Steve was already enrolled in the Stern MSRM program when he was interviewing for his current position as vice president for risk management analytics in the institutional sales division of MSCI Inc. That clear commitment to the risk management space, he says, helped him get the job. That was more than three years ago, and his ROI from the program has never stopped. “From day one on the job I was able to explicitly use concepts I learned in the Stern MSRM program,” he says.

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Nilanjan Mitra Thakur, MSBA '14

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You could say that the ability to drill even deeper into analytics has been the driving ambition of Nilanjan’s professional life. At university in India, he recalls, and later as a consultant for a chemical company, he first became aware of the “strength of applied statistics” and their potential for improving industrial and business processes. But his passion for analytics really emerged when he consulted for major retailers and was awestruck by the billions of data generated daily.