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Excerpt from TopMBA -- "The MBA admissions committee has seen strengths in your application, but there may be ways to improve your candidacy. We are looking for people who have the personal initiative to improve themselves. We provide detailed information about what we evaluate and why on our website. We are looking for the kind of person who can take that information, do a self-assessment and take appropriate action."

Excerpt from Admit1MBA -- "We recognize that our New York City location is attractive to many applicants, and we offer many opportunities for applicants to visit us and engage with our community – from our fall class visit program, to our new Future of Business series with faculty to special interview days in the winter and spring. Through our personal and thorough admissions process, which includes an interview for all admitted applicants, we assess an applicant’s fit with our program."

Excerpt from Fox Business -- "We hear every week of a new position taken by activist investors and we all know the names Ackman and Icahn. You have already said in the past that the value of such investors depends on the company and the situation. And, considering your decision in abstaining from the Coke vote, my question for you is: Under what circumstances would you decide to take an active role and why?"

Excerpt from MBA Programs News -- "Henry, whose research explores emerging economies, told Bloomberg Businessweek, 'At Stern we want to create leaders who say it is a corporate imperative that we train people who are as comfortable in the Middle East as they are in Manhattan.'”

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "$75,000: To HireCanvas and Scott Holand, an MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business, in the school’s annual entrepreneurship contest. The startup seeks to make the campus recruiting process less time-consuming for students and employers."

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "'Our process began with seeking to understand what women did and didn't eat while pregnant. We then worked within these cultural norms and practices to devise a product that would be habitually consumed,' says Edmundson, who is wary that some approaches to substituting the iron lacking from diets due to taboos are contradictory."

Excerpt from Betabeat -- "Brooklinen, if they get full funding from their Kickstarter, will manufacture and sell luxury, 100 percent Egyptian cotton bedsheets starting at $100 a set. The company was founded by Rich Fulop and David Fortune, two current MBA students at NYU Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "A study released on Monday by New York University’s Stern School of Business showed how hard [it is to improve garment working conditions]. It said that a major problem with the accord and the alliance was that while they will inspect 2,000 of Bangladesh’s more than 5,000 apparel factories, the more than 3,000 others generally have worse conditions — and middlemen often secretly send them orders from Western brands."

White House senior economic advisors invited Dean Peter Henry to participate in a roundtable on April 16 in the Roosevelt Room with a select group of peer school deans to discuss best practices for a 21st century workplace that meets the needs of women and working families.

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "With the sales of physical comics faltering, ComiXology is playing a leading role in developing the technology that is allowing the craft to move online. Its library of content includes 40,000 comics from 75 major publishers. Last fall, ComiXology had its 200-millionth download."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Starting to assess bitcoin from an academic angle while the currency is still in its infancy allows Yermack and Miller to set the agenda for future study of the subject. 'You can help shape the field by stipulating what you think the important topics are,' Yermack says. 'For an academic, that’s fun.'”

Excerpt from Inc. -- "Keen Home began with vents, but the founders insist it won’t end there. 'We’re thinking of the home as a body,' says Fant. 'The respiratory system is an analogy for the Smart Vent, but there’s also plumbing, electrical, and other forgotten--or "sleepy"--systems.'”

Excerpt from LAist -- "NYU's Stern Urbanization Project is giving us a chance to visualize just what type of urban expansion has taken over our city of angels from 1877 to 2000—and it's pretty cool to watch."

Excerpt from The New York Post -- "'Summer @ Stern is set to attract students who are thinking of pursing business in college,' says Rohit Deo, vice dean of undergraduate academic affairs and strategic planning for the college. Two six-week-long sessions will be offered -- one focusing on business and investments and another on behavioral economics and the science of decision-making."

Excerpt from Crain's -- "After years of relentlessly attacking the big stock exchanges with better technology, Mr. Harkins is now studying for an M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship at New York University. Being an entrepreneur is always fun and risky, he said. 'But if you know your industry really well, you can make educated guesses on where it's going.'"

Excerpt from NPR -- "If you have to rock the boat to get what you think you deserve, then you should do it, but I think there's a right way to do it. You don't have to be rude."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Stern Dean Peter Henry says a major concern for him is 'accessibility' to higher education. One of his top priorities is to raise more money for scholarships for both undergraduate and graduate students. The reason average debt is down at Stern, he says, is increased funding for scholarships and a new program that forgives loans if a graduate pursues a career in the social sector."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "We started the idea for SunCulture through New York University's Business Plan Competition about two years ago... I studied mechanical engineering. I was working in renewable energy. We were doing large-scale commercial solar power installations and Samir came on board as a finance guy coming from Stern. So we put those two backgrounds together and made this idea happen."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Lord King of Lothbury — also known as former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King – has taken up a teaching post at New York University. NYU said Wednesday Mr. King will join the faculties of both its Stern School of Business and School of Law in fall."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "So what have I learned? Be professional, but show your personality. Practice, but not so much that you become an automaton. Show up with detailed knowledge of the school—and of your résumé. Mostly: Take confidence from having been invited."

Excerpt from Crain's New York -- "Other students, such as Yaopeng Zhou, a second-year M.B.A. student at Stern, enroll specifically so they can work on their own entrepreneurial ventures. He teamed up with a former colleague and alumnus to develop a portable device for conducting reliable, affordable eye exams, aimed particularly at emerging markets. They won the top prize of $75,000 in Stern's Social Venture Competition last May."

Excerpt from US News -- "'Be as well-versed as possible in terms of the offerings of your school,' says Pamela Mittman, assistant dean of career services and leadership development at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'We leverage our second-year students, refer to them as career coaches and train them to provide direct feedback,' Mittman explains."

Excerpt from Inc. -- "Keen Home builds proactive hardware devices that aim to enhance the core functions of the home, so that your home can start to take care of you. For our first product, we are focusing on a home's heating and cooling system."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "HireCanvas, an emerging startup, aims to make that hunt more efficient by connecting the right employers to the right candidates. This Manhattan-based venture was one of 80 startups showcased at the New York University Entrepreneurs Festival earlier this month."

Excerpt from Verizon Wireless -- "In Episode 8, we meet Yaopeng Zhou and Marc Albanese, co-founders of Smart Vision Labs, who created a portable vision examination device that works with a smartphone, called an autorefractor. It's a critical innovation for places like Rwanda where there are 10.5 million people and only 14 vision care providers. Now, by taking just a single picture, prescriptions and glasses can be handed out on the spot to people in need, bringing vision testing to places where it currently doesn't exist."