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Excerpt from Quartz -- "Meanwhile, one small team of researchers at NYU’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights has made it their mission to put all of Bangladesh’s garment factories on a single map. 'You can’t do anything to fix something,' Nayantara Banerjee, a Stern graduate fellow and the project’s manager, told Quartz, 'if you can’t find it.'"

Excerpt from China Daily -- "Analysts in academia from across the globe reviewed that market on April 17 at New York University's Stern School of Business. It was sponsored by Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business and the Center for Real Estate Finance Research."

Excerpt from Vogue India -- "A non-profit, Uplift rehabilitates orphans and juvenile delinquents across India by delivering vocational training alongside a range of 'soft skills' to hundreds of (as he dubs them) at-risk youths. Ever the multitasker, Patel, who has his sights on a career in management consulting, just unveiled Uplift's fifth location in Delhi."

Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "The center‘s research will focus on relationships among recruitment companies based in South Asia and construction firms doing business in the Arabian Gulf. The goal of the project is to better understand the incentives and pressures that exist at different points in the chain that are contributing to violations of migrant workers’ rights. The Center expects to publish a report with findings and recommendations in early 2016."

Excerpt from BadCredit.org -- "Hard-working, bold and full of ideas, these students are ready to tackle the finance industry and shape the U.S. economy in ways we’ve never seen before."

Excerpt from Accepted.com -- "Make sure an MBA program is going to give you the value that you're seeking. It's a big investment. Time, money and effort. And so, be really sure that this is what you need for the next step in your career and profession and that this is the right time to do it."

Excerpt from MOGUL -- "Gain knowledge, build your network, and open doors to new opportunities. These are three key benefits of earning your MBA."

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "New York-based KitSplit is a self-declared 'Airbnb for creative equipment' that allows production companies, studios, and individual artists to lease out their unused equipment for short-term periods. The company, which launched in December, takes a 15% commission from the rental of equipment leased online. As of this writing, more than $1 million worth of cameras, drones, and other high-end creative equipment are available through the service."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "If this era of war ever ends, and we emerge from the slumber of automated killing to the daylight of moral questioning, we will face a reckoning. If we are honest with ourselves, the answers won’t be simple."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Students on Stern’s master in business analytics program, which filled its class of 60 and closed the admissions process a month early, also 'get their hands dirty' with programming language. 'We are teaching the managers [and] executives who need to understand the language of analytics and how to leverage data to make strategic decisions,' said Roy Lee, Stern's assistant dean of global degree programs, in an interview with BusinessBecause."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Offered jointly by Stern and NYU’s law school, the course covered topics such as bitcoin as an investment and the trading of bitcoin, and the legal and regulatory treatment of the currency. It ran from September to December 2014. 'We are exploring a new technology that raises interesting questions about the nature of money and how that is likely to change in the future,' said David Yermack, a finance professor at Stern who created the course with law school professor Geoff Miller."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Advanced Professional Certificate students are to take 15 units, a quarter of the number required for an MBA, on a part-time basis, in MBA classes that have capacity. Each student will follow one of three tracks: finance, marketing, or general business. 'The finance track could quickly empower people who didn’t major in finance in college, but who now work in the industry, with a broader perspective that helps them excel in their function,' says Isser Gallogly, assistant dean of MBA admissions. 'Liberal arts majors can combine the fundamentals of marketing with the latest thinking in analytics and digital through the marketing track. Entrepreneurs without a business degree can customize the handful of business courses they want to take in the general business track. Others with an MBA may want to delve into a new area of interest.'"

NYU Stern Professor and Nobel Laureate Robert Engle delivered the inaugural “Gallatin Lecture Series on Banking,” the first in a series of four lectures jointly hosted by NYU Stern and The Clearing House.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "This past week, New York University’s Stern School of Business announced a new scholarship program. It will give 10 low-income undergraduate students the opportunity to attend Stern without incurring the burden of debt for the next four years. Alumnus Leonard R. Stern has donated $5.75 million to fund the new Leonard R. Stern New York City scholarship program aimed at high-achieving low income high school students in the city."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "We can only expect localization demands to increase—and business pressures to pull in the opposite direction. While the political dynamics have shifted, companies should still have respect for human rights—and the strength of the global Internet—at the forefront of decisions over where to store their data."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'Our agenda is not to surprise markets,' Fed Governor Jerome Powell said on Wednesday at New York University. 'It is to be as clear and transparent as possible, to keep our framework out there, and let markets understand where we're going."

Excerpt from The New York Post -- "'New York City is one of the most amazing cities in the world. It makes sense to learn about the dynamics of operations management in the context of real businesses,' says Kristen Sosulski, clinical assistant professor of information, operations and management sciences, and director of the center for innovation in teaching and learning at NYU Stern."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'We are staking out some academic territory and trying to get the university’s brand associated with a new body of knowledge,' says David Yermack, the finance professor at New York University’s Stern Business School, whose MBA course, created with law school colleague Geoff Miller, finished before Christmas. 'This is an entrepreneurial venture for us.'"

Excerpt from TopMBA -- "The interview is an important part of the application process at NYU Stern. We interview everyone we admit to the full–time MBA program, and nearly all interviews are done face-to-face in New York City by a member of our highly-trained admissions team. We believe that interviewing is a skill and we want to have our class selected by people who are experienced, professional assessors of talent."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Stern’s inaugural class in 2013 attracted students from a wide range of industries, from healthcare to manufacturing and venture capital, said Roy Lee, assistant dean of global degree programs. Demand has been insatiable. 'For both years, we filled a maximum class of 60, and for both we closed out the admissions cycle a month and half early, with a waiting list for the following year,' added Roy."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "The William R. Berkley Scholarship Program, established in 2013, covers the full two-year tuition and fees for NYU Stern’s full-time MBA program. It also provides a housing stipend of $18,000/year and an additional $10,000/year stipend for books and other expenses. Successful entrepreneur William R. Berkley (BS 1966) created the program that bears his name with a $10 million donation. He pursued his MBA at Harvard Business School immediately after graduating from Stern and wanted to provide similar opportunities for other aspiring young students like himself."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Lindsey came to the high-ranking business school after a career piloting Blackhawk helicopters over Iraq and training thousands of US soldiers, many of whom may soon enter the civilian workforce. 'Coming to Stern is the first step I’m taking as I prepare to move into the corporate realm,' she told NYU Stern’s website. 'I feel the army has given me the leadership experience I need. There are other areas of business in which I still have a lot to learn.'"

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "'Many veterans joined the military to feel a sense of purpose, and upon transitioning to civilian life they want to continue to feel this sense of purpose in their future careers,' says Isser Gallogly, assistant dean of MBA admissions at NYU Stern."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "But there is also a real sense that China’s generous welcome to these institutions is part of its own need to modernise its higher education system, says NYU’s Prof Zemel. 'I think China is now struggling with the next phase of economic development. They have done a good job but they know that low-cost is running its course,' he says. The next phase is to invest in innovation and this means changing the way students are educated more widely. 'The objective of NYU in Shanghai is not to educate the 2000 [enrolled] students,' says Prof Zemel, 'but to have a long-term impact on other institutions.'"

Excerpt from TopMBA -- "Gallogly says the program will likely be of interest to applicants, 'who really are very driven, very motivated, and very structured and who have the time right now.' He notes that students in the accelerated program who have a life change – a new job or the birth of a child, for example – can opt to slow down and complete the program in up to six years."