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Stern's Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation is highlighted

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Excerpt from WNYC -- "Several new city-wide initiatives geared to boost the media and entertainment industry in New York were also announced at the ribbon cutting, including ... the expansion of the city's Small Business Services partnership with NYU’s Stern School of Business Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to offer classes specifically for media business entrepreneurs."
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MBA student Brian Shimmerlik’s TaxiTreats venture is featured for winning NYC Next Idea competition

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Excerpt from New York Post -- "A plan to put vending machines — selling energy drinks, snack bars, breath mints, gum and even pain relievers — inside yellow cabs won rave reviews yesterday at a city-sponsored contest for new business ideas."
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Prof. Matt Statler's course on professional responsibility and leadership is highlighted

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Excerpt from The Chronicle of Higher Education -- "Matt Statler, a clinical assistant professor of management and organizations at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, led attendees through a shortened exercise distilled from a required course for seniors in professional responsibility and leadership. It is in this course, of all places, where students confront Cicero's arguments about virtue and expedience."
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Dean Peter Henry makes a case for classical economics

Excerpt from The Morehead-Cain -- "'Education is subversive, in the most positive sense of the word,' [Peter Henry] said. 'The goal of classical education is to create a mind that will, in some sense, undermine the teacher. We need to get that spirit back into the business school environment.'"
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A conversation with British Prime Minister David Cameron, hosted by NYU Stern, is featured

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Speaking at New York University Thursday, Mr. Cameron said he and Mr. Obama on Wednesday discussed tapping oil reserves. 'We'd both like to see global oil prices at a lower level than they are today,' Mr. Cameron said."
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NYU Stern is cited for a Ross Roundtable on trends in financial enforcement & securities litigation

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Excerpt from Reuters blog -- "Canellos was speaking as part of a panel last week on trends in financial enforcement and securities litigation after Dodd-Frank. The panel was organized by NYU Stern Business School and NERA Economic Consulting."
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The Stern Women in Business MBA student club is cited

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Claudia herself supports such female non-profits as NEST, ShestheFirst, FACE Africa, and has always participated in the women in business community including panels for Stern Women in Business, the New York Times Small Business Summit, the Women’s Small Business Expo, and more."
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Vice Dean Tom Pugel on NYU Stern & NYU School of Medicine's new MD/MBA dual degree program

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Tom Pugel, vice dean for MBA and executive programs at Stern, said the program should appeal to doctors-in-training who seek to manage a hospital or medical organization, as well as those who will need to oversee the business side of their own small practices, or medical professionals with an interest in working for a pharmaceutical company or in consulting."
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Prof. Vasant Dhar on NYU Stern's new digital marketing specialization

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Excerpt from New York Post -- "'We were getting signals from employers that they would like people trained in this area - those who can think strategically in the digital world and who have the skills to deal with the challenges that come from kind of data that this world generates,' says Dhar."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran is cited for using new technologies for teaching

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "At New York University’s Stern School of Business in Manhattan, the 400 grad students in professor Aswath Damodaran’s corporate finance class use CourseKit to chat with him and their fellow students, post articles and share notes under the professors guiding hand."
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In an interview, Dean Peter Henry urges MBAs to transform challenges into opportunities

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "We teach our students to think about how to transform challenges and opportunities to create value. And that perspective, I think, is a perspective that companies are particularly liking at the moment."
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NYU Stern is highlighted for using playwrights to teach leadership skills

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Excerpt from Toronto Star -- "NYU Stern and MIT Sloan are using playwrights to teach leadership techniques. As a result, many MBA grads can now boast as much knowledge of how Julius Caesar or Henry V overcame obstacles as how Steve Jobs or Bill Gates built their empires."
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Vice Chair of NYU Trustees & Chair of the Board of Overseers William Berkley is featured

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Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "William R. Berkley ... will present at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Insurance Conference being held in New York City."
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NYU Stern's Concourse Project is featured

Excerpt from MBA Mission -- "The project was completed in early 2010, and a first-year student we interviewed expressed that the 'building looks very modern,' while a second year offered, 'The new lobby is very nice, and the new lounges are great places to gather and study.'"
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NYU Stern's Charity Ball is featured

Excerpt from MBA Mission -- "Each fall, the student government association at New York University’s (NYU’s) Stern School of Business, known as Stern Student Corporation, or SCorp, hosts the Charity Ball, a night of dinner, drinks and dancing to benefit a New York City–area charity (the charity recipient changes each year)."
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NYU Trustee and Prof. Maria Bartiromo's class, “Global Markets and Normative Frameworks," is cited

Excerpt from NYU Local -- "Dealbreaker reported in September of 2010 that [Bartiromo] taught a Stern class that fall that was filled up within ten minutes, titled 'Global Markets and Normative Frameworks.'"
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NYU Stern is highlighted for incorporating entrepreneurship into its MBA curriculum

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Against a backdrop of turbulent global markets, unemployment at more than 8 per cent and anxiety surrounding US economic growth prospects, the recent government jobs push has given renewed vigour to business schools, from Stanford on the west coast to NYU Stern on the east, which have all tried to incorporate entrepreneurship into their syllabuses."
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Assistant Dean Isser Gallogly on the "personal expression" question in NYU Stern's MBA application

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- “Applicants often feel as though their profile is typical. They worry how they’re going to stand out, and questions like this help them set themselves apart.”
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NYU Stern's Business and Political Economy undergraduate major is cited

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Ms. Blount said she's interested in an M.S. in Business and Political Economy, a subject she launched as an undergraduate major at Stern."
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NYU Stern will host a panel on how game-design principles are used to promote sustainability on 2/21

Excerpt from School of Visual Arts -- " ... game-like experiences are helping people to eat healthier, consume less energy, recycle more, be more engaged in school, and even innovate solutions to disease and poverty."
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Profs Bruce Buchanan & Batia Wiesenfeld are cited for building Stern's Business and Society Program

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "I was lucky to work with colleagues Bruce Buchanan, Sally Blount and Batia Wiesenfeld who fought for, designed and taught courses like “Business and its Publics” and to have built a robust Business and Society Program."
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NYU Stern will host the Ultra Light Startups' Investor Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown on Feb. 9

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Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "Ultra Light Startups invites you to its INVESTOR FEEDBACK FORUM AND PITCH SHOWDOWN. The seminar will help early-stage startups refine their investor pitch, provide advice on each business model and demonstrate how investors evaluate startup pitches."
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Undergraduate student Amala Krishnan is named the Top International Baccalaureate student in the UAE

Excerpt from The Gulf Today -- “When I heard of my achievement, my initial reaction was that it was unbelievable. I was just delighted. I had been working extremely diligently for the last two years and my hard work had finally paid off.”

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