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Glenn A. Okun

  • Clinical Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship
  • Professor of Management Practice
  • Adjunct Professor of Finance

Joined Stern 2002

gao2@stern.nyu.edu

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Kaufman Management Center

44 West Fourth Street, 7-53

New York, NY 10012

About Glenn A. Okun

Glenn A. Okun is a Clinical Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at New York University Stern School of Business where he teaches courses in entrepreneurship, private equity, venture capital, corporate finance and investment management. He advises corporations on financial and investment matters. Professor Okun was President of Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, a merchant bank and broker dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California from 1998 to 2001. He previously served as a Director of Allen & Company Incorporated in New York. Professor Okun invested in early and later stage financings of private companies in various industries. He also ran a small capitalization emerging growth stock hedge fund and a special situations portfolio. Professor Okun has advised corporate clients on mergers, acquisitions and restructurings and has underwritten public offerings and private placements of securities. He began his investment career at the IBM Retirement Fund where he invested in mezzanine private placements, real estate, public emerging growth equities and oil and gas assets. He holds J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University and a BA degree from Wesleyan University.

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  • Management and Organizations
  • Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship
    • Business Plans
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Small Businesses
    • Start-ups/New Ventures
    • Venture Capital/Financing
  • Management
    • Technology & Innovation
  • Business Start-Up Practicum
  • Corporate Venturing
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Foundations of Entrepreneurship
  • Managing the Growing Company
  • Patterns of Entrepreneurship
  • Technology and Innovation
  • Venture Capital Financing
  • J.D., 1989

    Harvard Law School

  • M.B.A., 1989

    Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration

  • B.A., Government, 1984

    Wesleyan University

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2023)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2021)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2019)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2018)

  • NYU Stern Professor of the year (voted by MBA program students), (2017)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2017)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2016)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2015)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2014)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2013)

  • NYU Stern Professor of the year (voted by MBA program students), (2013)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2011)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (as voted by the faculty), (2009)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2008)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2007)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2006)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2005)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2004)

  • NYU Stern Teaching Excellence Award (Executive MBA Program), (2003)