# Incoming full-time MBA student Jeff Battipaglia is cited in a trend piece about the Class of 2020 at top b-schools

1 School News August 29, 2018 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/poetsandquants/2018/08/29/whos-going-to-business-school-these-days-meet-the-class-of-2020/#7da122845c42) -- "...NYU Stern’s Jeff Battipaglia’s rite of passage came when he committed to the U.S. Naval Academy. It was a nine year commitment between schooling and service, one that taught him 'how to think, how to care, how to lead, and how to earn and give respect.'"

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