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— September 28, 2012

The NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation’s Entrepreneurs Challenge is featured

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The biggest change will be the extension of the breadth and scope possible. One of the interesting things at NYU is that, if you look at where start-ups come from, they come from everywhere and every school."
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— September 26, 2012

The NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation’s Entrepreneurs Challenge is featured

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The NYU Entrepreneur Challenge provides $200,000 to be disbursed between new ventures, social entrepreneurs, and technology startups. The challenge began on Monday with the team match and goes through May when the winners are announced. Participants in the past have included Dennis Crowley of Foursquare and Ben Silbermann of Pinterest."
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— September 18, 2012

Former President Bill Clinton announced a new Stern Consulting Corps partnership

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Clinton, the U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti, also announced a new partnership with New York University's Stern School of Business and the Center for Investment Facilitation. The effort aims to make it easier to invest in Haiti through the creation of what Clinton called a 'one-stop shop for potential investors.'"
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— September 18, 2012

MBA student & veteran Lindsey Melki is paired with mentor NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Excerpt from ABC News -- "In terms of the leadership and management, I think I have a good hold on that. Now I just need to translate that and transfer that to the corporate world, and that's why I'm here."
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— September 18, 2012

Prof. Hans Taparia discusses Stern's Social Problem-Based Entrepreneurship Class

Excerpt from New York Post -- "In the spring semester, about 15 to 20 students take a three-week trip to India. When they return, they're buzzing with ideas [and] first-hand experiences."
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— August 15, 2012

An op-ed by NYU Life Trustee & Chairman Emeritus Overseer Henry Kaufman on financial concentration

Excerpt from The Globalist -- "As a result of all these moves (before the crisis, during the crisis and afterwards), a very high proportion of U.S. financial assets are now held by a mere handful of conglomerates. And they are the ones deemed "too big to fail." Smaller firms operate ever more on the margins and hold only a declining share of financial assets."
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— August 1, 2012

The Entrepreneurs Challenge, organized by NYU’s Stern Berkley Center, is featured

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Over the last dozen years New York University has held a marathon competition that now includes students, faculty and alums for the best startup ideas... Past winners include Dennis Crowley, cofounder of Dodgeball and Foursquare, and Ben Silberman, cofounder of Pinterest."
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— July 17, 2012

Build Possible

During the spring 2012 semester, a group of MBA students was tasked with developing a business plan for a new reform-minded city in Honduras.
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— July 17, 2012

Expand Possible

Five MBA students participated in a Stern Consulting Corps project, working with Professor Arun Sundararajan on India's Unique Identification (UID) initiative.
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— July 16, 2012

Stern Consulting Corps projects link students & faculty to use research to solve real-world problems

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'We’re getting students into the world through the lens of research,' says Prof Henry. 'We’re giving students the chance to say, 'I didn’t just take a set of classes. I built something.'"
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