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The Stern Venture Fellows (SVF) program has been a boon to promising startups.

This past May, the Endless Frontier Labs (EFL), a program at NYU Stern to accelerate early-stage science and technology-based startups, graduated its first cohort.

Since 2018, thanks to a generous donation from alumnus Richard Ming-Hsing Tsai (MBA ’81), the chairman and CEO of Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd., scholars and practitioners in the fields of fintech, data analytics, and artificial intelligence collaborate at

Last summer, NYU Stern’s Undergraduate College (UC) developed a program that offered professional development opportunities for students. In alignment with UC Professional and Social Impact Pillars, students could explore their interests and use business to create a positive impact.

2020 has been a year to remember, especially for the NYU Stern EMBA DC Program, which graduated its inaugural class of 43 executive-level students in a virtual celebration in August 2020.

Ask anyone what differentiates NYU Stern from other top business schools, and the response is immediate: the sense of community and the agile spirit at the School—among students, faculty, and administration, and after graduation, among a global alumni population numbering more than 110,000.

I returned to NYU Stern as the inaugural Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion for the newly created Office of Diversity and Inclusion in January 2019.

Just a few months into their professional careers, a group of four NYU Stern undergraduate alumni have already started building their legacy of giving back, and they’re getting fellow recent graduates in financial services to sign on as well.

No matter the environment, diversity and inclusion have always been a part of Luzerne McAllister’s (MBA ’14) life and work.

In her junior year at Stern Undergraduate College, Sophie Frank (BS ’17) had an epiphany. She had recently returned from a course experience in India, where her twin passions for activism and social entrepreneurship had begun to percolate.