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Last September, NYU Stern established the Chao-Hon Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance with a $20 million gift from Charles C.Y. Chen (MBA ’91) and named Professor Sam Chandan the Institute’s director. With that action, Stern moved deeper into a vast and expanding territory, rich with…

Excellence, unbound by tradition, is a core value at NYU Stern and a favorite phrase of Undergraduate College Dean Robert Whitelaw. “An advantage we have at NYU is we don’t have a 400-year history; We’re not wedded to doing the things the way we used to do them,” he says. “New York City is all about…

Master’s of Science in Business Analytics Cutting-edge program celebrates 10 years Time flies when you’re having fun and trailblazing new territory in business education! When Stern’s Master’s of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) Program launched 10 years ago, it was the first-of-its kind at a…

On the 10th anniversary of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, Director Michael Posner spoke to STERN BUSINESS about how the field of business and human rights has evolved, in a world more connected than ever by technology. Posner has a long career in human rights advocacy as the…

As Charles C. Y. Chen (MBA ’91), Chairman of Eyon Holding Group and a member of Stern's Executive Board, described it, his $20 million gift to NYU Stern to create the Chao-Hon Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance was less a bolt from the blue than a serendipitous confluence of professional interest, generational friendship, and above all, a deep-seated family tradition of philanthropy.

You started in this role last December and were described as “not just hitting the ground running, but hitting the ground sprinting.” Why are people saying that and why was speed so important? It might be because I launched both the diversity and inclusion website and newsletter on my first day at…

Hannah Ho’s career ambitions have been consistent since high school in Maryland: to make a difference in sustainability using the tools of business. Her extracurricular activities have always revolved around clean tech and sustainable business and, more recently, how investment funds can target them…

NYU Stern students love interacting with alumni, and alumni feel rewarded interacting with students. That’s just one of the takeaways from last fall’s launch of Stern’s inaugural Executive-in-Residence (EIR) Program. The Program was conceived as a way to help bring together students, faculty, and…

Few lifelong learning programs for executives can boast the numbers that NYU Stern’s can. In 2019, when the opportunity to audit classes was first offered to Stern alumni, two dozen graduates signed up. By spring semester 2023, the Alumni Audit Program attracted 15 times that number—fully 2,230…

On February 23, 2023, NYU Stern was thrilled to be announcing a landmark gift of $53.6 million from alumna Anne E. Tasca (BS ’88). Her gift would represent three remarkable milestones for the School: the largest single gift in the School’s history; the largest total giving amount from a woman donor…