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In November, the NYU Pollack Center for Law and Business, a joint initiative between NYU Stern School of Business and NYU School of Law, co-hosted the 1950th Meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, “Challenges to Business & Society in the 21st Century: The Way Forward.” Rajat Gupta, senior partner emeritus and former managing director at McKinsey & Company, and Roger Ferguson, president and CEO of TIAA-CREF, spoke about recovery and reform, and long-term financial security, respectively.

“New York is the apple of the universe,” said Felix Rohatyn, Lazard investment banker, former US Ambassador to France and author of Dealings: A Political and Financial Life, before an auditorium filled with close to 150 students and alumni from NYU Stern, as well as students from NYU’s School of Law and Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Organized by NYU Stern Professor Jill Kickul, the conference explored the latest strategies for measuring social impact.

Led by Scott Galloway, NYU Stern Professor of Marketing, L2 founder and creator of the Digital IQ Index, Innovation Forum 2010 was packed with people, as well as ideas on digital marketing innovation and implications for prestige brands.

As part of the 2010 Aspen in New York Business & Society Forum, Erik Schatzker, anchor and editor-at-large at Bloomberg, led a discussion about defining and measuring success among three panelists – 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Princeton psychologist, Daniel Kahneman; Chairman and CEO of The Vanguard Group Bill McNabb; and the holder of the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, Columbia University Professor Robert Thurman – at NYU Stern this October.

As part of NYU Stern’s CEO Series, James S. Turley, Chairman & CEO of Ernst & Young, was interviewed in October before more than 100 NYU Stern students and alumni. Diane Brady, senior editor at Bloomberg BusinessWeek, conducted the interview.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the combined Information, Operation and Management Sciences (IOMS) Department, and current IOMS faculty gathered to celebrate this milestone with an event held October 29 at NYU's Torch Club. Looking back, former professor Ernest Kurnow recounts the roots of what is now the IOMS Department.

In light of the Financial Accounting Stands Board’s (FASB) proposed expansion of fair value accounting principles for financial institutions, a group of scholars, industry experts, professionals and press convened for a roundtable entitled, “Are Investors and Investment Entities Well-Served by Fair Value Accounting.”

Stephen Figlewski, Professor of Finance and an expert on derivatives, welcomes the audience to the 2010 Salomon Center NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Research Project (DRP). The DRP Research Day was created in 1996; today the Salomon Center-NASDAQ OMX DRP Research Day enables Stern's finance faculty to present some of their current research.

Stephen Figlewski, Professor of Finance and Director of the NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Research Project, welcomes an audience of nearly 120 to the 2010 NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Research Project and The Volatility Institute's Symposium on "Derivatives and Proprietary Trading in the New Regulatory Regime."

Will the overseas expansion of Chinese and other BRIC companies change the face of capitalism? How should American and European companies increase their footprint in Asia? How should protectionism and sovereign wealth funds be addressed? These are some of the questions that will be posed at the third annual ‘International Symposium on Cross-Border Investment and M&A’ to be held at New York University, hosted by NYU’s Pollack Center for Law and Business on Tuesday, October 19, 2010.

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.

NYU Stern's Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation hosted a Lunchtime Chat with NYU alumnus Dennis Crowley, co-founder and CEO of Foursquare, a mobile application for social networking with some three million users worldwide. This event was presented as part of the David & Rose Himelberg Speaker Series.

At an intimate reception on October 5, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Princeton University Press and NYU Stern, William Baumol, Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and academic director of Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was honored for his most recently published book, The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship.

On September 22, Robin Chase spoke candidly to an audience of aspiring entrepreneurs about how she grew Zipcar into the world’s largest car-sharing service. As part of the David & Rose Himelberg Speaker Series, the event was hosted by NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

More than 450 NYU students, alumni and researchers gathered, standing-room-only, in Paulson auditorium on September 21 to hear about this year’s Entrepreneurs Challenge.

Second quarter corporate earnings reports showing strong growth from luxury retailers such as Neiman Marcus and Tiffany indicate that high-end brands, vs. mass market retailers, are leading in the economic recovery. Academic and industry experts explain why and discuss the future of the global luxury sector.

In September, NYU Stern hosted WIN – Workshop on Information in Networks – to bring together leading researchers across disciplines studying ‘information in networks.’ The conference was attended by speakers and participants from top companies and universities, including Google Research, HP Labs, IBM, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Harvard University, MIT, NYU Stern, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, and University of Pennsylvania.

On August 2, NYU Stern hosted Timothy Geithner, US Secretary of the Treasury, who gave his first public remarks since the enactment of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Secretary addressed the core principles that will guide the implementation of these historic reforms.

Professor Edward Altman, a world-renowned expert in the field of corporate bankruptcy, distressed debt and credit risk analysis, started off the event discussing "How the Financial Crisis Has Affected the Credit Markets."

The Leonard N. Stern School of Business Graduate Convocation Ceremony took place on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at Radio City Music Hall. Graduate Convocation, which is held in addition to New York University’s Commencement Exercises, honors students who have completed the requirements for advanced degrees from the NYU Stern School. Each student is recognized individually.

The Leonard N. Stern School of Business Undergraduate Baccalaureate Ceremony took place on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at Radio City Music Hall. Baccalaureate, which is held in addition to New York University's Commencement Exercises, honors students who have completed the requirements for bachelors degrees from the NYU Stern School. Each student is recognized individually, and prizes for extracurricular and academic achievements are awarded.

The 2010 Four School Colloquium, hosted by NYU Stern’s Marketing Department, brought together more than 100 of the country’s foremost marketing researchers from Stern, Columbia, Wharton and Yale to share and present their most recent work on April 23.

At NYU Stern in April, CEO and President of China Merchants Bank Dr. Weihua Ma addressed students, professors and the press about the globalization of the Chinese banking industry and his bank’s vision for success in the global markets.

"Since the financial crisis, the number of class-action lawsuits against financial firms has spiked dramatically and SEC settlements with companies and managers are on the rise," says NYU Stern Professor of Accounting and Finance Baruch Lev.