Experience News & Events

Laurence D. Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock and an NYU Trustee, spoke with NYU Stern MBA students and faculty on "Longevity in the Age of Twitter," highlighting how the retirement landscape has changed significantly over the past 50 years.

Professor Nouriel Roubini moderated a conversation with Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, and Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, on their new book, "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business."

Finalists from the New Venture, Social Venture and Technology Venture Competitions will participate in the 2013 Final Pitch-off for up to $200,000 in seed money and in-kind support as part of the NYU Stern Entrepreneurs Challenge, hosted by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Read more about NYU Stern's Undergraduate Baccalaureate ceremony and Stern's Graduate Convocation ceremony.

Jerry L. Cohen (BS ’53, MBA ’59), NYU Stern Board of Overseer, Partner of Tishman Speyer Properties, and the Center for Real Estate Finance Research invite you to a full-day exploration of four current hot topics in real estate finance.

As part of the Himelberg Speaker Series, Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani Yogurt, will share his story and career insights with MBA students.

As part of NYU Stern’s Block Lunch event series, hosted by Dean Peter Henry, Dina Habib Powell, president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and global head of Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sachs, spoke to more than 100 MBA students.

NYU Stern will host the fourth annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, honoring the leading disruptive innovators who have impacted business, technology, arts & entertainment.

NYU Stern's Fifth Annual Volatility Conference convened academics, practitioners and regulators to discuss the latest research and ideas on this year's theme, "Volatility of Credit Risk." Hosted by Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Engle, this year's conference was sponsored by Stern's Volatility Institute, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, BlackRock, Deutsche Bank and SoFiE.

Alessandro Piol and Maria Teresa Cometto, co-authors of Tech and the City: The Making of New York's Startup Community, will speak with MBA students on Tuesday, April 23.

Professor Kim Schoenholtz moderated a panel discussion at Japan Society on April 23, entitled, "Abenomics: Could This Time Be Different," featuring Paul Sheard, Chief Global Economist and Head of Global Economics and Research, Standard& Poor's, and Nathan Sheets, Global Head of International Economics, Citi.

On Friday, April 19, NYU Stern and the Evolution Institute will host a workshop for a small working group of 20 participants and 25 audience members to assess the possible applications of evolutionary thinking for business and business ethics.

Some 50 academics, practitioners and policymakers gathered at NYU Stern on April 15 for a roundtable discussion on “The Inside Scoop on Securities Litigation for 2013.” Industry experts discussed new litigation trends and anticipated the SEC’s main areas of focus this year.

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, addressed students from the NYU Stern School of Business and NYU Wagner School of Public Service during a special lecture and Q&A session.

On Wednesday, April 10, MBA students celebrated the final weeks before graduation at the 2013 Bowling Night with President John Sexton and Dean Peter Henry.

As part of NYU Stern's Leadership Development Initiative, coordinated by the School's Leadership Development Team, Marla Capozzi, head of McKinsey & Company's Innovation practice, spoke with Luke Williams, executive director of Stern's Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, about how leaders can foster innovation.

On April 6, the Stern in Africa club (SIA) will host the 2013 NYU African Economic Forum, in partnership with NYU Africa House and The Council of Young African Leaders and Vital Voices.

Stern’s Entrepreneurs Exchange (EEX) is taking a new approach to how conferences work by arranging a series of "mini-treks" throughout the city, allowing attendees to leverage Stern’s location by visiting firms such as Warby Parker, ZocDoc, Foursquare, Betaworks, OpenSky, RebelMouse, Bitly, Fab.com, SinglePlatform, Sailthru and Iconic Hand Rolls.

Passport Day, an event organized by the SGov International Committee, will be held on Thursday, April 4 from 4:30 to 6:30 PM in Gould Plaza.

On April 2, 2013, NYU Stern’s Dean Peter Henry sat down with Adam Davidson, co-founder and co-host of Planet Money, for a conversation about his new book, TURNAROUND: Third World Lessons for First World Growth. More than 350 students and alumni attended the event, which Stern’s Center for Global Economy and Business hosted.

As part of NYU Stern’s Block Lunch event series, Dean Peter Henry interviewed Dr. Helene Gayle, president and CEO of CARE USA, before an audience of more than 100 MBA students.

Richard Berner, the first Director of the US Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR), spoke to Stern faculty and students about financial stability, financial regulation and the goals of OFR to measure and report on the health of the financial system.

On March 12, NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business hosted a public discussion with Neil Barofsky, NYU Law Professor , the author of Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street and former Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP”).

On Friday, March 8, the NYU Stern Latin American Business Association (LABA) will host its fourth annual Latin American Business Conference, themed, “Latin America: The New Breakout Region.” Speakers and panelists will discuss brand strategy and marketing, entrepreneurship, finance and macroeconomic issues.

The Stern Hedge Fund Association’s (SHFA) Second Annual Conference, themed, "Generating Alpha in a Low Growth Environment," will be held on March 8, 2013. The event will feature prominent practitioners and academics in the hedge fund industry.

On March 8th, NYU Stern’s Entrepreneurs’ Exchange Club (EEX) will send more than 50 MBA students to Austin for the SXSW Interactive Conference. Over the past few years, SXSW Interactive has emerged as the premier event for entrepreneurs and entertainment/media/technology aficionados.

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, former Toronto Mayor David Miller spoke with Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project and Professor of Economics, in a public presentation on March 7.

The Center for Real Estate Finance Research (CREFR) and Marc H. Bell, General Partner of Barbican Capital host a full-day conference on the future of the U.S. housing finance system.

NYU’s entrepreneurial community—including successful student, faculty and alumni startup founders and venture capital investors—will gather to celebrate innovation and entrepreneurship at the second annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival.

The 10th Annual NYU Stern-Citi Conference in Leadership & Ethics addressed the theme of “Integrating Sustainability Into Capital Markets.” Organized by NYU Stern’s Citi Leadership & Ethics Program and Business & Society Program Area, with generous support from the Citi Foundation, the 2013 conference featured this year’s Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership & Ethics, Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres.