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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- “'Why live in cities?' Mr. Florida asked Wednesday at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where he interviewed venture capitalist Fred Wilson, managing partner of Union Square Ventures and Flatiron Partners. As an investor in firms such as Twitter Inc., MongoDB Inc., Tumblr, Foursquare, Kickstarter and Zynga, Mr. Wilson has played a key role in the emergence of New York City as a tech hub, and also in San Francisco’s rise as an alternative to the startup scene in neighboring Silicon Valley."

Excerpt from Hispanic Executive -- "Today, I am assistant vice president and senior counsel for The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a life insurance and financial services provider. As AVP and senior counsel, I develop and implement lobbying strategy for several issues, including life insurance, investments, dental, and federal health-care reform. I also provide regular briefings to senior executives on relevant legislative and political developments. I spend a lot of time on the road traveling to state capitols to meet with legislators and insurance regulators. With the support of Guardian, I recently enrolled in New York University’s executive MBA program where I plan to specialize in leadership. In my spare time, I host a women’s leadership podcast and I speak at women’s leadership events."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "[Pugel] believes that what distinguishes a good overseas programme from a bad one is not the length of time spent in another country, it is the academic component, something he says NYU Stern takes very seriously."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- “'As we seek to bring a better cost-benefit balance within GAAP for private companies, we’re initiating at least potential simplification for all entities from yet another direction,' Mr. [Jeffrey] Mechanick said at an accounting roundtable hosted by the NYU Stern School of Business. 'We’ve often looked at public companies first and here we’re looking at private companies first.'”

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "NYU Stern School of Business is launching a new event series for prospective applicants interested in their full-time MBA and executive MBA programmes. The series will start this month by introducing participants to Stern’s faculty, who will share their views on the future of a diverse set of industries."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Policy makers need some way to gauge the relative likelihood of future events,' Kocherlakota said today in slides prepared for a speech in New York. 'For policy makers that care about social welfare, the relevant probability is a risk-neutral probability.'”

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota speaks at 1:45 p.m. at a conference at New York University Stern School."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "This generation of students is incredibly sophisticated in terms of their self-awareness. We encourage them and give them the flexibility to determine their strengths, values and interests. There is not a pack mentality. Our career development process is a very personalized one."

Excerpt from Dhaka Tribune -- “'Meeting at Stern encouraged a frank discussion of the challenges and opportunities in Bangladesh. It underscored the need for greater coordination among the various national and international actors, for greater transparency and for a longer term look at the sustainability of the current sourcing model,' Labowitz said."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Both NYU Stern in New York and the Schulich school at York University in Toronto run standalone masters degrees in business analytics."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "The owner of a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, was at New York University last week to meet with clothing industry executives, labor activists and American and European government officials to talk about the Bangladeshi garment industry, the world’s second-biggest exporter of clothes after China."

Excerpt from Metro -- "It may not sound glamorous, but supply-chain management has emerged as one of the fastest growing – and consequently lucrative – MBA specializations in recent years, with increased public scrutiny in the social media age as well the (still) growing complexity of global business meaning that it’s essential to get it right. Among other things, NYU Stern’s specialization looks at global outsourcing strategy, business process design and implementation, and building and managing customer relationships."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Ms. Quinn was standing beside a woman who had faced much more harrowing situations – Lindsey Melki, an Army veteran who flew a Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 – to announce what she would do as mayor in her first 100 days in office to help veterans. 'We have not done enough — the Bloomberg administration has not done enough," Ms. Quinn, a Democrat, said. Among her proposals was creating a 'welcome home' center in Times Square that would offer counseling, medical, job and housing services for veterans, as well as satellite support centers in each borough. Ms. Melki praised the idea of having a 'one-stop shop' to help veterans navigate the services available to them."

“‘An Education in Possible’ isn’t just a tagline; it’s an experience,” Larry Arbuthnott, a student in the second year of the MBA/MPA dual degree program, explained to incoming MBA students at the 2013 LAUNCH, the incoming full-time MBA students’ introduction to the NYU Stern MBA experience.

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Ms Martin-Leke was keen to create the missing link between Africa’s abundant raw materials, being used by local artisans, and the international market. 'I wanted to preserve African craftsmanship - combining artisan with contemporary and timeless products,' she says. She believed the best way to do this would be through a luxury brand: 'The luxury industry conveys culture and identity. It is a country’s or continent’s image presented to the world - what better way to make an impact and change [perceptions].' Nine months after graduating from TRIUM in September 2012, she launched Yswara, a luxury retailer of African products, setting up an all-female workforce to give opportunities to local women."

Excerpt from Westchester County Business Journal -- "Last September, Gambardella enrolled in New York University’s Langone Master of Business Administration Program for Working Professionals, which is administered at the SUNY Purchase campus. Gambardella has kept a full-time job while taking businesses courses in leadership and organization, statistics, firms and markets, accounting and marketing while employed full-time at her company."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Jennifer Wynn is an MBA student at New York University Stern School of Business and a founding teacher of the Achievement First East New York Middle School, a charter school in Brooklyn where she served as dean of students. This summer she is on an internship with the Harlem Children’s Zone, a non-profit organisation for children living in poverty, which is being funded through Stern’s Social Impact Internship Fund."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "'It got me back into school mode,' says Lindsey Melki, a second-year student at Stern who participated in Summer Start last year. 'Having taken the courses before the fall freed me to dive into clubs.'"

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "New York University Stern School of Business and New York University School of Law today announced that Sir Mervyn King, the former head of the Bank of England, will be a distinguished visiting professor at both schools in the fall semester. He stepped down from his position of Governor of the Bank of England on June 30, 2013, having served in that role for 10 of his 22 years at the Bank."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In 2011, Stern gave CourseHorse $75,000 for winning the Audience Choice Award at its 12th Annual New Venture Competition. ... 'I went to undergrad at Stern and I benefited tremendously from it,' Parthasarathi says."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In the NYU Stern Executive MBA program, customization is alive and kicking. In early May, we were given 39 electives to choose from to build our curriculum for the 2nd year of the program. By offering this multitude and breadth of courses, we can tailor our experience to our career goals and interests."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Assuming Ben Bernanke leaves his post this year, his successor will inherit a serious policy challenge: disengaging from quantitative easing. Returning to more traditional monetary policy will be tricky. First, there is no precedent in the Fed’s 100-year history. Has there ever been a period in which the US central bank and its leading counterparts worldwide have simultaneously pursued QE against a backdrop of economic faltering and uncoordinated fiscal policies?"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "These international learning opportunities were a deciding factor in my decision to enroll at NYU Stern last August."

Excerpt from Caijing Magazine -- (Loosely translated by Google from Chinese) "To celebrate NYU Shanghai--two Nobel Laureates Michael Spence and Robert Engle, New York University's Stern School of Business, attended the forum and made speeches."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Fashion may be an unconventional career choice for MBAs, but NYU’s Stern School of Business has a novel program for the sartorially inclined. Stern MBAs can apply to participate in the Stern Consulting Corps’ partnership with the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which pairs students with fashion designers for ten weeks to provide advice on a variety of subjects, including business plans, e-commerce strategies, and cash flow projections."