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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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

Excerpt from College Magazine-- "NYU offers a fashion and luxury MBA at NYU Stern School of Business, and they offer multiple fashion programs through NYU Gallatin in Florence, Italy and London, England."
 

Excerpt from Executive Courses-- “Close by is New York University’s Stern School of Business, another top executive education provider. It puts on the Finance and Accounting for Non-Finance Executives program. Participants gain an understanding of how basic accounting information is used to communicate with financial managers and to assess a firm’s value and future prospects. It also covers pitfalls in financial decision making including psychological biases in the field of behavioral finance.”
 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants--“'As we MBA students prepare to re-enter the workforce as future leaders, I believe that it is paramount that we stop to think of what we can do locally first,' says Asher. 'If Stern is the main local community that we operate in, AHBBS is the platform for us to facilitate conversation, engage members and allies, and effect change.'"

"Cynthia added that AHBBS has increased collaboration with Dean Gary Fraser, NYU Stern’s Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion, over the last year to have a greater impact. 'We worked closely with him to present the Anti-Racism Proposal to the rest of senior management and have worked with him to host panels regarding D&I issues, both generally and specifically related to COVID.'"

Meet Jeanna Smialek, Part-time MBA ‘21, New York Times Economics Reporter. 

Excerpt from CNBC-- "The American Recovery Act is currently being debated fiercely inside and outside the halls of Congress and one of the topics which has been under much discussion is the extent to which given that we are now below full employment and we have an output gap, given the numbers that are being debated presently in the American Recovery Act and what the implications would be for the increase in GDP that we would see as a result of these fiscal measures, what do you and your colleagues see in terms of the size of the gap we currently have in the economy at present relative to the increase in GDP that would bring us closer to the full-employment level of output, given the numbers that are being thrown around?"

Excerpt from Financial Times-- "Your application, CV and standardised tests demonstrate your IQ, so the essays, endorsements from recommenders and interview are the chance to showcase your interpersonal strengths, says Lisa Rios, executive director of MBA admissions at NYU Stern School of Business in the US. 'I encourage you to use the application as your storyboard. Show us your authentic self.'"

Excerpt from The New York Times-- “Ms. Daly said Mr. Gamble had made a 'material change' at her Fed. And improving is a priority because, as she puts it, ‘policymaking reflects those around the table.’ Mr. Gamble is now in a predoctoral program at New York University. Mentors who helped him along the way, including Lisa Cook at Michigan State University, Ms. Daly at the Fed and now Peter Blair Henry — a leading Black economist whom he is working with at N.Y.U. — were critical links in the chain that is leading him to a Ph.D. His story suggests that diversifying is a matter of tearing down structural barriers that have long shut out talented people of color and offering support and inclusion once they arrive.”

A key Pillar of the student experience at NYU Stern’s Undergraduate College is Social Impact, the notion that business can be used to create a positive impact. One way students put this Pillar into action is through the production of The Call For Corporate Action: NYU Stern Student Voices, a magazine of essays written by first-year Stern undergrads that addresses issues facing society where businesses are in a unique position to make change. This year marks the 10-year anniversary of The Call. 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants-- "The course is one of four required social impact courses in the undergraduate curriculum at Stern. Stern students are required to take a social impact-focused course each year. Social impact has been baked into the Stern curriculum since 1998 when the school first introduced social impact into undergraduate education. 'It’s the thoughtful spine that runs through the whole undergraduate business education,' Younger says of the required social impact curriculum."
 "[Farm] continued, 'Being an author for The Call gave my ideas a voice. Being an editor for The Call exposed me to issues I had never heard of before and has shown me hundreds of different ways to solve problems. This exercise is incredibly valuable to any business student because solving problems is at the core of what business is. Our authors’ creativity has inspired me to continue searching for ways to improve business’s impact on society well beyond my undergraduate career.'”

With a legacy now two decades strong, experiential learning is synonymous with NYU Stern. In today’s fast-paced business landscape, the foundational skills students gain through Stern’s hands-on courses and projects focused on solving real business challenges in real time with the guidance of its world-renowned faculty are more essential than ever. 

Employers seek students who can embrace change and lead despite ambiguity. Stern’s experiential learning MBA portfolio, what the School calls Stern Solutions, has evolved over 20 years to prepare today’s students to integrate theory and practice into actionable solutions. 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants-- "Because I started last year with a plan, I was able to stay focused on what I wanted and could easily filter for the things that would help me reach those goals and say yes to them. While the coronavirus pandemic made it easy to avoid some of the typical MBA distractions, I was still intentional about learning all I could in class, making a positive impact on the Stern community, and offering coaching as a teaching fellow to other Master’s and MBA students. In the moment, I often felt like I could have done more. But looking back, I’m happy with how my MBA journey has gone and that’s due in no small part to making sure I know what I needed to do to be able to say that I made the most of my time."

Excerpt from Clear Admit-- “When I received the final offer from the firm, I realized that my success was not the mere culmination of my efforts, but also the selfless support of my classmates, the sacrifice of my parents and so much more. I felt very humbled. There is no alternative to hard work, but hard work alone is not enough for achieving your goals. Having the right people around you who support you and bring out your best self is critical.”

Excerpt from Executive Courses-- “Stern graduates are also eligible to audit graduate-level elective courses at no cost, once per semester. ‘The alumni response has been very positive since we launched this initiative in fall 2019: more than 600 Stern alumni have requested these educational benefits to date,’ says Amanda Parker, associate dean for development and alumni relations at Stern.”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants-- “Help from alumni was a theme last year. At NYU Stern, Beth Briggs, associate dean of career services, said her school kept up its base pay figures while also ensuring that 100% of the Class of 2021 secured summer work by calling on its famously robust alumni network. The school leaned into a rebrand announced in 2019 that included the launch of SternWorks, an initiative that connects MBAs with small businesses and nonprofits that need their help.”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants-- “‘NYU Stern International Studies Program (ISP) was a semester-long project where we studied a business and its home country to understand how the business could tailor their operations in a way that would benefit their bottom line,’ one 2018 alumni told us via the alumni survey. ‘During the semester, we took a week-long excursion to Hong Kong to study the culture and the company we chose to better understand how to run a business and tailor recommendations to a company to better attract and serve the community.’”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants-- "Ranking third this year, NYU Stern has consistently moved up our rankings over the past few years, placing sixth in 2019 and fourth last year. NYU finished eighth in admissions standards, fifth in academic experience, and third in employment outcomes. Like other schools towards the top of this year’s rankings, Stern had tough admissions standards, admitting just 12.7% of applicants. Students in the latest fall cohort posted the second-highest average SAT scores at 1,507. Of course, the school also boasted some frothy career outcomes with 96.3% of the Class of 2020 having at least one business-specific internship before graduation and 95.2% with full-time employment within three months of commencement. Average starting salaries hit $80,064, making Stern grads one of just four schools to report a annual paychecks of at least $80,000 along with Wharton, Virginia McIntire, and Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business."

Excerpt from FindMBA-- "NYU Stern School of Business in New York City runs the Entertainment, Media and Technology program for MBA students. Candidates will learn how to manage businesses across the spectrum of the entertainment and media industry. The MBA focuses on both the business and content aspects of the creative sectors, covering marketing, finance, film, television, music, sports and publishing. The Big Apple is home to many leading creative firms and the course was developed with an advisory board of executives from these businesses including Netflix and Apple."