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The ASEAN region plays a critical role in driving growth in the global economy. To develop and inspire today’s global leaders, NYU Stern Executive Education welcomes regional management consulting firm SRW&Co. for their ASEAN Global Leadership Program (AGLP), hosted from April 16 - April 19, 2018.   Read More

Through a new Stern Signature Project, a team of four MBAs worked with Golden-Agri Resources on an innovative financing program to address the sustainability, scalability and environmental impact of palm oil production.  Read More

On Tuesday, May 30, The United Nations and New York University Stern School of Business welcomed António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, for an event entitled "Climate Action: Mobilizing the World."   Read More

A new study from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights finds that construction companies operating in the Arabian Gulf are able to recruit millions of low- wage migrant workers without incurring the costs of the recruitment process. Instead, in this highly irregular system, most workers themselves are paying for their own recruitment – and much more – before they depart their home countries. These recruitment “fees” may be equal to or more than a year’s salary – which these low-wage laborers must work to pay back once they begin their construction jobs in the Gulf. Read More

Until recently, sustainable investing was a niche in the broader financial landscape. But today, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are increasingly important to mainstream investors. Large financial firms like Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are expanding their ESG product and service offerings. Going forward, women and millennials are poised to manage a greater share of global wealth, and to do so in a way that aligns with their values about fairness, the environment and human rights. In the face of rising economic inequality and mounting evidence of the negative externalities of business practices, financial firms are under pressure to demonstrate that they can deliver value in today’s global economy in ways that work for people and communities around the world.  Read More

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted a public talk with Nathan Sheets, former US Treasury Department’s Under Secretary for International Affairs, on the "Implications of President Trump's Policies for the Global Economy." Read More

On February 16, Professor Kim Schoenholtz moderated a panel discussion entitled, “China: Risks in the Financial System.” Opening the conversation, Professor Jennifer Carpenter presented key points from her recent research, co-authored with Professor Robert Whitelaw, outlining the rapid growth of corporate debt in China and the central role banks play in China’s financial system, as well as mechanisms to improve the allocation of risks (such as the stock market).  Read More

On Thursday, February 2, NYU Stern’s Master of Science in Risk Management program hosted a roundtable entitled “New U.S. Administration:Risky Spotlight on Economy, Trade and China.” Featured speakers included Michael Waugh, NYU Stern Associate Professor of Economics, and David Denoon, Professor of Politics and Economics and Director of the NYU Center on U.S.-China Relations. Read More

New research by NYU Stern Professor Sinziana Dorobantu and co-author Kate Odziemkowska reveals that without a signed CBA, local communities with strong property rights and/or history of protest are more likely to cause companies costly disruptions and delays.  Read More

Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, Director of the Center for the Globalization of Education and Management, will discuss his new book, "The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications." Read More

Faculty and alumni from NYU Stern’s Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program, as well as practitioners, gathered for the School’s Second Annual Business Analytics Symposium to share insights into current issues in the field. The event’s theme was "Competing in the Connected Economy." Read More

The Conference on Emerging Market Multinationals organized by NYU Stern’s Center for the Globalization of Education and Management brought together leading scholars to discuss the challenges faced by firms from emerging economies when they expand abroad. Read More

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted a public talk with Philip Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland on September 27, 2016. Read More

A group of industry professionals and Stern alumni gathered for a series of lectures and panel discussions as part of the 2016 Risk Management Symposium. Read More

Underlying the economic and political upheaval unleashed by Brexit is another concern: the worry that European banks may not be able to survive another crisis on the order of the 2008 financial crisis. NYU Stern Professor Viral Acharya investigates the banks’ stability in the wake of the European Banking Authority’s own analysis and finds potentially large shortfalls should another crisis occur. Read More

On June 23, Britain opened its polls for a referendum on whether to leave the European Union. Stern faculty offer expert commentary on this historic vote, also known as “Brexit,” and its possible impact on the British economy, business investments and global trade.
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Economists and bankers bedeviled by the Greek economic crisis and the ongoing debate about how to resolve it -- with Germany advocating further austerity and the International Monetary Fund recommending debt relief -- might feel like Odysseus as he contemplated a way through the Straights of Messina. NYU Stern Finance Professor Thomas Philippon’s new research leads to the conclusion that Greece’s crisis is so extreme that it might need both debt relief and austerity. Read More

On April 4 and 5, the NYU Stern Urbanization Project and UN-Habitat released the preliminary results of Monitoring Global Urban Expansion, a research program exploring the characteristics of the world’s 4,230 cities, at the Habitat III Thematic Meeting on Public Space in Barcelona, Spain.  Read More

Lord Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England, Baron King of Lothbury, Alan Greenspan Professor of Economics, and Professor of Economics and Law at NYU, addressed students, faculty and alumni from NYU Stern and NYU School of Law during a fireside chat on his new book The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy this March.   Read More

NYU Stern’s MS in Risk Management (MSRM) Program hosted the third Risk Roundtable Series on January 28. Approximately 65 attendees including Stern alumni and industry professionals gathered to hear from Stern Professor Tom Cooley and NYU Professor of Politics and Economics David Denoon, director of NYU’s Center on US-China Relations. Read More

An extensive report prepared under the leadership of NYU Stern Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh that reviews strategy, goals and methods for GPFG’s continued growth ... holds promise for major infrastructure projects in emerging markets. Read More

This report is the second study by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights on working conditions and the garment industry in Bangladesh. It is the result of a large-scale data analysis of factory data that the Center collected and analyzed from publicly available sources and a field survey conducted in June 2015. The Center’s analysis sheds light on an important, but opaque part of the garment sector: indirect suppliers. Read More

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by the NYU Stern Urbanization Project, Economics Professor Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project and the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, spoke with Matthew Kahn, Visiting Professor at USC and author of Blue Skies over Beijing, in a public presentation on December 9.  Read More

The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Human Rights works to promote industry-wide approaches to human rights challenges. In 2014, the council, including Professor Michael Posner, undertook a two-year project to examine global supply chains with the aim to explore the increasingly vital relationship between large global buyers and the local suppliers and governments in the countries where they operate. Read More

On November 20, 2015, at NYU Shanghai’s campus in Pudong, the Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai (VINS) held its First Annual Conference. The conference was prepared in cooperation with the Economics School at Fudan University as well as Pudong Institute of Finance, and was centered on the theme of “Liberalizations in Emerging Markets.” Read More

In the next 20 years, African cities will more than double in population, and their spatial extent could more than triple. What form will this growth take? Read More

The Right Honourable Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, presented a talk entitled "Making Strides: Seven Years After the Global Financial Crisis" to more than 100 students from NYU’s Stern School of Business, the School of Arts & Sciences, the School of Professional Studies, Wagner School of Public Service and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development this fall. Read More

On September 21, the NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted a panel discussion on "The Future of European Monetary Union," featuring Professors Alberto Bisin, Luis Cabral, Thomas Philippon and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. Read More

The National Stock Exchange (NSE), India’s leading stock exchange, and New York University Stern School of Business (NYU Stern), one of the world’s premier research and teaching institutions, began their third annual ‘Indian Financial Markets Conference 2015’ today in Mumbai, India. Read More

In March, 26 MBA students traveled to Panama for a real-world lesson in operations. The week-long experiential course, “Operations in Panama: A Man, a Plan, A Canal” introduced the students to the challenges of operations management in a foreign country and the impact these operations have on the global supply chain. Read More

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project and Professor of Economics spoke in a public presentation with Sergio Fajardo, Governor of Antioquia and former Mayor of Medellín. Read More

On April 17, NYU Stern’s Center for Global Economy and Business (CGEB) and Center for Real Estate Finance Research (CREFR) co-hosted the Conference on China's Real Estate Markets. The conference brought together leading experts on China's real estate markets for an in-depth discussion of the origins of the Chinese property boom and a study of its consequences for the Chinese macro-economy, financial institutions and markets, government and the rest of the world. Read More

The NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights is beginning a new research project to promote human rights in the supply chain for construction labor that runs from South Asia to the Arabian Gulf. Read More

NYU Shanghai is celebrating the launch of the Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai. The Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai, located at the NYU Shanghai Pudong Academic Building in the heart of Liujiazui, Shanghai’s financial center, aims to create opportunities for research focused on both the Chinese financial markets and markets around the world. Read More

NYU Stern alumni, faculty, corporate partners and guests convened for the launch of the School’s new Center for the Globalization of Education & Management (CGEM), which Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, who joined Stern’s faculty full time this September, is leading. Read More

The Right Honourable Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and NYU’s first Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence, presented a talk entitled "Global Economic Problems, Global Solutions," to more than 100 graduate students from NYU’s Stern School of Business, Wagner School of Public Service and the School of Arts & Science this fall. Read More

As part of their capstone project, a group of students in Stern’s Master’s in Risk Management (MSRM) program joined forces to develop a robust risk framework for funds investing in Africa. Read More

Cara Zimbalist and five other Stern MBA students worked closely with local entrepreneurs in Haiti through a Stern Signature Project with the Clinton Foundation, seeking to foster long-term, sustainable economic development in the country. Read More

MBA Students David Baharestani, Laura Fox & Craig Johnson’s Stern Signature Project (SSP) with the Urbanization Project & Marron Institute impacts policy change in Mexico City. Read More

NYU Stern’s 2nd Annual Risk Management Symposium convened professors and industry practitioners to discuss current global risk issues. Read More

Holland Sullivan (MS ’13), alumnus of the NYU Stern-HKUST MS in Global Finance program, shares his story as a global business leader. Read More

Professor Arun Sundararajan and MBA students Amy Nelson and Reva Gaur discuss a Stern Signature Project (SSP) with India’s Unique Identification (UID) initiative, which aims to provide identification to India's 1.2 billion citizens. Read More

A person of many interests and accomplishments, MS in Business Analytics student Kathryn Kerner attributes her passion for economics to a lifelong affinity for math, combined with an interest in community service and societal structures. Read More

Alumna Dorrit Lowsen (MBA '08) incorporated what she learned at NYU Stern into major life and career transitions, experiences that she now uses to mentor current Stern students. Read More

Konstantin Makarov founded StratLink-Africa, Ltd., a financial advisory firm based in Nairobi, Kenya, with the mission of originating financing transactions in emerging and frontier markets, with a focus on Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) for investment banks, private equity firms and family offices. Read More

Alumna Tammeca Rochester (MBA '11), founder of The Renaissance Group International, looked to NYU Stern's MBA program to help build the business acumen to make her nonprofit organization a success in South Africa. Read More

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, Senior Research Scholar Shlomo (Solly) Angel spoke with Dr. Joan Clos, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-Habitat and former mayor of Barcelona, in a public presentation on December 9. Read More

Dean Peter Henry and Professors Michael Spence and Michael Posner joined thought leaders from around the globe at the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda in Abu Dhabi. Read More

Lord Mervyn King, Distinguished Visiting Professor at NYU and former head of the Bank of England, recently spoke to NYU Stern faculty and students at an event hosted by the Center for Global Economy and Business. Read More

Dean Peter Henry and the Center for Business and Human Rights welcomed representatives from manufacturing, workers’ organizations and the governments of the United States and Bangladesh for the Conference on Bangladesh Workplace Safety, held at NYU Stern on September 9-11. This forum marked the Center’s inaugural event. Read More

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted the third Economic Outlook Forum on September 3, 2013. Read More

In celebration of the launch of NYU Shanghai, the University’s third portal campus, NYU Stern held its biennial Global Alumni Conference in our newest home of Shanghai June 20-22, 2013. Read More

Since graduating from the TRIUM program in 2011, Miguel de Almeida and five TRIUM classmates have nurtured their professional relationship, born in TRIUM's global incubator, to launch their business, Blue Buffalo Enterprises. Read More

TRIUM alumna Swaady Martin-Leke ('12) brought her capstone project to life, launching a new venture called YSWARA, a Johannesburg-based curator of gourmet African teas and accessories. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

Rose Kinuthia, chief risk officer at KCB Bank in Nairobi, Kenya, chose NYU Stern's M.S. in Risk Management program to deepen her knowledge and acquire best-practice techniques on enterprise-wide risk management. Read More

MBA student groups traveled to locations around the world, including Cambodia, Chile, the Galapagos Islands, India, Israel, Japan, New Orleans, South Africa and Vietnam, for Spring Break treks. Read More

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”). Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

On February 4, Kim Schoenholtz, Professor of Management Practice in the Stern Economics Department and Director of the Center for Global Economy and Business, moderated a discussion among three leading economists from Wall Street firms. Michael Feroli, JP Morgan; Paul Sheard, Standard & Poor's; and Nathan Sheets, Citigroup. Read More

On January 11, 2013, NYU Stern hosts its inaugural India Business Forum in Mumbai, India. Stern's world-class faculty, and India's top corporate leaders and policymakers will take part in this full-day event, “India in the 21st Century: From Potential to Progress.” Read More

“We are currently living through the most dramatic shift in global economic history,” argued The Right Honorable Gordon Brown, former prime minister of the United Kingdom and NYU’s first Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence. As part of NYU Stern’s Block Lunch event series, hosted by Dean Peter Henry, Brown spoke to more than 100 MBA students this week. Read More

Dr. Simon Potter, executive vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, gave Remarks on the "Role of Central Bank Interactions with Financial Markets." Read More

Mr. Thomas Hoenig, director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, spoke on "Post Financial Crisis Economy and Financial System." Read More

On Thursday, October 11, 2012, NYU Stern co-hosted, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, a panel discussion on Europe’s Economic and Financial Future with Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski, Member of the European Commission, Financial Programming and Budget. Read More

More than 120 MBA students gathered this fall in NYC for the 2012 MBA Brazil Networking event, co-organized by NYU Stern’s Latin American Business Association (LABA) and students from Columbia, Kellogg, MIT Sloan and Wharton. Read More

Professor Kim Schoenholtz of the NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted a panel on the 2012 Economic Outlook with economists David Greenlaw, Jan Hatzius and Peter Hooper. Read More

NYU Stern MBA students traveled around the globe this winter as part of three treks organized by MBA student clubs to engage with a diverse set of companies. Stern’s Media, Entertainment & Sports Association (MESA) organized a trek to Los Angeles; the Technology and New Media Group (TANG) coordinated a trek to the San Francisco Bay Area; and the Asian Business Society (ABS) put together a trek to Hong Kong. Read More

Stern MBA students traveled around the globe in November as part of four treks organized by MBA student clubs to engage with a diverse set of companies. The Stern Investment Management & Research club organized a trek to Boston; the European Business Society led a banking and consulting trek to London; and the Japan Business Association coordinated a trek to Japan. Read More

On September 26, 2011 the NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business, led by Professor Kermit Schoenholtz, hosted Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Read More

Economists and policy makers from the G20 countries gathered at NYU for a two-day, deep-dive on employment this September. Hosted by NYU Stern and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), and with support from the World Bank, the workshop entitled, "Employment - Global and Country Perspectives," explored a number of trends and issues. Read More

Three NYU Stern alumni, Conor Grennan, Nancy Wong and Randy Coughlan, share their perspectives on working at Next Generation Nepal, a nonprofit organization started by Gennan that finds as many of the country’s trafficked children as possible and places them in a safe environment. Read More

In her new book (Routledge Publishing), Professor Jill Kickul and her co-author explore the field of social entrepreneurship, which aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most vexing problems including hunger, poverty and homelessness. Read More

Associate Professor Robert Salomon and Jin-Hyun Bae of NYU Stern’s management and organizations department studied the performance of Olympic athletes to explore if developing countries can catch up to advanced countries in industrial competitiveness. The answer: a qualified yes, they can. Read More

When it comes to assigning a US-based leader for your offshore team, choosing someone from the same culture could backfire, according to NYU Stern Professor Natalia Levina. Read More

On Thursday, October 7 and Friday, October 8, NYU Stern and the National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, with support from the World Bank, held a workshop on "Restoring Inclusive Growth in Advanced Economies" to encourage dialogue among economists and policy makers from the G20 countries. Read More