# STERN BUSINESS Magazine ![Copies of SternBusiness Magazine](/sites/default/files/styles/866w/public/assets/images/SternBiz.png?h=f681b439&itok=xhUxV4Fe) Alumni News & Profiles ## STERN BUSINESS Magazine The NYU Stern alumni magazine features the latest happenings at the School. --- ![2025 Stern Business Cover ](/sites/default/files/styles/640w_x_535h/public/2025-06/2025_stern_business_cover_image_.png.webp?itok=9vK8ISZx) Spring 2025 ## The Spring 2025 Issue Read about the School's 125th Anniversary and learn about Stern's new Dean, Bharat Anand. --- ## Cover Stories [**Stern at 125: Alumni Look Back**](/node/61713) NYU Stern graduates over the decades remember friendships, experiential learning, and enduring guidance. --- [**Stern at 125: A Legacy of Excellence, A Future of Promise**](/node/61714) Perspectives from Stern’s Vice Dean for Faculty and Research, Mor Armony. --- [**NYU Stern Welcomes Bharat N. Anand As Its New Dean**](/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/news/nyu-stern-welcomes-bharat-n-anand-its-incoming-dean "NYU Stern Welcomes Bharat N. Anand As Its Incoming Dean") Digital transformation expert Professor Bharat Anand is appointed Dean of Stern. ## Featured Articles [**Building a Global Community**](/node/61674) Learn about updates from Stern's Executive Board members. --- [**Productive Discomfort**](/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/news/productive-discomfort-vice-dean-nate-pettit-shares-his-passion-teaching-and-explains-why-productive "Productive Discomfort: Vice Dean Nate Pettit shares his passion for teaching and explains why “productive discomfort” is essential to learning ") Vice Dean Nate Pettit shares his passion for teaching and explains why “productive discomfort” is essential to learning. --- [**Get to Know James Ferragamo (BS ’93, MBA ’97)**](/node/61741) Learn about the evolution of his family’s business and its customers, what sustainability means to him, and his summer job as a kid. --- [**Hot Topics**](/node/61642) The evolving world of luxury brands with Professor Thomaï Serdari. --- ### Experience Stern - [**Stern and the City**](/node/61649) --- ### School News - [**A New Faculty Director for the Leadership Accelerator**](/node/61645) - [**A New Healthcare Initiative Starts at Stern**](/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/news/new-healthcare-initiative-starts-stern "A New Healthcare Initiative Starts at Stern") - [**Celebrating a Milestone Moment for Business Education in the United Arab Emirates**](/experience-stern/news/stern-school-business-nyu-abu-dhabi-inaugurated-welcomes-first-mba-cohort "Stern School of Business at NYU Abu Dhabi Inaugurated; Welcomes First MBA Cohort") --- ### Donor News - **Scholarship Spotlight** - [**Navigating New Waters: Avery Lambert (BS ’26)**](/node/61653) - [**Discovering a World of Possibilities: Derek Tang (MBA ’25)**](/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/news/discovering-world-possibilities-derek-tang-mba-25 "Discovering a World of Possibilities: Derek Tang (MBA ’25)") - [**NYU Stern Breaks Records with $8.5 Million Raised on NYU One Day**](/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/news/nyu-stern-breaks-records-85-million-raised-nyu-one-day "NYU Stern Breaks Records with $8.5 Million Raised on NYU One Day") - [**Bruce Berger (BS ’66) and Tony Watkins (MBA ’11) Honored at the 2025 Haskins Giving Society Award Dinner**](/node/61627) - [**From the Heart: Professor Jim Finch Bequeaths $10 Million to Fund Undergraduate Scholarships**](/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/news/heart-professor-jim-finch-bequeaths-10-million-fund-undergraduate-scholarships "From the Heart: Professor Jim Finch bequeaths $10 million to fund undergraduate scholarships") --- ### Alumni Spotlight - [**A Two-Way Street: Kavita Kurella (MBA ’17)**](/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/news/two-way-street-kavita-kurella-mba-17 "A Two-Way Street: Kavita Kurella (MBA ’17)") --- ### Alumni Relations - [**NYU Stern Kicks Off the Stern Women’s Forum**](/node/61248) - [**NYU Stern Alumni Across Industries Return to Campus to Connect with MBA Students**](/node/61131) - [**School Ties: Stern’s Corporate Ambassadors Program Builds Community for Fellow Grads**](/node/61651) --- [**Books Worth Reading**](/node/61735) The latest books authored by Stern faculty. --- ### Faculty in the News and Research See the latest for [faculty in the news](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events) and their [latest research](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research). ## Past Issues [Spring 2024](/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/sternbusiness-magazine/stern-business-magazine-spring-2024) Congratulations to Dean Sundaram [Spring 2023](/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/sternbusiness-magazine/stern-business-magazine-spring-2023) Stern's Five Years of Progress and the School's Largest Gift in History [Spring 2022](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/sternbusiness-magazine/stern-business-magazine-spring-2022) How to Build a Unicorn [Fall 2021](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/sternbusiness-magazine/fall-2021) Making the Next Generation of Leaders Possible [Fall 2020](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/sternbusiness-magazine/sternbusiness-magazine-fall-2020) Alumni Rally to Help Stern Meet the Moment [Fall 2019](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/alumni/alumni-news-profiles/sternbusiness-magazine/sternbusiness-magazine-fall-2019) Meet the New Board Chair, Andre J.L. Koo (MBA '94) [Fall 2018](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sternbusiness-magazine/stern-business-archive/sternbusiness-magazine-fall-2018) Stern Powers Tech [Spring 2018](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sternbusiness-magazine/stern-business-archive/spring-2018) Meet Dean Raghu Sundaram [Fall 2017](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sternbusiness-magazine/stern-business-archive/fall-2017) Innovation at the Pace of Business [Spring 2017](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sternbusiness-magazine/stern-business-archive/spring-2017) The Future is Fintech [Archive](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sternbusiness-magazine/stern-business-archive) Older Issues *Stay tuned and make sure your contact information is [up to date](http://stern.nyu.edu/updateinfo) to receive the next issue in the mail.*