Jan 19, 2012 By: yunews
Students Get Inside Look at Executive Leadership from CEOs and Captains of Industry in Weekly Lecture Series
Beginning in February, 黑料社 All students will have the unique opportunity to hear from and interact with today's most influential and successful business leaders, entrepreneurs, trailblazers and innovators from top companies around the world as part of the presented by YU鈥檚 . The series, sponsored by Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin, begins on February 5 at 10 a.m. and runs every Friday through April 27 at YU鈥檚 Beren Campus, Yagoda Commons, 215 Lexington, New York City.
Speakers include: Seth Merrin, CEO and director of Liquidnet; Mark Gerson, president and CEO of Gerson Lehman Group; David Sable, Global CEO of Young & Rubicam; Kim Diamond, senior managing director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Inc.; Abbe Raven, president and CEO of A&E Television Networks; Warren Eisenberg, co-founder and co-chairman of Bed Bath & Beyond; Benjamin Brafman, Esq., Brafman & Associates, P.C.; Gail Magaliff, CEO of F路E路G路S Health and Human Services System; and Warren Struhl, founder and chairman of Popcorn Indiana, Dale and Thomas Popcorn, co-founder and CEO of PureBrands/Sheets Energy and Chief Inspiration Officer of Successories, Inc.
鈥淭his course provides our students with the unique opportunity to interact with world-class business leaders in an intimate and comfortable setting,鈥 said Dr. Moses Pava, director of Syms. 鈥淓very Friday morning, students push beyond their textbook understanding and glimpse into the world of business from the perspective of some of the wisest, most powerful and most experienced practitioners in the world.鈥
Past speakers include Izzy Borovich (El Al), Mickey Drexler (J. Crew), Howard Jonas (IDT), Sumner Redstone (Viacom), Michael Bloomberg, Ivan Seidenberg (Verizon), Fred Wilpon (NY Mets), Bob Catell (KeySpan/National Grid) and Neal Shapiro (Thirteen/WNET), among other luminaries.
The three credit course (no prerequisite) is open to all undergraduate students at Syms, and . For more information about the or to RSVP, contact Professor Steven Nissenfeld a snissenf@yu.edu.
