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As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, NYU Global Research Professor Richard Florida spoke with Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures in a public presentation on October 9.

Ellen Seidman, the 2013-2014 Citi Leadership & Ethics Distinguished Fellow and former director of the US Treasury Department’s Office of Thrift Supervision, met with students and faculty this month.

Dambisa Moyo, international economist, joins Dean Peter Henry and MBA students for NYU Stern’s Block Lunch this fall.

Kenneth Langone (MBA ’60), founder and CEO of Invemed and co-founder of Home Depot, joined Langone MBA students for the inaugural 2013-2014 Langone Speaker Series event.

Hosted by the Entrepreneurs Exchange, the Amazon.com Innovation Competition challenges second-year MBA students to create an actionable product or service for Amazon.

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project, Director of the Marron Institute and Professor of Economics, spoke with Bill Bratton, who formerly served as chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department, New York police commissioner and Boston police commissioner, in a public presentation on October 2.

Learn more about doctorate degrees in business and meet representatives from over 20 PhD programs.

The Center for Global Economy and Business of the NYU Stern School of Business and the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance of The University of California at Santa Barbara will hold a joint conference on Demography for Economists.

During the Entrepreneurs Challenge Kick-Off, attendees will hear about NYU Stern’s Annual New Venture Competition and Social Venture Competition – both sponsored by Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation – as well as NYU’s Annual Technology Venture Competition, hosted by Stern’s Berkley Center and NYU’s Innovation Venture Fund.

Academics, practitioners and policymakers gathered at NYU Stern on September 23 for a roundtable discussion on “Big GAAP vs. Little GAAP: Public Company and Private Company Reporting.”

President John Sexton and Dean Peter Henry welcomed Stern alumnus Nicolas Berggruen (BS '81), chairman of the Berggruen Institute on Governance, to campus this month for a discussion with NYU students on his new book, "Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century."

The Conference on Extracting & Understanding the Risk Neutral Probability Density from Options Prices will bring together researchers from NYU Stern and the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Minneapolis to describe the work they have been doing on extracting the risk neutral density from options prices and analyzing the information it contains.

Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business (CGEB) will host a public talk with Philipp Hildebrand, vice chairman of BlackRock and former chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank.

On Monday, September 16, NYU trustee Ken Langone, educator Geoffrey Canada and investor Stanley Druckenmiller discussed "Generational Theft: How Entitlement Spending is Stealing Opportunity from America's Youth." The discussion was moderated by Bloomberg TV's Stephanie Ruhle.

Dean Peter Henry and the Center for Business and Human Rights welcomed representatives from manufacturing, workers’ organizations and the governments of the United States and Bangladesh for the Conference on Bangladesh Workplace Safety, held at NYU Stern on September 9-11. This forum marked the Center’s inaugural event.

NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation recently hosted a new workshop series entitled, "Lean Startup Summer Boot Camp." The five-session series explored human-centered research, divergent thinking and problem solving to validate or invalidate startup or product ideas early on.

Executive MBA students from the Class of 2013, along with family and friends, gathered at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers to celebrate their scholastic achievements at a Graduation Celebration.

In celebration of the launch of NYU Shanghai, the University’s third portal campus, NYU Stern held its biennial Global Alumni Conference in our newest home of Shanghai June 20-22, 2013.

Jill Kickul, director of Stern’s Program in Social Entrepreneurship, spoke about “Hybrid Models for Social Enterprises” at the 2013 orientation training for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a global network of organizations that fosters entrepreneurship in emerging markets.

The NYU Stern Center for Measurable Marketing hosted “Measuring and Managing Brands in a Digital World" on May 29. The conference brought together marketing leaders and top academics to discuss best practices in measuring brand equity.

The Leonard N. Stern School of Business Graduate Convocation Ceremony took place on Thursday, May 23, 2012 at Radio City Music Hall.

Laurence D. Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock and an NYU Trustee, spoke with NYU Stern MBA students and faculty on "Longevity in the Age of Twitter," highlighting how the retirement landscape has changed significantly over the past 50 years.

Professor Nouriel Roubini moderated a conversation with Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, and Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, on their new book, "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business."

As part of an annual tradition, NYU Stern faculty and guests gathered to celebrate the School’s community of scholars and to recognize excellence in research and scholarship, innovation, teaching and mentorship, and influence in business and policy.

Finalists from the New Venture, Social Venture and Technology Venture Competitions will participate in the 2013 Final Pitch-off for up to $200,000 in seed money and in-kind support as part of the NYU Stern Entrepreneurs Challenge, hosted by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.