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Excerpt from Fast Company -- "R/GA, the agency behind Nike’s pioneering FuelBand, signaled its intentions to, well, accelerate this bridging of the digital and physical by launching Connected Devices Accelerator--a three-month intensive program for 10 tech startups, powered by Techstars methodology--earlier this year."

Excerpt from Al Jazeera -- "It was a great opportunity for us here at NYU. About 250 teams enter every year and we thought, we're building this business, we're working full-time on it, we might as well jump into this competition and see what we can do. And over the course of the competition, we received a tremendous amount of feedback and guidance and we were fortunate enough to walk away with the prize."

Excerpt from Yahoo! Shine -- "Since its September launch, the Give A Spit campaign has registered over 1,000 people as bone marrow donors and, according to Colleen Wormsley, marketing associate for DoSomething.org, more than 9,000 people have signed up to host events through December 19. The most recent event, held this month in New York City at the New York University Stern School of Business, registered a majority of the 633-member freshman class."

Excerpt from Inc.com -- "The panelists, including NYU President John Sexton, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, and Codecademy CEO Zach Sims, among others, were charged with predicting the future of the traditional university. Will emerging technology and online learning dismantle the notion of 'college' as we know it?"

Excerpt from Mobile Commerce Daily -- "During the 'Mapping the mobile path-to-purchase' session, a professor from UNC Kenan-Flagler along with executives from Sequent Partners and Kantar Retail discussed how mobile impacts consumers’ daily lives and how retailers can integrate mobile into both in-store and online efforts."

Excerpt from Entrepreneur.com -- "As a college entrepreneur at New York University, the majority of my ideas are tailored to solving the issues faced by college students in an urban environment. To see if my ideas have legs, I turn to my roommate, as he is my target audience. Finding out whether he would use the product or service plays a role in determining if my idea could become a legitimate business."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "McCollum, who graduated in 2007, says the company got a huge boost from participating in Stern’s 2008 Business Plan Competition. 'That was where we got the majority of the resources specific to the company,' he says. 'We got to speak with a whole bunch of different people very quickly and got a lot of feedback that ordinarily would’ve taken months or years to get.'”

Excerpt from Accepted.com -- "NYU Stern received a $10 million gift that will go towards a scholarship fund for college seniors who wish to pursue their MBAs at Stern after they graduate. The scholarship is named for the donor, William R. Berkley, NYU alumnus and vice chairman of the NYU board of trustees. Berkley’s $10 million gift is part of NYU’s six-year campaign to raise $1 billion for scholarships."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Three faculty members of NYU Stern School of Business in the US are discussing the future of mobile, data and open innovation as part of the school’s Future of Business Event Series. Professors Anindya Ghose, co-director of Stern’s Center for Business Analytics; Natalia Levina, who teaches courses on global sourcing and open innovation; and Kristen Sosulski, director of Stern’s Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, will also answer questions from prospective MBA students."

Stephen Choi and David Yermack have been named the new directors of NYU’s Pollack Center for Law & Business, a joint venture of the Stern School of Business and the NYU School of Law. Choi is Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law at NYU Law, and Yermack is Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation at Stern.

In a course co-taught by CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, Lauren Zalaznick, Executive VP of NBC Universal, candidly shared her professional story with Stern students.

Excerpt from Forbes -- "I believe T-Mobile represents a significant upside opportunity with a solid margin of safety, primarily as a result of 1. Continued industry consolidation/oligopoly pricing power/improving financial metrics post-MetroPCS deal, 2. German Government (Deutsche Telekom) vested interest in supporting their US subsidiary, 3. Expanding mobile (especially data) use/user demand 4. Increased economies of scale & scope/better operating efficiency as MetroPCS is integrated."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The Stern School of Business won, and they were represented by Thomas Li, Ador Michael Cristofi, Kapish Haldia and Joshua Cao. The students are involved in NYU Stern’s Investment Analysis Group, and they manage $25,000 that has been donated by Justin Pollack and other alumni. The group has a portfolio management team of 25 students and a club membership of 250 students."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- “'I think this is going to be life changing for a handful of people,' said Isser Gallogly, assistant dean of admissions, in an interview with Poets&Quants. 'The program will be relatively small and extremely selective. We’ll do a maximum of ten a year. A lot of it depends on the quality of the applicant pool. We’re looking for seniors with stellar academics and a great capacity to contribute to business and society. We are absolutely looking for exceptional people.'”

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Stern dean Peter Blair Henry says the scholarships are for those who 'dream big. Whether they’ve studied engineering or economics, physics or philosophy and everything in between, we want to put the tools of business into the hands of the most promising leaders of tomorrow.'”

Excerpt from U.S. News -- "This application season, Yale School of Management and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management are also requiring a video interview, while other MBA programs, such as New York University's Stern School of Business and the University of Texas—Austin McCombs School of Business, offer applicants the option of using video to introduce themselves to their classmates."

Excerpt from White Plains Daily Voice -- "Robert Amler of New York Medical College, will receive the Medical Entrepreneur Award in recognition of his creative work in the public health sector and his ability to help build out clinical training facilities for biotechnology, disaster medicine and clinical skills, as well as a biotech incubator to attract researchers and start-up firms in early-stage development of new drugs, vaccine strains and medical safety devices and apps at New York Medical College."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "O’Brien, who helps look after the Trium Global EMBA, which is offered jointly by NYU Stern, the London School of Economics and HEC Paris, says: 'London is in the middle – it is in the middle of date and time, and between north and south, east and west. We believe there is a tremendous opportunity to leverage London as a location.' She says Trium has a cohort of 85 students a year from about 40 countries. They attend six modules over 17 months and start and end the programme in London. About half the class are expatriates and living in a different location to the one in which they were born."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- “'The biggest wealth of the programme was the people,' he says. 'Those connections you make are really inestimable.'”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In my Managing Change elective, taught by a Principal at Booz & Company who is in the Organization, Change and Leadership practice, I’ve met new classmates who are also in management consulting. It’s been interesting to hear their viewpoints on the cases that we’ve discussed as they bring a higher level, strategic approach to analyzing opportunities and challenges. Having been in the retail industry for 18 years, I’ve developed my own expertise in driving opportunities and creating additional value within retail. Gaining a new perspective from my Stern classmates has been invaluable."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "[Druckenmiller] and Canada are simply convinced that only a Vietnam-war-scale movement by the young can break through the web of special interests to force politicians to put in place the reforms that would actually secure both today’s seniors and future seniors, today’s middle class and the wanna-be middle class. (Watch their N.Y.U. presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbgIiAnpcPc)."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "My advice for women early in their careers is to establish themselves as a brand that can evolve over time. Figure out what your brand stands for and how your brand can adapt as you grow in your career."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- “'Why live in cities?' Mr. Florida asked Wednesday at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where he interviewed venture capitalist Fred Wilson, managing partner of Union Square Ventures and Flatiron Partners. As an investor in firms such as Twitter Inc., MongoDB Inc., Tumblr, Foursquare, Kickstarter and Zynga, Mr. Wilson has played a key role in the emergence of New York City as a tech hub, and also in San Francisco’s rise as an alternative to the startup scene in neighboring Silicon Valley."

Excerpt from Hispanic Executive -- "Today, I am assistant vice president and senior counsel for The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a life insurance and financial services provider. As AVP and senior counsel, I develop and implement lobbying strategy for several issues, including life insurance, investments, dental, and federal health-care reform. I also provide regular briefings to senior executives on relevant legislative and political developments. I spend a lot of time on the road traveling to state capitols to meet with legislators and insurance regulators. With the support of Guardian, I recently enrolled in New York University’s executive MBA program where I plan to specialize in leadership. In my spare time, I host a women’s leadership podcast and I speak at women’s leadership events."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "[Pugel] believes that what distinguishes a good overseas programme from a bad one is not the length of time spent in another country, it is the academic component, something he says NYU Stern takes very seriously."