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Dean Peter Henry to ring NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "NYU Stern School of Business will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to kick off 'Pre-View weekend' for students admitted to the Stern Full-time MBA Class of 2014."
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In this iPad age, MBA student Zoe Feldman is highlighted for utilizing the letterpress

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Zoe Feldman rents time at The Arm every few weeks to print cards ... and sells them on Etsy. ... The former Pepsi executive and MBA candidate at New York University’s Stern School of Business says she may forsake corporate life if the nascent business takes off."
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NYU Stern to host the third annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards on 4/27

Excerpt from WeAreMovieGeeks.com -- "The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), in association with noted Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, announced it will hold the third annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by NYU Stern School of Business, on April 27. The 11th edition of TFF runs April 18 to 29."
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MBAs in the Stern Consulting Corps work with City Harvest to develop healthy snacks for NYC kids

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Excerpt from New York Post -- "MBA students in the Leonard N. Stern School of Business’s Consulting Corps (SCC) program have taken on City Harvest, New York City’s food rescue organization, as a client. As part of their pro-bono work and learning experience, SCC students tackle real business challenges and opportunities outside of the classroom, as well as receive mentoring from leaders at top-tier consulting firms and from faculty advisors."
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Winner of 2004 New Venture Competition, Rickshaw Dumpling, founded by alums David Weber & Kenny Lao

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Mr. Weber, a former World Bank consultant with an M.B.A. in management from the Stern School of Business at New York University, believes that food trucks 'can help create neighborhoods.'"
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Vice Chairman, NYU Trustees & Chairman of the Overseers William Berkley (BS '66) is featured

Excerpt from Leaders Edge Magazine -- “The fact that I ended up going to NYU because someone I never knew decided that I should get financial aid was a real eye-opening experience,” Berkley says. “What an incredible thing to have happen. It’s something I remember all the time.”
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Maria Bartiromo is highlighted as the 2012 NYU Stern Graduate Convocation speaker

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "NYU Stern School of Business, Maria Bartiromo, anchor of CNBC’s Closing Bell and anchor/managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo, on May 17."
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Data compiled by NYU Stern faculty on US treasury returns is cited

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Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "Bonds have rallied too, with US treasuries returning an average of 8.5 percent in 2010 and 16 percent in 2011, according to data compiled by New York University's Stern School of Business."
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Stern's Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation is highlighted

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Excerpt from WNYC -- "Several new city-wide initiatives geared to boost the media and entertainment industry in New York were also announced at the ribbon cutting, including ... the expansion of the city's Small Business Services partnership with NYU’s Stern School of Business Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to offer classes specifically for media business entrepreneurs."
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MBA student Brian Shimmerlik’s TaxiTreats venture is featured for winning NYC Next Idea competition

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Excerpt from New York Post -- "A plan to put vending machines — selling energy drinks, snack bars, breath mints, gum and even pain relievers — inside yellow cabs won rave reviews yesterday at a city-sponsored contest for new business ideas."
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Prof. Matt Statler's course on professional responsibility and leadership is highlighted

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Excerpt from The Chronicle of Higher Education -- "Matt Statler, a clinical assistant professor of management and organizations at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, led attendees through a shortened exercise distilled from a required course for seniors in professional responsibility and leadership. It is in this course, of all places, where students confront Cicero's arguments about virtue and expedience."
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Dean Peter Henry makes a case for classical economics

Excerpt from The Morehead-Cain -- "'Education is subversive, in the most positive sense of the word,' [Peter Henry] said. 'The goal of classical education is to create a mind that will, in some sense, undermine the teacher. We need to get that spirit back into the business school environment.'"
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A conversation with British Prime Minister David Cameron, hosted by NYU Stern, is featured

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Speaking at New York University Thursday, Mr. Cameron said he and Mr. Obama on Wednesday discussed tapping oil reserves. 'We'd both like to see global oil prices at a lower level than they are today,' Mr. Cameron said."
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NYU Stern is cited for a Ross Roundtable on trends in financial enforcement & securities litigation

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Excerpt from Reuters blog -- "Canellos was speaking as part of a panel last week on trends in financial enforcement and securities litigation after Dodd-Frank. The panel was organized by NYU Stern Business School and NERA Economic Consulting."
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The Stern Women in Business MBA student club is cited

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Claudia herself supports such female non-profits as NEST, ShestheFirst, FACE Africa, and has always participated in the women in business community including panels for Stern Women in Business, the New York Times Small Business Summit, the Women’s Small Business Expo, and more."
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Vice Dean Tom Pugel on NYU Stern & NYU School of Medicine's new MD/MBA dual degree program

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Tom Pugel, vice dean for MBA and executive programs at Stern, said the program should appeal to doctors-in-training who seek to manage a hospital or medical organization, as well as those who will need to oversee the business side of their own small practices, or medical professionals with an interest in working for a pharmaceutical company or in consulting."
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Prof. Vasant Dhar on NYU Stern's new digital marketing specialization

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Excerpt from New York Post -- "'We were getting signals from employers that they would like people trained in this area - those who can think strategically in the digital world and who have the skills to deal with the challenges that come from kind of data that this world generates,' says Dhar."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran is cited for using new technologies for teaching

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "At New York University’s Stern School of Business in Manhattan, the 400 grad students in professor Aswath Damodaran’s corporate finance class use CourseKit to chat with him and their fellow students, post articles and share notes under the professors guiding hand."
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In an interview, Dean Peter Henry urges MBAs to transform challenges into opportunities

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "We teach our students to think about how to transform challenges and opportunities to create value. And that perspective, I think, is a perspective that companies are particularly liking at the moment."
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NYU Stern is highlighted for using playwrights to teach leadership skills

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Excerpt from Toronto Star -- "NYU Stern and MIT Sloan are using playwrights to teach leadership techniques. As a result, many MBA grads can now boast as much knowledge of how Julius Caesar or Henry V overcame obstacles as how Steve Jobs or Bill Gates built their empires."
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Vice Chair of NYU Trustees & Chair of the Board of Overseers William Berkley is featured

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Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "William R. Berkley ... will present at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Insurance Conference being held in New York City."
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NYU Stern's Concourse Project is featured

Excerpt from MBA Mission -- "The project was completed in early 2010, and a first-year student we interviewed expressed that the 'building looks very modern,' while a second year offered, 'The new lobby is very nice, and the new lounges are great places to gather and study.'"
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NYU Stern's Charity Ball is featured

Excerpt from MBA Mission -- "Each fall, the student government association at New York University’s (NYU’s) Stern School of Business, known as Stern Student Corporation, or SCorp, hosts the Charity Ball, a night of dinner, drinks and dancing to benefit a New York City–area charity (the charity recipient changes each year)."

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