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On Wednesday, April 10, MBA students celebrated the final weeks before graduation at the 2013 Bowling Night with President John Sexton and Dean Peter Henry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On November 28, 2012, a team of five NYU Stern MBA students won the first place $2,000 prize in the second annual Cable Interacts Interactive Launch Competition. Kibi Anderson, Ben Colman, Joshua Cohen, Austin Clements and Taj Corinaldi, advised by Professor Alvin Lieberman, competed against teams from Columbia Business School, MIT Sloan, Georgetown McDonough School of Business, Boston University School of Management and Howard University School of Business.

NYU Stern's Entertainment, Media, and Technology Association, Office of Career Development, and the EMT Alumni Committee are hosting a summit that will give the opportunity to learn about the latest trends and current events that are shaping the Entertainment, Media and Technology industries. Invitees will gain perspective from alumni and executives working at Microsoft, NBC Universal, Bloomberg, The Economist, Cablevision, IBM, Walt Disney, Yahoo!, and many other companies.

The annual SPHA Healthcare Summit will provide an opportunity for students and professionals to learn about careers in the life sciences and healthcare industry including positions with healthcare providers, pharmaceuticals, investment banks and consulting firms. The event will touch on a variety of current topics including discussions of the changing state of the US healthcare industry. There will also be over an hour of networking with industry professionals, recruiters and professors.

On Friday, October 26, NYU Stern's Luxury and Retail club will host J. Crew CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler, the man who transformed the world of retail at the helm of some of the most iconic American fashion brands.

Jes Staley, CEO of J.P. Morgan Investment Bank, and other industry leaders will discuss topics including challenges facing the industry, the relationship between policy and the capital markets, and how to build a career in financial services.

"This year’s Stern Investment Management and Research (SIMR) Conference is themed, “A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats. Where to Invest in an Increasingly Correlated World.” Confirmed speakers include Edward Kerschner, CFA; David M. Siegel, co-founder of Two Sigma Investments; Kian Ghazi, founder, managing partner and portfolio manager of Hawkshaw Capital Management; and Shelley Greenhaus, principal at Whippoorwill Associates."

The 27th Annual AHBBS Conference, hosted by the NYU Stern Association of Hispanic & Black Business Students (AHBBS) is themed, “Leadership Through Innovation: Creating a Career of Opportunity and Choice.”

Three teams of MBA students went head-to-head, pitching their ideas for future business endeavors in the finals of Amazon’s Innovation Competition. Student teams competed for prizes ranging from a Kindle Fire to a job interview at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters by writing proposals that answer the question, “If I were at Amazon I would totally …”

Hosted by EEX, the competition gives MBA2 student teams three weeks to create an actionable product or service for Amazon. Written submissions will be reviewed by Amazon management, and finalists will pitch their ideas to Amazon executives at an on-campus event on Friday, October 5.

On October 5, the Luxury & Retail Club will host their sixth annual conference, themed, "Knowing the New Consumer: Retail’s Response to Changing Demographics." Featured speakers include Jean-Marc Plisson, CEO, Fresh; Farooq Kathwari, CEO, Ethan Allen; Jeffry Aronsson, CEO, Aronsson Group and former CEO, Oscar de la Renta, DKNY and Marc Jacobs; Jennifer Hyman, CEO and Co-Founder, Rent the Runway; and Deborah McWhinney, COO, Citi Global Enterprise Payments.

Do you want to produce short films? If so, please join ProMotion Pictures for the Innocence Project Creative Brief. Maddy deLone, Executive Director of the Innocence Project, Paul Cates, Communications Director of the Innocence Project, and Alan Newton, Exoneree, will share their experiences and vision for the competition. In addition, the ProMotion Pictures board will discuss competition rules and timelines. Reception with light refreshments to follow where attendees are encourages to meet prospective teammates and to share competition ideas. This event is only open to NYU Stern, Tisch Film and ITP students and faculty.

Kicking off the fall semester, ProMotion Pictures is announcing this year’s competition sponsor: The Innocence Project, which is dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals in the US criminal justice system. At this year’s kick-off event, MBA students will have a chance to meet prospective teammates from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and to learn about leadership opportunities within the program.

On April 26, NYU Stern’s Association of Hispanic and Black Business Students (AHBBS) and NYU Wagner’s Black Student Alliance (BSA) co-hosted Maggie Anderson, author of "Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy" (published by PublicAffairs, February 2012).