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Posts published in October 2016

Pursuing a Doctorate at Stern

Research and Academic Exploration at Stern

Current Ph.D. Students and Alumni Reflect on Their Experiences as Part of the Stern Doctoral Program

NYU Stern’s Ph.D. Program has a community like no other. The student body, the faculty they interact with during their time at Stern, and their placements in academia and industry after departure are incomparable.  Current Stern doctoral students hail from 27 countries, have an immense variety of research and industry experience prior to their arrival, and have unparalleled perspective into the way Stern creates the bright minds that it does. Two alumni and two current students weighed in on why they decided to pursue a doctoral degree, how their experience at Stern impacted them, and what they intend to do moving forward.

Stern Sleeps Out for Homeless Youth

Stern Sleeps Out in Solidarity with NYC’s Homeless Youth

The Opportunity Staff

New York University has long celebrated the fact that New York City is its campus. Its prime location in the heart of one of the most bustling, diverse, intellectually stimulating cities in the world gives NYU students an unparalleled opportunity to make the most out of their very own backyard.

With this luxury, however, comes the responsibility to recognize the complete experience that is New York City—the good and the bad. Not all students worry about what party they’ll be attending this weekend—some worry about whether or not they’ll have shelter when the rain moving up the coast hits the city.…

The Adverse Power of MBA Recruiting

Can “Traditional Paths” Pull You Away from Your True Calling?

NYU Stern has one of the most diverse student populations amongst all the top business schools in the United States. This year’s incoming class is made up of 30% minority students and includes representatives from 40 countries. Yet despite such diversity, our student population remains quite homogenous in some respects.

This year, 36% of the incoming class arrived at Stern with either a background in finance or consulting. However, around 60% of us will graduate from Stern with a job in one of those two industries. What causes this consolidation in career trajectory?…

Too Small to Scale?

Not too Big to Fail, but maybe too Small to Scale

Despite Hobby Businesses’ Success on Platforms like Etsy, Some have Cut Off More than They can Chew

Megan Sirras, MBA Class of 2017

Last month I got into an internet flame war. Not because I posted something about the election on Facebook; it was about yarn. Yarn I didn’t receive when it was supposed to arrive despite repeated, public assurances to the contrary. This has happened before, and it usually ends in someone faking their own death.

Yarn is a billion-dollar industry and has been growing since the early 2000s; knitters started blogs and then, as the maker movement gained steam, hit Etsy, which is where this story starts to get interesting.…

A Tour through Times Square

The Manhattan Project: Famous for Being Famous

SaradraSarada Anne, MBA Class of 2017

I spent my summer in Midtown Manhattan. I took the F train to work every day and, at the end of my ten-week internship, I realized that it was definitely the worst of all the New York City Subway lines. My internship made me realize one other thing: I truly detested Times Square. It was one thing to be annoyed at people who didn’t keep up with the average pace of a Manhattan sidewalk, but to feel the sort of derision I felt for an acre of two of prime real estate?…

Settlements Indicate Bank Health

Settlement Fees as Indicators of Bank Health

Analyzing the Financial Market in the Face of Regulation and Uncertainty

charles-urwinCharles Urwin, MBA1 Managing Editor

Several weeks ago, reports emerged that the U.S. Justice Department was seeking $14 billion in settlement fees from Deutsche Bank AG. For the German bank, whose market capitalization at that time was $20 billion, a new crisis was beginning to take shape. Amid the highly public flight of hedge fund clients and the opportunistic maneuvers of short-sellers, parallels were quickly drawn to the 2008 run on Lehman Brothers. Moreover, DB had reportedly expected a settlement in line with analyst estimates of $2 – $5 billion; the capital implications of settling for a far higher amount brought back into publication the phrase “Too Big to Fail.”…

NYC vs. L.A.: Apartments

New York vs. Los Angeles. Battle: Apartments

dan-obrienDan O’Brien, MBA1 Managing Editor

Like many of you, I came here from someplace else. Before our cubbyhole in the East Village ($2,800/mo), the last place my wife and I called home was a 700 square-foot one-bedroom in LA ($1,600/mo). Oh the space we had… A bedroom with actual walls… Closets for human-sized clothes… A full bath!

More than once, when New York friends came to visit, we’d explain that, “no, we don’t have any other roommates—it’s just the two of us and the dog,” and “yes, this is most definitely a dishwasher.” The tour of our LA apartment took all of 15 seconds, which seemed like nothing, but here in New York, that’d be enough time for 3 tours and a light lunch.…

Your MBA Horoscope

Horoscopes for Sternies: November 2016

The Oppy Astrologer

Aquarius (January 20 – February 19):

Saturn is in the sky, which will cause you to doubt yourself. You will wonder if your handshake has the right amount of pressure and force. Sunday nights will be spent in front of the mirror, shaking your right hand with your left, trying to get to the bottom of it. But you won’t know if your right hand is too strong…or if your left hand is too weak.

Pisces (February 19 – March 20):

There’s no easy way to put this, Pisces. Venus is turning clockwise, which means that all your life decisions so far have been wrong.…

Don’t Tell Me What to Do

Negativity in Online Marketing may Lead Consumers to Double Down on Freedom of Choice

LBornkam HeadshotLeanna Bornkamp, VP, MBA ‘18

In the past few months I’ve seen an increasing number of passive-aggressive ads, especially online. While asking consumers to “take advantage of a one-time-only opportunity,” advertisers often make it seem like turning down these offers is a decision against our better nature.

When advertisers give us options like “sign me up!” right next to “no thanks, I don’t like to save money,” and make us choose one to get to the content we were searching for, it can seem like they are condemning our decision—which we haven’t even made yet—in a way that can guilt and, possibly, alienate us.…

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