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Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "After an eight-month competition, NYU Stern announced the six winners of its annual Entrepreneurs Challenge. Spearheaded by the W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs, the venture competition offered more than $300,000 in cash prizes and pro-bono startup services to the most promising innovators at the school. In total, 243 teams and 500 students, faculty, and alumni participated in three competition tracks."

Excerpt from MiM Guide -- "The program allows professionals worldwide to benefit from an NYU Stern graduate education without having to relocate, and provides the convenience of being able to learn at the time and place that works best for each student."

Excerpt for Business of Fashion -- "To be sure, more work is being done to establish the business case for sustainability. For instance, New York University’s Stern School of Business is working on a project to assess the return on investment apparel companies can expect from environmental and social initiatives."

Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "The NYU Stern School of Business offers full-time MBA students a chance to specialize in real estate. According to the school, it 'provides rigorous training in the development, investment, and financing of real estate projects.' Students who choose the specialization are taught to think strategically about real estate in primary and secondary markets including the legal, taxation, and regulatory environments they’ll encounter."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'I would not be able to put a price on the network I have built at NYU Stern. I think most MBA students would agree, your classmates are the most valuable part of this experience. I have met some truly high caliber people through NYU Stern and made some lifelong friends.' - Christopher Costello. 'In my time at Stern, I’ve worked on projects for companies across a multitude of industries, helped plan a national conference for Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA), and studied abroad at the London Business School. Each experience has shown me just how much I can stretch myself in a multitude of capacities and further confirmed the importance of being able to work with a wide range of individuals.' - Andrew Kwan"

Excerpt from The Africa Report -- "A new report by NYU-Stern titled 'Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry’s New Frontier; found that factory workers earn $26 per month, by far the lowest wage in the world. It’s an appallingly low figure, even by the already low-wage standards of the global garment industry."

Excerpt from City Journal -- "As New York works to improve the response times of its emergency medical professionals, it should conduct a borough- or neighborhood-wide pilot of United Rescue’s program—testing whether the service effectively complements EMS, and planning to scale it up if it works. If United Rescue can do for New York what it has done on a smaller scale for Jersey City, it will save lives and promote the volunteerism that can strengthen communities across the city."

Excerpt from CareerAddict -- "Students graduate with a BSc in Business, of which accounting is one of 13 study streams; as well as learning the necessary accounting principles to progress towards CPA status, the school also encourages undergraduates to co-major in a related discipline, such as investment banking, corporate financial management or securities markets."

Excerpt from Associated Press -- "'The government's eagerness to attract foreign investment led it to promote the lowest base wage in any garment-producing country — now set at the equivalent of $26 a month,' according to the authors of the report, Paul M. Barrett and Dorothée Baumann-Pauly."

Excerpt from City Journal -- "In his new book, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, Alain Bertaud draws on over a half-century of planning experience—including a stint as the World Bank’s principal urban planner—to establish a new approach to city planning. Bertaud argues that city planners have much to learn from urban economics, and vice versa."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "In her address, Foutty will discuss how graduates can and will meet this era of change and uncertainty, offering insight drawn from her own personal and professional experiences. She will also address the leadership principles that have empowered her to meet challenges head-on."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- “For too long, Facebook and other social media companies have claimed not to be ‘arbiters of the truth’ that appears on their platforms,” he said. “Facebook’s newest move to remove extremists like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos from the platform is just the latest piece of evidence that this is not the case. The social media companies not only have the right, but an ethical responsibility to remove disinformation and hate speech and those who spread it from their platforms.”

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The two friends shared their experiences with one another and decided to create a better, more natural solution for women. Martin, who was completing her Masters at NYU at the time, enrolled them in Stern’s 300K Entrepreneurs Challenge. They won and cashed in $75,000 in grant money. To date, the startup has raised a total of $110,000 in non-dilutive seed money."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'This may be good for Facebook’s business, but I’m not sure it’s good for society at large,' said Paul Barrett, deputy director of New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights."

Excerpt from City Journal -- "Bertaud’s book Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities argues that markets provide the indispensable mechanism for cities’ growth. The book is a summation of what Bertaud has learned in a lifetime spent as an urban planner, including a stint at the World Bank, where he advised local and national governments on urban-development policies."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "'I believe that most of the best entrepreneurs out there have to be immigrants like my grandfather,' Winograd explains. 'When you have nothing and you step into a new country, your instinct for survival forces you to be creative and identify market gaps to find a place for yourself.'"

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'There are a lot of admirable CSR activities including auditing and capacity building and training, even training for improved industrial relations,” she says. Even so, it’s 'business as usual,' she points out, 'plus specific activities that then try to compensate for what business models are causing.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "As she scales Pepper after graduation, Winograd believes she learned something critical by being – in the words of one faculty member – 'strategic, focused, and committed' as an MBA student. ... 'by focusing on what matters—by being selective, at times painfully so, about the initiatives I want to take on and social events I want to attend—I’ve found my path as an entrepreneur.'"

Excerpt from Sustainable Brands -- "The idea for the company emerged out a social entrepreneurship course at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where students were asked to develop potential solutions to the problem of organic waste. Undergrads Parker Reposa and Drew Enyedi wanted to create a business that would use food waste as a key input and quickly discovered the potential of coffee grounds — which in recent years have begun being used to make everything from apparel and biofuel to cups and 3D-printing filament."

Excerpt from CBC Radio -- "I think one way to look at this is that these kinds of government reactions are in part a function of the social media companies having had very little success in gaining control of their own platforms, and preventing the kind of misinformation from spreading that governments such as Sri Lanka's intent on snuffing out."

Excerpt from The Telegraph -- "According to a report by New York University's Stern Centre, 71 workers died annually in Bangladeshi factories before the Rana Plaza incident. Since the Accord was signed, that figure has fallen to 17."

Excerpt from Shark Tank -- (24:35) "Made from sustainably sourced organic cotton right here in the USA, Swoveralls possess the functionality of overalls while also providing extreme comfort. Adjustable straps allow you to find the perfect fit and a functional inside zippered front pocket allows you to safely store your valuables."

Excerpt from Nature Sustainability -- "Very few illiberal policies are as short-sighted as the proposed abolishing of Legal Reserves. In a way, Brazil used to be a global leader on climate change, and it is now a threat. The environmental minister has stated that in the climate change fight, Brazil owes nothing. Such rhetoric is scientific denial at its best, potentially leading to devastating effects on biodiversity and world’s climate."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Rick Heitzmann, founder and managing director at FirstMark Capital, first met the company’s founding team when he served as a judge at a business plan competition at New York University’s Stern School of Business in 2009. Pinterest’s chief executive and co-founder, Ben Silbermann, and other executives pitched an early iteration of the business explaining that they could create the equivalent of an online bulletin board."

Excerpt from City Journal -- "From a moderate Republican mayor in Southern California to a conservative Republican state senator in Utah, some in the GOP are taking up the YIMBY charge. It’s a start, suggesting that Republicans have at least begun to engage seriously on issues facing urban and suburban communities. These and similar efforts could end up building more than just houses—they might also lay the groundwork for an urban Republican resurgence."