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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."

Excerpt from Noodle -- "NYU's MBA with a sustainable business and innovation specialization aims to equip students with an understanding of key sustainability challenges and opportunities for modern business. The program focuses on current and emerging business practices. It operates in both a full- and part-time, on-campus format with the option to take up to 25 percent of courses at other NYU graduate schools or international partner institutions. Experiential learning and co-curricular opportunities include Stern Signature Projects (SSPs), case competitions such as the NYU Stern Opportunity Zone Challenge and the annual Patagonia Case Competition, and research fellow placement at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB)."

Excerpt from Aspen Institute -- “I believe that a variant of ‘Amara’s Law’ will apply as we emerge from the pandemic: changes in the short-term will be overestimated, and the impacts in the longer-term will be underestimated. In moving most or all classroom engagement online, we have learned what works well. Previous resistance to technology has lessened for both faculty and students. Perhaps the greatest impact will be in the increasingly different modes we use to engage full-time students versus part-time and executive students who are working professionals. Since time is in particularly short supply for the latter, we will increasingly leverage technology to foster and sustain engagement and to create even greater flexibility for them. So too will we embrace technology in new ways to catalyze alumni engagement and lifelong learning for our alumni global communities.
—Raghu Sundaram, Dean and Edward I. Altman Professor of Credit and Debt Markets
NYU Stern School of Business”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “Start With Small Steps: ‘Don’t think about entering an MBA program. Think about what you want out of a program, which programs fit your goals, and then outline the individual steps you need to consider to make a decision and just focus on each one at a time. I ultimately realized that I’d been my own barrier to success when I looked at it as “getting an MBA” instead of “What will an MBA give back to me and what will I give back to my MBA classmates?’” Natasha Rankin, New York University (Stern)”

Professor and Dean Emeritus Peter Blair Henry joined a virtual roundtable hosted by the United Nations entitled “Rebirthing the Global Economy to Deliver Sustainable Development” on November 24, 2020.

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "New York University’s Impact Investment Fund draws on students from business, public service and law schools. It backed Sapient Industries, which uses machine learning to improve electrical grid efficiency, and has itself been deployed on campus to reduce carbon footprint."

Excerpt from FindMBA -- "NYU Stern professor Anindya Ghose, in New York, says the key technical skills required are data modeling, data visualization and predictive modeling. Students acquire these skills from coursework such as statistical modeling, data engineering, programming, econometric modeling and from machine learning experiments.

However, soft skills such as communication are also crucial. 'The key soft skills required are the ability to tell a story from mining the data and the ability to lead a team with eclectic individuals from disparate work experiences,' Ghose says."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "This year’s list features professors from 33 of the world’s best undergraduate business programs. Of the 33, three have campuses based outside of the U.S. The list also includes a record 23 women. Obviously, multiple schools received more than one professor on the list. New York University’s Stern School of Business had the highest representation of professors, landing five professors on this year’s list."

Each year all students in NYU Stern's Executive MBA Washington, DC Program (EMBA DC) participate in a Speaker Series course featuring industry practitioners led by Professor Naomi Diamant, EMBA Programs academic director and Executive Programs assistant dean. 

The year-long course is designed to foster a deeper interdisciplinary understanding and broader perspective of current issues, opportunities, and challenges leaders face in today’s dynamic business environment.

During the Fall 2020 semester, the course featured Nate Yohannes, Technical Advisor and Corporate Strategy Leader to the Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft and Dr. Joe Stauffer (TRIUM ‘09), Chief Medical Officer at Antibe Therapeutics. 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “After Dartmouth Tuck, the biggest two-year gains were at UCLA Anderson School of Management and NYU Stern School of Business, which both gained 6 points to 40% and 43%, respectively.”

Meet student Sameer Bagaber, MS in Risk Management ‘21, Abu Dhabi Department for Culture and Tourism, Business Resilience Manager.

Excerpt from MBA Schooled -- “Bryan Ramos is the Executive Director in the Office of Student Engagement at NYU Stern. As part of his role he’s responsible for overseeing Stern’s Experiential Learning programs, branded Stern Solutions, for MBA students. During our conversation, we spoke about the importance of experiential learning in higher education, and how Stern has created a new model and unique set of offerings for MBA students that engages them in an iterative process of immersion, acting and reflecting.”

Excerpt from U.S. News -- “Though MBA graduates who work in the finance industry, including in accounting, are often paid a six-figure salary, graduates of certain highly selective business schools are paid especially well. Based on U.S. News data, 2019 graduates from these 44 business schools who work in the finance or accounting sector have an average salary greater than $100,000.”

This Veterans Day and every day NYU Stern thanks all those who have served, including U.S. Military veteran and active duty Stern students and alumni.