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On Monday, April 17, NYU Stern’s Business and Society Program (BSP) hosted the 2023 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-In-Residence Lecture, delivered by Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, and moderated by Batia Wiesenfeld, Director of the Business & Society Program. This year's talk was entitled, "Eliminating the Idea of Waste: The TerraCycle Story of Purposeful Capitalism to Help Make Our World More Circular."

This year’s SWIB Conference will be about Allyship! We’ll be taking a 360 view of the topic and discussing not only how women need allies, but also how women can be allies. We intend to foster conversations with two goals in mind – educate and actualize.

Shannon K. O'Neil joins NYU Stern's Steven Altman for a virtual "fireside chat" about her new book, The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter (Yale University Press, October 2022), which chronicles the rise of three main global manufacturing and supply chain hubs and what they mean for U.S. economic competitiveness.

On Tuesday, April 4, NYU Stern hosted a panel discussion titled "SVB and Beyond: Understanding the Banking Stress and Ways Forward." 

On Tuesday, April 4, join NYU Stern Corporate Relations and the Center for the Future of Management for a fireside chat with José Muñoz, Global President and COO of Hyundai Motor Company and President and CEO of Hyundai and Genesis Motor North America. Vice Dean J.P. Eggers will moderate the discussion.

On Monday, March 27, NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business, Volatility and Risk Institute, and Center for Sustainable Business co-hosted a Public Talk and Q&A with Laurence Boone, French Minister of State for Europe and Foreign Affairs.

The theme of this year’s conference will be the Future of Healthcare, with exciting panels focusing on innovations in clinical trials, pricing, and investing. Our keynote speaker is Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc, the 43rd Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health who led New York City through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rama Akkiraju is the Vice President for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for IT at Nvidia. She is a former IBM Fellow who worked on the Watson artificial intelligence project, and has been honored as a "Top 20 Women" in AI by Forbes, and "A-Team for AI" by Fortune Magazine. Rama and Professor Melissa Schilling will discuss the ways in which the adoption and performance of artificial intelligence are accelerating right now, and the unique role that Nvidia is positioned to play.

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week exposed the fragility of the banking system. Hear from some of NYU Stern's leading banking scholars about SVB's decline and the overall health of the banking system, and what dangers lie ahead.

Modern AI language systems are astounding, as we are reminded almost every day. But they also are criticized for their (lack of) accuracy, their tendency to just make things up, their banal song lyrics, and their lack of true intelligence (recall last fall’s fireside chat with Prof. Gary Marcus). Where are we, really, when it comes to AI “large language models” helping us to actually do real work?

Victor Williams, CEO of NBA Africa, joins NYU Stern Prof. Sinziana Dorobantu for a fireside chat about basketball in Africa and the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s growth strategy in the region.

On Monday, March 6, the Center for Global Economy and Business and the Volatility and Risk Institute co-hosted a fireside chat with Jeanna Smialek (MBA ’20) on her new book Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis. NYU Stern Professor Emeritus Kim Schoenholtz moderated the discussion.

Join award-winning Stern professor, psychologist, and author Dolly Chugh in conversation with Stern's beloved Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Victor Mullins as they look at the emotional relationship we have with our country and its complicated past.

On Friday, February 24, 2023, the Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance hosted "InnovateESG 2023: Advancing Real Estate’s Environmental, Social, and Governance Missions Through PropTech and Innovation." Anthony Malkin, Chairman, President, and CEO of Empire State Realty Trust, joined the forum as keynote speaker.

The theme of the 18th Annual Conference will be Inflation & Valuation, the onset of new risks in alternative investing and will explore the impact of new risks: inflation, rising interest rates, geopolitical turmoil and climate contribution to the surge in volatility and slowdown in alternative investing with 6 different panels, industry speakers and a networking lunch and mixer.

This will be the 13th annual Symposium planned in collaboration between NYU’s Stern School of Business, the School of Law, and the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, attracting hundreds of students, academics, and professionals working across the public, private and social sectors. 

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted the Economic Outlook Forum on February 7, 2023.

On Friday, January 27, 2023, the NYU Stern Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research and the NYU Stern Volatility and Risk Institute co-hosted a conference focusing on the many pending issues regarding digital assets. The conference explored how frameworks for governance, pending regulation, legal and accounting intersect for digital assets