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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “Stern has a number of ways to include partners and integrate them into the Stern community. There is a Stern Partners Club, which is housed under our Student Government. The staple Stern Social events on Thursday evenings (now temporarily on hiatus) always invite partners to join, and many of the student organizations host events that are open to partners. For example, the Association of Hispanic and Black Business Students hosts an annual ‘90s party that tops the list of major social events each year for students and their partners.”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "DI issues and racial justice in particular are not local but they are global issues, and as global business schools, even as we train students for leadership in a more globalized world, decisions have to be an integral part of the education part of the reasons that Francesca articulated so well. One small example is our most recent effort at Stern. Every single entering student in our undergraduate program, MBA program, and executive programs all take the Intercultural Development Inventory assessment to gauge cultural competence, and every student has assigned a coach to interpret their assessment, and to provide a plan for growth. I think this is almost an essential part of creating better leaders for tomorrow."

Excerpt from Fast Casual -- “One fast casual chain has already found success, however, with its own carbon-labeling initiative. Just Salad, based in New York City, worked with students this summer from the New York University Stern School of Business to post the carbon footprints of its menu items.”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “Anat Lechner was a professor of mine for both years of the program – and the second one was at my choosing! She brings great passion and focus in her teachings especially as it relates to the future economy. She unequivocally challenges us to think about artificial intelligence and its implications for our industries and career paths. Her comprehensive and visually appealing lessons on the evolution of management ideas, thoughts, frameworks, and tools have come in very handy in my work. She’s demonstrated her willingness to help with continuous improvement by sharing weekly ideas and thoughts with us. Her directness and high standards push me to make sure that my own pursuits are not ‘lame,’ and that I’d not be better off just ‘staying at home.’ Eaton J. Kuh, New York University (Stern)”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “I was very fortunate to find Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a minority focused organization that provided me with coaching, support, and a big family of friends as I prepared to apply to business school. It was through one of their programs that I connected with NYU Stern, and I immediately felt in love with its community. Stern gave me access to amazing professors, a broad number of experiential classes (which as a career-switcher was very important to me), and a community that truly looks out for one another. When I got that 'congratulations, you are admitted' call, it was a no-brainer, I knew I belonged there.”

Excerpt from U.S. News -- “NYU business analytics classes cover a variety of topics, such as customer insights research, trading strategies and systems, and data visualization.”

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- “As I was actively looking for opportunities to use this time meaningfully, Stern’s Office of Career Development and Office of Student Engagement announced SternWorks, a new initiative aimed at connecting MBAs with vital small businesses in need of help to share their skills. One part of the new initiative was SternWorks: Serve NYC, which focused on volunteer opportunities to give back to the NYC community. A project with the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) stood out to me because it would be not only a learning experience, but also an opportunity to directly support the community during these unprecedented times. So I applied for it and joined the program.”

Each Fall incoming two-year Full-time MBA students participate in LAUNCH orientation, which kicks off the Stern journey and immerses students in an experiential learning cycle of Thinking, Acting and Reflecting. This Fall, for the first time, Stern hosted a re-LAUNCH orientation for all returning MBA2s as a way for the community to reconnect and re-engage, and to use innovation to address Stern challenges emerging from the pandemic.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “Right behind Wharton was MIT’s Sloan School of Management, UC-Berkeley’s Haas School, the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, New York University’s Stern School of Business, and the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business–exactly the same lineup of top five schools as last year.”

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- “‘Since its founding, NYU has opened its doors to immigrants, and this remains an essential part of our DNA,’ said Raghu Sundaram, Dean of NYU Stern.”

“‘Given the rapidly changing conditions the world has faced this year, we’re especially thrilled to bring in one of the strongest, most diverse classes on record at Stern,’ said Rabia Ahmed, Executive Director of MBA Admissions, in a statement.”

“This year’s incoming class boasts the highest average GMAT and GPA scores in the school’s history. The average GMAT rose to 723 and the average GPA is 3.6, up from 3.52 last year.”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- See Stern's new faculty highlighted here.

Excerpt from FindMBA -- “Professor Karen Brenner was appointed by New York University’s Stern School of Business and the School of Law as director of law and business, acting as a bridge for the two disciplines. “Business and law are inextricably linked,” she says. ‘Corporations are legal entities; the law provides the context in which business operates and combining the degrees allows students to see how the two disciplines interact.’” 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “NYU’s Stern School of Business is further testifying to the wisdom of an extended app season with a class profile that matches or sets three school records — and that reverses a two-year slide in applications.”

“‘Despite the forces at work restricting the free flow of high-skilled immigrants to the U.S., the demand for a Stern MBA among international students remained very strong this year,’ Sundaram says. ‘However, in late July, in view of the continuing uncertainty created by ICE pronouncements — adding to an already stressful situation for many new students of closed U.S. consulates worldwide — we made a conscious decision to offer all our international admits the option to defer for a year at the cost of admitting a smaller class. This was absolutely the right thing to do. Since its founding, NYU has opened its doors to immigrants, and this remains an essential part of our DNA.’”

“'Given the rapidly changing conditions the world has faced this year, we’re especially thrilled to bring in one of the strongest, most diverse classes on record at Stern,'” Ahmed said in a news release."

Excerpt from Higher Education Review -- “The tech MBA program offered by Stern School of Business focuses on four main aspects. This includes teaching the students about business and technology and also lays emphasis on experiential learning and the elective courses students get to choose.

“People usually think there are not many technology companies on the east coast, but most popular companies will have an office in New York or in the periphery giving the B-school a good geographic location advantage. Moreover, the Stern Solutions component offers the MBA candidates an opportunity to work and participate in built-in projects on the east and the west coasts.”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "That happened to NYU Stern’s Myryah Nicholas, who wondered if she could make it in New York City – let alone the beauty industry. That’s when she came across an advertisement…and reflected back on her original purpose — and knew everything would eventually turn out right. 'I stumbled across a Mother’s Day billboard that read, “I didn’t go nine months without chardonnay for you to hate your job.” While the sighting initially provided a good laugh, the message stuck with me. I knew I owed it to the people who supported me and, more importantly, myself to pivot into a career path I loved. On the plane ride home, I vowed to take the risks I needed to achieve my goals. Four months later, I was living in New York—the epicenter of the beauty industry—and one step closer to making my dreams come true.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "What word best describes the NYU Stern classmates you’ve met so far? Why?
 ‘IQ + EQ’. They are not only some of the sharpest and brightest young minds, but also extremely empathetic and helpful. I can’t wait to know each one of them more intimately."

Excerpt from GreenBiz -- "Most sustainability practitioners believe customers will reward a company for doing the right thing. We know it’s a complex story and that price, accessibility of product and perceived efficacy all affect shoppers’ choices. In general, however, we trust that customers will pick sustainable solutions if they are easy to find and price differences are negligible. And there is evidence that consumers do prefer to buy sustainable products. NYU Stern’s landmark study found that 50 percent of CPG growth from 2013 to 2018 came from sustainability-marketed products. The study is based on what consumers actually bought — not what they said they would do."

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Ethiopian workers are the lowest paid in the global garment supply chain. According to a report by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, the minimum wage for Ethiopian garment workers is $26 a month, compared with $95 in Bangladesh and $326 in China."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Going back to my inclination for structure, I developed my own framework for how I approached year one. I think it is flexible enough to apply to all students and simple enough to not feel overwhelming. It is a five point plan that covers the major areas of the experience and allows you to define what is important to you. My anecdotes stem from my experience as someone who is transitioning careers from general management into consulting. At the same time, my framework and recommendations are flexible enough to be applicable to all students."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Matthew Meade has his fingers on everything at JP Morgan Chase. As a vice president, Meade leads a seven-member team that covers 99 trading desks and 15 lines of business across the globe. In a nutshell, his job is to make work easier for everyone else. He examines every possible metric across the firm, assessing their value and limits, he says. From there, Meade moves this data onto digital platforms so anyone can drag, drop, and trend it. An unsung hero? More like the consummate team player. After all, Meade was once tapped to build a tech operation from scratch at JP Morgan Chase. He automated it so well that he wasn’t needed to run it. Don’t worry, Meade found plenty of internal suitors after he’d finished. To borrow one of his favorite phrases: 'Good word comes from good work.' Now, Meade is spreading the word in a different way. This month, he published his first book, Wisdom on the Way to Wall Street: 22 Steps to Navigating Your Road to Success. For Meade, the book is a look back over a 15 year Wall Street finance career as much as a roadmap forward. Forget tutorials on reinvestment risk and swap spreads. Meade focuses on the lessons that Wall Street honchos often take for granted: relentless learning, quiet reflection, and authentic interaction."

This spring in response to the coronavirus pandemic, NYU Stern launched SternWorks, a major new initiative aimed at connecting MBAs with vital small businesses in need of help to share their skills. By focusing efforts on the types of small businesses and nonprofits that are most acutely feeling the economic pain of the current crisis, the goal is to provide students an opportunity to put their business skills to work for those who need support more than ever before. One pillar of the new initiative, SternWorks: Serve NYC, focuses specifically on short- and long-term volunteer opportunities for MBA students to give back to the NYC community. 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “Business schools all over the world have been innovating new ways to teach business skills to young professionals, modernizing traditional MBA programs, and launching new, more specialized degrees in such fields as data analytics and chain supply management.”

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "'I am heartbroken by what happened to George Floyd,' Matthew Meade, 36, a vice president who works in risk management at the bank, wrote to his team in an email viewed by Business Insider. 'When I think of George, it is no longer a matter of if what happened was wrong or right,' Meade added. 'It's not about black versus white, it's about America versus racism.' Meade, who is currently pursuing an executive MBA at the NYU Stern School of Business, has spent nearly 10 years working at JPMorgan. In recent years, he's taken on a number of roles, at work and in his personal life, to improve the experiences of other young people of color. Later this month, he'll unpack some of those topics in 'Wisdom On the Way to Wall Street: 22 Steps to Navigate Your Road to Success,' his forthcoming book, which Meade will self-publish on August 22."

Excerpt from Biz Ed -- "Undergraduates at the New York University’s Stern School of Business now have the option to pursue a new degree program in technology and entrepreneurship. The four-year, STEM-certified bachelor of science in business, technology, and entrepreneurship will enroll its first class of 30 to 50 undergraduates in August 2021. The program, which students will complete as a cohort, consists of a four-part curriculum: an immersive experiential course that integrates entrepreneurship and technology, foundational courses in computer science and data analytics, courses in entrepreneurship that include experiences inside and outside the classroom, and a capstone course in which students will develop their own ventures or work on projects for early-stage startups."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "New York University’s Stern School of Business today (July 31) announced the launch of a new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) four-year undergraduate business degree. The Business, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (BTE) program will enroll its first class of 30 to 50 undergrads in August 2021. That number will be closer to 30 in the first year, according to Robert Whitelaw, vice dean of the Undergraduate College at Stern, with the capacity to reach 60 students per cohort moving forward."