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Norman Berman retired as
Associate Dean and Director of Executive Programs at the Stern
School of Business, New York University, and as Associate
Dean for Educational Innovation. He led the development of the
executive MBA program into one with a revenue stream of $9
million per year, ranked sixth by US News & World Report in its
spring 2001 survey and third in the world by the Financial Times
in 2002. Berman’s degree programs were highly acclaimed for
their interdisciplinary emphasis, leadership curriculum, global
focus (including residencies in countries throughout the world),
and unusual ability to attract a diverse and international
student body. His students for the Executive MBA in Management
and Executive MBA in Finance have been sponsored by some of the
most prestigious firms, including Deutsche Bank, American
Express, Morgan Stanley, IBM, Daimler Chrysler, JP Morgan Chase
and the Bank of Tokyo. He recently served as academic director
of the executive MBA program at the University of Bolzano, Italy,
and will shortly join the board of Diversity Pipeline Alliance
an organization devoted to helping minorities to find places in
business. Schools and PHD programs.
As a member of the Faculty of Business
Administration at the Stern School from 1973, he taught courses
in management accounting, internal reporting and control,
financial accounting, and accounting and control for nonprofit
organizations. From 1981 to 1984, Berman was Director of
Graduate Programs in Accounting. Prior to that he was Professor
of Accounting and Economics at Adelphi University. Berman spent
three years developing pricing policies in IBM Corporation’s
large computer division. He has conducted consulting and
professional development work with Prudential, Bechtel
Corporation, E.F. Hutton and Exxon. He served with distinction
as a military finance officer in Korea with the Eighth U.S.
Army. Berman, whose degrees are from Columbia University,
Brooklyn College, and Stuyvesant High School also attended the
London School of Economics and is an abd at NYU. He was a Ford
Foundation Fellow and a Harriman Scholar.
He was an initial electee to the Accounting
Hall of Fame of the Northeast region of the American Accounting
Association and served on the Association’s executive committee,
as program chair and as editor–in-chief of the Accounting
Journal. In 1993 Berman was elected to a three year term as a
Trustee of The Executive MBA Council. In 1998, he received the
Bud Fackler Award, voted by the Executive MBA Council, for
outstanding achievement in executive education.
Berman has served on the Board of Overseers
of the Executive MBA Program of the Graduate School of Business
Bolzano as well boards of the Queen’s Lung Association and his
cooperative building. He is married, lives in Manhattan, has two
children, and is a besotted grandfather of four highly bribed
grandchildren.
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