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Today, New York University’s Stern School of Business announced that it received a $5 million gift from alumna Elizabeth Elting (MBA ’92), the single largest gift from a self-made woman in the School’s history.  With this support, Elting aims to champion the next generation of talented and entrepreneurial women affiliated with her alma mater, an intention that aligns with the mission of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation she now runs after a successful business career leading the multi-million dollar global translation business she founded in an NYU dorm room in 1992.

Researchers from New York University and Georgia Tech are conducting foundational research to understand and improve expert work in an age of data-intensive enhanced cognition, especially in healthcare, where new technologies are rapidly being deployed. The National Science Foundation recently awarded the team $2 million for the four-year project, which is expected to transform the future of expert work through a combined redesign of technology, workflow, and interactions.

Today, New York University Stern School of Business announced that candidates applying to the School’s full-time MBA programs can now choose to take the Executive Assessment, designed by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), to fulfill the application’s standardized test requirement.

NYU Stern faculty are available to offer perspectives on this year’s back-to-school shopping, retail and consumer trends. The following professors can speak to what we will see this year around promotional and marketing trends, winners and losers in retail, shifts in consumer sentiment, and tech and AI-powered innovation.

A new book by NYU Stern Professor Ingo Walter and co-author Clive Lipshitz illustrates the challenges facing America’s public pension system and its public infrastructure and suggests solutions to both, particularly by connecting the two.

New York University Stern School of Business is accepting applications for the 2019-2020 cohort of Endless Frontier Labs (EFL), a program for early-stage science- and technology-based startups. The program is structured to optimize each startup’s chance of scaling into a successful company through a goals-based mentoring process.

The ASEAN region plays a vital role in spurring economic growth and innovation across several industries both in the region and globally. To develop and inspire today’s global leaders, NYU Stern Executive Education will welcome regional management consulting firm SRW&Co. for their ASEAN Global Leadership Program (AGLP), from April 13 to April 17, 2020. 

The student-led NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) has successfully completed its first investment with a $30,000 investment in Sapient Industries,  whose mission is to eliminate waste from our electrical grid using machine learning.

New research from the NYU Stern School of Business and Tent Partnership for Refugees unveiled on World Refugee Day 2019 reveals that, despite increasing polarization in Europe around the refugee crisis, consumers in Italy, France, and Germany are more likely to buy from brands that support refugees.

Bitcoin has been envisioned as a global digital currency, yet it has not been widely adopted. New research from NYU Stern Professor Kose John, PhD candidate Franz Hinzen and co-author establishes that Bitcoin’s limited adoption is inescapable due to its technical design.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions against public companies and their subsidiaries remained at near-record levels through the first half of the 2019 fiscal year, which ended March 31. According to a report released today by the NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business and Cornerstone Research, enforcement actions reached these levels despite the federal government shutdown that led to a one-month period during which the SEC suspended non-emergency enforcement operations.

At the conclusion of an eight-month competition, NYU’s most promising innovators received cash prizes and pro-bono startup services valued at more than $300,000 at NYU Stern’s annual Entrepreneurs Challenge, organized by the School’s W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs. 

In their paper titled, “Empirical Analysis of Referrals in Ride-Sharing,” the authors find that marketers can determine customers’ likelihood of delivering high-quality referrals based on cues from the customer’s usage of the platform. 

Today, the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business launched a new initiative titled, “Invest NYC SDG,” to accelerate New York City’s efforts to build a future economy that is resilient, sustainable and inclusive with $350,000 in support from the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets and PepsiCo.

In an era of unprecedented change and pervasive uncertainty, the question isn’t whether graduates will meet this moment, but how. In her address to the NYU Stern Graduate Class of 2019, Janet Foutty will explore that “how,” sharing the leadership principle that has empowered her – and the people around her – to not only own the challenges they face, but to actually solve them.

New York University’s Stern School of Business today announced the appointment of alumnus Andre J.L. Koo (MBA '94), Chairman, Chailease Group, as Chair of the School’s Board of Overseers, effective July 1, 2019. Andre Koo is the first internationally-based business leader to serve in this position.

Today, the NYU Stern School of Business Center for Sustainable Business and IRI® released the findings of a new U.S.-based study and established the Sustainable Market Share Index™, an in-depth analysis of consumer purchases of products that are marketed for their sustainable attributes.  The research finds that sustainability-marketed products are responsible for more than half of the growth in consumer packaged goods (CPGs) since 2013.

NYU Stern faculty are available to offer insights on the 2019 Academy Awards.

Today New York University Stern School of Business announced the launch of a new online Master of Science in Quantitative Management Program (MSQM), officially marking its entrance into the online degree category as the first and only top-ranked U.S. business school to deliver an MS in Management online.
 

NYU Stern School of Business faculty are available to offer expert analysis on the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it will impact our economy and society.  

AI, crowdsourcing can identify insights that lead to breakthroughs.

NYU Stern faculty are available to offer perspectives on this year’s Super Bowl advertising and marketing trends.

Candid photos elicit more favorable responses in the context of friendship and dating because they seem more genuine, according to joint research from Professor Alixandra Barasch. 

Report from the Tent Partnership for Refugees and NYU Stern demonstrates that when brands support refugees, American consumers – particularly millennials – are more likely to purchase their products.

The number of new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement actions against public companies and subsidiaries jumped substantially in the second half of FY 2018, according to a report released today by the NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business and Cornerstone Research.