Larry Zicklin
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Larry Zicklin is a former Chairman of the Board of investment management firm, Neuberger Berman
Neuberger Berman
Neuberger Berman Group LLC, through its subsidiaries is an investment management firm that provides financial services for high net worth individuals and institutional investors. With approximately $200 billion in asset under management, it is among the largest private employee-controlled asset...

. He is currently a Clinical Professor at Stern School of Business at New York University
New York University
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 and teaches courses in Corporate Governance and the Management of a Financial Business at Stern. He teaches for the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program, an alliance of NYU Stern, the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
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 and HEC School of Management
HEC School of Management
HEC Paris or École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris is one of the foremost business schools in France and in Europe. It was created in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the model of French Grandes Ecoles and has progressively become one of the most selective graduate...

. Zicklin is also a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

. At NYU and Penn he teaches a combination of Business Ethics and Professional Responsibility.

Biography

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
Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the USA , doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker...

. Following Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and the employee's 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 UJA
United Jewish Communities
The Jewish Federations of North America , is an American Jewish umbrella organization representing 157 Jewish Federations and the Network of Independent Communities, 400 smaller Jewish communities across North America. The JFNA was formed from the 1999 merger of the United Jewish Appeal, the...

 Federation of New York.

He returned to Neuberger Berman in August 2009, joining the board of directors. http://www.mutualfundwire.com/article.asp?storyID=22298&template=article&wireID=2&bhcp=1

Philanthropy

Zicklin, who endowed the Zicklin School of Business with an $18 million gift in 1997, made an additional $2 million donation to endow Baruch’s Center for Financial Integrity. The center was originally founded in 2000 with Zicklin’s help, and has since been renamed, The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. In 1997, he endowed Wharton’s, Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research

Education

Zicklin graduated in 1957 from Baruch College
Baruch College
Bernard M. Baruch College, more commonly known as Baruch College, is a constituent college of the City University of New York, located in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, New York City. With an acceptance rate of just 23%, Baruch is among the most competitive and diverse colleges in the nation...

 with a Bachelor of Business Administration and earned a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 in 1959.

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