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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."

Excerpt from the Washington Post -- "The exodus at the State Department continues, as attorney and human-rights advocate Mike Posner heads for the hills. Actually, his destination is a little more civil than that: he’s joining the faculty of New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "What is different today, says Dr. Koonin, is that digital technologies — sensors, wireless communication, storage and clever software algorithms — are advancing so rapidly that it is becoming possible to see and measure activities in an urbanenvironment as never before."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'Without an end date, the committee may have to alter the pace of purchases as news arrives concerning U.S. macroeconomic performance,' Bullard said today to the Center for Global Economy and Business at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, a voting member of the Fed's monetary policy committee this year, said the currently low inflation readings may give the Fed some leeway to continue its quantitative easing program longer than it would otherwise."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Over the years, I’ve read some great ventures plans as part of this competition. Some have gone on to win and/or contribute significant social benefit. I’m looking forward to reading the next round of plans, and sharing more observations about what makes successful – and less-than-successful – venture plans."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Chicago Booth has a course on its MBA programme, as does the Tepper school at Carnegie Mellon University, while at the LSE the techniques are an integral part of masters and undergraduate programmes. NYU Stern and Schulich run standalone masters degrees in Business Analytics."

Excerpt from the Washington Post -- "I will never know whether my actions in Afghanistan were right or wrong. On good days, I believe they were necessary. But instead, I want to believe that killing, even in war, is wrong."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "CourseHorse, winner of the 2011 New Venture Competition, recently raised $500,000 in a seed funding round and launched a co-branded site with Time Out New York."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "All entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers, but some are willing to go above and beyond for an idea they believe in. NYU Stern alumnus Samir Ibrahim and serial entrepreneur Charles Nichols, winners of the Audience Choice Award at the 2011-12 Entrepreneur’s Challenge fit this description perfectly."

Excerpt from the Huffington Post -- "Currently, only a handful of business schools -- Stern (NYU), Darden (UVA), HBS (Harvard) -- offer courses that focus on women in leadership."

Excerpt from Bloomberg BusinessWeek -- "Marisa Rosenthal, a student at New York University’s Stern School of Business, encourages people to buy an iPhone case through Bonobos to benefit charity:water, a nonprofit that provides clean drinking water to those in developing nations."

Excerpt from the Wall Street Journal -- "Speaking at gathering held at the New York University‘s Stern School of Business, Simon Potter, who heads up the New York Fed’s critical Markets Group, said real-time information is critical to good policy making."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Experts from the finance sector, industry, regulatory agencies, government, legal and accounting professions, and academia got together last night at NYU Stern School of Business for a Ross Roundtable to discuss the reemergence of consulting practices in the major audit firms."