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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'People want things to happen and happen quickly,' says Isser Gallogly, Stern’s assistant dean of MBA admissions. Today, Stern announced a new, two-year part-time MBA program. It’s essentially the same as the school’s regular part-time MBA program, but comes with a recommended schedule that maps out the required coursework, and spots for electives, over the two years."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Eli Daquioag, an MBA student at New York University’s Stern School of Business, advises keeping in mind the accessibility of people, companies and industries when you decide which school to apply to. For example, studying in New York has enabled him to visit big media companies such as NBCUniversal and Viacom, which have their headquarters in the city. By building these relationships in his first semester, he was able to secure an internship with cable channel USA Network."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'Stern Speaks,' a forum organised by members of the Association of Hispanic and Black Business Students, initiated an important dialogue on NYU’s campus about the experience of black people in America. Those of us who attended had the privilege of hearing three brave classmates share their stories, all of which included personal encounters with both individual and institutional racism. When the floor opened to the audience, people mustered the courage to ask uncomfortable questions. Honest and sometimes painful answers were given in reply. A dialogue had begun."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Mr. Blank, 31, is the vice president of Paragon Sporting Goods, a quintessential store for New York athletes — especially when it comes to winter sports like skiing, snowboarding and ice skating. The six-floor family business, on East 18th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, was founded in 1908 by Mr. Blank’s great-grandfather, Phil Blank, an émigré from Ukraine, and his father, Bruce, is the president and chief executive. Mr. Blank is studying for an M.B.A. at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from LinkedIn -- "If you build it, they will come. Or so Professors David Backus and Glenn Okun learned when they organized Data Bootcamp, a non-credit elective course designed for students who want to learn Python, a popular programming language, in order to analyze economic, financial and business data most effectively. The course, offered every other Friday during the fall semester, developed when a group of MBA students approached the professors, identifying a need to understand code for business applications."

Data Bootcamp, a non-credit course offered every other Friday during the fall semester, developed when a group of MBA students approached Professors David Backus and Glenn Okun, identifying a need to understand code for business applications.

Excerpt from CNBC -- "With lower energy prices, I think we're going to see an environment where retail consumption is going to increase and ... [for] companies who have a cost structure highly tilted towards energy prices, you're going to see that reduced and you're going to see an increase in earnings and an increase in free cash flow."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "Operating in close partnership with Stern’s Volatility Institute, the Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai (VINS) is designed to provide opportunities for researchers focused on Chinese markets specifically, as well as financial markets around the world."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "One piece of advice for prospective MBA students: quickly learn which items on your to-do list are critical and which ones can take a backseat. This is not to say the MBA lifestyle is pure stress. Amid all the casing, networking and thank-you note writing there are some really exciting opportunities in B-school land. You suddenly have a network of outstandingly bright peers with whom you can enter case competitions, design products, build companies and more."

Excerpt from CityLab -- "Because of the substandard conditions connected to such settlements, most planners would indeed like to alter that pattern, by laying out, for example, a grid of streets and sidewalks and infrastructure in advance of growth—a recommendation of Shlomo 'Solly' Angel in his work on the Atlas of Urban Expansion, a partnership of the NYU Stern Urbanization Project, UN-HABITAT, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The model is the way that future growth was planned for Manhattan, or Barcelona."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "As NYU Stern students move into leadership positions, they have the power to significantly impact companies and industries as they bring with them a new paradigm for leadership that helps create a new 'bottom line,' exemplifying compassion, self-awareness, courage, and resilience personally, interpersonally, and organizationally. The Institute for Mindful Leadership, which develops and delivers mindful leadership training to leaders in a range of organizations around the world -- corporate, nonprofit, academic, government and military -- is a natural partner in this."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "NYU: Stern, based in New York, has invested in an MS in Business Analytics course which launched in May 2013. Roy Lee, assistant dean of global degree programs, says it has filled both cohorts of 60 with ease. 'We closed out the admissions cycle a month and half early, with a waiting list for the following year,' he adds... 'We are teaching the managers [and] executives who need to understand the language of analytics and how to leverage data to make strategic decisions,' says Roy."

Excerpt from TopMBA -- "Most of our students interested in pursuing a career in finance opt to specialize in finance, financial instruments & markets, financial systems & analytics, among others. Stern offers MBA students the opportunity to 'specialize' in content areas, which are akin to committing to a major. MBA students are able to specialize in up to three, nine-credit specializations and are able to choose from a robust list of content areas."

Excerpt from TopMBA -- "The Volatility Institute is focused on analyzing and assessing risk in global financial markets with the aim of influencing international financial policy. The NYU Shanghai extension into China and Shanghai’s financial district of Liujiazui is intended to provide a platform facilitating research into Chinese financial markets."

Excerpt from China Daily -- "The Shanghai New York University is establishing a Volatility Institute, to create opportunities for research on Chinese financial markets and other markets around the world."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Now a freshman student at NYU's Stern School of Business, Marchese and a partner at Yale are trying to launch a hedge fund out of their dorm rooms. Somehow, Marchese makes juggling school work with a social life and fledgling career as a hedge fund manager look like anyone could do it."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'If you are going to run a Fortune 500 company in the 21st Century, you are going to be global and these issues are going to confront you at the highest level,' Posner says. 'Rather than react, it makes sense that people in the business world have studied it and have a sense of what the options are.'"

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "In the first part of the two-year [CFDA Fashion Incubator] program, designers selected for the incubator get an intensive eight-month business finance and marketing education as part of the C.F.D.A.’s partnership with Stern School of Business at New York University. Because the designers have established businesses, their brands also act as a case study project for the M.B.A. students, who work with the designers to develop business plans that include e-commerce and finance strategies."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The law school also has a partnership with the university’s Stern School of Business as reflected in the recent joint appointment of Mervyn King, the former Bank of England governor. As professor of economics and law, Lord King is teaching a course called Money and Modern Capitalism: Law and Business, which includes looking at reform proposals for banks."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "At Stern, mindfulness is the buzzword. The school is teaming up with NYU’s Center for Global and Spiritual Life to incorporate mindfulness in business leadership. Caitlin Weaver, Stern’s director of Leadership Development, says the shift to incorporate mindfulness training in the leadership program is two-fold—to increase decision making ability and to improve the the health of students."

Excerpt from mbaMission -- "In this competition, Stern and Kanbar students develop short films based on the sponsor’s specifications regarding content, length, and brand message. The films are judged by a panel of advertising and marketing executives, and the winning teams are given access to the resources of partnering media, entertainment, and communications companies to assist in screenplay production. The finished films—which are debuted at New York’s Tribeca Film Center—may be used by the sponsoring brand as part of the parent company’s advertising campaign."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "...Caitlin Weaver, who just launched the NYU Mindfulness in Business Initiative -- a collaboration between NYU's Stern School of Business and Global Spiritual Life at NYU -- shared how 130 students came to the launch event, and how there's been an outpouring of interest for a faculty mindfulness program as well."

Professor Thomas Philippon has been awarded the 2013 Bernácer Prize, which is given annually to a European economist under the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance.

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "The many benefits of mindfulness, namely meditation, are staggering. Studies show that maintaining a mindful practice like meditation can reduce stress, extend life, boost your academic abilities, and even increase your overall happiness. Mindfulness can even make you a better leader. Not surprisingly many companies like General Mills and schools like the NYU Stern School of Business have developed initiatives to cultivate and promote mindful wellbeing, scholarship, and leadership among employees and students."

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Matthew Statler, a faculty mentor and director of business ethics and social impact programming at NYU’s Stern School of Business, believes Transfernation has immense potential to combat hunger locally and internationally. 'Food waste is a huge problem, but (Dehradunwala and Goel) have identified a unique and compelling angle of approach,' Statler says. 'They have made great strides developing the venture over the past year, and… can really make a difference in the years to come.'"