Welcome to Baruch College The City University of New York 2 CUNY Alumni & Faculty 3 Baruch College 4 Accolades & Honors 7 Baruch EMBA - A Unique Class of Its Own 8 Global Classroom 11 Program Outline - At a Glance 12 Program Structure & Delivery 15 Admission and Application 16 Applied Learning - The Management Approach 18 World Class Faculty 20 Welcome to Baruch College Nothing at Baruch stands still. Every year our faculty members incorporate New York City is the global capital of lessons learned from the business world and fine-tunes the programs to meet the needs of the students and the marketplace. As far as possible, we try to business, finance and communication. build real-world experiences into our classes and our professors epitomize Baruch College, The City University of this mindset. The international executive programs are designed for students New York is located right in the heart of who typically have a full-time career. Our faculty members understand the this global epicenter. What this means demands on the executive student who have to balance full-time work with for you is that you will be learning the a rigorous course of professional study and will tailor their delivery strategies latest from the world’s business center. to maximize your learning experience. Besides Singapore, these programs are conducted in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, France and Israel and we are setting up and expanding our operations in more locations over the next The City University of New York is the few years as part of our international vision. largest urban university in USA with a student body of over 400,000 students. There are over 4,000 universities and colleges in America and you The university has 19 colleges spread may like to know that Baruch is certainly in the top 5 percent. Baruch across 280 buildings in New York is also ranked in the top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges in America by City. Baruch College is also the largest ENTREPRENEUR magazine for the second year. Additionally, Baruch is also ranked in the top 3 after Harvard and NYU for the number of our AACSB accredited business school in graduates who are cited by ACCOUNTING TODAY for the “100 Most America, the hallmark of excellence in Influential People in Accounting“. As a testimony to our faculty quality, management education internationally. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT journal recently ranked Baruch no. 33 out of the world’s top 923 academic institutions for research productivity in finance. That puts us in the top 3 percent of this prestigious group. In fact, US NEWS & WORLD REPORT has consistently ranked our part-time MBA among the top 20 in the country. The part-time MBA ranking is an excellent indicator for the quality of our international Executive programs as it means that we are committed to catering to education needs of working professionals and senior executives like you. When you join us at Baruch, we welcome you into our international family of over 950,000 alumni which includes 12 Nobel laureates, a U.S. secretary of State, and many successful businessmen and corporate executives. I wish you all the very best in your study and look forward to meeting you soon in person. Professor Avner Wolf (Ph.D., Columbia University) Executive Director of International Programs Baruch College The City University of New York EMBA 1 The City University of New York A Rich Heritage of over 160 years of Academic Excellence Founded in 1847, City University of New York is today, the nation’s largest urban public university with over 226,000 degree-credit students and 230,000 adult, continuing their professional education. With more than 100 nationally recognized research centers, institutes and consortia, CUNY is also one of the nation’s major research institutions. CUNY distinguished faculty includes 12 Nobel Laureates, amongst the highest number from any public university in the country. 42 EMBA CUNY Alumni CUNY graduates include 12 Nobel Laureates which is among the highest number from any public university in the country. A U.S. Secretary of State, a Supreme Court Justice, mayors, members of Congress, state legislators, an astronaut, actors, singers, composers, writers and inventors are among the outstanding alumni. More top U.S. corporate executives earned their bachelor’s degrees at The City University of New York than at any other university in the country, according to the most recent national survey conducted by Standard & Poor’s. Since 1967, CUNY has bestowed more than 950,000 associate, baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degrees. According to a recent CUNY survey, more than 88 percent of graduates found work within six months of graduation and of that group, nearly 90 percent worked in New York. At least one-third of college-educated New Yorkers are CUNY graduates. CUNY is one of the nation’s leading producers of African- American and Hispanic engineers and physicians. CUNY colleges are among the top sources of doctoral, baccalaureate and master’s degrees CUNY’s Faculty earned by minorities. More than 80 percent of CUNY’s Notable CUNY alumni When you embark your Masters qualification with Baruch College, senior college faculty hold Ph.D.s or other CUNY, you will be joining a powerful international business network highest degrees in their fields. The full-time of over 100,000 international alumni which includes successful and teaching faculty of 6,100 includes world- well-accomplished people in virtually every field of endeavour including renowned experts in virtually every field renowned world leaders and businessmen. of human endeavour. CUNY Distinguished • Gen Colin Powell Professor at Lehman College, Billy Collins 65th United States Secretary of State served as Poet Laureate of the United • Henry Kissinger States. Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US Secretary of State • Nelson Mandela Other current CUNY faculty has won 11th President of South Africa prestigious awards in recognition of their • Ralph Lauren contributions to education and scholarship. Chairman and CEO of Polo Ralph Lauren Included are Guggenheim Fellowships, Pulitzer Prizes, an Academy Award, • Ben Cohen Co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream MacArthur Foundation “genius awards,” and Carnegie Teacher of the Year awards, among many other honors, fellowships and grants. EMBA 3 Baruch College In 1968, the school became an independent senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Today, a thriving, urban, multicultural institution and a senior ollege of CUNY, Baruch attracts motivated students of proven achievement who are seriously committed to making their dreams a reality. Their ability and drive, along with the superb, professional education for which Baruch is known, have established the College’s national and international reputation for excellence. In providing opportunities for these students, the College sustains the original mission of the Free Academy and the City University, adapting that mission to the needs of New York City, once a commercial hub, now a global corporate and financial powerhouse. Baruch offers undergraduate and graduate programs of study through its three schools: the Zicklin School of Business, the largest and one of the most respected business schools in the world. Named a flagship institution within the City University system, the School of Public Affairs is widely recognized for its teaching, research, and service in the areas of municipal government, non-profit administration, policy analysis and evaluation, health care policy, Baruch College is part of a tradition and educational administration. that dates 160 years to the founding, in 1847, of the Free Academy, the very first About Bernard M. Baruch free public institution of higher education Bernard Baruch graduated from the City in the nation. (Baruch’s landmark building College of New York and worked as a broker before becoming a partner at A. Housman and at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue Company. With his earnings and commissions, he occupies the site of the Free Academy). bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for $18,000. There he amassed a fortune before Established in 1919 as City College’s the age of thirty via speculation in the sugar School of Business and Civic market. In 1903 he had his own brokerage firm Administration, it was renamed in and had gained the reputation of “The Lone Wolf on Wall Street” because of his refusal to join any 1953 in honor of Bernard M. Baruch other financial house. By 1910, he had become – statesman, financier, and devoted one of Wall Street’s financial leaders. alumnus. Baruch College is today, one of the top senior colleges in the City After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic University of New York. presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters. In 1946 he was appointed the United States representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) by President Harry S. Truman. Bernard Baruch was the first to coin the term “Cold War” in reference to the conflict between United States and the Soviet Union while giving a speech on April 16, 1947. As a renowned financier, shrewd investor, statesman, and presidential adviser, he was on the cover of TIME magazine a total of three times in his life. 4 EMBA Wisdom “During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.” “Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.” “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” “Never follow the crowd.” “The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.” Famous quotes by Mr.Bernard Baruch EMBA 5 Baruch College Reaches All-Time “If you take the present value of my High in U.S.