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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "At New York University's Stern school, an Entertainment, Media & Technology specialisation can be taken as part of the MBA. The programme helps participants apply disciplines such as marketing and finance to the media and entertainment industries."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Stern’s revamped course – mandatory for second-year MBA students – examines ethics through the lens of moral psychology. The goal is not to wag the finger but to show how even those with the best intentions can face ethical traps. ... Prof Haidt says his students’ careers are like an epic 'hero’s journey' – one in which they will be severely tested and challenged. Students must 'recognise that there are societal forces impinging on [them] all the time', and that 'in the long run ethical behaviour and high professional standards do pay'."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'We're looking for people who not only have high I.Q., but really high E.Q. and emotional intelligence,' Stern's Gallogly says. 'It can bring a candidate to life in a different way.'"

Excerpt from The Times of London -- “'It is a lot easier to take risks and start a new business if you migrate to a hub where that sort of culture already exists,' Jerry Hao, who has just graduated from New York University’s Stern Business School, said. Mr Hao is working on a start-up project in New York. Mr Rayford, president of Stern’s Entrepreneurs Network, is well aware that opting for a job in a big company would be a safer career bet, but for him it holds no appeal. 'There is a risk going down the entrepreneurial path, but there will be opportunities that will not come to me otherwise,' he said."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- “'This generation of students is more sophisticated in terms of their self-awareness,' says Pamela Mittman, assistant dean of career services and leadership development at NYU Stern. 'They’ve been encouraged and given flexibility to figure out what their strengths, values and interests are. There’s not a pack mentality.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "...Stern announced that it’s introducing a new early application deadline of Oct. 15, in addition to existing deadlines of Nov. 15, Jan. 15, and March 15."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Among the products being developed is Databetes, a forthcoming app that will provide self-management support tools for patients with diabetes. Kinvolved similarly bridges technology and social enterprise by developing online applications to increase school attendance among low-income students, engaging parents in the process."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "As pressure increases on companies to disclose where they distribute their campaign dollars, four schools – the Stern School of Business at New York University, the Wharton School’s Zicklin Centre for Business Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania, Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, New York and the Ira Millstein Centre for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School, New York – have come together to address the topic. Earlier this year they launched an initiative with the US-based Center for Political Accountability to integrate corporate political accountability into the business school curriculums and to create the first online course on the subject."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I knew that I needed to be in an environment where I could elevate my level of thinking and it definitely paid off...We were challenged from day one to think about not only the business that we're doing in a micro sense but to think about how it can impact the global economy and to think outside of ourselves from our business to our community to our country."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "NYU’s most promising innovators received a combined $200,000 in startup cash at the annual $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge held by NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The four winning teams composed of students, alumni and faculty from seven different schools across campus, were chosen after pitching their ideas and enduring grueling Q&A by judges from venture capital, technology and design and social enterprise sectors."

At the end of the Fall 2012 semester, a group of NYU Stern undergraduate students in the Business and Political Economy (BPE) degree program were selected to represent NYU in the Up to Us Campaign - a nationwide competition, sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative University, Net Impact, and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation - in which students educated classmates and their local communities on the federal government’s debt.

Excerpt from New York Daily News -- “'This fall, I will start NYU’s Wagner School of Government working on a master’s in government administration,' she says. 'I’d like to work in city government, in veterans affairs, helping my fellow veterans.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "BlackRock began a five-year branding campaign last year as it seeks to get investors back into higher-yielding assets such as stocks and expand its retail business. Fink has said clients need to diversify and can be harmed by staying in cash-like products. Earlier this week, he spoke at New York University’s Stern School of Business about the need for retirement-savings reform and creating a mandatory savings system."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "'We're at a point now where the interest rate cycle makes it very difficult [for investors to save],' he said, during remarks delivered to a group of NYU Stern business school students. 'If you can no longer buy a 30-year bond with a 7% yield, how will investors achieve the necessary savings outcome?'"

Excerpt from CNET -- "Cohen said that in the future, an ecosystem will evolve around protecting and monitoring people's online images. Meanwhile, Schmidt said that even with the proliferation of wearable devices, people will still have privacy. Each country will make a decision about how to address the issue, he said, and each nation's policy will be different. "

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Ulukaya gave a presentation earlier this week to a packed audience at New York University's Stern School of Business, sponsored by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. In it, he outlined the story of the company's rapid growth."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "In the hypercompetitive 21st century, where every Apple is only one algorithm away from becoming a BlackBerry, paying the lowest possible taxes is not the exceptional policy of one particularly greedy chief executive — it is what every executive seeks to do to keep his job. That was what Andrew Kassoy, a former private equity investor, explained at a recent panel discussion at the Stern School of Business at New York University (disclosure alert: I was the moderator)."

Excerpt from TechCrunch -- "Disrupt NY 2013′s Startup Battlefield competition is underway, and now New York native Keen Home is taking the stage to present its first-round pitch. Keen Home is a home automation startup, which aims to follow in Nest’s footsteps by building remote vents for your central air conditioning and heating systems that can be controlled from your smartphone to optimally direct air where you actually need it — and away from places you don’t. Keen just launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo."

Excerpt from The New York Post -- "'We ask the question "Why them?"' the 'Supersize Me' director told us Friday at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Disruptive Innovation Awards at NYU Stern’s Paulson Auditorium."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "South Korean rapper and Internet sensation Psy was honored as a transcultural phenomenon by the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday along with a host of other luminaries ranging from choreographer Twyla Tharp to controversial media host Glenn Beck."

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "Specialized degree candidates 'really want to focus and deepen their knowledge in a specific subject area,' says Paula Steisel Goldfarb, executive director of MBA and executive MBA admissions and financial aid at Stern. 'Whereas for an MBA program, students are looking at broad-based skills. They want to get all their functional knowledge within multiple areas within business.'"

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Cynthia Franklin, the senior associate director at the NYU Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Stern, announced the finalist for the Entrepreneur’s Challenge to a room full of anxious entrepreneurs in the Kaufman Management Center last Friday."

A team of NYU Stern MBA students comprising Nazly Havez, Zeev Krieger, Amy Nelson and Matthew Seden took the top spot in the 2013 Aspen Business & Society International MBA Case Competition.

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "If there’s one big winner in the demise of finance, it is consulting, probably the only industry in which salaries match or exceed those in financial services. For example, 22 percent of 2012 MBA graduates from New York University’s Stern School of Business took jobs in investment banking, down from 31 percent in 2010. Over the same period, the proportion snagging jobs in consulting rose from 15 percent in 2010 to 22 percent in 2012. In 2012, salaries for Stern grads in investment banking jobs averaged $103,254; consulting salaries averaged $126,696."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants for Execs -- "Chan plans to finish her MBA in 2.5 years. Like Xi, she finds the work-school-home travel triangle highly doable, and feels participation in Stern’s MBA clubs is vital. She belongs to the Part-Time Leadership Forum."