# As part of P&Q's "2020 Best & Brightest EMBAs" series, Natasha Rankin (MBA '20) highlights the School's Executive MBA program and how her classmates enriched her experience

1 School News July 19, 2020 ![Poets and Quants logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036687.gif?itok=YuUEYfSP)>

Excerpt from [Poets & Quants](https://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/2020/07/19/2020-best-brightest-embas-natasha-rankin-new-york-university-stern/) -- "In my professional position and now 47 years of age, gains in the number of friends one makes in a year frequently can be counted on one hand. Yet in business school, not only had I surrounded myself with over 60 incredibly smart, talented, and ambitious people who offered generosity of time and insight to me professionally, I’ve developed deep, enduring friendships with people who I never would have met had I not joined the NYU Stern Class of January 2020."

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