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During the fall 2018 semester, a group of NYU Stern MBA students including Gabriel Ng (MBA/MPA ‘19), Su-Kyong Park (MBA ‘20) and Kinni Shah (MBA ‘19), took part in a Stern Solutions experiential learning project focused on the cost of recruiting migrant workers in Qatar.

Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "Social media companies that are already deleting propaganda from foreign actors also need to erase false or misleading content that originates in the United States, rather than just pushing it to the margins of their platforms, a new report released Tuesday said. 'We urge them to add provably false information to the removal list,' said a report from New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights."

Excerpt from Find MBA -- "'We are in constant conversation with the business community to ensure our curriculum meets the evolving needs of the sector,' says Beth Briggs, assistant dean of career services at NYU Stern School of Business in New York City."

Excerpt from MiM Guide -- "'Big data collection and analysis has precipitated a profound change in the way companies conduct their business and has consequently triggered a seismic shift in skillsets professional accountants must possess to be successful,' says Alex Dontoh, director of Stern’s MS in Accounting course. ... Rabia Ahmed, executive director of MBA admissions at Stern, says: 'We are looking for students who exhibit strong IQ and EQ — the combination of intellectual and interpersonal skills needed to be successful in business.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businssweek -- "A new report by the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University’s Stern School of Business argues that the platforms should indeed remove material that is 'provably untrue,' rather than just demote or annotate it as some do now. Anything that’s in the gray area between true and false could remain, it says."

Professor Xi Chen, NYU Stern assistant professor in the department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics, has been recognized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with its Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER).

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "New York University’s Stern School of Business announced a radical new departure in its postgraduate teaching this year: its masters in management (MiM) degree was its first to be totally online. 'We are targeting a whole new market,' says Kim Corfman, Stern’s vice dean for MBA programmes and online learning. The aim, she adds, is to attract new student groups from outside the US, where MiM degrees are often more popular than the business school’s core MBA programme."

Excerpt from Miami Times Online -- "As he’s working toward a degree away from home at NYU Stern School of Business, he says he’s glad he set the stage for the other kids in the organization to take leadership roles, training them throughout the years to ensure that Joshua’s Heart would become a sustainable, social entrepreneurship. 'We grew up together, the foundation and me, but now it is its own entity,' said Joshua. 'It is important to learn how to pass on the torch to the next generation.'"

Excerpt from Die Presse -- "'We were somewhat surprised how low Austria’s breadth is in international trade,' says Steven Altman of the New York University's Stern School of Business, which calculates the Global Connectedness Index every two years, to the 'Presse am Sonntag.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'Probably the most common mistake that applicants make is to try and be something that they are not in their application,' Williams says. ... 'In their Cohorts, students go through orientation, which includes Convocation with the Dean of the Undergraduate College, academic information sessions, club fairs, and even a trip to the U.S. Open. Throughout it all, we all do our best to make the summer months before their first year positive and productive.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "To make my decision, I created an Excel spreadsheet that ranked schools by: prestige (based on U.S. News reports), academic flexibility (from school websites), leadership development opportunities (from school websites), job prospects (based on employment reports), alumni willingness to help (based on conversations with friends at those programs), social life (based on conversations with friends), cost, and closeness to family. Highest weightings went to job prospects/alumni, social life, and closeness to family."

Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "'NYU Stern’s new Master of Science in Quantitative Management program is primarily designed for early-career non-business majors who are interested in gaining the fundamental business knowledge and high-demand business analytics skills essential for fast-tracking their careers,' says Corfman.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "NYU Stern’s Entertainment, Media and Technology (EMT) program and W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs hosted entrepreneur, investor and ABC ‘Shark Tank’ judge Mark Cuban for a fireside chat with Professor Greg Coleman, a Q&A with the Stern community and a first-ever ‘Stern Tank,’ featuring three NYU startups."

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Alain Bertaud, a former World Bank principal urban planner, said despite New Zealand being an otherwise 'exceptionally well-managed country', its housing market was in a state of crisis. He said the government’s efforts were being closely watched because they were broadly following global best practice in improving housing affordability."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "'It was important to me to experience something entirely new,' she asserts. ... 'Stern appealed to me because of its prime location and commitment to fostering emotional quotient within its student body,' she says."

Excerpt from The New Times -- "'Surprisingly, even after globalisation’s recent gains, the world is still less connected than most people think it is,' commented GCI co-author Steven A. Altman, Senior Research Scholar at the NYU Stern School of Business and Executive Director of NYU Stern’s Center for the Globalization of Education and Management."

Excerpt from Directors & Boards -- "Practically speaking, directors can most easily identify the issues they ought to focus on by looking at the principle profit drivers of their industry and assessing when and how those are in tension with desired social outcomes."

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'A very high proportion of what we are talking about as globalization is really activity that takes place in regions or among neighbors,' Steven Altman, a New York University researcher who helped develop the index. 'The international flows themselves are smaller than people think.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'We assessed the competencies that give graduates of our MBA programs a measurable advantage in the marketplace and set out to develop an online program that delivers those high-demand skills with our MS in Quantitative Management,' Corfman adds. 'Our newest offering is ideal for non-business majors who seek knowledge, credentials and the flexibility of an online degree at this crucial stage in their career development.'"

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "Of its 25 specializations, seven in particular—Banking, Corporate Finance, Finance, Financial Instruments and Markets, Financial Systems and Analytics, Quantitative Finance, and FinTech—fall into this category, and Stern students can take up to three. Stern also offers a number of individual courses focused on the investment banking field, including 'Law and Business of Investment Banking,' 'Investment Banking,' 'Private Equity in Entertainment and Media' and 'Entertainment Finance.'"

Excerpt from Forbes -- "A city’s form matters because as urban planner and researcher Alain Bertaud points out, rail '…is incompatible with low densities and urban spatial structures that are dominantly polycentric.'"

Excerpt from The Hill -- "This is a deep-rooted and complex financial predicament with potentially calamitous economic, social and political ramifications. For all stakeholders, the cure may be worse than the malady in that all potential solutions will involve some degree of prolonged financial sacrifice and suffering, especially for those least prepared."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "Prior to the trip, I didn’t necessarily think how similar the luxury car and clothing industries were to each other. We spent the morning at the Lamborghini Museum, where we saw how each car is produced. Watching the whole supply chain was truly an eye-opening experience; from seeing the seamstress hand stitch pieces of leather for the seats to watching the engineers assemble the engine, each Lamborghini station was filled with superb craftsmanship and precision."

Excerpt from eFinancialCareers -- "Meanwhile, NYU’s Stern School of Business, one of Wall Street’s biggest feeders of front-office talent, introduced a non-credit elective course for students who want to learn Python, a programming language that is quickly becoming a favorite of banks."

Excerpt from TopMBA -- “‘This initial engagement helps students define what their career goals are and helps them clearly articulate their skill sets,’ says Briggs.”