2008 4th Quarter: Baruch Business Report

The Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, Dean of Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business and Terrence Martell, Zicklin’s Saxe Professor of Finance and International Business in Zicklin. The discussion starts with the results of the fourth quarter 2008 “Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey,” which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Decisions being made on hiring, cutbacks, and capital are reviewed in light of CFO’s increasingly pessimistic perspective on business.