# Stern's partnership with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) is featured

1 School News December 7, 2016 ![Yahoo logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/yahoo.jpg?itok=UzShvj6e)>

Excerpt from [Yahoo](http://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-the-cfda-and-w-hotels-are-shaping-the-future-of-american-fashion-185242098.html) -- "One of the first things \[the CFDA Fashion Incubator Program participants\] do is spend a semester working with an MBA student from NYU’s Stern School. That’s like having a McKinsey \[consultant\] working with you. So right away, they’re refining their business strategy and learning to be fiscally responsible, things that aren’t always front-of-mind for creatively focused people."

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