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Assistant Dean of Executive Programs Roy Lee highlights Stern's MS in Business Analytics program in a trend story on specialized master's degrees

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Excerpt from MiM Guide -- "'Analytics is a tool kit — it’s a starting point. In order to make analytics useful you need to marry it with domain knowledge, expertise and creativity,' Lee says, adding that 'our objective is to teach students how to use data to make strategic decisions that lead to actionable results.'"
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Stern's "Doing Business in..." (DBi) course offerings are highlighted

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Excerpt from mbaMission -- "New York University’s (NYU’s) Stern School of Business provides ample opportunity for its students to spend time abroad during one- or two-week trips, through its 'Doing Business in…' (DBi) program. DBi trips take place between the fall and winter semesters, during spring break, and in May (after classes conclude). Each course (trip) is tailored to its specific locale and includes a mix of lectures given by Stern faculty as well as by local business practitioners and/or government representatives."
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Alan Greenspan's comments on US-China trade at an "In Conversation with Mervyn King" event at Stern are highlighted

Excerpt from Bloomberg-- "Responding to a question about China at an event at New York University on Wednesday, he said both sides lose out in such a clash. 'There are victors and there are losers in a tariff fight,' Greenspan said. 'But that doesn’t say that a more important issue is both are losing, it’s just the winner loses less.'"
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New research about systemic risk, housing and mortgage markets, and regulation presented at the 2008 Financial Crisis: A Ten-Year Review Conference, co-hosted by Stern, is highlighted

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “Annual Reviews, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy, and New York University Stern School of Business presented new review articles focused on the 2008 financial crisis in the Annual Review of Financial Economics Volume 10. The research was presented during the 2008 Financial Crisis: A Ten-Year Review conference, a two-day, invitation-only event November 8-9 spotlighting the perspectives of those with expert vantage points of the crisis."
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments in a panel discussion with Lord Mervyn King at the "2008 Financial Crisis: A Ten-Year Review" conference, co-hosted by Stern, are featured

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Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "Bernanke said at a conference at New York University on Friday that the Fed needs to have expanded powers to lend to institutions that are not commercial banks, which is the only industry that the central bank can offer emergency funds to as a 'lender of last resort.'"
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In a trend story featuring veterans at top b-schools, Stern’s Fertitta Veterans Program is cited and military veteran MBA students Chris Costello (MBA '19) and Sam Daly (MBA '20) share advice for prospective applicants

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Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "'Most business schools either have a veterans group that you can reach out to directly or an admissions department who would be happy to connect potential applicants with veteran current students or alumni,' said Stern student Daly...As for Costello, he recommends doing your research, first and foremost. And from there, don’t sell yourself short. 'Your military experience makes you a valuable hire for some of the best firms around the world,' he said. 'Don’t hide your military success. Learn how to translate your amazing accomplishments and use them to highlight why you’re a great candidate in any industry you want to explore.'"
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Senior Research Scholar Alain Bertaud explains the appeal of Amazon's new headquarters for cities

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Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "'For the city, it should be just a straightforward thing: We will get more benefit than what we are giving away,' said Alain Bertaud, a senior research scholar at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management and author of Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. 'But we are dealing with a lot of data, which are not very clear. [Government] might be tempted to make a deal that will be to the detriment of the maintenance of the city.'"
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In a Q&A interview, NYU Associate Vice President for Career and Leadership Development Bethany Godsoe shares how Stern helps its undergraduate students prepare for career success, citing the Undergraduate College’s 98% employment placement rate

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Student success today is also very different. We are training students for more diverse industries, dynamic workplaces, and economies. Students need to be more adaptive and global in outlook than ever before, and it’s exciting for me to bring my leadership development skills to NYU. Having a global orientation will help the student to succeed not just in college, but all throughout their career in a rapidly changing environment."
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Stern is recognized for its best MBA graduate employment rate in five years for the graduating Class of 2018, along with salary and bonus increases, in a feature story

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Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "NYU Stern School of Business released its 2018 MBA Employment Report at the end of last month, revealing that more graduates in the Class of 2018 had accepted full-time job offers three months after graduation than anytime in the past five years. Not only that, many recent grads reported a large jump in salary and bonuses."
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Assistant Dean of Career Services Beth Briggs cites the best employment rate in five years among recent full-time MBA graduates in a feature story on MBA recruitment and career trends at Stern

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Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "'While the top three industries employing Stern students are consulting, investment banking, and tech, graduates are pursuing roles in a range of diverse areas including growing industries like fintech,' explained Briggs."
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Professors Kathleen DeRose and David Yermack are quoted in a trend story highlighting Stern's strength in Fintech

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Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Kathleen DeRose, clinical associate professor of finance at NYU Stern School of Business in the US, says: 'Fintech is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy, and students will need an understanding of data science to be prepared for the future of work.' ... 'We are now seeing markets being recreated by machine learning, artificial intelligence, and decentralized consensus systems. It is an exciting and very interesting time.' [says Yermack]."
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Paul Barrett, Deputy Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights, is quoted in a story on the ongoing threat of interference in the midterm elections

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Excerpt from VICE News -- "'It's way too soon to say that American elections are secure from online attacks,' Paul Barrett, the deputy director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU Stern School of Business, told VICE News."
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Undergraduate business student Nicholas Lowinger is interviewed about his nonprofit, the Gotta Have Sole Foundation Inc.

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Excerpt from Providence Business News -- "Gotta Have Sole is very important to me and while I am definitely focusing on my studies, I have incorporated it into my college life. I am the philanthropic chair of my fraternity and [fellow members] will be assisting with footwear deliveries to shelters in New York City."
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Professor David Yermack is interviewed about the evolution of his course on blockchain; MBA students Hannah Diaz and Evan Eisman highlight the value of knowledge of blockchain for their careers

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- (:12) "...What we try to get across in the course is that the finance industry itself is migrating toward incorporating this technology into everybody's applications..."
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Professor David Yermack's comments at the 2018 Ross Roundtable on how AI and blockchain will influence the future of accounting are featured

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Excerpt from Accounting Today -- "'The distributed ledger reduces the need for audit by 97 percent,' he said. 'Auditors in the future will be competing on the basis of productivity, which will essentially mean who has the fastest hardware and software. And fraud, in the classical sense, will be all but impossible.'"
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The TRIUM global executive MBA program is featured

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Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "The 18-month program covers entrepreneurship, marketing, negotiation analysis, fintech, and climate change, among others. You can also engage in the Capstone Project, developing a business idea from inception to launch, all the while drawing on expertise from alumni, faculty, and peers."
 
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Full-time MBA student Arati Venkatram shares why she chose to attend Stern and offers advice for prospective MBA applicants

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Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Maintain a journal of your personal and professional achievements way ahead of application deadlines to help formulate your professional goals for the essays. I would recommend at least two years ahead of applying to business school. I didn’t do this, but am certain it would have helped!"
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TRIUM Global Executive MBA alumnus Jeremy Kroll is cited in a feature story about the evolution of the Executive MBA

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'Starting TRIUM was a very pragmatic solution,' Kroll says. 'I was mid-career at 36 and it afforded me the opportunity to continue to work while planning my next move.'"
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Isser Gallogly, Associate Dean, MBA Admissions and Program Innovation, is quoted in a feature story on letters of recommendation for MBA applicants

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Excerpt from Find MBA -- "NYU Stern’s refreshed application process, which asks candidates for contact details of referees, was introduced, in part, to ensure that prospective students are not writing their own letters. Isser Gallogly, the school’s associate dean of MBA admissions and program innovation, says there are new sophisticated detection methods that schools can use to spot fraud in an application. 'The bottom line is: the letter must be written entirely by the endorser,' he says. 'It simply isn’t worth taking the risk of writing your own.'"
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Stern's Creative Destruction Lab-NYC is featured on admitting its inaugural cohort of startups

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Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "NYU Stern received hundreds of applications for the inaugural cohort (2018-19) of the Creative Destruction Lab in New York City (CDL-NYC). After an exhaustive review of founders from some of the world’s most prestigious research institutes, Stern selected just 27 ventures to take part—9 percent of all applications. Members of the inaugural Creative Destruction Lab have spearheaded disruptive innovation in the realms of artificial intelligence, robotics, material science, therapeutics, and medical devices."
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In an in-depth interview, Geeta Menon, Dean of the Undergraduate College, highlights Stern's unique offerings, including the International Studies Program (ISP), Social Impact Core and Stern Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'Stern has really led the way in these areas, introducing the International Studies Program course in 2001 and the Social Impact Core of courses in 2004. Both of these areas of study have become staples in undergraduate business education broadly, and they show no signs of waning any time soon,' Menon says."
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Isser Gallogly, Associate Dean, MBA Admissions and Program Innovation, is quoted in a feature story on letters of recommendation for MBA applicants

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Excerpt from Find MBA -- "NYU Stern’s refreshed application process, which asks candidates for contact details of referees, was introduced, in part, to ensure that prospective students are not writing their own letters. Isser Gallogly, the school’s associate dean of MBA admissions and program innovation, says there are new sophisticated detection methods that schools can use to spot fraud in an application. 'The bottom line is: the letter must be written entirely by the endorser,' he says. 'It simply isn’t worth taking the risk of writing your own.'"
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Stern's course offerings and activities for students focused on social impact, sustainability and social entrepreneurship are highlighted

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Excerpt from mbaMission -- "The W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs serve as the hub of all entrepreneurial activities and events at the school, and in 2008, Stern introduced a Sustainable Business and Innovation (formerly Social Innovation and Impact) specialization, thereby formalizing an academic track for students with this career path in mind. And for those who also have the entrepreneurial bug, Stern added a Social Venture Competition—in which participants compete for a $75K prize—to its traditional for-profit $300K Entrepreneurs Challenge."
 
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Stern's MBA program is highlighted in a roundup of top programs for students seeking a career in banking

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Excerpt from Metro MBA -- "Stern’s banking curriculum spans topics such as bankruptcy management, microfinance, governmental policy and global banking, and more. A Stern MBA can offer a competitive edge in M&A, public finance, sales and trading, asset management and equity/fixed income research."
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A panel discussion on "Innovating Investments for Climate Resilience," hosted by the Center for Sustainable Business, featuring Professor Robert Engle and moderated by Professor Tensie Whelan, is covered

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Excerpt from Sustainable Brands -- "As Engle pointed out, 'People living by the sea are worried about sea level rise, but the rest of us aren’t; people in California worried about wildfires, but the rest of us aren’t. What does it take to get everyone on the same page?'"

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