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Join fellow alumni and business leaders on April 17, 2012, at the New York Public Library for our Annual Haskins Award Dinner. This year's dinner celebrates and recognizes the contributions of our Chairman's Circle, Haskins Founders, Haskins Benefactors, and Haskins Investors, and the 2012 Charles Waldo Haskins Award recipient Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City of New York.

NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation hosted Alex Osterwalder, co-author of Business Model Generation, as part of the Himelberg Speaker Series this Spring. Osterwalder shared insights on how to develop a disruptive business model. His Business Model Canvas, a tool to visualize, challenge and reinvent business models, is used by leading organizations around the world.

Dean Peter Henry, with current MBA students and faculty, rang the NASDAQ Closing Bell in Times Square in New York City.

Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Paul Volcker spoke with a group of more than 100 students at the seventh annual Haitkin Lecture, organized by Stern’s Business & Society Program Area. Looking at the prospects for financial reform, Volcker underscored the importance of government oversight in today’s markets and stressed the critical role of internal controls in banks.

NYU students walked the red carpet this month at the ProMotion Pictures Gala to celebrate the University’s 2011-2012 partnership with SUBWAY® and Content & Co. Through the ProMotion Pictures Program, graduate students from the Stern and Tisch Schools joined forces to produce branded entertainment as part of the Subway Fresh Artists™ Challenge. Hosted at the Tribeca Cinemas, the event featured screenings of two winning web series, produced by NYU students.

Join fellow alumni and business leaders on April 3, 2012, at The Bowery Hotel for our inaugural Haskins Cocktail Reception. This event celebrates and recognizes the contributions of our Haskins Partners, Haskins Fellows, and Young Haskins Partner Associates.

Jeff Zucker, former president and CEO of NBC Universal, spoke to a group of MBA students through NYU Stern’s Leadership Luncheon Series, coordinated by the School’s Leadership Development Team.

The First Annual Stern Hedge Fund Association (SHFA) Summit, themed "Headwinds and Tailwinds: Capitalizing on Volatile Markets," will provide a forum for leaders within the hedge fund and alternative investment industries to discuss opportunities and challenges facing investors in the post-2008 financial environment.

Budding entrepreneurs from across NYU convened in Stern’s Paulson Auditorium to hear from Ben Kaufman, CEO and founder of Quirky.com.

Graduate marketing students gathered for a forum with E. Craig Stacey, research director for the NYU Stern Center for Measurable Marketing and founding partner of The Marketing Productivity Group.

Academics and practitioners in the field of financial econometrics from around the world gathered in the Netherlands for a conference on "Measuring and Understanding Asset Price Changes: The Price of Liquidity, and the Liquidity of Price." Co-hosted by The Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE), which is housed within the NYU Stern Volatility Institute, and the Tinbergen University in Amsterdam, the event featured keynote speakers Thierry Foucault, HEC, Paris; Pete Kyle, University of Maryland; and Richardo Lagos, NYU. Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Engle’s co-authored research on “Liquidity and Volatility in the US Treasury Market: Evidence from a New Class of Dynamic Order Book Models?” was also presented.

On March 26, Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas, spoke to Stern MBA students, sharing his story as part of the first Stern Signature Series event, a student-designed speaker series.

More than 80 students, faculty and alumni gathered for a fireside chat about global innovation with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, award-winning global correspondent for The Economist and author of Need, Speed and Greed (Harper Collins, Mar '12), and Professor Paul Romer, director of NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project.

Dean Peter Henry welcomed Prime Minister David Cameron to NYU for a questions and answers session, which spanned topics including the economy, foreign affairs and political reform.

Professor Baruch Lev, author of "Winning Investors Over: Surprising Truths About Honesty, Earnings Guidance and Other Ways to Boost Your Stock Price" (HBR, November 2011), sat down with Gene Epstein, economic and book review editor at Barron’s, for a discussion about his research.

On February 9, 2012, the Strategy & Operations Club (SOC) and Management Consulting Association (MCA) co-hosted the 2nd Annual NYU Stern Strategy Forum. This year’s theme, "Emerging from the Great Recession," focused on leaders who have made significant strides by moving businesses abroad and who understand the impact this has on the future.

Some 50 academics, practitioners and policymakers gathered at NYU Stern in March for a roundtable discussion on securities litigation post-Dodd-Frank, co-hosted by Stern’s Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting and NERA Economic Consulting. Industry experts discussed recent developments in shareholder litigation and regulatory enforcement, the impact of regulatory reform and current academic research.

Tony Alvarez (MBA '76), co-founder of Alvarez & Marsal LLC, a global professional services firm with expertise in turnaround management, corporate restructuring and performance enhancement, spoke to a group of MBA students through NYU Stern’s Leadership Luncheon Series, coordinated by the School’s Leadership Development Team.

Maintaining a tradition that began in 2006, the Stern Private Equity Club (SPEC) held its Seventh Annual Stern Private Equity Conference at NYU’s Kimmel Center on March 2. The sold-out conference had a record turnout of more than 350 attendees, bringing together over 200 professionals in private equity, as well as over 150 students to hear industry panels led by thought leaders.

The NYU Stern Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions recently hosted its third annual conference to explore several controversial issues related to modernizing the sector. The conference included presentations from industry leaders and academics, such as Professors Matthew Richardson, John Biggs, Viral Acharya and Eric Dinallo.

The Ninth Annual NYU Stern-Citi Conference in Leadership & Ethics addressed the theme of “Social Innovation as a Transformative Economic, Social and Political Movement.” Organized by NYU Stern’s Citi Leadership & Ethics Program and Business & Society Program Area, with generous support from the Citi Foundation, the conference featured this year’s Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership & Ethics, Jeffrey Hollender, co-founder of Seventh Generation.

In March, MBA students had a chance to bowl with President John Sexton and Dean Peter Henry at Bowlmor Lanes.

On February 28, NYU Stern’s Luxury & Retail student club co-hosted a special guest lecture with IBM, “Retail 2020: Reinventing Retail Once Again,” featuring Professor Herb Kleinberger and Chris Hendren of IBM Global Solutions. The lecture corresponded with the global launch of the paper, "Retail 2020: Reinventing Retail Once Again" (a joint project between NYU Stern and IBM).

Bill Drayton, founder & CEO of Ashoka, a nonprofit organization supporting the field of social entrepreneurship, spoke to MBA students about “How to Lead in an ‘Everyone is a Changemaker™’ World,” through NYU Stern’s Leadership Luncheon Series.

The 2012 MBA Media & Entertainment Conference, co-hosted by NYU Stern’s Media, Entertainment and Sports Association (MESA), is a premiere event for MBA students focusing in the media, entertainment and technology industries. The conference will feature Netflix Co-Founder and CEO Reed Hastings as one of the keynote speakers, along with a variety of panel discussions and networking opportunities.