel
Assistant Professor,
Marketing
PhD, University of Florida
Research: Consumer information processing and consumer recall.

Mehmet Ozbilgin
Assistant Professor,
Accountancy
PhD, Purdue University
Research: The interaction of corporate strategy with financial and non-financial disclosure, knowledge sharing.

Lin Peng
Assistant Professor,
Economics and Finance
PhD, Duke University
Research: Information dynamics and its role in asset prices and volatility; executive compensation and corporate governance.

Burton G. Rothberg
Assistant Professor,
Accountancy
DBA, Harvard University
Research: Information systems for fund management.

Sankar Sen
Associate Professor,
Marketing
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Research: Consumer decision making, corporate social responsibility, consumer-company relationships.

Isak Taksa
Assistant Professor,
Statistics and Computer Information Systems
PhD, The City University of New York
Research: Information retrieval and text and data mining.

Carl Ullman
Lecturer,
Management
MBA, Harvard University
Research: Entrepreneurship, processes of innovation.

Rui Yao
Assistant Professor,
Economics and Finance
PhD, University of North Carolina
Research: Portfolio choices and real estate finance; commercial mortgage defaults and prepayments.

Ping Zhou
Assistant Professor,
Accountancy
PhD, Georgia State University
Research: Research equity valuation; the impact of accounting policies on capital markets; the role of financial analysts in financial markets.