# Stern's new one-year Tech MBA is featured

1 School News May 18, 2017 ![U.S. News and World Report logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030501.jpg?itok=1EF-s0wb)>

Excerpt from [US News & World Report](https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/articles/2017-05-18/consider-an-mba-concentration-in-technology) -- "[Peter Henry](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/peter-henry), dean of NYU Stern, says conversations between the school's leaders and tech executives about a shortage of MBAs in tech spurred the creation of the program. 'These conversations basically led us to a very simple conclusion,' says Henry, who, in addition to his role as dean, also serves as an economics and finance professor. 'There’s a shortage of human capital in the tech industry.' As the largest business school in the city, he says, Stern feels obligated to help train people for the growing industry."

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