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Excerpt from Forbes -- "NYU’s most promising innovators received a combined $200,000 in startup cash at the annual $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge held by NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The four winning teams composed of students, alumni and faculty from seven different schools across campus, were chosen after pitching their ideas and enduring grueling Q&A by judges from venture capital, technology and design and social enterprise sectors."

At the end of the Fall 2012 semester, a group of NYU Stern undergraduate students in the Business and Political Economy (BPE) degree program were selected to represent NYU in the Up to Us Campaign - a nationwide competition, sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative University, Net Impact, and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation - in which students educated classmates and their local communities on the federal government’s debt.

Excerpt from New York Daily News -- “'This fall, I will start NYU’s Wagner School of Government working on a master’s in government administration,' she says. 'I’d like to work in city government, in veterans affairs, helping my fellow veterans.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "BlackRock began a five-year branding campaign last year as it seeks to get investors back into higher-yielding assets such as stocks and expand its retail business. Fink has said clients need to diversify and can be harmed by staying in cash-like products. Earlier this week, he spoke at New York University’s Stern School of Business about the need for retirement-savings reform and creating a mandatory savings system."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "'We're at a point now where the interest rate cycle makes it very difficult [for investors to save],' he said, during remarks delivered to a group of NYU Stern business school students. 'If you can no longer buy a 30-year bond with a 7% yield, how will investors achieve the necessary savings outcome?'"

Excerpt from CNET -- "Cohen said that in the future, an ecosystem will evolve around protecting and monitoring people's online images. Meanwhile, Schmidt said that even with the proliferation of wearable devices, people will still have privacy. Each country will make a decision about how to address the issue, he said, and each nation's policy will be different. "

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Ulukaya gave a presentation earlier this week to a packed audience at New York University's Stern School of Business, sponsored by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. In it, he outlined the story of the company's rapid growth."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "In the hypercompetitive 21st century, where every Apple is only one algorithm away from becoming a BlackBerry, paying the lowest possible taxes is not the exceptional policy of one particularly greedy chief executive — it is what every executive seeks to do to keep his job. That was what Andrew Kassoy, a former private equity investor, explained at a recent panel discussion at the Stern School of Business at New York University (disclosure alert: I was the moderator)."

Excerpt from TechCrunch -- "Disrupt NY 2013′s Startup Battlefield competition is underway, and now New York native Keen Home is taking the stage to present its first-round pitch. Keen Home is a home automation startup, which aims to follow in Nest’s footsteps by building remote vents for your central air conditioning and heating systems that can be controlled from your smartphone to optimally direct air where you actually need it — and away from places you don’t. Keen just launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo."

Excerpt from The New York Post -- "'We ask the question "Why them?"' the 'Supersize Me' director told us Friday at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Disruptive Innovation Awards at NYU Stern’s Paulson Auditorium."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "South Korean rapper and Internet sensation Psy was honored as a transcultural phenomenon by the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday along with a host of other luminaries ranging from choreographer Twyla Tharp to controversial media host Glenn Beck."

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "Specialized degree candidates 'really want to focus and deepen their knowledge in a specific subject area,' says Paula Steisel Goldfarb, executive director of MBA and executive MBA admissions and financial aid at Stern. 'Whereas for an MBA program, students are looking at broad-based skills. They want to get all their functional knowledge within multiple areas within business.'"

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Cynthia Franklin, the senior associate director at the NYU Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Stern, announced the finalist for the Entrepreneur’s Challenge to a room full of anxious entrepreneurs in the Kaufman Management Center last Friday."

A team of NYU Stern MBA students comprising Nazly Havez, Zeev Krieger, Amy Nelson and Matthew Seden took the top spot in the 2013 Aspen Business & Society International MBA Case Competition.

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "If there’s one big winner in the demise of finance, it is consulting, probably the only industry in which salaries match or exceed those in financial services. For example, 22 percent of 2012 MBA graduates from New York University’s Stern School of Business took jobs in investment banking, down from 31 percent in 2010. Over the same period, the proportion snagging jobs in consulting rose from 15 percent in 2010 to 22 percent in 2012. In 2012, salaries for Stern grads in investment banking jobs averaged $103,254; consulting salaries averaged $126,696."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants for Execs -- "Chan plans to finish her MBA in 2.5 years. Like Xi, she finds the work-school-home travel triangle highly doable, and feels participation in Stern’s MBA clubs is vital. She belongs to the Part-Time Leadership Forum."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Ehrlich says Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania has an economics course that broadens students’ perspectives by treating neoclassical economics as one approach among many, while the Business and Society Program at NYU’s Stern School of Business offers a series of four required courses placing business in a larger societal context."

Maria Bartiromo, with Suresh Sani, Undergraduate College Dean Geeta Menon and Professor Batia Wiesenfeld, was this year’s 2013 Sani Lecture keynote.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Speaking Monday at a panel at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Mr. Volcker conceded that fixing and restructuring the country’s complex financial system is 'a very difficult process… that’s not going to happen in a hurry.' That is because 'attitudes haven’t changed,' and politics have ensnared the drafting of some regulations. Three years ago, the Dodd-Frank omnibus reform measure, was signed into law."

Excerpt from the Washington Post -- "Systemic risk analysis of US financial institutions from the Volatility Institute of New York University's Stern School of Business: They have developed indexes that use public financial data to measure risk in the system, down to the level of individual firms."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Today Chung announced the newest Techstars NYC class. According to Chung, nearly 1,700 startups applied to the program but only eleven were chosen – that's a 0.6% acceptance rate. Applications poured in from 460 cities, six continents and 66 countries. That's the highest number of applicants TechStars NYC has ever received."

Excerpt from the New York Post -- "At New York University's Stern School of Business, students are volunteering on-campus for a program that pairs them with low-income New Yorkers in need of help with their tax returns."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "A desire to make a difference in the world is also a contributing factor, says Scott Stimpfel, assistant dean of student engagement and innovation at Stern. In fact, many of his students are pursuing social entrepreneurship, or at least getting exposed to it, as early as high school, he says."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "It is still 'early days,' Richard Berner, the newly appointed director of the U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Research, said, when asked what lessons the United States might learn [from Cyprus] on the durability of financial markets. I think it's probably early days and too soon to draw those lessons, Berner said after a speech at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'That's something that's going to be worth looking at.'"

Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- "'At NYU Stern we categorically reject the "or" and embrace the "and." Profits and principle must coexist as citizens and consumers around the globe demand both. Mike is respected around the world for his distinguished 30-year career as a lawyer, advocate and policymaker,' Stern Dean Peter Henry said in the statement."