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Tom Bernstein, president and co-founder of Chelsea Piers, joined Dean Peter Henry and MBA students for NYU Stern’s Block Lunch event series this spring.

Organized by NYU Stern’s Citi Leadership & Ethics Program and Business & Society Program, with generous support from the Citi Foundation, the 2014 conference featured this year’s Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership & Ethics Ellen Seidman, former director of the US Treasury Department’s Office of Thrift Supervision and senior fellow at the Urban Institute.

The MBA Media & Entertainment Conference (MEC), which will take place on Friday, March 7, is an annual conference co-hosted by students at NYU Stern, Columbia, Wharton, MIT Sloan, Duke Fuqua and Chicago Booth.

The Stern Private Equity Club’s (SPEC) ninth annual conference will be held on February 28. The conference, themed, “Finding Alpha: Navigating Investment Headwinds in Private Equity,” is designed to provide current students, alumni and industry professionals with networking opportunities and panel discussions focusing on trends and issues facing the private equity and venture capital industries.

New York University hosts its third annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival to celebrate the vibrant and growing start-up culture at the University. The event, co-hosted by the NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the NYU Entrepreneurs Network and the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute, provides an opportunity for new ventures to seek advice and learn from the experiences of start-up founders, investors and prospective entrepreneurs from the NYU entrepreneurial community.

The 10th Annual NYU/Penn Conference on Law and Finance, jointly sponsored by New York University’s Pollack Center for Law & Business, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics and Wharton’s Financial Institutions Center, will be held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on February 28 and March 1.

The Strategy and Operations Club and the Management Consulting Association will co-host the Fourth Annual Strategy Forum, themed “Big Data | Big Results,” on February 27th, 2014.

On February 25, the Center for Real Estate Finance Research partnered with two student organizations, the Stern Real Estate Club and Stern Women in Business, to host an Executives-in-Residence Day.

Paula Kerger, President and CEO of PBS, joined Langone MBA students for a 2013-2014 Langone Speaker Series event. Professor Charlie Murphy moderated the conversation, which began with a one-on-one interview focused on Kerger’s experiences at PBS, career path and professional pointers for Langone MBAs.

On Friday, February 21, 2014, the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions will host Research Day 2014, featuring presentations on in-progress research at NYU Stern and a panel discussion on the current state of the world economy and financial system.

The social enterprise communities of NYU's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, School of Law, and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service are co-hosting this year's 4th Annual NYU Social Innovation Symposium (SIS).

A team of four Stern MBA students (Steven Stein, Kathleen Urbani, Lauren Sanders and Jason Davis) took second place and a $5,000 prize in the 2014 UNC Real Estate Development Challenge. It was the first time at the annual challenge that a team from Stern placed within the top three.

The Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Founder.org welcome Michael Baum, founder of six startups, for an informational talk entitled "Building a Billion Dollar Company Takes More than Just a Big Idea." This event marks the kick-off of the $100K Founder.org annual competition.

NYU Stern’s Latin American Business Association (LABA) will host their fifth annual conference on February 14, themed, “Opportunity Knocks: The Emergence of Latam.”

The Urbanization Project’s Brown Bag Discussion Series brings together students, scholars, and practitioners from NYU and NYC to talk with featured guests about their ongoing urban-related work.

As part of the Leadership Case Event series, Stern MBA student teams tackled a real-world business challenge and developed recommendations to share with Chris Golier (MBA '06), alumnus and vice president of mobile marketing and strategy for the National Hockey League (NHL).

Stern Women in Business (SWIB) will host their 22nd annual conference on Friday, February 7. This year's theme, "Reframing the Conversation: New Perspectives on Women in Business," will feature a keynote talk from Rosanne Haggerty, President of Common Solutions, as well as a keynote panel.

On February 6, Dstillery and NYU Stern's Center for Business Analytics (CBA) co-hosted Advertising and Data Science Congress (ADS*CON), a half-day symposium dedicated to exploring the impact of the data science revolution on the digital advertising ecosystem.

NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business will host the Economic Outlook Forum on Monday, February 3, 2014.

L2's clinic aims to push brands’ understanding of Amazon beyond a mere platform for official or unofficial distribution, and will feature academics, industry practitioners, competitors, brands and equity analysts. They will also consider Amazon’s next moves in digital as it enters the luxury space.

Neil Blumenthal, co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, joined Langone MBA students for a 2013-2014 Langone Speaker Series event. Professor Charlie Murphy moderated the discussion, beginning with a one-on-one interview and followed by an open Q&A session with students.

The Urbanization Project’s Brown Bag Discussion Series brings together students, scholars, and practitioners from NYU and NYC to talk with featured guests about their ongoing urban-related work.

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, Senior Research Scholar Shlomo (Solly) Angel spoke with Dr. Joan Clos, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-Habitat and former mayor of Barcelona, in a public presentation on December 9.

Three teams of first-year MBA students went head-to-head, pitching their ideas for future business endeavors in the finals of Amazon’s 2013 Innovation Competition.

On December 5, Associate Professor of IOMS Rene Caldentey, CBA Executive in Residence Rick Zeni, Professor of IOMS and Marketing and Co-director of the Center for Business Analytics Anindya Ghose, and Associate Director of the Center for Business Analytics Mandy Osborne, hosted a revenue management roundtable discussion.