Academic Resources and Future of Work Bootcamps
Academic Workshops and Future of Work Bootcamps are offered several times throughout the year to provide MBA students with skills to complement their business education.
Spring 2022 Future of Work Bootcamp and Academic Workshop Schedule
- Financial Calculator Workshop (HP 17BII plus)
- Tuesday, February 15th, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- The purpose of this workshop is to provide a discussion of the basic elements of the Time Value of Money and to demonstrate the calculations using the Hewlett Packard (HP) calculator. This workshop will focus on the HP 17BII plus calculator. Students should bring their calculator to the session, as the class will be highly interactive. This is an excellent workshop for students taking Foundations of Finance or who would like a review of time value of money.
- For additional information and to register, please click here.
- Tuesday, February 15th, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- Financial Calculator Workshop (HP 12C)
- Wednesday, February 16th, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- The purpose of this workshop is to provide a discussion of the basic elements of the Time Value of Money and to demonstrate the calculations using the Hewlett Packard (HP) calculator. This workshop will focus on the HP 12C calculator. Students should bring their calculator to the session, as the class will be highly interactive. This is an excellent workshop for students taking Foundations of Finance or who would like a review of time value of money.
- For additional information and to register, please click here.
- Wednesday, February 16th, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- Excel Bootcamp, Day 1 - 4
- Sunday, February 20th, 2022, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Sunday, February 27th, 2022, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Saturday, March 5th, 2022, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Sunday, March 6th, 2022, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- The four-part workshop will cover the use of Excel in building projections of financial statements, developing scenarios and what-if analysis, solving investments and corporate finance problems as well as data analysis. Please note later workshops build on previous topics.
- For additional information and to register, please click here.
- If you are a student in Professor Gode's courses and experiencing issues registering, please click the link here.
- People Analytics: Managing Business Complexity with Netlogo
- Saturday, April 2nd, 2022, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
- This online workshop introduces agent-based simulation, a powerful approach to analyzing complex business problems by replicating the way individuals behave and interact with one another and with their environment. The workshop presents key concepts with a focus on real-world business management applications, introduces Netlogo – an open-source platform for agent-based simulation – and provides hands-on experience with agent-based simulations for workforce analytics.
- For additional information and to register, please click here.
- Saturday, April 2nd, 2022, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
- Programming and Data Analytics: SQL
- Sunday, April 3rd, 2022, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
- SQL is the lingua franca of all database systems and a necessity for anyone who needs to analyze data as part of their job. This workshop is designed for absolute beginners and teaches students how to write SQL queries that retrieve data from a database.
- For additional information and to register, click here.
- Sunday, April 3rd, 2022, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
- Programming and Data Analytics: Python
- Wednesday, April 13th, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
- Wednesday, April 20th, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
- The first session of the tutorial gives a brief introduction to programming using Python. The second session builds upon the knowledge from the first. We would strongly recommend students attend both. It is designed for people without prior programming experience. The workshop will cover the various structures used in Python to represent data, data formatting, arithmetic and logical operators, and functions. Please note later workshops build on previous topics.
- For additional information and to register, click here.
- Introduction to Cyber Security
- Friday, April 22nd, 2022, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Students are introduced to the basics of cyber security with emphasis on concepts relevant to business and industry. The course is arranged as a series of four one-hour lectures that cover the following: (1) An overview of cyber threats to business assets; (2) an introduction to challenges in modern enterprise architecture, (3) a tutorial on secure eCommerce protocols and infrastructure, and (4) an explanation of transition to cloud-hosted applications.
- For additional information and to register, please click here.
- Friday, April 22nd, 2022, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Stress Management During Uncertain Times
- Monday, May 9th, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- This workshop will provide a safe environment for NYU Stern students as we reach the end of the semester and finals to access emotional support around the impact of COVID-19 and other recent events. Topics will include social isolation and anxiety of uncertainty. Ways to better think about, organize, and manage stressors also will be covered.
- For additional information and to register, please click here.
- Monday, May 9th, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Academic Workshops
- Academic Planning for Summer 2022 and MAP Workshop
- Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- Presented by Academic Affairs and Advising, this workshop will assist students in planning their upcoming semester courses and utilizing the My Academic Progress tool to track and manage their MBA Program Progress.
- For additional information and to register, please click here.
- Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- Academic Planning for Summer 2022 and MAP Workshop
- Friday, March 4th, 2022, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Presented by Academic Affairs and Advising, this workshop will assist students in planning their upcoming semester courses and utilizing the My Academic Progress tool to track and manage their MBA Program Progress.
- For additional information and to register, please click here.
- Friday, March 4th, 2022, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Planning for your Specializations
- Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Presented by Academic Affairs and Advising, this workshop will review specialization requirements and best practices for planning your elective courses.
- For additional information and to register, please click here.
- Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Academic Affairs and Advising understands that students would like to expand their skillset in addition to attending our academic workshops and bootcamps. Below are a number of additional resources we believe will be useful to Stern students during their MBA program and beyond.
Bobst Library Resources
NYU Virtual Business Library: Journals/NewspapersNYU Libraries' Bloomberg Guide
NYU Libraries' Free Courses Calendar
Coding and Web Design
Code Academy - an on line interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 11 different programming languages including Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), Ruby, SQL, and Sass, as well as markup languages HTML and CSSWordpress Lessons - guides, tutorials and how-to's for students interested in the popular Wordpress website platform
Google Analytics Academy- offers free, online courses on Analytics and other data analysis tools.
Search Marketing and SEO - Level up your online marketing game with search optimization skills via Moz
Microsoft Office
Excel Training
PowerPoint
Access
Word
Language Learning Tools
Duolingo - is a free language-learning platform that includes a language learning website and app, aswell as a digital language proficiency assessment exam. Duolingo offers all its language courses free of charge.
Memrise - is an online learning tool with courses created by its community. Its courses are mainly used to teach languages, but are also used for other academic and non-academic subjects
Financial and Graphing Calculators
Financial Calculator Tutorials - Learn about using financial calculators for applications in finance, accounting, economics, investment, statistics, and more.
Online Graphing Calculator - Graph functions, plot tables of data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and much more – for free!