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On Campus: Chris Hughes of Facebook and the Obama Campaign

As part of NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Himelberg Speaker Series, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes recently spoke with a select group of entrepreneurs from Stern’s student, faculty and alumni communities.
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Stern Doctoral Alumni, Students and Faculty Gather for the First PhD Alumni Conference

The Stern Doctoral Office hosted its inaugural PhD Alumni Conference in May to bring together Stern PhD alumni, faculty and students in a day of reconnecting and engaging in new ideas.
Research Center Events

Board Monitoring of Risk Management at Center of NYU Directors’ Institute

The NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business, a joint initiative between NYU Stern School of Business and NYU School of Law, in May hosted its seventh annual Directors’ Institute, entitled, “Board Monitoring of Risk Management.”
Research Center Events

Stern Salomon Center Hosts NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Research Project Research Day

NYU Stern Salomon Center, in partnership with Nasdaq OMX, recently hosted an all-day conference discussing the future of derivatives. New research in the area was presented by Stern faculty and faculty from other schools including Columbia Business School and UCLA.
Business and Policy Leader Events

Dean Thomas Cooley and Co-Authors of Restoring Financial Stability Ring Closing Bell at NASDAQ

These Stern faculty, along with many of their colleagues, developed 18 independent policy papers offering market-focused solutions to the financial crisis, which were published in the book "Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System."
Business and Policy Leader Events

Volkswagen of America CEO Addresses US Auto Rescue Plan and More at Stern's CEO Series

With ailing U.S. automakers receiving government bailouts, the CEO Series on April 7 with Stefan Jacoby, President and Chief Executive Officer of Volkswagen of America, Inc., proved to be especially timely and of interest to the hundreds of NYU Stern students and alumni who attended to hear Jacoby speak.
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NYU Stern Nobel Laureate Robert Engle Forecasts High Market Volatility for Next 12 Months

On Friday April 3, 2009, Professor Engle will debut Stern’s new Volatility Lab, or “Vlab” for short, at the Volatility Institute’s inaugural conference. A new and independent tool to measure market risk, the Vlab calculates the volatility of the S&P 500, MSCI World Index, emerging markets, commodities, exchange rates and more every day. It also produces volatility forecasts up to a year in advance.
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Money Doesn’t Always Motivate Employees

“When the economy sours and corporate bottom lines suffer, organizations must rely on employees more than ever to go beyond the call of duty,” says NYU Stern Professor Steve Blader. In two recent studies examining close to 1,000 employees, he and his colleagues explored how organizations can motivate workers.
Business and Policy Leader Events

NYU Stern Hosts Event on Restoring Financial Stability

NYU Stern hosted an event for alumni and the media to discuss the ideas in the book, "Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System," co-edited by Professors Viral Acharya and Matthew Richardson. The book is a compendium of 18 White Papers by 33 Stern faculty that take an objective look at the causes of the financial crisis and present solutions to repairing the system.
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33 Professors at NYU Stern Propose Solutions on Restoring the Global Financial System

November 1 marked the beginning of an unprecedented collaboration among NYU Stern's leading finance and economic scholars. The goal was to harness the collective intellectual strength and expertise at the Stern School in order to influence policy—during and immediately following the transition to the Obama administration-as the repair of the failed financial system got underway. The result was a systematic approach to analyzing the numerous causes of the financial crisis, and to proposing financial policy alternatives and specific courses of action that aimed to restore the global financial and economic system.
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NYU Stern School of Business Opens New Volatility Institute

Today, NYU Stern announced the launch of a new research center, the Volatility Institute, created under the leadership of the School’s Nobel Laureate Robert F. Engle, the Michael Armellino Professor of Finance at Stern.
Business and Policy Leader Events

On Campus: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus Shines a Spotlight on Social Business

"If we can create social businesses, we can end poverty in the world, and then we'll create poverty museums," explained 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus to an audience of 400 in Schimmel Auditorium on January 27.
Business and Policy Leader Events

Experts Advise Obama on Trade Policy

The third expert panel in a series of three entitled "Transition 2008: Advising America's Next President" with the Council on Foreign Relations, The Economist and NYU Stern convened to discuss US trade policy.
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New Study from NYU Stern Demonstrates That Politics Shape Buyout Performance

In publishing the first empirical evidence measuring the influence of the political views of states on the volume of buyout activity and outcomes of buyout transactions, NYU Stern Assistant Professor of Management Aviad Pe’er, with Oliver Gottschalg of HEC School of Management in Paris, found that Republican political views positively impact both the volume and performance of buyouts, while the Democratic political views have negative impacts.
Business and Policy Leader Events

Boeing President Addresses US Financial Rescue Plan and More at Stern's CEO Series

At the CEO Series on November 12, Jim McNerney, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Boeing Company, shared his outlook on the financial crisis, giving the more than 300 Stern students and alumni who attended a critically important perspective on some of the global implications of this crisis for a major manufacturer and exporter.
Business and Policy Leader Events

Expert Panel Advises the Next President on Fixing Global Finance

As President-elect Obama transitions into the White House, experts from the Council on Foreign Relations, The Economist and NYU Stern debated the current global financial crisis with a focus on ways to repair a broken economy. Entitled "Transition 2008: Advising America's Next President," this is the first of three events that address global issues as they relate to the US presidency.
Business and Policy Leader Events

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt Discusses Shrinking Economy with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo

On October 24, at NYU Stern for a GE Live event entitled, "Winning in Today's Environment," Immelt spoke to nearly 300 NYU Stern MBA students as well as hundreds more at six other business schools across the globe — London Business School, IESE in Spain, UVA-Darden, Thunderbird, UN,C and Emory — where the event was broadcast live.
Business and Policy Leader Events

NYU Stern Asks "What Does the Future Hold?" at Market Pulse Event

As the Dow hits records lows, consumer confidence continues to wane and the Fed crafts plans to stave off a Depression-like era, Dean Thomas Cooley moderated a discussion with industry, media and academic thought-leaders to analyze, and offer solutions for, the current financial crisis.
Business and Policy Leader Events

Town Hall Meeting: "Markets in Crisis: What Have we Learned So Far?

The panel, moderated and introduced by Dean Thomas Cooley, comprised Profs. Edward Altman, Lawrence White and Roy Smith.
Press Releases

New Study Finds Measurable Return-On-Investment of Academic Research on B-School Performance

In publishing the first empirical evidence measuring the value of academic research on business school performance, NYU Stern Marketing Professor Peter Golder, with Debanjan Mitra of the University of Florida, use data to challenge the widely publicized 2005 Harvard Business Review opinion-based attack by Bennis and O'Toole on business schools for becoming too focused on research at students' expense. Golder and Mitra's research appears in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Marketing.
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NYU Stern and Swiss Finance Institute Launch Banking & Financial Institutions Management MBA

The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business and the Swiss Finance Institute announce a new executive learning program to tackle future challenges presented by the global financial system. The specialized executive MBA in Banking and Financial Institutions Management assembles a faculty offering an unrivaled concentration of global expertise in banking and finance.
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Amsterdam Institute of Finance & NYU Stern Partner to Launch the Executive M.S. in Risk Management

Amsterdam Institute of Finance (AIF) and New York University Stern School of Business (NYU Stern) are partnering to launch the Executive Master of Science in Risk Management, an innovative, global executive degree program in risk management. This alliance connects two of the world's financial centers and provides a firm response to the current financial turmoil.
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Stern Campus Greening Initiative Wins Net Impact Green Challenge

The Stern Campus Greening Initiative (SCGI) won "green" at the national Net Impact Green Challenge, an event that recognizes and rewards members of the Net Impact group who are working on tangible projects that make a positive environmental impact on their company, campus or community.
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NYU Entrepreneurs Awarded $150k in Stern's 9th Annual Business Plan Competition

More than $150,000 in seed money and in-kind support was awarded to the winners of the 9th Annual NYU Stern Business Plan Competition. The three winning teams, each lead by NYU students and alumni, were chosen by a panel of seasoned business owners and private investors after successfully pitching their new venture ideas. Taking top honors were business concepts that mirror marketplace trends such as leveraging social networking sites to create unique product offerings and using innovative business models to combat intractable global social issues, including poverty and poor access to quality healthcare.
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NYU Stern and Tribeca Film Festival Debut New Undergrad Business Course for Aspiring Producers

New York University Stern School of Business and the Tribeca Film Festival have joined forces to offer “Convergence and Cinema at the Tribeca Film Festival,” a new course for undergraduate business students. Offered through Stern’s Entertainment, Media and Technology (EMT) Program, the course will provide students with access to leaders in the entertainment industry and a deeper understanding of the impact multimedia and new distribution channels will have on filmmaking.

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