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Posts published in September 2016
Is This Part-Time MBA Worth It?
Jason Scharf, Langone Contributing Writer
Hey, bright-eyed future business leader, are you sitting at your desk at work, weighing the costs and benefits to the part-time MBA you’re about to embark on? I understand where you’re coming from. The benefits are clear—take this path and you’ll continue to earn an income, have your employer foot (some of ) the bill, bring your experience from the classroom directly to work the next day. At the end of a couple years, you’re smarter, better prepared and have a Stern MBA on the wall, all without missing a paycheck or a beat.…
Ten Tips for Your Langone Semester #1
Editorial Staff of the Stern Opportunity
1. As you may have suspected, deciding to get your MBA at one of the world’s most prestigious schools while holding down a full-time job (and personal life) was, in fact, a crazy thing to do. And courageous! But mostly crazy.
2. The seemingly random study group that Stern assigns you on your very first day of orientation will save your life. Get to know them. Email with them. Party with them. Actually study with them (a lot). Like you, they are talented, brilliant, driven individuals who will help you understand, and I mean really understand, ANOVA tables.…
A Welcome Letter from the Dean of Students
Conor Grennan, Dean of Students
You’re here!
We’ve been waiting for you all summer. If you’d walked down that little alley between Bobst Library and Shimkin this summer and looked up to the 6th floor, you would have seen me leaning against my office window, forlorn, waiting for you.
But you’re here now! It’s a brand new year and it feels like a fresh start. It’s why I love LAUNCH and Langone LAB: It’s not just for you MBA1s and new Langone students – it lets us as an administration revisit our vision for the Stern.…
In Memory of Kyle Cunningham, Director of OSE
Kyle Cunningham, our friend and the Senior Director of OSE whom we lost this past summer, is virtually impossible to describe in such a limited space.
In sixteen years and across multiple departments, Kyle built genuine relationships with literally thousands of current and former students. Everyone seemed to have a story about Kyle, from a DBi halfway around the world to the backstage fiesta at TSDL (Think Social Drink Local). Kyle was somebody you wanted to share your news with – your victories and your tragedies—because he was genuinely interested in connecting. His fundamental character traits were those you would find in your closest friends: loyal, protective, funny, and a tremendous travel companion.…
Uber Revs Up the Automated Labor Market
Keith Riegert, Co-Editor-in-Chief
This month, ride-sharing mega-app, Uber, is introducing a novel way to hail a ride-a car. . . sans driver. The company will roll out a fleet of approximately 100 fully automated Volvo SUVs on the streets of Pittsburg. For tech aficionados and futurists, the rapid implementation of this cutting-edge machinery is thrilling. But for drivers in Uber’s broad U.S. workforce, the rollout is more of a loud warning shot. It’s also important to make a note that there is a bigger chance (potentially), that accidents are more likely to happen. If you are every involved in an uber accident then you need to get a lawyer involved.…
The Hardest Question
Anne Gregory, Co-Editor-in-Chief
As of last Tuesday, my classmates and I are back in the thick of courses for our second year at the NYU Stern School of Business. The terms “leadership” and “teamwork” surface constantly, and our syllabi are built around the drivers of success in a global economy. Yet international partnerships are beginning to show signs of strain: geopolitical discord is high, and nationalist themes are surfacing across the globe as terrorism, wealth disparity, and climate spasms become ever more visible. At the same time, technology is bridging nations with extraordinary speed, and yet many are rushing to close their doors to the rapid pace of globalization.…
NYU’s Paul Romer Named Chief Economist of World Bank
Jason Scharf, Contributing Writer
This month, Professor Paul Romer moves from NYU Stern School of Business to begin his tenure as Chief Economist at the World Bank, headquartered in Washington D.C. Since 2010, Professor Romer has taught economics at Stern, where he founded the NYU Stern Urbanization Project—focusing on policy reform and economic growth in major cities. Prior to coming to Stern, Professor Romer, who holds a B.S. in mathematics and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, taught at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Created in 1944 alongside the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank seeks to end extreme poverty by providing loans to developing countries.…