Experience Stern | Events Archive

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, organized by the Student Government International Committee, was held on Thursday, April 4 in Gould Plaza.

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”).

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 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.

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.

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.

The Stern Private Equity Club will host its Eighth Annual Stern Private Equity Conference on Friday, March 1, 2013. Themed, “The New Normal in Private Equity,” the conference will provide a forum for industry leaders to discuss the opportunities and risks of today's private equity and venture capital environment. Tepid global growth, regulatory dynamics, political pressure and financial market conditions are posing challenges to fundraising, deal financing and operations. The conference will foster thought-provoking discussions on the issues facing today's private equity and venture capital community.

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.

On Thursday, February 28, 2013, NYU Stern MBA students, alumni and faculty will gather for the NYU Stern Strategy and Operations Club (SOC) Third Annual Strategy Forum, themed “Achieving Strategic Advantage Through Innovation.” Attendees will hear from strategy leaders across a variety of industries, including keynote speaker Mumtaz Ahmed, Chief Strategy Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and a Principal at Deloitte Consulting, and a panel of representatives from strategy and consulting roles across several industries.

Jill Bright, chief administrative officer at Condé Nast, and Mason Salit, wealth market leader at TD Bank, shared perspectives with MBA students on how great leaders succeed as part of NYU Stern's Leadership Development Initiative (LDI).

The MBA Media & Entertainment Conference, jointly hosted by NYU Stern’s Entertainment, Media and Technology Association (EMTA) and Columbia Business School, is focused on providing an educational and informative forum for discussions on the present state and future of media and entertainment.

The NYU Social Innovation Symposium is a collaboration between the Social Enterprise Association at Stern, Bridge at Wagner and LSEA at the Law School. Charles Best, founder of DonorsChoose.org, and Jacquelline Fuller, Director of Google Giving at Google.org, will be keynote speakers.

The Center for Global Economy and Business will host President and CEO James Bullard of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. President Bullard will speak to faculty, students, market professionals and central bankers based in NY.

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, former Bogotá Mayor Enrique Peñalosa spoke with Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project and Professor of Economics, in a public presentation on February 12.

Michael Warren, Principal of Albright Stonebridge Group, engaged with more than 100 MBA students at NYU Stern’s Block Lunch, hosted by Dean Peter Henry.

As part of NYU Stern’s Leadership Luncheon Series coordinated by the Stern’s Leadership Development Team, Stephen I. Sadove, Chairman & CEO of Saks, spoke with MBA students about his career and today’s luxury retail market.

Faculty from top business and law schools convened on February 8 and 9 to present, discuss and debate their work at the ninth annual NYU/Penn Conference on Law and Finance. The event was co-hosted by NYU’s Pollack Center for Law & Business and the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics, and sponsored by NERA Economic Consulting.

This year’s SWIB conference, themed, "Breaking Boundaries: The New Role of Innovation," will highlight how business is being transformed by values-driven female leaders who combine private sector profitability with creative and strategic leadership. Speakers will explore how women have innovated their careers, from design innovation to business model innovation to innovating for social change. SWIB is pleased to be hosting the following Keynote speakers: Irene Rosenfeld, Chairman and CEO of Mondelez International (formerly Kraft Foods), Bethany Mayer, SVP & GM of Hewlett-Packard Company, Marian Croak, SVP at AT&T Labs, and Elana Drell Szyfer, CEO of AHAVA North America.

The Conference on Extracting and Understanding the Risk Neutral Probability Density from Options Prices will bring together researchers from NYU Stern and the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Minneapolis to describe the work they have been doing on extracting the RND from options prices and analyzing the information it contains. Discussants from industry will also share their perspectives on this promising area of research.