Larry Zicklin

Last updated

Larry Zicklin
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionWharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Alma materBaruch College
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Larry Zicklin (born 1936) is an American professor and financier. He is a former chairman of the Board of investment management firm, Neuberger Berman and a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University and Baruch College, a CUNY school.

Contents

Education

Brooklyn-bred Zicklin graduated from James Madison High School. [1] He graduated in 1957 from Baruch College with a Bachelor of Business Administration and earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. [2]

Career

After almost 10 years at Merrill Lynch, Zicklin joined Neuberger Berman as a partner in 1969. He became Managing Partner and Chairman of its executive committee in 1974. After the firm's 1999 initial public offering, Zicklin retired from active management and became the firm's chairman. He served in that capacity until Neuberger's 2003 acquisition by Lehman Brothers. Following Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and the employees' purchase of Neuberger Berman in 2008, Zicklin rejoined the firm's board of directors. He also serves as a director of two privately held companies.

Zicklin is a past president and current chairman of Baruch's non-governing board, The Baruch College Fund. He is also a past president of the United Jewish Communities Federation of New York. [3]

He returned to Neuberger Berman in August 2009, joining the board of directors. [4]

Philanthropy

Zicklin, who endowed the CUNY Zicklin School of Business with an $18 million gift in 1997, [5] made an additional $2 million donation to endow Baruch's Center for Financial Integrity. Zicklin is a 1957 graduate of Baruch. The center was founded in 2000 with Zicklin's help, and has since been renamed The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. [2] Robert was Larry Zicklin's cousin. [6]

In 1997, he endowed Wharton's Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research. [7]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">City University of New York</span> Public university system in New York City

The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges, and seven professional institutions. In 1960, John R. Everett became the first chancellor of the Municipal College System of New York City, later known as the City University of New York (CUNY). CUNY, established by New York state legislation in 1961 and signed into law by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, was an amalgamation of existing institutions and a new graduate school.

The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton School is the world's oldest collegiate business school.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Neuberger Berman</span> American financial services firm

Neuberger Berman Group LLC is an American private, independent, employee-owned investment management firm. The firm manages equities, fixed income, private equity and hedge fund portfolios for global institutional investors, advisors and high-net-worth individuals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Baruch College</span> Public college in New York City, New York, U.S.

Baruch College is a public college in New York City. It is a constituent college of the City University of New York system. Named for financier and statesman Bernard M. Baruch, the college operates undergraduate and postgraduate programs through the Zicklin School of Business, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, and the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sanford I. Weill</span> American banker and philanthropist (born 1933)

Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill is an American banker, financier, and philanthropist. He is a former chief executive and chairman of Citigroup. He served in those positions from 1998 until October 1, 2003, and April 18, 2006, respectively.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lehman Brothers</span> Defunct American financial services firm

Lehman Brothers Inc. was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States, with about 25,000 employees worldwide. It was doing business in investment banking, equity, fixed-income and derivatives sales and trading, research, investment management, private equity, and private banking. Lehman was operational for 158 years from its founding in 1850 until 2008.

Alan Norman Cohen was the former co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the New Jersey Nets, and chairman and CEO of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, owner of the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers.

George Herbert Walker IV is an American investment banker. He is the chairman and CEO of Neuberger Berman, one of the largest independent, employee-owned investment management firms. During Walker's tenure, the firm survived the implosion of its corporate parent, Lehman Brothers, was repurchased by the employees and has been amongst the industry's best performers. Walker is the first cousin once removed of 41st U.S. president George H. W. Bush, and the second cousin of 43rd president George W. Bush and Florida governor Jeb Bush.

The Zicklin School of Business is the business school of Baruch College. It was established in 1919 and is named after financier and alumnus Lawrence Zicklin. Zicklin is the largest business school in the United States, with more than 10,000 students enrolled in its programs. Zicklin and the Murray Koppelman School of Business at Brooklyn College are the only two units of the City University of New York that are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William E. Macaulay Honors College</span> College at the City University of New York

William E. Macaulay Honors College, commonly referred to as Macaulay Honors College or Macaulay, is the honors college of the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. It was founded in 2001 as CUNY Honors College.

John Langeloth Loeb Jr. CBE is an American businessman, former United States Ambassador to Denmark, and former Delegate to the United Nations. He is an advocate for religious freedom and separation of church and state, having founded the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom in 2009. Loeb continues to serve as chairman of the George Washington Institute.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Warren Hellman</span> American businessman and philanthropist

F. Warren Hellman was an American billionaire investment banker and private equity investor, the co-founder of private equity firm Hellman & Friedman. Hellman also co-founded Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, today known as Matrix Partners. He started and funded the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. Hellman died on December 18, 2011, of complications from his treatment for leukemia.

Stephen H. Weiss was an American investment banker, philanthropist, and former chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mitchell J. Blutt</span> American physician

Mitchell J. Blutt is an American physician-businessman. He is one of the first physicians to play a prominent role on Wall Street by drawing on his medical training to identify investment potential in healthcare companies. He is the founder and CEO of the New York-based healthcare investment firm, Consonance Capital, and a former Executive Partner of J.P. Morgan Partners. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University.

Jeff Maurer is an American fund manager and author who was the founder and chairman of Evercore Wealth Management and Evercore Trust Company. He was also the former CEO of U.S. Trust Corporation and the author of the book Rich in America: Secrets to Creating and Preserving Wealth.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sarah Bartlett</span> American journalist and academic

Sarah Bartlett is an American journalist and academic. She is dean emerita of The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, having retired from the deanship in June 2022. Bartlett is a charter faculty member of the journalism school, which was founded in 2006 as the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. As dean, Bartlett oversaw the launch of the first bilingual Spanish language graduate journalism program in the US and the school's first social journalism MA program. In 2018, Bartlett and the CUNY Board of Trustees named the school after craigslist founder Craig Newmark, in recognition of his $20 million gift to the endowment.

Sankar Sen is a marketing academic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Özgür Demirtaş</span>

Kemal Özgür Demirtaş is a Turkish Finance Professor, Engineer, and Economist.

References

  1. Murray Teigh Bloom (January 16, 1972). "The Great Money Game". The New York Times .
  2. 1 2 Baruch College Magazine
  3. "Baruch Magazine". June 7, 2007. Archived from the original on June 7, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  4. "Larry Zicklin returns to Neuberger's Boardroom". www.mutualfundwire.com. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  5. Karen W. Arenson (March 4, 1998). "Baruch Is Pledged Record Cash Gift as President Departs". The New York Times .
  6. "Zicklin, Robert". The New York Times . August 22, 2000.
  7. Wharton Alumni Magazine