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Excerpt from Higher Education Review -- “The tech MBA program offered by Stern School of Business focuses on four main aspects. This includes teaching the students about business and technology and also lays emphasis on experiential learning and the elective courses students get to choose.

“People usually think there are not many technology companies on the east coast, but most popular companies will have an office in New York or in the periphery giving the B-school a good geographic location advantage. Moreover, the Stern Solutions component offers the MBA candidates an opportunity to work and participate in built-in projects on the east and the west coasts.”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "That happened to NYU Stern’s Myryah Nicholas, who wondered if she could make it in New York City – let alone the beauty industry. That’s when she came across an advertisement…and reflected back on her original purpose — and knew everything would eventually turn out right. 'I stumbled across a Mother’s Day billboard that read, “I didn’t go nine months without chardonnay for you to hate your job.” While the sighting initially provided a good laugh, the message stuck with me. I knew I owed it to the people who supported me and, more importantly, myself to pivot into a career path I loved. On the plane ride home, I vowed to take the risks I needed to achieve my goals. Four months later, I was living in New York—the epicenter of the beauty industry—and one step closer to making my dreams come true.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "What word best describes the NYU Stern classmates you’ve met so far? Why?
 ‘IQ + EQ’. They are not only some of the sharpest and brightest young minds, but also extremely empathetic and helpful. I can’t wait to know each one of them more intimately."

Excerpt from GreenBiz -- "Most sustainability practitioners believe customers will reward a company for doing the right thing. We know it’s a complex story and that price, accessibility of product and perceived efficacy all affect shoppers’ choices. In general, however, we trust that customers will pick sustainable solutions if they are easy to find and price differences are negligible. And there is evidence that consumers do prefer to buy sustainable products. NYU Stern’s landmark study found that 50 percent of CPG growth from 2013 to 2018 came from sustainability-marketed products. The study is based on what consumers actually bought — not what they said they would do."

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Ethiopian workers are the lowest paid in the global garment supply chain. According to a report by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, the minimum wage for Ethiopian garment workers is $26 a month, compared with $95 in Bangladesh and $326 in China."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Going back to my inclination for structure, I developed my own framework for how I approached year one. I think it is flexible enough to apply to all students and simple enough to not feel overwhelming. It is a five point plan that covers the major areas of the experience and allows you to define what is important to you. My anecdotes stem from my experience as someone who is transitioning careers from general management into consulting. At the same time, my framework and recommendations are flexible enough to be applicable to all students."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Matthew Meade has his fingers on everything at JP Morgan Chase. As a vice president, Meade leads a seven-member team that covers 99 trading desks and 15 lines of business across the globe. In a nutshell, his job is to make work easier for everyone else. He examines every possible metric across the firm, assessing their value and limits, he says. From there, Meade moves this data onto digital platforms so anyone can drag, drop, and trend it. An unsung hero? More like the consummate team player. After all, Meade was once tapped to build a tech operation from scratch at JP Morgan Chase. He automated it so well that he wasn’t needed to run it. Don’t worry, Meade found plenty of internal suitors after he’d finished. To borrow one of his favorite phrases: 'Good word comes from good work.' Now, Meade is spreading the word in a different way. This month, he published his first book, Wisdom on the Way to Wall Street: 22 Steps to Navigating Your Road to Success. For Meade, the book is a look back over a 15 year Wall Street finance career as much as a roadmap forward. Forget tutorials on reinvestment risk and swap spreads. Meade focuses on the lessons that Wall Street honchos often take for granted: relentless learning, quiet reflection, and authentic interaction."

This spring in response to the coronavirus pandemic, NYU Stern launched SternWorks, a major new initiative aimed at connecting MBAs with vital small businesses in need of help to share their skills. By focusing efforts on the types of small businesses and nonprofits that are most acutely feeling the economic pain of the current crisis, the goal is to provide students an opportunity to put their business skills to work for those who need support more than ever before. One pillar of the new initiative, SternWorks: Serve NYC, focuses specifically on short- and long-term volunteer opportunities for MBA students to give back to the NYC community. 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “Business schools all over the world have been innovating new ways to teach business skills to young professionals, modernizing traditional MBA programs, and launching new, more specialized degrees in such fields as data analytics and chain supply management.”

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "'I am heartbroken by what happened to George Floyd,' Matthew Meade, 36, a vice president who works in risk management at the bank, wrote to his team in an email viewed by Business Insider. 'When I think of George, it is no longer a matter of if what happened was wrong or right,' Meade added. 'It's not about black versus white, it's about America versus racism.' Meade, who is currently pursuing an executive MBA at the NYU Stern School of Business, has spent nearly 10 years working at JPMorgan. In recent years, he's taken on a number of roles, at work and in his personal life, to improve the experiences of other young people of color. Later this month, he'll unpack some of those topics in 'Wisdom On the Way to Wall Street: 22 Steps to Navigate Your Road to Success,' his forthcoming book, which Meade will self-publish on August 22."

Excerpt from Biz Ed -- "Undergraduates at the New York University’s Stern School of Business now have the option to pursue a new degree program in technology and entrepreneurship. The four-year, STEM-certified bachelor of science in business, technology, and entrepreneurship will enroll its first class of 30 to 50 undergraduates in August 2021. The program, which students will complete as a cohort, consists of a four-part curriculum: an immersive experiential course that integrates entrepreneurship and technology, foundational courses in computer science and data analytics, courses in entrepreneurship that include experiences inside and outside the classroom, and a capstone course in which students will develop their own ventures or work on projects for early-stage startups."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "New York University’s Stern School of Business today (July 31) announced the launch of a new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) four-year undergraduate business degree. The Business, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (BTE) program will enroll its first class of 30 to 50 undergrads in August 2021. That number will be closer to 30 in the first year, according to Robert Whitelaw, vice dean of the Undergraduate College at Stern, with the capacity to reach 60 students per cohort moving forward."

In partnership with NYU Global Programs, NYU Stern’s Undergraduate College is offering students a First Year London option in its flagship four-year BS in Business Program for those applying to enter in Fall 2021 (the Class of 2025). Under this option, students will spend their first year at NYU London before returning to Stern’s NYC campus to complete the remainder of their degree program.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In the wake of the pandemic, business schools have learned that prospecting doesn’t necessarily involve ritzy finger foods and crowded halls. Instead, success requires something more fundamental: a great value proposition and authentic relationship-building."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “My proudest achievement during my time in Stern’s Executive MBA: Washington, D.C. Program has been consistently learning and immediately applying the knowledge Stern gave to me, whether it was strategy, analytics, finance, or leadership. It really made me feel that the program was a worthy investment, especially as I elevated my game. It also felt very good getting strong grades in a lot of the courses that I didn’t appreciate as much from undergrad now that I had more than a decade of professional experiences, especially in accounting, statistics, and finance.”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "A few schools report the number of tech hires from each graduating MBA class by specific firms, among them NYU Stern School of Business, which sent nine MBAs to Amazon in 2019, as well as six to Google, four to Microsoft, and three to Facebook."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "NYU Stern and IRI previously found that sustainability-marketed products drove almost 55 per cent of the growth in consumer packaged goods between 2015 and 2019, growing over seven times faster than products that make no such claims despite commanding an average price premium of 39 per cent."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In my professional position and now 47 years of age, gains in the number of friends one makes in a year frequently can be counted on one hand. Yet in business school, not only had I surrounded myself with over 60 incredibly smart, talented, and ambitious people who offered generosity of time and insight to me professionally, I’ve developed deep, enduring friendships with people who I never would have met had I not joined the NYU Stern Class of January 2020."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "Unique among business schools, the year-long course includes all-day sessions every eight weeks along two tracks: Life Sciences and Deep Tech. Startups from around the world apply to join the program where they are given the opportunity to be mentored by world-class scientists, investors, and entrepreneurs. Startups are given goals at each session and those who fall short are given feedback and cut. As an MBA student, you start the course by developing a framework and interviewing startups to help recommend which should be admitted. Afterward, each student is paired with a startup to work directly with the Founders on critical projects and participate in the all-day EFL meetings. One meeting that stood out to me was a pharmaceutical venture investor who told my startup, 'your business model gives control to the customer. You need to rethink the business model.' It was honest feedback that I had never considered."

Excerpt from MediaPost -- "However, critics don’t believe that social networks do enough to police their platforms. In a recent report, NYU’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights took issue with networks’ reliance on third-party vendors for content review, which they said amounted to an outsourcing of responsibility for the safety of billions of users."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "At NYU Stern, anti-bias training is being implemented in the MBA curriculum, while school leadership works with the Student Government’s Diversity Committee to diversify the business cases used in class....'As future leaders, it will be our students’ responsibility to eliminate systemic bias when they see it. As a business school, it’s our responsibility to educate students about this,' adds Gary from Stern."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Jay Freeman, an investment banker-turned-consultant who’s worked on corporate turnarounds and restructurings, looks at diversity in senior management before attending job interviews. 'At some point, you gravitate toward someone who has some tie of shared experience,' said Freeman, who’s Black. 'You want to be able to find people who will be an ally, or an advocate or a mentor -- those are all things that are part of the calculation.'”

Excerpt from The Grocer -- "Consumers prefer sustainable packaging and are buying more products with environmental credentials. Analysis by NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business last year found market share growth of sustainability-marketed products was faster than their conventional counterparts."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'Passport Day is my favorite Stern tradition – and not just because it’s the day with the best food! Each year, student volunteers represent their heritage or country of origin at tables arrayed around a large tent in our plaza, serving food, wearing traditional dress, and sharing elements of their culture. Many student groups perform; highlights from last year included Chinese yo-yo, Argentine tango, and choreographed dances by the South Asian Business Society. It’s a wonderful community event where students can share part of their life experience outside the classroom and welcome partners and kids to share in the fun.' Rebecca Dewey, New York University (Stern)"

Excerpt from VentureBeat -- "Deepfakes are a major concern heading into the U.S. election this November. In a fall 2019 report about upcoming elections, the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights warned of domestic forms of disinformation, as well as potential external interference from China, Iran, or Russia. The Deepfake Detection Challenge aims to help counter such deceptive videos, and Facebook has also introduced a data set of videos for training and benchmarking deepfake detection systems."