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Excerpt from Reuters -- "'A background in computer science or generally programming is incredibly helpful for the finance industry,' said Stephen Benvenuto Jr., a junior at the Stern School of Business at New York University, who is majoring in finance and considering pursuing a CFA credential. 'It's definitely moving in that direction.'"

Excerpt from Accepted.com -- "New York University’s Stern School of Business’s new Tech MBA and Fashion & Luxury MBAs will enable students who are firmly committed to business careers in those areas to build applicable skills and knowledge, gain relevant real-world experience, and earn an MBA in one year by taking 51 credits over the 12-month period. The first class for the Tech MBA and Fashion & Luxury MBA will enroll at Stern in May 2018. Stern anticipates that the inaugural classes will have 30 students in each specialty."

Excerpt from BusinessWorld Online -- "'Davao is a rapidly growing city and it has a lot of potential for open public spaces,' NYU Urban Expansion Program research team head Patrick Lamson-Hall said in an interview. Mr. Lamson and MBA students from NYU’s Stern School of Business are spearheading the research and have trained members of the Sustainable Davao Movement, city government officials and volunteers for the data gathering conducted on May 20-21."

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "Peter Henry, dean of NYU Stern, says conversations between the school's leaders and tech executives about a shortage of MBAs in tech spurred the creation of the program. 'These conversations basically led us to a very simple conclusion,' says Henry, who, in addition to his role as dean, also serves as an economics and finance professor. 'There’s a shortage of human capital in the tech industry.' As the largest business school in the city, he says, Stern feels obligated to help train people for the growing industry."

Excerpt from Lexology -- "In the May 10, 2017 dialogue held by the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis and New York University’s Stern School of Business, academics and industry representatives provided recommended measures for rejuvenating the U.S.’s IPO market."

Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "The program is geared toward students with an interest in managerial roles in luxury sectors such as apparel and accessories, beauty, jewelry, automotive, fine wines and spirits, real estate, wearable technology and other verticals. NYU Stern has developed a Stern Fashion Lab, a new central hub for luxury-related projects and networking. Stern Fashion Lab’s advisory board includes senior executives from Fashion Culture Design Unconference, Resonance Companies, Ferrara Manufacturing Company, FirstMark Capital, Gilt Groupe and Rebecca Minkoff."
 

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "'Regulation is part of the issue, but not the issue,' Steven Bochner, partner at Wilson, Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati said at conference on the topic sponsored by the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York University Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "I chose Stern because I felt it was the best place for me to take a multi-disciplinary approach to my intended specializations of real estate, finance, and social innovation & impact. New York City had already become a second home for me, and the opportunity to be in school in downtown Manhattan and the access that provides — as well as the diverse, interesting people it attracts — was a really exciting prospect."
 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "For a school that has recently introduced initiatives ranging from a center focused on human rights and business to a specific financial technology (fintech) track for full-time MBAs, an emphasis on constant programmatic innovation is something Stern has embraced, Henry says. 'This is a really exciting time.'"

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Sarah Labowitz and Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, the authors of the study, found that of the 3,425 inspections that took place in Bangladesh in the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, only eight factories have fixed enough of their violations to pass a final inspection, despite the fact that brands, nonprofits, and other organizations have poured more than $280 million into safety-improvement efforts. Labowitz and Baumann-Pauly estimated that the two 2013 safety initiatives still left out more than half of the country’s 5.1 million garment-factory workers."

Excerpt from Quartz -- "During a panel discussion hosted by New York University’s Stern School of Business and the McKinsey Global Institute last week, Wegner, a ‎managing partner at Union Square Ventures, argued that humans will continue to have a competitive advantage over robots and algorithms… because they’ll be so poorly paid."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The panel, convened to discuss the economic impacts of artificial intelligence, robotics and automation, featured Vasant Dhar, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business, venture capitalist Albert Wenger, and Michael Chui, a partner at McKinsey Global Institute."

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "'There are some applicants to an MBA program who are extremely motivated, who have a very high potential, who have a very aggressive timeline for themselves and have demonstrated things that are above and beyond what you would normally see in someone coming from an undergraduate program,' says Isser Gallogly, associate dean of MBA admissions with the Stern School of Business at New York University. As part of its highly selective Berkley Scholars Program, Stern offers a full-tuition MBA scholarship plus living expenses to college seniors seeking an MBA."

Excerpt from the Associated Press -- "The study describes it as a 'perverse business model.' Rather than providing an opportunity for decent pay and a better livelihood, construction industry practices across the Gulf are pushing workers into extreme debt and exacerbating abuses, such as an inability to change jobs or move to another country due to indebtedness."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Your impact on the world is your impact on the people around you. As such, I’d like to be someone whose values ring clear and whose actions and words align with those values. ... I hope to one day leverage my finance expertise to benefit those around me in a business related capacity."

Excerpt from NHK -- "I think that [mindful leadership] is no longer a 'nice to have' to train your innate capacities of your mind. It's something that we simply have to do. Just as we know that to live our best lives, we need to train our bodies, we also know now that to live our best lives, we need to train our mind."
 

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Tough Task: A report from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights says companies are having a hard time trying to manage risks associated with the human rights records of individual companies because of a lack of reliable, accessible information."

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'Transparency is desirable for many different kinds of stakeholders and perhaps unsurprisingly, all frameworks reward companies for being transparent,' the report states. 'But with respect to social measurement, transparency is too often treated as an end unto itself; companies are rewarded simply for the act of disclosing, rather than delivering particular outcomes.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Social measurement must evaluate what is most meaningful, not what is most convenient,' Casey O’Connor, co-author of the report and Sani Fellow at the Center for Business and Human Rights, wrote in an e-mail response to questions March 15."

Excerpt from EBS Korea -- "'Failure is definitely an important part of it. Otherwise, you don't learn. But, as far as the motivation behind doing this project, it is not the money.' - Rahul Kumar (BS '13) '...Everybody who enters the competition... is not going to go on after the competition and start a business. But that's OK, because, more importantly, we're looking for people who are innovators, they understand the process of vetting ideas, and just going forth and just being more comfortable creatively.' - Professor Cynthia Franklin"
 

Excerpt from Accepted.com -- "Beginning with the class of 2019, full-time MBA students at NYU Stern will have a new merit-based scholarship opportunity, the Advancing Women in Business Scholarship. The scholarship, which will be awarded to students who demonstrate a deep and enduring commitment to advancing women in business, will cover the first year of tuition and mandatory fees. Stern anticipates awarding $1 million in Advancing Women in Business scholarships to the class of 2019. The scholarship will not be renewable for the second year of MBA studies."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "While we are all of course told that our networks will probably be one of the most valuable things we take away from the MBA experience, I think I underestimated just how much I would come to rely on mine. My peers here have proven to be my great asset; they provide encouragement, advice, introductions, and go above and beyond to do so. It is because of all the people and resources that make up my tremendous Stern support system that I feel confident I will be successful in pursuing my career path, as 'unstructured' as it may be."

Excerpt from LinkedIn -- "We are still less than a decade from the darkest economic times in our recent history. The national debt is at or about 100% of GDP, the Fed has a balance sheet that is more than five times its pre-crisis size, and inflation just finally ticked up to where we like to see it. The political attacks that surround the Fed are not new to central banking but the economy is still on recovering ground, and not in a place where we can afford to make any mistakes."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "This quantity of courses, coupled with its emphasis on experiential learning, sets Stern apart in Sundaram’s view. 'There is an enormous range depending on what students are interested in. That’s a key differentiator for us and it is something that we’re very conscious of deepening and widening as the world around us is changing.'"

Excerpt from MindaNews -- "'Practically, our plan is to engage MBA students from the Stern School of Business of NYU in what is called a Stern Signature Project. A select team of talented and ambitious students will work with our staff for a semester on refining the methodology, and we will then travel to Davao City to conduct a survey of the parks and open spaces,' he said."