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James Bessen, an economist and technologist, serves as Executive Director of the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University. He has also been a successful innovator and CEO of a software company. Bessen studies the major economic impacts of technology on society (see New York Times profile), writing academic papers, magazine articles, and books. His latest book, The New Goliaths (Yale 2022), argues that major firms’ investments in proprietary software systems have allowed them to increase their dominance of industries, slowing aggregate innovation and raising income inequality.

NYU Stern's Center for the Future of Management and the Univerity of Minnesota's Carlson Global Institute invites you to a virtual "fireside chat" on The Global Challenge of Feeding the World with Dave MacLennan, moderated by Myles Shaver.

On Tuesday, October 25, DHL Express Americas CEO Mike Parra joins NYU Stern's Steven Altman for a virtual "fireside chat" on Global Leadership and the Future of International Logistics.

On Wednesday, October 19, NYU Stern's Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation will host a Fireside Chat with Dr. Gary Marcus in conversation with NYU Professor Foster Provost, Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship and Information Systems and Director, Fubon Center, Data Analytics & AI.

Please join the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) and Risk Insights on October 12th for a virtual panel discussion on the ESG landscape in Africa, with a focus on South Africa.

On Thursday, October 6, 2022, NYU Stern's Center for the Future of Management and LMU's Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization will host a virtual panel on Business Dynamism & Entrepreneurship.

On Friday, September 30, NYU Stern's Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation will host its 2022 Stern Innovation Conference, titled, “Building Innovation Portfolios.” 

On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, the NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship will host the Entrepreneurs Challenge Kick-Off & Info Session.

This workshop draws on the best fundamental and applied thinking about the financial architecture drawing on academic and practitioner research and networks. It tries to look over the horizon at what is likely to come next based on the best available thinking.

On Friday, May 13, the final teams in the Entrepreneurs Challenge, hosted by NYU Stern's Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship, will pitch off to see which ventures win the grand prizes.

How has workforce engagement changed over the past few years? What are employers doing to attract and retain high quality talent? Join us as we hear from two experts: Julia Lamm, Partner at PWC, and Aiwa Shirako, lead of Google's People Innovation Lab. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Future of Management and the Future of Work & Organizations Initiative.

On Friday, April 29, NYU Stern's Volatility & Risk Institute hosted its Third Annual Conference, titled, “Macroeconomic Consequences and Implications of Decarbonization.”

Please join the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network, NYU Stern’s Center for the Future of Management, the NYU Women’s Leadership Forum, NYU Wagner’s Black Student Association, and NYU Law's Women of Color Collective for a discussion on the challenges women of color face in the workplace and how the workplace needs to change, featuring Minda Harts, author of the recently published Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace and Ruchika Tulshyan, author of Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work.

In this course, students will look at a range of investment philosophies with the intent of finding not only the core beliefs that animate them, but also the ingredients needed to make them work. Students will look at the historical evidence in support of or working against each philosophy and what they need to bring to the table to succeed with that philosophy. In the process, Professor Aswath Damodaran hopes that students will find an investment philosophy that best fits them, given their individual strengths and weaknesses.

Taught by Professor Aswath Damodaran, one of the leaders in the field, Advanced Valuation is for analysts, financial officers, and portfolio managers seeking a deeper understanding of valuation, and the skills and knowledge to confidently make financial decisions. Through video lectures, live online meetups, and a hands-on valuation project, students will learn how to estimate the value of any business, small or large, private or public, in a developed or an emerging market. They will also be able to price businesses using earnings, book value, revenue, or other pricing multiples and comparables.

Taught by Professor Tensie Whelan, this 14-week course provides participants with the ability to help their business be a force for change through ESG (environment, social, and governance) investing, sustainable supply chain management, employee and consumer engagement, sustainability marketing, and more.

Through a series of exercises, participants will identify and prioritize their best breakthrough innovation opportunities and a path to bringing those ideas to reality. 

This program will focus on methodologies and tools that help executives plan and implement change more effectively, rapidly and proactively.

Through a combination of lecture, discussion and group exercises, participants will learn about financially material Environmental Social Governance (ESG) indicators and data providers, and learn how to translate corporate performance on sustainability into financial performance.

Participants will develop an inclusive leadership mindset, with a focus on working with others across differences of multiple types, including gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. The course examines how to surmount the negative impact that implicit bias can have on performance, team dynamics and efforts to create inclusive environments. Through self-reflective exercises, interactive sessions and group work, the course will move from building awareness of practices that foster diversity and inclusion, to helping participants create an inclusive leadership plan that results in stronger teams and organizations.

This program will introduce you to a variety of analytical frameworks related to leadership and will focus on how to apply those frameworks to analyze and address important leadership challenges.

This two-day program covers: the true meaning and sources of power; the skills needed for effective political management of organizational problems; an understanding of your own political mindscape; and a personal plan for successful political management of conflict. It is designed for middle, upper middle and senior level managers interested in strengthening their political and conflict management skills to enhance their influence and productivity.

On Friday, September 17, NYU Stern's Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research and NYU Stern's Volatility & Risk Institute will jointly host the conference "What Should the Rules Be For Cryptoassets? Accounting, Regulatory, and Legislative Perspectives."

The last year and a half have dramatically changed the work environment at most organizations, and have forced us to rethink how to accomplish collaboration, innovation and productivity. This has resulted in new technologies, organizational practices and norms that have enabled fundamental changes in how we come together and create things. In this fast-paced conference, scholars and practitioners will share their knowledge about managing remote innovation and/or the new technologies and practices that are enabling it. We will hear their lessons learned, and some predictions for what we might see in the future. 

On Tuesday, September 14, 2021, the NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship will host the Entrepreneurs Challenge Kick-Off & Info Session.