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Excerpt for Business of Fashion -- "At Stern, students also get the chance to work with real-life companies in problem-solving. 'Something hard to replicate online is experiential learning,' said Kim Corfman, the academic director of NYU Stern’s Fashion & Luxury MBA. 'You can go out there and do it and read some excellent books, but having guidance while you’re going through the process, there’s really no substitute.'...This was precisely how Winograd used her time at Stern, which offered summer fellowships to entrepreneurs to work on their company ideas. 'They gave me a living stipend and a lot of flexibility to work on my start-up… they took me on a trip to San Francisco where I got to meet angel investors that ended up investing in Pepper,' Winograd said. 'We built out a business plan as a part of a competition, and that pushed me to get into the streets to talk to customers, which helped my co-founder and I to get to different insights.'"

Excerpt from EconTalk Podcast -- "'f you ask an urban planner, 'What is the optimum size of housing?' this planner will tell you a number--you know, 50 square meters, 60 square meters, something like that. If you ask the same economist will say, 'Well, it all depends.' So, this is really the big difference between planners and economists.'"

Excerpt from Fashionista -- "Gardiner's large following stems from modeling, which she's been doing since her senior year of high school while living in Los Angeles. About two years ago, she hit 10K followers and started to reach out to brands (via DM) to possibly work together. 'A lot didn't reply, obviously, but I got a few responses where they would send me product in exchange for a post,' recalls Gardiner. (Pro tip: She created a media kit for herself to send to brands, too.)"

Excerpt for AACSB blog -- "For Devna, the secret to a successful MBA application is to be authentic. 'As long as you come in with a clear sense of what you want, you will be successful,' she says. 'Business school is a big investment for sure, so the best thing you can do is go somewhere you are comfortable and you feel you can shine.'"

On May 20, alumnus Andre J.L. Koo (MBA ’94), Chairman of Chailease Group and recently named Chair of NYU Stern’s Board of Overseers (effective July 1, 2019), celebrated both the inaugural Andre Koo Technology and Entrepreneurship MBA students from the graduating Class of 2019 with a dinner, as well as the program’s incoming Class of 2020 MBA students with a welcome reception.

Excerpt for Apparel Resources -- "Remember the report released by New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights in May this year which underlined how factories in Ethiopia are making clothes for top global brands by paying their workers far less than counterparts in other low-paying countries."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- “It’s been an exciting time here at Stern. In May, the inaugural cohorts from our two new focused one-year full-time MBA programs, the Andre Koo Technology and Entrepreneurship MBA and the Fashion & Luxury MBA, graduated. We welcomed the new cohorts of these one-year programs that same month.”

Excerpt from VICE -- "'It’d be much more helpful if Facebook would be much more clear of the principles they’re applying,' said Paul Barrett, a New York University law professor who’s studied domestic disinformation campaigns on social media. 'Their methods — whatever they are — of analysis and decision-making are surprisingly opaque.'"

Excerpt for Amsterdam News -- "My proposal to the North Shore district representatives, and to non-profit foundations on the island, is to create a program for young students that partners with the island’s CUNY College of Staten Island, which already has ample space and existing facilities, to make extracurriculars more accessible. I propose to create a program that focuses on one underperforming elementary and one intermediate school in either Mariners Harbor or Port Richmond and offers up to 100 voluntary spots for students to enroll into the program."

On May 14 and 15, the Class of 2020 cohorts of NYU Stern’s two focused MBA programs, the Andre Koo Technology and Entrepreneurship MBA and the Fashion & Luxury MBA, arrived on campus for the Focused MBA Welcome, beginning their journey at Stern.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Prior to my MBA, I was a founder in New York City who could count the people upon whom I could reliably depend on with my own two hands. As I prepare to graduate, I not only know a huge range of founders, investors, and other really smart people, but I’ve already used those connections to further Pepper’s success."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'What surprised us was that the very first [Andre Koo Tech and Entrepreneurship MBA] class had a better female ratio than our regular MBA and the second year numbers are even better: 20 women and 20 men. That we reached parity in tech is incredible to me.' - Dean Raghu Sundaram ... Job prospects are running slightly above expectations, says J.P. Eggers, vice dean for MBA programs. 'The biggest learning so far is on the tech sid in how interested the students are in small tech firms and being employee number five,' he says."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "At the very least, travelers should make sure that the hotel’s confirmation email links to a secure site whose address begins with https, advises Navin Manglani, Professor of Technology at the NYU Stern School of Business. 'Also, if the website gets redirected from an https site to an http site, that might be a red flag to not continue viewing the information or not enter any additional information.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Within the walls of Stern, I have found an incredibly close-knit family where my peers are constantly each other’s biggest advocates. If anything, being in NYC has made each of us that much more aware of how much we want to develop the network at Stern and to ensure that we are making the most of our MBA experience. This incredible community is supplemented with everything that NYC has to offer and ensures that our days are never boring or repetitive."

Excerpt from Just Food -- "The findings from the NYU Stern-IRI study point up the increasing reality that sustainable business is good business, as does the results from a 2018 report by Nielsen, which found that sustainability sells."

Excerpt from Law.com -- "The report, 'SEC Enforcement Activity: Public Companies and Subsidiaries—Midyear FY 2019 Update,' was released Wednesday by the New York University Pollack Center for Law & Business and Cornerstone Research."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "After an eight-month competition, NYU Stern announced the six winners of its annual Entrepreneurs Challenge. Spearheaded by the W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs, the venture competition offered more than $300,000 in cash prizes and pro-bono startup services to the most promising innovators at the school. In total, 243 teams and 500 students, faculty, and alumni participated in three competition tracks."

Excerpt from MiM Guide -- "The program allows professionals worldwide to benefit from an NYU Stern graduate education without having to relocate, and provides the convenience of being able to learn at the time and place that works best for each student."

Excerpt for Business of Fashion -- "To be sure, more work is being done to establish the business case for sustainability. For instance, New York University’s Stern School of Business is working on a project to assess the return on investment apparel companies can expect from environmental and social initiatives."

Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "The NYU Stern School of Business offers full-time MBA students a chance to specialize in real estate. According to the school, it 'provides rigorous training in the development, investment, and financing of real estate projects.' Students who choose the specialization are taught to think strategically about real estate in primary and secondary markets including the legal, taxation, and regulatory environments they’ll encounter."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'I would not be able to put a price on the network I have built at NYU Stern. I think most MBA students would agree, your classmates are the most valuable part of this experience. I have met some truly high caliber people through NYU Stern and made some lifelong friends.' - Christopher Costello. 'In my time at Stern, I’ve worked on projects for companies across a multitude of industries, helped plan a national conference for Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA), and studied abroad at the London Business School. Each experience has shown me just how much I can stretch myself in a multitude of capacities and further confirmed the importance of being able to work with a wide range of individuals.' - Andrew Kwan"

Excerpt from The Africa Report -- "A new report by NYU-Stern titled 'Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry’s New Frontier; found that factory workers earn $26 per month, by far the lowest wage in the world. It’s an appallingly low figure, even by the already low-wage standards of the global garment industry."

Excerpt from City Journal -- "As New York works to improve the response times of its emergency medical professionals, it should conduct a borough- or neighborhood-wide pilot of United Rescue’s program—testing whether the service effectively complements EMS, and planning to scale it up if it works. If United Rescue can do for New York what it has done on a smaller scale for Jersey City, it will save lives and promote the volunteerism that can strengthen communities across the city."

Excerpt from CareerAddict -- "Students graduate with a BSc in Business, of which accounting is one of 13 study streams; as well as learning the necessary accounting principles to progress towards CPA status, the school also encourages undergraduates to co-major in a related discipline, such as investment banking, corporate financial management or securities markets."

Excerpt from Associated Press -- "'The government's eagerness to attract foreign investment led it to promote the lowest base wage in any garment-producing country — now set at the equivalent of $26 a month,' according to the authors of the report, Paul M. Barrett and Dorothée Baumann-Pauly."