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Over 500 students, alumni and faculty members from 17 schools and divisions across NYU’s global campuses entered the Entrepreneurs Challenge, hosted by the W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs.

This program is intended for those who wish to rethink the habits that have made them successful in the past, and challenge the conventional wisdom and industry models that have defined their businesses. To achieve these objectives, this course combines presentations and discussions with practical exercises so that participants can apply disruptive leadership principles to business issues and scenarios.

This program is designed to help executives leverage analytics to improve their decision-making skills across their organization. Through a combination of discussion, simulation and experiential exercises, participants will develop a clear understanding of what decisions analytics can help them make, and the best way to transform analytics insights into strategies.

On Wednesday, April 26, NYU Stern's Center for Business and Human Rights welcomed Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, for an event entitled "The Challenge of Maintaining Integrity on the Internet." He was joined by Professor Michael Posner to discuss the misuse and manipulation of internet platforms by third parties and how extremist content, fake news and intolerant discourse have spread across the web with real-world consequences.

This program will introduce you to a variety of analytical frameworks related to leadership and will focus on how to apply those frameworks to analyze and address important leadership challenges. It will also help you to better understand the context within which leaders typically operate, and help make you more conscious of the choices you make as a leader in an organization.

Jane Mayer, investigative journalist and author of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires, delivered the 12th annual Haitkin Lecture, hosted by NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program. 

On Thursday, April 13, NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program will welcome Seema Saifee, staff attorney for the Innocence Project, and Darryl Howard, who was recently exonerated after serving 24 years for a wrongful murder conviction, to speak to an audience of students.

This program examines best-practices related to the business use of social media and digital marketing. While there will be sufficient attention given to top level strategy used by companies adopting social media and digital marketing, the course will also focus on digital analytics oriented tools: how to make organizations more intelligent in how they conduct business in the digital age.

The NYU Stern W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs serve as the School's creative hub for the design of 21st century business ventures and learning environments. At a recent open house, the Labs team showcased their offerings and unveiled new initiatives to a standing-room-only crowd made up of faculty, staff and alumni.

On Wednesday, March 8, NYU Stern’s Center for Business and Human Rights welcomed Renee Beaumont, partner at Generation Investment Management, for an event entitled “Shifting the Investment Paradigm.” The discussion, which was moderated by Professor Michael Posner, centered around the topic of the changing investment landscape and focused on sustainable long-term investing to create profit for shareholders.

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."

On Feb. 28, Chipotle Mexican Grill CEO and Founder Steve Ells shared his company's vision for making great food more affordable and accessible in a conversation moderated by Professor Tensie Whelan, director of NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business

This program is for general and functional business managers who interact regularly with the firm’s finance area; managers who make business decisions that affect the firm’s financial results, or are impacted by financial models; and financial analysts and investors who would like to understand how to interpret the data in financial statements to assess a firm's future prospects and value.

The 13th Annual NYU/Penn Conference on Law and Finance, co-sponsored by New York University’s Pollack Center for Law & Business and the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics, was held on February 24-25. 

NYU Stern's Center for Real Estate Finance Research hosted a panel on real estate and technology on February 23. 

This program is designed to upgrade existing communication skills and is therefore relevant for anyone at a managerial or executive level.

On February 23, The Aspen Institute, in partnership with the NYU Stern Business & Society Program, will host a conversation with two of America's leading experts in psychology -- Professor Paul Zak and Professor Jonathan Haidt. 

NYU Stern's W. R. Berkley Innovation Lab will welcome NYU alumni, angel investors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry innovators to the 15th Annual New Venture Showcase.

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). 

Over the last month, NYU Stern Professor Tensie Whelan made a pair of speaking stops to discuss sustainability in business. 

The NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Research Project, part of the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, hosted its annual Research Day, an opportunity to showcase some of the most interesting research projects in progress among the School’s active finance research faculty.

NYU students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered at NYU Stern on February 8 for the kickoff of the Second Annual MISSION: APPOSSIBLE, the NYU Mobile App Contest. 

On February 1, Professor Kim Schoenholtz moderated a discussion among three leading economists.

Distinguished academics from around the world will convene to share their research in the rapidly evolving field of network economics at the 2016 NET Institute Conference, held in partnership with NYU Stern’s Center for Global Economy and Business.

NYU Stern’s Salomon Center and The Clearing House welcomed Carmen M. Reinhart, Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of International Financial System of Harvard Kennedy School for the Gallatin Lecture Series on Banking. In her talk, Reinhart shared some of the key indicators that a financial crisis may be coming, including a surge in public and/or private debt.