Centennial Virtual Speaker Series
Centennial Virtual Speaker Series
Celebrating 100 Years of Business Education at Fordham University
A lot has changed since we took New York City by storm in 1920, and even since we started celebrating our centennial. But there’s one thing that hasn’t changed at all: our irrepressible urge to better both ourselves and the world of business.
Through the support of alumni, parents, and friends, the Centennial Campaign will position the Gabelli School of Business to pioneer and disseminate sustainable practices throughout the global business arena, fueling the creation of ideas, products, services, and solutions that carry the world toward a promising future.
A silver lining of our shift to online programming means that Fordham University alumni, students, parents, and community partners can access most of our webinars from wherever they are. We hope you will join us as we celebrate 100 years of business education at Fordham with these special guests.
Please take a minute to learn more about the Centennial Campaign and consider a contribution. Your gift to the Gabelli Centennial Campaign will contribute to the success of Cura Personalis | For Every Fordham Student, the University’s $350 million fundraising campaign to enhance the entire student experience.
Upcoming Events
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Previous Events
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Centennial Speaker Series presents George Serafeim on Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World
George Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
December 1
Centennial Speaker Series presents Joseph Calandro on The Business of Personal Finance: How to Improve Financial Wellness
Joe Calandro, Managing Director, Insurance Advisory Practice, PwC
November 8
Centennial Speaker Series presents Terry Keeley on Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG to Impact Investing
Terry Keeley, Financial Advisor
November 1
Centennial Speaker Series presents Derek Lidow on The Entrepreneurs: The Relentless Quest for Value
Derek Lidow, Professor of the Practice, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Princeton University
October 18
Centennial Speaker Series presents Bob Pisani on Shut Up & Keep Talking: Lessons on Life & Investing from the Floor of the NY Stock Exchange
Bob Pisani, Senior Markets Correspondent, CNBC
October 11
Centennial Speaker Series presents Fireside Chat with Jon Brolin and Roy Behren of the Merger Fund
Jon Brolin, Founder and Managing Partner, Edenbrook Capital LLC & Roy Behren, Co-President and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Westchester Capital Management, LLC
September 22
Centennial Speaker Series presents Bruce Usher on Investing in the Era of Climate Change
Bruce Usher, Professor of Professional Practice and Faculty Director, Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School
September 20
Centennial Speaker Series presents James Park on The Valuation Treadmill: How Securities Fraud Threatens the Integrity of Public Companies
James Park, Professor of Law at UCLA
September 14
The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
Mary Childs, Financial Journalist, co-host of National Public Radio’s Planet Money
May 24
Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
Gillian Tett, chair of the editorial board and U.S. editor at large of the Financial Times
May 17
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
Roger Lowenstein, Financial Journalist and Author
April 27
In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest
Stephen R. Foerster, Co-Author; Professor of Finance, Ivey Business School
April 12
The Investment Stewardship Series: A Conversation with Catherine Winner, Global Head of Stewardship at Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Moderated by Dianne McKeever, Chief Investment Officer and Co-founder, Ides Capital Management LP
February 16
NFTs: Welcome to the Metaverse
Join us as we bring together leaders in the NFT (non-fungible token) market to discuss the current explosion and future opportunities within this crypto segment.
February 15
Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors and How You Can Bring Common Sense to Your Portfolio
Daniel Peris, Author; and Senior Portfolio Manager, Federated Investors Inc.
February 8
Robin Wigglesworth on Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
Wednesday, December 15
SPACs: The New IPO?
Tuesday, December 7
Campbell R. Harvey on DeFi and the Future of Finance
Thursday, December 2
Leo Melamed in Conversation with Bob Pisani on Man of the Futures
Wednesday, November 17
Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns
Michael Mauboussin, author, Head of Consilient Research, Counterpoint Global, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Thursday, November 4
Ted Seides on Capital Allocators: How the World’s Elite Money Managers Lead and Invest
Ted Seides, Author, Managing Partner, Capital Allocators LLC
Jonathan Brolin, Founder and Managing Partner, Edenbrook Captial LLC
Wednesday, October 27
A Bronx Tale: Building a Career in the Credit Markets, Fireside Chat with Bob O’Shea, Moderated by Michael Gatto
Bob O’Shea, GABELLI ’87, Founding Partner and Chairman, Silver Point Capital
Michael Gatto, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and Fordham University; Partner, Silver Point Capital
Thursday, October 21
The Investment Stewardship Series: An ESG and Value Investing Conversation with Gunjan Banati and Dianne McKeever
Gunjan Banati, Chief Risk Officer and Managing Director, Royce Investment Partners
Dianne McKeever, Chief Investment Officer and Co-founder, Ides Capital Management LP
Monday, September 27
Thomas Peterffy in Conversation with Bob Pisani
Thomas Peterffy, founder, chairman, largest shareholder, Interactive Brokers Group
Bob Pisani, senior markets correspondent for CNBC
Tuesday, September 14
Zachary Karabell on Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
Zachary Karabell, commentator and author
Wednesday, July 14
Paul Schmelzing to Discuss Lower Forever or Set for a Regime Break? Lessons from Real Interest Rates Since the 14th Century
Paul Schmelzing, a postdoctoral research associate at the Yale School of Management
James Grant, a financial journalist and historian, founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer
Richard Sylla, PhD, professor emeritus of economics and the former Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets at New York University Stern School of Business
Thursday, June 3
Henry Kaufman on The Day the Markets Roared: How a 1982 Forecast Sparked a Global Bull Market
James Kelly, director of the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis
David Cowen, president and CEO of the Museum of American Finance
Henry Kaufman, president of Henry Kaufman & Company Inc.
Tuesday, May 18
In Conversation with Peter Cohen and Bob Pisani
Sris Chatterjee, chair, Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis
David Cowen, president and CEO of the Museum of American Finance
Peter Cohen, founder of Peter Cohen LLC
Bob Pisani, senior markets correspondent for CNBC
Thursday, May 6
Centennial Speaker Series: In Conversation with Michael Inserra and Kelly Grier
Donna Rapaccioli, dean of the Gabelli School of Business
Michael Inserra, EY deputy managing partner emeritus
Kelly Grier, EY U.S. chair, managing partner and Americas managing partner
Tuesday, April 27
Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Save Active Investment Management, Part III: The Solutions
Ellen Carr, co-author of Undiversified: The Big Gender Short in Investment Management
Barbara Ann Bernard, founder and chief investment officer of Wincrest Capital Ltd.
Marilyn Freeman, chief strategy officer for Attucks Asset Management LLC
Wendy Garcia, chief diversity officer of Comptroller Office
Jasmine Richards, head of diverse manager research of Cambridge Associates
Thursday, April 22
John F. Wasik on Lincolnomics: How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
John F. Wasik, author
James Kelly, director of the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis
David Cowen, president and CEO of the Museum of American Finance
Tuesday, April 20
Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Save Active Investment Management, Part II: The Stories
Melissa Casson, director of global equities at Black Creek Investment Management Inc.
Monica Erickson, head of investment grade at DoubleLine’s Global Developed Credit Group
Katie Koch, co-head of the Fundamental Equity (FE) business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM)
Moderated by Katrina Dudley, senior vice president, investment strategist, and portfolio manager at Franklin Mutual Series
Thursday, April 15
Neha Coulon on Using ESG Data to Drive Confident Decision-Making
Neha Coulon, global head of ESG solutions at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Donna Rapaccioli, dean of the Gabelli School of Business
Lerzan Aksoy, associate dean of undergraduate studies and strategic initiatives
Thursday, April 15
Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Save Active Investment Management, Part I: The Situation
Ellen Carr, adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School
Katrina Dudley, senior vice president, investment strategist, and portfolio manager at Franklin Mutual Series
Dan Hanson, chief investment officer (CIO) at Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. and Ivy Investment Management Company
Moderated by Laura Rittenhouse, former Wall Street corporate finance banker, an investor relations and financial advisor, executive and life coach, a best-selling author, and a riveting keynote speaker
Thursday, April 8
SPACs: Special, Speculative, or Spam?
Professor Sris Chatterjee, Gabelli Chair in Global Security Analysis
Professor N.K. Chidambaran, associate professor of finance at the Gabelli School of Business
Shohana Jannat, Investment Banking Director at Financial Institutions Group (FIG)
Peter Nesvold, the founder and managing partner of Nesvold Capital Partners (NCP)
Moderated by Professor James Kelly, the director of the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, senior lecturer in finance at the Gabelli School of Business
Wednesday, April 7
Crash or Boom? Crypto, DeFi and NFT Mania
Michael Bucella, GABELLI ’08; general partner, BlockTower Capital
Paul Johnson, founding partner and investment manager, Nicusa Capital; adjunct professor, Gabelli School of Business
Donna Redel, angel investor, blockchain-digital assets professor, Fordham University
Tuesday, March 30
Risky Decisions: How Mathematical Paradoxes and Other Conundrums Have Shaped Economic Science
George Szpiro
Tuesday, March 16
Centennial Speaker Series: Kevin R. Mirabile on Exotic Alternative Investments
Kevin Mirabile, clinical associate professor of finance at Fordham University
Tuesday, March 2
Trailblazers: From the NYSE Floor to Breaking Glass Ceilings
Doreen Mogavero, founder and CEO of Mogavero, Lee & Co.
Maria Bartiromo, first journalist to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
Thursday, March 4
Centennial Speaker Series: Joseph Calandro Jr. on Jay Gould and the Union Pacific from the Panic of 1873-1880
Joseph Calandro Jr., Managing director and fellow of the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis
Tuesday, February 2
Centennial Speaker Series: Perspectives on Best Practices in Nonprofit Governance
Sally Spooner, ASPCA Board Chair
Wednesday, January 27
Entrepreneurship and the Future of the Online Luxury Retail Market
Charles Gorra, CEO and Founder of Rebag
June 2
Down and Under: The Pandemic’s Impact on the World’s Oil Industry
Paolo Scaroni, Former CEO of Eni Oil and Gas Company, Deputy Chairman of Rothschild Group
June 4
A Case Study: European Financial Institutions During and After COVID
Domenico Siniscalco, Managing Director and Vice Chairman at Morgan Stanley, Italian Economist, Former Minister of Finance
June 8
The Rally and Recovery: Where Are We?
Bob Pisani, Financial Correspondent for CNBC
June 16
Ben Graham VII Annual Conference
This two-day CFA Society New York conference will feature panels on the current state of value investing—both domestically and around the world.
June 17-18
Sovereign Debt: A Looming Debt Crisis?
Anne-Laure Kiechel, Founding Partner of Global Sovereign Advisory
June 22
A Diplomat’s Perspective: Global Geopolitics After COVID-19
Ambassador Giampiero Massolo, President of Fincantieri S.p.A., President of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies
June 24
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
Robert Shiller, economist, author, and Nobel Laureate
July 1
Blockchain Democracy: Technology, Law, and the Rule of the Crowd
William Magnuson, Associate Professor at Texas A&M Law School
July 7
Pandemics and Epidemics: Financial and Economic Effects
Richard Sylla, Professor Emeritus of Economics and the former Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets at NYU Stern School of Business
July 14
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Michael Gelb, Senior Fellow at the Center for Humanistic Management and Academic Partner at the Gabelli School of Business
July 15
Responsible Business in a Time of Crisis
Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance, London Business School
July 28
Dan Simon on “Innovation in Crisis”
Dan Simon, Writer, Entrepreneur, and Financial Communications Expert
July 30
The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-offs
Ed Freeman, University Professor and Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Thursday, September 24
Common Sense: The Investor’s Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth
Joel Greenblatt, Managing Principal and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Gotham Asset Management and Adjunct Faculty at Columbia Business School
Tuesday, September 29
JPMorgan’s Fall and Revival
Nicholas Sargen, International Economist, Global Money Manager and Author, and Consuelo Mack, Financial Journalist
Tuesday, October 6
Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Business Model
Lawrence Cunningham, Author, Lecturer, Professor, Public Company Director, and Consultant on Corporate Governance, and Astrid Doerner, Journalist
Thursday, October 8
Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal
Shennette Garrett-Scott, award-winning author and professor
Wednesday, October 14
Creating Strategic Value: Applying Value Investing Principles to Corporate Management
Joseph Calandro Jr., managing director and fellow of the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis
Tuesday, October 20
Credit Markets During and After the Crisis
Michael Gatto, partner at Silver Point Capital and adjunct professor at the Gabelli School of Business
Tuesday, October 27
Quality Shareholders: How the Best Managers Attract and Keep Them
Lawrence Cunningham, Author, Lecturer, Professor, Public Company Director, and Consultant on Corporate Governance, and Astrid Doerner, Journalist
Thursday, November 12
JC de Swaan on Seeking Virtue in Finance
JC de Swaan, Author and lecturer in the economics department at Princeton University
Monday, November 16
Bruce Greenwald on Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond with an Introduction by Mario Gabelli
Bruce Greenwald, the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management at Columbia Business School and the academic co-director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing
Wednesday, November 18
Questions? Contact:
Malika Gogia
mgogia1@fordham.edu
Please note: Gifts to the Gabelli Fund will be earmarked to assist our students with COVID-related emergencies.
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