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In his address to the NYU Stern Undergraduate Class of 2021, Adam Mosseri will reflect on his experiences living in New York City, attending New York University, and his journey to becoming the Head of Instagram. He will discuss the importance of finding the intersection of passion and talent in the context of graduating in a global pandemic, a once-in-a-generation moment.

The resilience and agility already demonstrated by this year’s graduates when they switched gears almost overnight to continue to advance their goals are the same traits they will need to succeed as leaders going forward. In his address to the NYU Stern Graduate Class of 2021, Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., will share how he has approached his career as a “climbing wall” rather than a ladder, taking advantage of opportunities for lifelong learning even when it meant moving sideways or slightly down rather than up.

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A sampling of media highlights for the week of March 30, 2021

Excerpt from BusinessBecause--"NYU Stern has urged students who witness acts of racism or bias to report them to NYU’s Bias Response Line, while NYU Stern’s Asian Business Society (ABS) is inviting the Stern community to a virtual gathering to discuss recent events."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants--"Through Stern’s Social Impact Core, a required set of classes that helps students learn ways business can help solve some fundamental issues facing society, I have come to learn that profit generation and creating value for society at large need not be mutually exclusive or a zero-sum game. In fact, my education has taught me that positively affecting communities can also bring real financial gains and there are many examples of successful organizations doing just that."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants--"I’m most proud of my time serving as the Co-President and Director of Conference for the Undergraduate Stern Women in Business (USWIB). Coming into a male-dominated environment, I sought out a community of supportive and empowering women, and USWIB became the most rewarding experience of my time at NYU. Over the years, I’ve been able to serve as a mentor for more than 30 female students, lead a team that coordinated a conference for 300 attendees, and help create a new initiative of diversity, equity, and inclusion dialogues to spread the word about topics such as race, gender, and intersectionality. Giving back to the Stern community through USWIB has been the highlight of my college career."

Excerpt from Executive Courses --"It’s a similar story over at NYU Stern, where Blader has found the key to teaching negotiation is to challenge participants’ preconceived notions, which can run deep in their implicit beliefs.
 
“'The most effective way to surface and challenge these notions is to create in-class experiences,' he says."
 
"His next step is to get students to critically reflect on their habitual mindsets and to realize how unproductive and dysfunctional these default tendencies can be, according to Blader. 'Once this process has unfolded, students are much more likely to understand and master new approaches and tactics,' he says."

On Thursday, March 25, NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business hosted a fireside chat with European Central Bank Executive Board Member Dr. Isabel Schnabel.

Excerpt from Clear Admit--"I was attracted to NYU Stern’s curriculum, student body, professors, and access to its alumni network. I was eager to be a part of the Stern community while being a few subway stops away from epicenters of culture and commerce. Stern’s students, faculty, and staff embody the IQ+EQ mindset. I was thrilled to be admitted to Stern as a Consortium Fellow."

A sampling of media highlights for the week of March 23, 2021

Excerpt from Poets & Quants--"The MSQF program offered jointly by NYU Shanghai and NYU Stern offered a chance to study in New York City and build connections with Stern professors, while I was also able to find a job in Shanghai and focus on a career in the Chinese market.  For students majoring in finance, studying at Stern was a valuable opportunity for me to build connections with some of the most famous professors in the field. Also, the degree has helped me get a great job in China, where I live and have a network. Thanks to Shanghai’s well-developed financial industry, there are many exciting opportunities within the local market for finance students, so it was a great city to finish our studies and look for a job."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants--"In short, this program was a complete door opener for me. I obviously wanted to have work experience in analytics and that is one of the reasons I went for the program in the first place. Even though I am very curious and generally embrace change, I have been with the same firm for nearly 11 years. I think that one of the reasons is that they have always been super supportive and have offered me diverse opportunities from a role and international perspective. Six months into the program, I was offered to rotate into the Artificial Intelligence team."
 
"Since then, I have been focused on data and analytics work, and I have worked on multiple projects on predictive analytics, simulation, econometrics, etc. This has been a game changer for me as I have been able to get significant work experience on most of the things I learned in the program, expand my network in the firm, and carve a different career path that wouldn’t have been possible without the program."
 
"Anindya Ghose, who is MSBA’s academic director, co-director of the MSBA Capstone Program, professor of information, operations, management sciences, and marketing. His career trajectory, work experience, books and publications are impressive. However, what I would highlight is what a great individual he is and how important he is in bringing the cohort together. From the beginning of the program he built an authentic personal connection with each of the classmates. He was always supportive of any networking plan we did and made sure that we always had something planned that would bring everyone together. In a way, he was one of us at a personal level. Even today, we still speak regularly and stay in touch. He is an outstanding professional, a great professor and an excellent human being."

A sampling of media highlights for the week of March 16, 2021

The NYU Stern Business & Society Program hosted "Can Business Help Restore Truth in Public Discourse?" on March 16, 2021.

Excerpt from Find MBA-- "Tensie Whelan, director of the Center for Sustainable Business, says: 'Students are concerned about the state of the world — from climate change to racism and inequity — and want to be part of the solution. They see business as an important player in both creating the problems and the solutions.'”

"Batia Wiesenfeld is director of Stern’s Business and Society Program, an interdisciplinary initiative to develop responsible business leaders with the skills to address economic, social and environmental challenges."

"She says the choice to integrate depends on the subject. In an evolving field such as environmental, social and governance investing, she says students will benefit from learning novel tools and skills in standalone elective courses, giving them more time to home in on dynamic practices. '[But] responsible business education is the only kind of business education students should receive,' Wiesenfeld adds."

A sampling of media highlights for the week of March 9, 2021

On Tuesday, March 9, NYU Stern's Entertainment, Media & Technology (EMT) Program will host a fireside chat and "Stern Tank" with Mark Cuban.

Excerpt from BSchools-- "NYU Stern’s online master of science in quantitative management (MSQM) is open to applicants of any undergraduate major and level of work experience. The degree provides graduates with a forward-thinking blend of business management foundations, leadership, and analytics. The classes are delivered online, asynchronously, with students attending two immersive four-day residencies on campus. The program consists of 33 credits."
"Dr. Harry G. Chernoff is the deputy chair of the department of technology, operations, and statistics at NYU Stern School of Business, where he is also a clinical professor of real estate and operations management. He received his MS in quantitative analysis and his PhD in operations management from Stern."

On Monday, March 8, NYU Stern's Entertainment, Media & Technology (EMT) Program will host "A Conversation with Kara Swisher."

Don't miss out on the 20th Annual GMA Conference on Friday, March 5th, entitled Powering Up: The Future of Consumer Connectivity. This year's event will center on the importance of forming consumer connections when making business decisions to improve brand relations and loyalty. 

NYU Stern's Fubon Center for Technology, Business, and Innovation, and its Fintech initiative, will host Stern's annual FinTech Conference on Friday, March 5, 2021. This year's conference will focus on Global Fintech 2021: No Borders, No Barriers. 

DHL Express CEO John Pearson joins NYU Stern Dean Raghu Sundaram in a "fireside chat" to inaugurate the DHL Initiative on Globalization Speaker Series at NYU Stern's new Center for the Future of Management.

On Thursday, March 4, NYU Stern's Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship will virtually welcome NYU alumni, investors and entrepreneurs to the 19th Annual Venture Showcase.