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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."

MBA Students Michael Caruana & Shyamali Rajivan work on a Faculty Fellows project supporting the NYU Stern Urbanization Project’s advisory services to the City of Detroit.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The market's focus on how the Federal Reserve will wind down or cease its current round of quantitative easing is unwarranted. While the "taper" does reflect its movement away from extreme monetary accommodation, thus far the reduced pace of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities have had, on balance, no visible effect on markets."

Excerpt from Delta Sky Magazine -- "By the end of the course, they've learned the simple, yet thorough, process of disruptive thinking to solve real-world problems."

Excerpt from City AM -- "The networking potential is even greater on collaborative programmes (where two or more schools offer a single programme together), as students could get access to a far wider range of connections. 'It’s another way that students can tailor the programme to suit their needs,' says Zaitseva. Trium – a collaboration between HEC Paris, LSE and NYU Stern – can give students a whole range of skills. 'NYU Stern is based in one of the world’s leading financial centres. HEC Paris will provide key entrepreneurial skills; and LSE focuses on social studies.'”

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."