Experience Stern | News & Events

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "The average Stern D.C. EMBA class has 12 years of work experience, 7 years of management, and 31% have advanced degrees. It is 35% women, 30% underrepresented minorities, and 25% come from international backgrounds. Further, about a third of students come from outside the local area, a testament to the wider draw of its flexible, once-a-month format."

Please join the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) and Risk Insights on October 12th for a virtual panel discussion on the ESG landscape in Africa, with a focus on South Africa.

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Remember you are building your brand, says NYU Stern graduate Ozgun Saran, vice-president for US equity capital markets in Deutsche Bank’s origination and advisory division. 'Treat your EMBA as an extension of who you are — from how you carry yourself, to which programme you choose to represent. It will be a challenging one- or two-year networking session, which will be all worth it once you achieve the fruits of your labour.'"

A sampling of media highlights for the week of October 11, 2022

Excerpt from Financial Times -- “'The challenge with geopolitics is that it’s a global topic that’s always evolving, so you need to constantly update your expertise,' says Robert Falkner, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, which delivers the Trium Global EMBA jointly with HEC Paris and NYU Stern School of Business in New York."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Kim Corfman, vice dean for online learning and professor of marketing at NYU Stern, explains: 'We believe that to be a successful manager or leader in today’s world, you need to be data-savvy. What we did was take the MBA core and added analytics courses to help people become data-savvy and intelligent consumers of data.'"

Meet David Restrepo (MBA ’22), NYU Stern Andre Koo Tech MBA

Excerpt from Fortune -- "There are a plethora of reasons to go back to school and earn an MBA degree, but among the top motivators is getting a salary increase and landing a senior-level position, according to the Graduate Management Admissions Council."

On Thursday, October 6, 2022, NYU Stern's Center for the Future of Management and LMU's Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization will host a virtual panel on Business Dynamism & Entrepreneurship.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- NYU Stern welcomes Jackie Baek, Jacob French, Runshan Fu, Daniel Greenwald, Gurpal Sran, and Jungkyu Sun as new faculty members this fall.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Stern also hit another high-water mark with women, who comprise 45% of the class (up 4 points from the previous year). International students make up 44% of the class, a 12-point improvement from the Class of 2023. At the same time, military veterans and LGBT students account for 11% and 9% of the class respectively. Overall, the class includes students from 41 countries who range in age from 23-42."

A sampling of media highlights for the week of October 4, 2022

On Monday, October 3, 2022, Professor Viral Acharya was named a member of the Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee (CFRAC), newly established by the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "As Stern explains it, EQ (or emotional intelligence) skills include 'self-awareness, empathy, communication and self-management.' I knew that I needed more foundational knowledge in business. However, I was confident that I had years of practice in these EQ skills. To me, Stern felt like a place where I would feel valued as a member of the community."

On Friday, September 30, NYU Stern's Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation will host its 2022 Stern Innovation Conference, titled, “Building Innovation Portfolios.” 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Beyond the classroom, Professor Pettit is the Founding Director of Stern’s Leadership Accelerator. One of the highlights of my first year was participation in a live case experience that he and his team organized, which was a fantastic all-day event. It ended up being really formative for me in terms of how I think about my own approach to leadership in difficult situations."

Excerpt from AACSB Insights -- "The New York University Stern School of Business has announced a 20 million USD gift from alumnus and Stern executive board member Charles C.Y. Chen to establish and endow a real estate finance institute. The Chao-Hon Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance is named in honor of the donor’s father. It will house new initiatives to study how the real estate industry is being shaped by three vital forces: property technology, climate change, and emerging markets. The new institute will award scholarships, host scholars and fellows-in-residence, partner with other centers at the university, and provide research grants to faculty and doctoral students."

A sampling of media highlights for the week of September 27, 2022

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "The Stern MBA class averaged a score of 733, the highest in the school’s history, and 80 percent of students scored between 700 and 760 on the GMAT."

A sampling of media highlights for the week of September 20, 2022

Excerpt from Executive Courses -- "The program’s Academic Director, Professor Emeritus of Finance Ingo Walter, says: 'Many finance professionals are a mile deep and a foot wide. They tend to have concentrated, relatively specialized  expertise. If they want to extend their bandwidth in pursuit of career growth, they need to train to be decathletes – to develop the ability to respond to a variety of challenges from multiple angles.'”

Meet Stephanie DeCourcey (MBA ’22), Executive MBA

On Friday, September 16, NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business will host the David K. Backus Memorial Lecture with guest Monika Piazzesi, Joan Kenney Professor Of Economics at Stanford University.

A sampling of media highlights for the week of September 13, 2022

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business will host the Economic Outlook Forum on September 13, 2022.