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Students, academics and practitioners from the non-profit and business communities gathered at NYU Stern on April 14 for a discussion on “Big Data and Sustainable Development,” co-hosted by Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business and The Sustainability Practice Network.

NYU Stern’s Leadership Development Program welcomed Karen Peetz, BNY Mellon president and founder of its women’s network, for an interactive dialogue on diversity in business as part of the School’s Leadership Development Speaker Series.

Robert Frank, research scholar at NYU Stern and the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management at Cornell University, delivered the 2016 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Lecture on April 12.

NYU Stern Executive Education is pleased to offer one of the premier courses on global political risk and its impacts on business. Taught by Ian Bremmer, a preeminent thought leader on foreign policy and global political risk, and a team from the prestigious Eurasia Group, this course offers an executive-level assessment of the global risk environment and the basis for determining how politics influences a variety of economic concerns.

Philip Krim, co-founder and CEO of Casper, joined Professor Jeffrey Carr, MBA students and alumni for a 2015-2016 Langone Speaker Series event.

On Friday, April 8, NYU Stern and Columbia Business School will co-host the 2016 MBA Media & Entertainment Conference.

On April 4 and 5, the NYU Stern Urbanization Project and UN-Habitat released the preliminary results of Monitoring Global Urban Expansion, a research program exploring the characteristics of the world’s 4,230 cities, at the Habitat III Thematic Meeting on Public Space in Barcelona, Spain. 

On April 4 and 5, NYU Stern hosted the sixth edition of the Blockchain Workshops series, which brought together more than 100 scientists, investors and legal experts to understand the upcoming challenges and opportunities provided by blockchain technologies, and their impact on financial services and entrepreneurship, as well as on the broader social, economic and political order.

Experts from academia, the finance sector, regulatory agencies and legal and accounting professions gathered at NYU Stern on April 4 for a roundtable discussion on "Assessing Materiality: The FASB's Proposed Accounting Standards Update," hosted by the Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research.

NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business, VICE Media and Collectively co-hosted the Future Jobs Fair on Wednesday, March 30. NYU and Stern students had the opportunity to share their ambitions on the future of work, design their perfect job of the future, and gain insights and skills into what the world of work will look like. 

Lord Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England, Baron King of Lothbury, Alan Greenspan Professor of Economics, and Professor of Economics and Law at NYU, addressed students, faculty and alumni from NYU Stern and NYU School of Law during a fireside chat on his new book The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy this March.  

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara recently addressed an auditorium of students and faculty from NYU’s Stern School of Business and Law School, as well as Stern alumni.

The NYU Stern Private Equity Club (SPEC) will host the 11th Annual Stern Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference, themed "Changing Gears to Create Value: Outperforming the Benchmark," on Friday, March 4.

On Friday, February 26, the Latin American Business Associations (LABA) of NYU Stern and Columbia Business School will host their inaugural joint conference, themed “Latin America: Navigating Uncertainty.”

NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business will welcome Dr. John C. Williams, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for a talk with the Stern community on Thursday, February 25.

NYU Stern's W.R. Berkley Innovation Lab will welcome alumni, angel investors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry innovators to the 2016 New Venture Showcase.  Attendees will have a chance to meet startups from across NYU who are competing in the $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge.  This year's startups range from software and consumer product ventures to medical device technologies.

On February 19, 2016, the social enterprise student organizations of New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, School of Law, and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service will host the Sixth Annual NYU Social Innovation Symposium (SIS).

On Friday, February 5, Stern Women in Business (SWIB) will host its 24th annual conference, themed "Strengths of Women in Business." This year's conference will feature a keynote talk from Susan L. Jurevics (MBA '96), CEO of Pottermore from J.K. Rowling, moderated by CNBC reporter Courtney Reagan (MBA '13).

More than 150 students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered at NYU Sternon February 3 for the kickoff of the First Annual MISSION: APPOSSIBLE Mobile App Contest.

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business will host the Economic Outlook Forum on February 2, 2016.

The Macro Financial Modeling (MFM) Group Winter 2016 Meeting is co-sponsored and hosted by the Volatility Institute at the NYU Stern School of Business. Scholars, central bankers and practitioners will discuss interactions between credit risks of financial sectors and their respective sovereigns.

NYU Stern’s MS in Risk Management (MSRM) Program hosted the third Risk Roundtable Series on January 28. Approximately 65 attendees including Stern alumni and industry professionals gathered to hear from Stern Professor Tom Cooley and NYU Professor of Politics and Economics David Denoon, director of NYU’s Center on US-China Relations.

The TRIUM Global Executive MBA program, a partnership between NYU’s Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and HEC Paris School of Management, held a module in Silicon Valley, California from January 8 - 18, the first in the program’s history.

NYU Stern's Master of Science in Business Analytics program will host a webinar, "Introduction to Machine Learning for Business Executives," led by Dr. Roy Lowrance, managing director of the NYU Center for Data Science on Thursday, December 10.

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by the NYU Stern Urbanization Project, Economics Professor Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project and the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, spoke with Matthew Kahn, Visiting Professor at USC and author of Blue Skies over Beijing, in a public presentation on December 9.