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“Enterprising” might be one of the more obvious words to describe Alejandro Rubinstein, the 35-year-old senior manager for branches and alternate delivery at BAC San José Bank in Costa Rica. He was just a college student when he snagged his first real job—on a class tour of a pharmaceutical company, the budding industrial engineer identified an area for improvement in the warehouse's efficiency and, as an intern, presented a 15-page argument for it. That doggedness won him a permanent job.

Jigar Patel, a student in the Doctoral Program’s Operations Management department, was first attracted to Stern because it is “one of the few business schools that imparts rigorous theoretical training, along with a real world business perspective in the field of Operations Management.”

Lai Jiang decided to pursue her doctorate immediately after receiving her B.A. in Economics from Peking University in China. Several of her undergraduate classmates had selected NYU Stern for their PhD studies, so she was familiar with the School and was attracted to the diverse and international student body.

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