A sampling of media highlights for the week of January 31, 2023

Excerpt from The Chronicle of Philanthropy -- "Ken and Elaine Langone pledged $25 million to support scholarships for students attending the business school’s Langone Part-Time MBA Program. The program was launched in 1999 with a $10 million donation from the Langones; it enables working professionals to pursue an M.B.A. through courses held on weeknights, Saturdays, or online. Much of the couple’s latest gift will be directed toward assisting military veterans and active-duty military personnel in the program."

NYU Stern Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research and the NYU Stern Volatility and Risk Institute are co-hosting a conference focusing on the many pending issues regarding digital assets. Our conference will explore how frameworks for governance, pending regulation, legal and accounting intersect for digital assets.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants — “Ken and his wife Elaine are believers in the American Dream and are deeply dedicated philanthropists, as reflected in their naming of NYU Langone Health and their significant support of a variety of philanthropic causes,” says Raghu Sundaram, NYU Stern’s dean, in a news release from the school. “This is just one more example of their extraordinary generosity. The Langone Part-Time MBA Program has long been a pillar and flagship offering of Stern, and we are enormously grateful to the Langone family for their longstanding commitment to supporting our working professional students and helping Stern sustain this program as one of the nation’s very best.”

Today, New York University Stern School of Business announced a new $25 million testamentary gift from alumnus and Stern Executive Board member Kenneth G. Langone (MBA ’60) and his wife, Elaine, for scholarships to support the School’s Langone Part-Time MBA Program, especially military veterans and active-duty military personnel in the program.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants — "Overall in 2022, the biggest average bonus was at NYU Stern, whose grads reported receiving $40,936."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants — “We are extraordinarily proud of Johannes for winning this distinguished award,” says Raghu Sundaram, NYU Stern’s dean. “He is an exceptional colleague and a thought leader in the profession, including in important emerging areas such as climate finance and social networks, and this award is yet another testament to the enormous significance and impact of his research.”

A sampling of media highlights for the week of January 24, 2023

Excerpt from Poets & Quants — Example questions from NYU Stern Full-time MBA interviews include:

"A time you demonstrated EQ?"
 

A sampling of media highlights for the week of January 18, 2023

Excerpt from Otago Daily Times —  "The programme was part of the MBA course offered by Stern to strengthen students’ business skills and to understand new markets, Otago Business School Dean Prof Robin Gauld said."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause —  "New York University's Stern School of Business is another elite institution adding an online option in 2023. In the fall of 2022, NYU Stern gave part-time MBA students an online option for most classes.

"Stern emphasizes that this is not an Online MBA per say but a hybrid option that allows a combination of teaching, with students required to take nine in-person courses." 
 

Excerpt from ExecU the Podcast —  “It's very important when you're doing leadership development programs for specific groups within your organization, that they don't feel like it's remedial, and that it's not perceived as like something is wrong with these people that we need to fix, but rather, we're investing in these people because it's good for our business.”

Excerpt from ExecU the Podcast —  “When an environment becomes psychologically unsafe for people, many retreat, or in any case [are] thrown out of balance. So instead of being assertive you'll either become more aggressive or you'll become more defensive…”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants — “When I was looking at MBA programs, it was quite literally the only one that allowed me to get such a focused degree from an esteemed and respected university, and also only have to leave the industry for a year.”