Technology
Merging tech expertise and business know-how to create tomorrow’s industry leaders.
Curriculum
A Curriculum Customized to Your Goals
You need a curriculum that is relevant to your career goals. We provide the options to get you there. Choose up to three areas of focus from more than 25. From there, you can dial in your experience by selecting from a pool of over 200 electives.
Our technology curriculum is carefully curated to create tech leaders who understand business. Whether you are pursuing a career with a startup, a venture capital firm, or an established tech company, you will have a broad selection of courses and hands-on learning experiences designed to get you where you want to go.
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Teaches the use of data and models to support decision making in business. Students learn how to model such relationships as the impact of advertising on sales, how historical data predict stock returns, and how changes in task characteristics can influence time to completion.
Provides students with the strategic and analytical skills to guide organizations in a digital world that is overflowing with data on customers, products, and interactions.
Provides a broad understanding of the strategy and operating principles that drive the individual sectors of the entertainment industry, while exploring new industry concepts and analyzing leading companies such as Time Warner, Disney, Sony, Viacom, and NBC Universal.
Good preparation for careers in product management, brand management, marketing management, and consulting.
Prepares entrepreneurially-minded students with a valuable understanding of what it is like to work in venture capital, private equity, social entrepreneurship, and small businesses
FinTech covers technology-enabled business model innovation in the financial sector. Such innovation can disrupt existing industry structures and blur industry boundaries, facilitate strategic disintermediation, revolutionize how firms create and deliver products and services, create significant privacy, and regulatory and law-enforcement challenges.
Provides students with an overview of management and its strategic alignment with business models that are essential to achieving business success.ss
Emphasizes data-driven decision making, a focus on innovation, and an entrepreneurial mindset. Prepares students for careers as product management, as well as those that interact with product managers -- product marketing, technology development, and technology strategy.
Related Coursework:
- Trading Strategies and Systems
- Design and Development of Web and Mobile Applications
- Business Strategy for the Digital Economy
- Financial Information Systems
- Robo Advisors and Systematic Trading
- Information Technology Strategy
Career
Optimize Your Career Growth
Immersions with emerging startups and established technology companies. Site visits to Silicon Valley’s biggest names in technology. Networking and mentorships with technology alumni. Access to internships with industry leaders and on-the-rise disruptors.
Whether you are interested in product management, fintech, entrepreneurship or business analytics, our career resources are thoughtfully developed to successfully launch your tech career.
Select Employers of NYU Stern MBAs in Technology:
- Apple
- Microsoft
- Salesforce
- Verizon
- Visa
Faculty Spotlight
Arun Sundararajan
Professor Sundararajan's research studies how digital technologies transform business, government and civil society. He has published over 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and conferences and over 35 op-eds. His best-selling and award-winning book, “The Sharing Economy,” was published by the MIT Press in 2016.
Melissa Schilling
Melissa Schilling is the Herzog Family Professor of Management at NYU Stern. She serves as the Director of the Innovation Initiative at the NYU Stern Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation. She is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation and strategy. Her research on breakthrough innovation and technology ecosystems informs her courses, where students analyze how firms can harness AI to drive disruptive growth.
Alumni Voices
Doreen Wang, MBA 2025
"I am most proud of being part of Stern's Technology Association, particularly the Flagship Events vertical. We worked closely together to organize the annual Tech conference at Stern, which attracted nearly 200 attendees and featured distinguished speakers from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and IBM."
Student Blog
Alvaro Perez Casinelli, MBA 2024
"From a less technical and more strategic standpoint, GenAI has been a topic of discussion in most of my classes. Through the different curricula, we have covered how GenAI can be used to enhance customer engagement initiatives, drive product innovation, and craft compelling brand narratives and messaging."
Community and Clubs
The Stern Technology Association
STA provides networking and career-building opportunities for MBA students interested in pursuing careers with technology companies - from mature tech to early stage startups.
The Stern Entrepreneurship and Startup Association
ESA serves students with a career focus on the dynamic startup industry, whether they are seeking to launch their own business, join an emerging or established business, or join a venture capital firm or other startup-financing organization.
Experiential Learning
Tech and the City
This experiential course immerses students in a successful early-stage technology company in NYC. Students study the founding vision, value creation model and funding path and assess how the company’s metrics are connected to its growth and priorities.
Endless Frontier Lab
The Endless Frontier Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.
Stern Venture Fellows Program
Build your own venture immediately after completing your degree. Awarded fellows spend 10 weeks on both coasts developing their ideas and receive a $10,000 stipend, a prototyping fee, workspace, mentorship and group workshops.