# Two Stern courses, “Doing Business in… (DBi) South Africa” and “Difficult Conversations,” are featured; Two-year Full-time MBA alumni Alisha Agrawal (MBA ’26) and Justin Shalap (MBA ’26) are quoted: “The Most Popular MBA Courses.”

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— September 29, 2026

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Excerpt from [*Poets&Quants*](https://poetsandquants.com/2026/09/29/the-most-popular-mba-courses-2/3/) — “Difficult Conversations forced me to confront how often progress depends on curiosity: on regulating your own reactions, asking better questions, and being willing to sit in discomfort long enough to learn something new. I found myself talking about the class constantly, even at a rooftop party where I spent nearly an hour walking friends through conversations they had been avoiding.”

“My favorite course was NYU Stern’s Doing Business in… (DBi) South Africa. Spending two weeks in South Africa immersed in the culture, economy, and political landscape opened my eyes to what global business really looks like beyond textbooks and case studies.”

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