# Vice Dean Thomas Pugel on Stern's "Doing Business In..." (DBI) courses

1 School News September 29, 2013 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a16eb3f8-1701-11e3-9ec2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2gNyp9E23) -- "\[[Pugel](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-pugel)\] 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."

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