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Las Vegas native Lorenzo J. Fertitta has risen swiftly in the ranks of players in his hometown – and he’s done it without so much as a single bluff.

John Demsey was promoted to Group President, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., in July 2006. In this role he oversees the Estée Lauder, M•A•C, Tom Ford, and Prescriptives brands.

Throughout his career, Mr. Demsey has demonstrated a unique ability to establish a brand’s authority while continuing to respect its heritage. By continually developing innovative products, cultivating new markets and establishing an unprecedented link between fashion, beauty, and entertainment, he has led the brands in his portfolio to unparalleled growth and expansion.

Even after many years in the investment management business, all with T. Rowe Price, Ed Bernard continues to learn something new every day. “One of the great things about this business is that there’s so much richness and complexity,” Bernard explained. “I’m quite confident that I’ll learn something the day I retire that I didn’t know the day before.”

George Barrett, MBA '88, was profiled in the Feb 15, 2011 issue of the NYU Stern MBA student Newspaper The Stern Opportunity. The article, as it appeared in the Opportunity, is featured below.

Back in the early 1990s, Les Alexander, then a securities trader, wanted to invest in something that was a good value. He zeroed in on sports franchises, having been a basketball and football fan and having an eye for a good investment. At the time, however, football franchises were exploding in value, beyond his budget. And so it was he bought into basketball – big-time. Alexander purchased the Houston Rockets in 1993.

Eun-Ju Ryu has spent her career advancing through the marketing ranks at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, starting in Korea and moving to New York in 2006 to take on a Regional Director Role. Her education in clinical pharmacy gave her the skills to also serve in clinical research,  meaning she knows the pharmaceutical industry from the inside out. But when she took on her current position as Global Marketing Director, Eun-Ju realized the time was right to gain more skills in general management.

In 2008, Konstantin Makarov became, for the second time in his life, a pioneer. He left a secure job at Morgan Stanley in New York to found StratLink-Africa, Ltd., a financial advisory firm based in Nairobi, Kenya. The company's mission is to originate financing transactions in emerging and frontier markets, with a focus on Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), for investment banks, private equity firms, and family offices.

A Q&A with Jack Hanlon
Master of Science in Business Analytics,
Class of 2014

January 7, 2014

Recently named one of Forbes 2014 30 under 30: Marketing and Advertising, Jack Hanlon, Co-Founder of Kinetic Social and NYU Stern MS in Business Analytics student, shares how the program has already advanced his career as a pioneer in Big Data.

What has been your general experience with the MSBA program thus far?

“In early January, I was speaking to a data scientist as a prospective customer,” Craig recalls.  “His company wants to develop a machine learning approach to analyze ongoing data streams from a wide array of environmental sensors (e.g., collecting CO2 levels), a relatively difficult analytical challenge.  Based on much of what I learned in Stern’s MSBA program, I was able to articulate why the algorithms that my company, Numenta, offers fits their business problem and has numerous advantages over other classical statistical approaches.”