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Stern Faculty Spotlight Presents: Professor Michael Dickstein

This month’s Stern Faculty Spotlight features Dr. Michael Dickstein, Assistant Professor of Economics. He teaches Healthcare Markets to MBAs, specializes in healthcare economics, and more recently has focused his research on the design of health insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act. During this pandemic, society has recognized the importance of healthcare access, supply, and demand. It is an intricate system to understand, and this makes what Professor Dickstein studies and teaches so pertinent. His impactful research and nuanced knowledge of the healthcare system led him to be listed in Poets & Quants as Best 40-Under-40 Professors this year.

I am in Professor Dickstein’s Healthcare Markets class this semester (as well as what feels like the entire Stern Healthcare Association board).…

OppySpotlight: Roy Paul & Cents Ability

The Oppy’s Spotlight Series exposes Sternies to writers, artists, and causes outside of our typical professional networks. This month’s article highlights Roy Paul, Executive Director of Cents Ability, a financial literacy organization.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. 

Roy and I sat down (virtually) in April and had a wide-ranging conversation about financial literacy: why it’s not taught in schools, what common misconceptions it has, and how Cents Ability is helping. Roy’s enthusiasm was palpable in his colorful storytelling. The Jackson Five house in Gary, Indiana makes an appearance. So sit down and learn more about this fascinating topic; at the end, we tell you how to get involved.…

Co-Presidents of Stern Follies Stoke Excitement for May 7th Show

What: Stern Follies 2021 — A Lad In B-School

When: May 7th: 8pm – 10pm ET

Where: Register on Campus Groups — link for show to follow.

With less than a month until Stern Follies 2021, David Granik and Morgan Salvan, the Co-Presidents of Stern Follies and graduating MBA students, are hard at work to put the final touches on one of the largest annual events of the year.

Normally held in front of a live audience of 700-800 in NYU’s Skirball Center, this year will follow the format of last spring — livestreamed online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show has been a long time coming for the duo.…

Amplifying Voices: A Candid Conversation about Intersectionality

By Laura Gigliotti

On November 30th, the NYU Stern Women in Business (SWIB) Alumnae Group, in partnership with the Black & Latinx and LGBTQ+ Alumni Groups, hosted a virtual panel discussion about intersectionality. The panel was moderated by Tolu Odunsi, assistant dean for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at the University at Buffalo School of Law, whose research and areas of interest include critical race theory. Panelists included Sabrina McCoy Griffin (BS 1980), senior consultant, Diversity & Inclusion, Jennifer Brown Consulting, Yesi Morillo Gual (NYU MS 2016) diversity & inclusion strategist, Proud To Be Latina and Yemaya, a recent graduate of Morehouse College and author of the forthcoming book, Resurgens: Becoming the Phoenix.…

Follies Spotlight: The Showrunners, Morgan Salvan and David Granik

How did you guys get into the performing arts/theatre? 

Morgan: I don’t know that I really have had a formal foray into the performing arts/theatre, but I did work in advertising before Stern, where I cast and produced a few commercials. Additionally, I used to work as a camp counselor and would write the lyrics to end of year parody songs for an annual event that would take place. Does a bunch of Jewish kids singing songs with inside jokes as the focal point count as performing arts?

David: I spent the 10 years before Stern working in the TV industry, most recently doing comedy development at CBS, so I have a lot of experience reading and critiquing other people’s scripts – though we can all agree nothing on CBS is actually funny.…

Follies Spotlight: Jasmine and Aladdin

Tell us about yourselves! Where are you from and what brought you to Stern?

Ketriel: I’m from New Orleans originally. A real Horatio Alger story. I overhead some MBA students partying on Bourbon that Follies was the greatest thing that they’d ever seen and from there, my life’s path was set.

Lesley: I’m from Hawaii and Texas, and I lived in Washington, D.C., before coming to Stern. I always knew I’d pursue an MBA, and I was drawn to the career opportunities in New York.

When and how did your passion for theatre/ performing arts begin?

Ketriel: Once I was told that I could horde attention, there was basically no way that I wouldn’t sign up.…

Follies Spotlight: Mary Kate Pedro as Genie

How did your career in entertainment begin and how have your goals evolved over the years?

My first job after college was as a production assistant on Grown Ups 2 where my date to the wrap party accidentally pushed Adam Sandler, so my career could really only go up from there. An early boss of mine discovered that I could understand the financial side of the film’s purchases (aka play with Excel), and so I worked as a production accountant from then on for almost 8 years before coming to Stern. I’ve tried to spend my MBA building my strategic tool kit as well as learning more about the entertainment industry outside of production, so I’ve had internships in business development for a small production company led by a Stern alum and in streaming operations on the Paramount+ team for ViacomCBS.…

Follies Spotlight: Nick Foster

Tell us about yourself! Where are you from and what brought you to Stern?

I grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, a small town in Westchester right outside of New York City and then went to Kenyon College in Ohio. After graduating with a double major in Music and Political Science, I moved back to New York and pursued a career as a professional singer, producer, and semi-professional fantasy sports player (code for me supporting my music and borderline making a living via DraftKings). For my solo singing, I specialized in the genre of “Whatever I Could Get Paid To Sing” and frequently performed at venues like Carnegie Hall and 54 Below as well as on some TV programs.…

B-school Newspaper Coalition: Chicago Booth’s ChiBus

This year, The Oppy started to reach out to other business school newspapers around the country to get a sense of how they’re running their papers. After meeting with several editor-in-chiefs from MBA programs, we are excited to announce we will be forming a coalition with a small but hopefully growing group of top graduate business schools. We are planning to partner up for future events and feature students from our partner schools, starting with the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth’s MBA newspaper the ChiBus, Vikram Venkat.

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Vikram: ChiBus is the newspaper of The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.…

Meet the Incoming LSG Co-Presidents!

By Courtney Ferguson & Dana Jones

After over a year of Zoom breakout rooms, socially-distanced coffee chats, and reminding professors to start the recording, Langone students can see the light at the end of this virtual learning tunnel (we hope!). As we eagerly await herd immunity and the return of a somewhat normal MBA experience, we can’t help but acknowledge the incredible ways Langone students have excelled during this time by continuing to support each other professionally and personally. This sense of community is what makes the Langone program so special, and why we can’t wait to embark on a new year as your co-presidents. …

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