Biography
Professor Michael Zuckerman rejoined the Fox School full-time in 2012. Previously he worked at Aon Risk Services, where he most recently served as Managing Director and Northeast Regional Health Care Practice Leader. Professor Zuckerman’s more than three decades of industry experience include executive positions at Thomas Jefferson University, J&H/Marsh, and Temple University Health System.
At the Fox School, Professor Zuckerman has served as an adjunct or assistant professor since 1987. In his prior years as an Assistant Professor from 1997-2000, he redesigned the Global Corporate Risk Management undergraduate capstone and developed the Health Care Risk Management course for the MBA in Health Sector Management. Professor Zuckerman also directed Fox’s Risk Management and Insurance Certificate Program; developed the Risk Manager in Residence Program with RIMS, and created and taught in a certificate program for Marsh client executives.
Zuckerman became the Academic Director for Enterprise Risk Management in 2014. He developed the Enterprise Risk Management Concentration in the MBA program. And organized/developed the annual Enterprise Risk management conference at the Fox School beginning May 2018.
His honors include the 1990 Business Insurance Risk Management Honor Roll,1997 Risk and Insurance Management Society’s Annual Conference—one of the ten sessions selected by the Risk Management Editorial Advisory Board for inclusion in the 1997 RIMS Annual Conference Proceedings, “Defining Moments in Risk Management, 2007 Aon Excellence Roundtable, 2009 RISK&INSURANCE Power Broker Finalist-Life Sciences, 2010 RISK&INSURANCE Power Broker Finalist-Healthcare, ”Fox School’ 2010 H. Wayne Snider Distinguished Alumni Award, 2010 Outstanding Educator Award from the Insurance Society of Philadelphia, 2016-17 Gamma Iota Sigma, Sigma Chapter Outstanding Teacher Award, 2017 “Faculty of the Year” honors for teaching in the Temple University Fox School of Business Master of Science Actuarial Science program, and 2019 Fellow in Captive Insurance awarded by the International Center for Captive Insurance Education.
Zuckerman is a frequent speaker at Risk Management and Insurance Industry events. He also writes practice articles for several Risk Management and Insurance Industry trade journals.
He earned his BBA and MBA from Temple and his JD from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Research Interests
- Alternative Risk Financing and Transfer. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Specifically how alternative risk financing mechanisms such as wholly-owned insurance subsidiaries also known as captive insurance companies when managed using best governance practices can drive ERM within its parent organization.
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
RMI 3505 | Risk Financing | Undergraduate |
RMI 4597 | Managing Risk Across the Enterprise | Undergraduate |
RMI 5051 | Managing Risk | Graduate |
RMI 5301 | Enterprise Risk Management | Graduate |
RMI 5801 | Enterprise Risk Management | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Zuckerman, M.M. (2021). Seeking Risk Management Equilibrium in a VUCA World. Captive International.
Zuckerman, M.M. The Keystone. Captive Insurance Times, 206, 16-18. Retrieved from http://www.captiveinsurancetimes.com/specialistfeatures/specialistfeature.php?specialist_id=320.
Zuckerman, M.M. & Raybshteyn, M. (2020). Captive 101: Carrying out Feasibility and Utilizing Your Captive Insurance Company. Retrieved from https://www.captivesummitus.com/agenda.
Zuckerman, M.M. The Climate is Right. Captive Insurance Times, 200, 20-22. Retrieved from http://www.captiveinsurancetimes.com/specialistfeatures/specialistfeature.php?specialist_id=312.
Zuckerman, M.M. (2020). Getting creative with risk management: put captives front and centre. Captive International Website. Retrieved from https://www.captiveinternational.com/contributed-article/getting-creative-with-risk-management-put-captives-front-and-centre.
Zuckerman, M.M. (2019). The future of uncertainty: captives and ERM. Captive International Website. Retrieved from https://www.captiveinternational.com/contributed-article/the-future-of-uncertainty-captives-and-erm.
Zuckerman, M.M. (2018). Captive Insurance, Reinsurance, and Driving Stakeholder Value. Journal of Reinsurance, 25(2), 9-14. Intermediary and Reinsurance Underwriter Association. Retrieved from https://www.irua.org/jor/article-index/.
Zuckerman, M. & Wolfgang, A. (2017). Enterprise Risk Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, and the Future of Loss Portfolio Transfers. Journal of Reinsurance, 24(2), 16-19. Intermediary and Reinsurance Underwriter Association. Retrieved from https://www.irua.org/jor.
Zuckerman, M. (2017). The Case for a Captive Insurance Company Independent Board Director. Captive Insurance Times, 128, 26-27. Black Knight Media.
Zuckerman, M.M. Enterprise Risk Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, and the Future of Loss Portfolio Transfers. Journal of Reinsurance, 24(2), 16-19.
Zuckerman, M. (2017). The Value of a Risk Management Centric Captive Insurance Company. Healthcare Risk Management, 40(No. 5). AHCMedia.
Zuckerman, M.M. Can a captive $ave us from ourselves? Captive Insurance Times, 117, 28-29.
Atwater, C., Blau, G., Hill, T., Halbert, T., Snell, C., Kershner, R., & Zuckerman, M. (2016). Correlates of graduating with a full-time Job versus a full-time job consistent with major. College Student Journal: a Journal Pertaining to College Students, 50(3), 355-360. USA: PROJECT Innovation.
Blau, G., Hill, T., Snell, C., Atwater, C., Halbert, T., & Zuckerman, M. (2016). Testing the relationship of gender and business major to professional development behaviors and expected employment. Journal of Education for Business, 91(5), 274-279. doi: 10.1080/08832323.2016.1188756.
Blau, G., Halbert, T., Atwater, C., Kershner, R., & Zuckerman, M. (2016). Correlates of student bachelor of business administration satisfaction and school reputation influencing perceived market value. Journal of Education for Business, 91(4), 179-184. doi: 10.1080/08832323.2016.1145625.