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Excerpt from American Entrepreneurship Today -- "The showcase is part of the annual $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge where entrepreneur teams comprised of NYU alumni, students and staff vy for awards totalling $200k in three venture categories: 'New Venture Competition', 'Social Venture Competition' and 'Technology Venture Competition'. The evening's showcase was for semi-finalists in the Challenge competition that kickoffed in early fall 2013. Teams accepted into the competiton receive training and mentoring over the course of the academic year that culminates in a pitch off contest in late spring 2014."

MBA student Julie Raskin takes on a new partnership role in the private sector, after a career in government.

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "For the Stern team, the road to Bordeaux began last fall, when full-time MBA student Alex Reicherter hooked up with part-timers Adam Teeter and Michael Modisett. Shortly after the group formed, Dan Amatuzzi, a Stern alum and wine director at New York City market Eataly, reached out to offer his expertise."

Dean Peter Henry posed economic policy questions to former Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers in an exclusive forum for MBA students in Stern’s Global Economy course.

Excerpt from TopMBA -- “One of the key MBA skills I gained was learning not to just focus on getting the right answer, but to be aware of how to get there. There are always several ways to solve a problem, but in real life there are several constraints, so knowing which path to take is critical. I think it has made a huge difference in my approach to solving problems. Now, when I look at the problem, I don’t just jump in; instead I take a step back and focus on figuring out the best approach to solve the problem."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "For 30-year-old Adam Teeter of Auburn, Ala., who will complete his business degree studies at Stern Business School in the spring, the competition was further research to help with his new start-up wine company, VinePair.com. Teammate Alex Reicherter, 30, of Westchester, N.Y., said he hopes to work in marketing for wine or spirits."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In reflecting on 2013, the entire year was a continuous cycle of change for me; new teams, new brands, new relationships, strong businesses, difficult businesses, new processes, a lot of learning, and even more listening."

Excerpt from US News -- "Jack Hanlon, who is pursuing an M.S. in business analytics at NYU, says that knowing about the teachers and their qualifications is an important aspect to weigh as a prospective student. 'Many of these professors are actually consultants outside of being professors. And that I take very seriously,' he says when referencing his teachers. 'This field is just changing too fast to be teaching it out of a textbook.'"

MBA student Yaopeng Zhou and NYU Stern alumnus Marc Albanese (MBA ’08) have teamed up to develop a portable vision examination device, the Smart Autorefractor, an idea which most recently won them a $1 million prize in the healthcare category of Verizon’s Powerful Answers Challenge.

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Also head of product, [Kinetic Social Cofounder Jack] Hanlon is the architect of the data-focused Kinetic Social tech platform, which helps marketers and their agencies manage campaigns across social platforms and also gain an understanding of their audiences. The company's more than 500 clients since launch include Mars, H&M and Victoria's Secret's PINK. In one quarter he increased profitability from 19% to 53% while growing the client portfolio."

Excerpt from BizEd -- "We bill LAUNCH as 'An Education in Possible,' which is the essence of our mission. For us, LAUNCH has become both noun and verb. As an event, it is the beginning of our MBA students' experience at Stern; it is also an active process that propels students onto a trajectory to explore how they can become more transformative leaders."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Forty percent of women globally don’t have enough iron, a leading cause of anemia... While studying at NYU Stern School of Business, Matthew Edmundson and Jennifer Tsai decided to try to make a dent in the problem–specifically, in the matter of maternal anemia."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "New York University’s Stern School, whose fortunes are also somewhat tied to Wall Street, had its best MBA placement year in the past four years, with 96.0% of this year’s class with job offers three months after commencement."

Excerpt from Data Informed -- "Students come from various functions, such as IT, human resources and marketing, and a range of industries, from automotive, banking, retail, health care, government and consulting. More than 15 nationalities are represented."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "If you’re traveling back to where you used to work, visit your previous employer, suggests Pamela Mittman, assistant dean of Career Services and Leadership Development at New York University’s Stern School of Business. You can also send personalized notes inviting alumni in the area to coffee or an informational meeting, she adds."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- “'Ian Bremmer and the Eurasia Group set the standard of excellence for political risk analysis in business,' Stern Dean Peter Henry said in a statement. 'In coming to teach at Stern, Ian brings significant experience to our classroom on the interplay between political risk, economic policy and growth, and helps us in our mission to prepare students for effective global engagement.'”

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "R/GA, the agency behind Nike’s pioneering FuelBand, signaled its intentions to, well, accelerate this bridging of the digital and physical by launching Connected Devices Accelerator--a three-month intensive program for 10 tech startups, powered by Techstars methodology--earlier this year."

Excerpt from Al Jazeera -- "It was a great opportunity for us here at NYU. About 250 teams enter every year and we thought, we're building this business, we're working full-time on it, we might as well jump into this competition and see what we can do. And over the course of the competition, we received a tremendous amount of feedback and guidance and we were fortunate enough to walk away with the prize."

Excerpt from Yahoo! Shine -- "Since its September launch, the Give A Spit campaign has registered over 1,000 people as bone marrow donors and, according to Colleen Wormsley, marketing associate for DoSomething.org, more than 9,000 people have signed up to host events through December 19. The most recent event, held this month in New York City at the New York University Stern School of Business, registered a majority of the 633-member freshman class."

Excerpt from Inc.com -- "The panelists, including NYU President John Sexton, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, and Codecademy CEO Zach Sims, among others, were charged with predicting the future of the traditional university. Will emerging technology and online learning dismantle the notion of 'college' as we know it?"

Excerpt from Mobile Commerce Daily -- "During the 'Mapping the mobile path-to-purchase' session, a professor from UNC Kenan-Flagler along with executives from Sequent Partners and Kantar Retail discussed how mobile impacts consumers’ daily lives and how retailers can integrate mobile into both in-store and online efforts."

Excerpt from Entrepreneur.com -- "As a college entrepreneur at New York University, the majority of my ideas are tailored to solving the issues faced by college students in an urban environment. To see if my ideas have legs, I turn to my roommate, as he is my target audience. Finding out whether he would use the product or service plays a role in determining if my idea could become a legitimate business."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "McCollum, who graduated in 2007, says the company got a huge boost from participating in Stern’s 2008 Business Plan Competition. 'That was where we got the majority of the resources specific to the company,' he says. 'We got to speak with a whole bunch of different people very quickly and got a lot of feedback that ordinarily would’ve taken months or years to get.'”

Excerpt from Accepted.com -- "NYU Stern received a $10 million gift that will go towards a scholarship fund for college seniors who wish to pursue their MBAs at Stern after they graduate. The scholarship is named for the donor, William R. Berkley, NYU alumnus and vice chairman of the NYU board of trustees. Berkley’s $10 million gift is part of NYU’s six-year campaign to raise $1 billion for scholarships."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Three faculty members of NYU Stern School of Business in the US are discussing the future of mobile, data and open innovation as part of the school’s Future of Business Event Series. Professors Anindya Ghose, co-director of Stern’s Center for Business Analytics; Natalia Levina, who teaches courses on global sourcing and open innovation; and Kristen Sosulski, director of Stern’s Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, will also answer questions from prospective MBA students."