[1] He graduated in 1957 from Baruch College with a Bachelor of Business Administration and earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1959.
[2] After almost 10 years at Merrill Lynch, Zicklin joined Neuberger Berman as a partner in 1969.
Following Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and the employees' purchase of Neuberger Berman in 2008, Zicklin rejoined the firm's board of directors.
[4] Zicklin, who endowed the CUNY Zicklin School of Business with an $18 million gift in 1997,[5] made an additional $2 million donation to endow Baruch's Center for Financial Integrity.
[6] In 1997, he endowed Wharton's Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research.