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Excerpt from CNBC -- "A report published on Monday by New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights called on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to stop outsourcing content moderation. 'The widespread practice of relying on third-party vendors for content review amounts to an outsourcing of responsibility for the safety of major social media platforms and their billions of users,' said Paul Barrett, deputy director of the center and author of the report."

Excerpt from QSR Magazine -- “'The work that Just Salad is doing to educate people about their food choices as they relate to planetary health is imperative,' says Sophie Waskow Rifkin, Senior Associate Director, Center for Sustainable Business at NYU Stern School of Business, which facilitated the project. 'I’m incredibly proud of our MBA candidates who are passionately dedicated to sustainability and helped Just Salad take this historical step for the betterment of the restaurant industry and our planet.'"

A team of NYU Stern MBA students won second place in The Small Business School Challenge, a 48-hour nationwide virtual hackathon launched to help support small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. The Stern team included Fashion & Luxury MBA students Lisa Gehring (MBA ‘20), Hannah Gotfredson (MBA ‘20), and Becca Yu Zhou (MBA ‘20), and was one of 10 finalists. 

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'The campaign to 'buy black' is not new in the black community, notes Rachel Marie Brooks Atkins, a postdoctoral faculty fellow at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She says many people who study black entrepreneurship are skeptical that even more widespread adoption can have a lasting impact, noting that the challenges facing black businesses are more fundamental than cash flow."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "The 'S' should focus on inequality and the core business practices that fuel it, especially outsourcing and automation. The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the degree of economic inequality in America. While America's white-collar workers juggle Zoom calls and child care, low-wage earners must either risk infection delivering essential services or find themselves unable to afford rent and other necessities for their families."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "NYU Stern, SternWorks, a joint effort of the Office of Career Development and Office of Student Engagement (the latter of which leads Stern’s experiential learning efforts), gives full-time MBA students a summer experience who don’t otherwise have one lined up — or whose internship was delayed or truncated. The school tells P&Q that the program helps students build skills while giving back to its community — which was hit harder by the pandemic than any other in the U.S. SternWorks is a testament to quick-thinking innovation."

A message from NYU Stern leadership to the Stern community regarding recent events

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "The combination of the Fertitta Veterans Program, living in New York City, and the school’s track record in investment banking recruiting led me to choose Stern. As I was transitioning out of the Marine Corps, I was looking for MBA programs with strong veteran clubs. I felt that a strong veteran community would help ensure a smooth transition back to school and facilitate a strong network for future endeavors. Stern has one of the highest military contingents of any MBA program, largely due to the creation of the Fertitta Veterans Program in 2016. The program reduces veterans’ tuition to $30,000 per year and has provided scholarships to many graduates. In addition to tuition assistance, the program helps veterans ease back into academics by taking the statistics and financial accounting core requirements prior to orientation with the rest of the class."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "My favorite professor at NYU Stern has been Tensie Whelan. I had the opportunity to meet Tensie before I enrolled at Stern through events hosted by the School’s Center for Sustainable Business. Through this meeting, I was able to negotiate a research opportunity about ESG credentials of Fortune 100 board members. I was then also able to work as Professor Whelan’s teaching fellow for four of her courses at the Undergraduate, MBA, and Online Certificate levels. Prior to working with Tensie, I was aware of how approaching investing from a sustainable mindset could be used as a risk mitigant. However, as her teaching fellow, I was able to watch her successfully demonstrate the potential financial upside available for companies which I can use going forward in my professional life."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In mid-March in response to the pandemic, New York University’s Stern School of Business created the SternWorks program to “ensure that every full-time MBA student who seeks a summer experience (or whose start date for an internship is delayed) will have one in order to skill build, create impact, and have the opportunity to give back to the NYC community during these extraordinary times,” a Stern spokesperson says. In three weeks, the school partnered with many stakeholders and created more than 100 projects and $600,000 to support MBAs this summer."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "NYU Stern’s The Center for Real Estate Finance Research was established in 2012 to foster research in real estate finance, economics, and operations at Stern, and to improve and expand course offerings and career services in the MBA and undergraduate programs. Its mission also includes deepening the relationship between the Stern school and the real estate industry."

Excerpt from FindMBA -- "FIND MBA has updated its shortlists of the top 10 MBA programs by specialty for 2020. These Top 10 Lists—which group the best MBA programs for specific industry areas and business functions—are designed to help potential applicants quickly find the best MBA programs for their career goals. The lists take into account employment data, MBA concentrations on offer, research capacity, and other factors to help future MBA students find some of the best business schools for careers in various industries and functions."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "One of the values of earning an MBA is exploration. Whether it’s exploring a new industry, function, city, or experience, there lies opportunity in an unusually supported manner when at business school. A subset of this value proposition is something NYU Stern’s Dean, Dean Raghu Sundaram, said to us on our first day of LAUNCH, Stern’s orientation: business school is the best time in your careers to fail. Despite the irony that I’m paraphrasing, this was a moment that I’ve cherished from orientation. There is no safer environment to professionally experiment than business school. The stakes will not be lower! This line from our Dean helped me get through an experiential learning class I took in my first year called Consulting Lab: Branding and Innovation."

Excerpt from CryptoDaily -- "The Stern School of Business at NYU has been regularly ranked among the top 20 schools of business in the country. Blockchain technology has been made an integral part of its FinTech MBA program at this blockchain institute of technology. This specialization on Blockchain focuses on the impact of blockchain technology on investment and financial world and helps the students to influence international finance, investment banking, etc. and provides with the best blockchain certification and learn how to buy cryptocurrency."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Many schools are making the most of it, pulling together pre-recorded video segments and surprise elements that have made commencement for the Class of 2020 more memorable than ever.
 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "There are many reasons to love business school, but I really enjoyed and appreciated the student engagement opportunities and community I found at Stern. New York City can feel like an intimidating place, but NYU Stern prides itself on the community aspect of the experience. As President of our Stern Student Government, I worked with professional clubs, affinity organizations, and individuals who were committed to improving our school and student experience. Between our academics, recruiting, and navigating the city, it amazed me to see how committed my fellow classmates were to creating a really special environment at school."

Excerpt from JustStyle -- "The reopening of factories is welcome and bitter at the same time. Many garment workers, mostly young women, need the income that their factory work provides and are fearful of losing their jobs. But they also know the risk to their lives and their loved ones if they return to work and contract the virus."

Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business (No. 2), Harvard (University) Business School (No. 3), The University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management (No. 4) and Columbia (University) Business School (No. 5) round out the top five in both the Worldwide and the North American rankings."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "When coronavirus shut down campuses across the country, the part-time MBA program at New York University’s Stern School of Business was ready to pivot to all-online, says JP Eggers, vice dean for MBA programs. Students adapted well because of the flexibility built into the program, including three options for pursuing their degree. 'Flexibility,' Eggers says, 'is the defining characteristic of our part-time MBA program. Right from the start, students choose the program path that best meets their needs — the two-year accelerated option, weeknight option, or the Saturday option. They can put their program on hold at any time and resume when ready within a six-year limit, a choice that was available well before the coronavirus.'"

Excerpt from U.S. News -- "Executive MBA students at NYU select 12 elective classes in their second year, which means that they can customize their curriculum. They also can elect to concentrate on one business discipline or specialize in two or three business fields simultaneously. Potential specializations vary widely, from financial instruments and markets to supply chain management and global sourcing to entrepreneurship and innovation."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants --  “I knew I wanted to be in New York City long term. I felt it was important to choose a school that was located in or near the city, which would give me access to networking and recruiting opportunities for New York-based roles. After visiting Stern’s campus, I was truly blown away by the kindness and camaraderie demonstrated by the students I spoke with and knew I wanted to be part of a community like Stern’s.” - Rebecca Dewey

“I chose Stern for two main reasons. First, the community. Stern prides itself on “IQ + EQ” and I was drawn to a school that emphasized the human side of business as well as its technical aspects. Secondly, I wanted to stay in the Northeast. Living in NYC before business school, I knew how much the city had to offer in terms of access to companies and events. Stern does a fantastic job of connecting students with the city, and I’ve really enjoyed being able to visit companies in person and get involved in experiential learning projects in the city.” - Allie Kornstein

Excerpt from Vault -- "One way schools are dealing with the time and financial commitment issue is through 'certificates.' Certificates, like these options from NYU’s Stern School of Business, provide an alternate option to students concerned about the intensity of a two-year program. Certificates allow students to take a handful of courses in an area of study like finance or marketing, as opposed to having to take a full course load over a two-year period."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Maher Said is an award-winning researcher and teacher at New York University’s Stern School of Business. A 38-year-old assistant professor of economics, Said won the NYU Stern Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019. 'Professor Said demonstrates an uncanny ability to make a dry, theory-heavy course accessible, fun, and intellectually stimulating,” one nominator said. “He has an absolutely contagious love for economics and game theory that I could not help but to catch through taking his course. He is funny, witty, clever, and always teaches with a smile on his face.'"

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Paul Barrett, an expert in disinformation and fake news at New York University, has identified similar trends adding that some malicious actors are feeding off each others disinformation for their own ends. 'It’s a three ring circus of disinformation,' he told the Guardian. 'In the current state of affairs it is almost impossible to pick out one strain and isolate it, because simultaneously Russian and China and Trump getting into the act and imitating each other more and more. It is incredibly difficult for an ordinary citizen to navigate what’s true.'"