Over the last year, participants in the Executives-on-Campus Program have grown from being occasional visitors to integral parts of many undergraduate and graduate classes throughout Baruch College. It is, however, in the Zicklin School where many of the participating executives have been most active.

Professionals like Marc Giges, a principal at IBM who participates in Professor Marios Koufaris's E-commerce class, say they enjoy the opportunity to interact with graduate students on the verge of joining the corporate workforce. "It keeps me fresh," Giges says. "I like to catch people early on in their careers." Other executive guest lecturers in Zicklin classes include John Butler (MBA '94), senior vice president and general manager of the Renal Division in Genzyme Corp., who spoke to Professor Lilach Nachum's Business Marketing class, and Jay Spivack, former director of human resources and labor relations at Lincoln Center, lecturing in Professor Mindy Engel-Friedman's Psychology of the Interview class.

LEIGH ABRAMS CEO, Drew Industries (product development, management) WILLIAM ABRAMS Perry Capital NATHAN ADLER Sr. Tax Partner, Ernst & Young ARTHUR AINSBERG (Former) COO, Bessent Capital ROBERT AQUILINA EVP, Estée Lauder International HEATHER BALKE Financial Advisor, UBS PaineWebber JEFFREY BAUML VP, REFCO Securities, commodities trading STANLEY BECKER Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi MATTHEW BLANK Chairman & CEO, Showtime Networks MARTIN BRESLER (Former) Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan NORMAN BRUST (Former) VP Corporate Communications, Contel (marketing, advertising, public relations) JOHN BUTLER Sr. Director, Global Marketing, Genzyme Corp. DANIEL CLIVNER Managing Partner, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (LA) JAMES DROGAN IT strategy, business engineering, logistics RICHARD FRIEDMAN Co-Founder & President, Mindshare Ventures Corp. ROBERT GARLAND National Managing Partner, Deloitte & Touche MARC GIGES Principal in IBM's Strategy and Change Practice (operations, banking) NANCY GIGES Private consulting, marketing, and international business JOHN GRIFONETTI Sr. Advisor, Ameritrade Holding Corp. ANIL GULATI Principal, Coda Capital EVON JONES Sr. VP and CIO, Dial Corp. ERIC KOBREN President, Kobren Insight Group PAUL KOREN Managing Director, American Express Tax & Business Services SCOTT LEVINE CFO & Chief Administrative Officer, iVillage Inc. DONALD LOFF Sr. VP, PaineWebber JOSEPH MACNOW CFO, Vornado Realty Trust KRISTIN MCDONOUGH Robert & Johnce Menschel Director, NY Public Library, Science, Industry, and Business Library RICHARD MERIANS Chairman & CEO, Hygrade Integrated Logistics Systems WILLIAM NEWMAN Chairman, New Plan Excel Realty Trust FREDERICK PIERCE CEO, Frederick Pierce, Inc.; (Former) President, American Broadcasting Co. JOSEPH PIGNATELLI COO, Director & Member of General Partners of Archstone Partnerships DONALD SACCO EVP, Human Resources and Labor Relations, Bell Atlantic DOV SCHLEIN Managing Partner, NuVerse Advisors, LLC MARVIN SCHWARTZ Vice Chairman, Neuberger Berman ALAN SISKIND EVP & CEO, Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services HOWARD SMITH EVP & CFO, American International Group EDWARD SPIEGEL Advising Director, Goldman Sachs AMBASSADOR CARL SPIELVOGEL Chairman, International Advisory Board, The Financial Times JAY SPIVACK (Former) Director, Human Resources and Labor Relations, Lincoln Center HARRY STECKER General Manager, Nielsen Media Research ALAN VITULI Chairman & CEO, Carrols Corp. ILENE WAXLER Financial Consultant/Portfolio Mgr, Salomon Smith Barney JOSH WESTON Honorary Chairman, Automatic Data Processing MILES WORTMAN Director, Global Operations, Isx, Inc. ARTHUR ZEIKEL (Former) Chairman, Pres. & CEO, Merrill Lynch Asset Management LAWRENCE ZICKLIN Chairman, Neuberger Berman JOEL ZWEIBEL (Former) Partner In Charge of New York Office, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP

Outside of the classroom, the program also launched new initiatives such as Freshman Career Day, which allowed incoming students to hear career advice from some of the College's most distinguished alumni and participating executives.

However, after a rewarding year, the Executives-on-Campus steering committee looked for ways to build more permanent relationships between Baruch students and their executive counterparts. With that in mind, the committee, along with Program Director Marilyn Kahn, developed a range of new ideas aimed at making the 2003-2004 academic season a landmark year in the program's history.

"This will be a year of firsts for the program," says Kahn. "We are launching a new program called the Executive/Student Partnership (E/SP), which takes second-year Full-Time Honors MBA students and matches them with an executive mentor who helps the students through all the hurdles of the job search." The level of individual attention available through the E/SP program gives Zicklin's honors students an immeasurable advantage, according to Kahn.

In order to administer the E/SP program efficiently, along with the other new projects being launched this year, the steering committee divided its members into six new subcommittees charged with specific tasks. James Drogan, a management consultant who also teaches a graduate course in International Logistics, heads the E/SP committee.

The program also plans to continue the expansion of its flagship series of guest lectures, which continues to grow in popularity among the College's teaching staff. Zicklin faculty member Professor Moshe Banai worked with EOC-provided lecturers last year and says that he found their contributions enthralling.

"I asked for the EOC's assistance in inviting two guest speakers to my International and Comparative Management class this summer," says Banai. The first executive was Miles Wortman, the director of global operations for ISx Inc., an IBM spin-off company. The students found Miles's presentation fascinating since he was able to share his personal experience in running so many aspects of his company's operations."

Banai's students also got an opportunity to hear from Howard Smith ('65), vice chairman, chief financial officer, and chief executive officer of AIG, the global insurance and financial services firm. Banai says he was particularly impressed with Smith's candor in answering the students' questions. "The students were asking him all sorts of questions, including one about a succession plan for the top management of his company, and he answered sincerely."

This year, the program plans to draw some of the executives out of the classroom and give them an opportunity to interact with a wider segment of the Baruch community. "We will be inaugurating the first Annual Executives-on-Campus Reception this year, and our guest of honor is James Hoge, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine," says Kahn.

"We will also launch a series of events called the Executive Dialog Series, which are essentially conversations between visiting executives and an audience of Baruch students and faculty. Leo Hindery, chairman and CEO of the YankeeNets and YES Networks, spoke on Oct. 7, and Sallie Krawcheck, chair and CEO of Salomon Smith Barney, will come on Dec. 3." —OF