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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Among the products being developed is Databetes, a forthcoming app that will provide self-management support tools for patients with diabetes. Kinvolved similarly bridges technology and social enterprise by developing online applications to increase school attendance among low-income students, engaging parents in the process."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "As pressure increases on companies to disclose where they distribute their campaign dollars, four schools – the Stern School of Business at New York University, the Wharton School’s Zicklin Centre for Business Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania, Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, New York and the Ira Millstein Centre for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School, New York – have come together to address the topic. Earlier this year they launched an initiative with the US-based Center for Political Accountability to integrate corporate political accountability into the business school curriculums and to create the first online course on the subject."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I knew that I needed to be in an environment where I could elevate my level of thinking and it definitely paid off...We were challenged from day one to think about not only the business that we're doing in a micro sense but to think about how it can impact the global economy and to think outside of ourselves from our business to our community to our country."

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."