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Published: December 25, 2014

NYU Stern School of Business Volatility Institute Opens Extension at NYU Shanghai

A new extension of the Volatility Institute at New York University Stern School of Business is now open at NYU Shanghai, in the heart of Liujiazui, Shanghai’s financial center. Operating in close partnership with Stern’s Volatility Institute, the Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai (VINS) is designed to provide opportunities for researchers focused on Chinese markets specifically, as well as financial markets around the world. Part of its aim is to facilitate collaboration and community-building between market participants and academic researchers within the region and beyond. The NYU Stern Volatility Institute—established in 2009 by Stern Professor Robert Engle, a Nobel Laureate and volatility expert—was created to drive research on risks in global financial markets. Engle will also direct the VINS, with generous support from the Pudong Institute of Finance. Read more

Published: October 22, 2014

U.S. News & World Report Ranks Business Schools by Graduates’ Indebtedness

Rankings of graduate management education programs abound, each with their own particular criteria for assessing which business schools ultimately come out on top. Separate from its overall business school rankings, U.S. News & World Report recently used data collected from schools to determine the top 10 programs from which MBA students graduate with the most debt. The number one spot goes to Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where full-time MBA students from the 2013 class who borrowed for business school had an average indebtedness of $108,186. Fuqua’s full-time MBA students had more debt than any of the other 86 ranked institutions, according to data submitted to U.S. News. Read more

Published: September 24, 2014

Admissions Director Q&A: Isser Gallogly of New York University’s Stern School of Business

Isser Gallogly, assistant dean of MBA admissions at New York University’s Stern School of Business, understands the MBA and its potential for changing people’s lives first hand. “I am on my third career,” he told us in an interview. He worked in banking after college and then returned to business school to obtain an MBA as part of a career shift toward marketing. After almost a decade working for Unilever and Loreál, he decided to shift again toward education and academia. “I know how much an MBA has changed my life both personally and professionally, and helping others on that journey seemed to me to be a very gratifying job opportunity,” he said. Read more

Published: September 15, 2014

NYU Stern School of Business Names New Head of Career Services

The New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business late last month appointed Roxanne Hori to serve as its associate dean of corporate relations, career services and leadership. Hori joins Stern from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she led career management and corporate partnership for many years. In her newly created role at Stern, Hori will be charged with building and managing corporate relationships to support career development for the school’s MBA students and alumni. “As new industries emerge and grow, redefining the nature of the workplace and creating new means of value, it is essential that we identify and build strong relationships with the leading companies of the 21st century,” NYU Stern Dean Peter Henry said in a statement. “Roxanne Hori, with her proven record of leadership in both corporate and university roles, is well positioned to establish crucial links among our students, alumni and corporations.” Read more

Published: July 14, 2014

Coding Finds Its Way Into Top Business School Curriculums

Harvard Business School (HBS) plans to offer a computer programming elective within the next couple of years, and other top business schools may be moving in the same direction as more companies seek MBAs with strong technical skills, according to a recent report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Paul Gompers, who chairs the MBA elective curriculum at HBS, notes that MBA students there have formed coding clubs or head across to Harvard’s Cambridge campus to take introductory computer science, but that a course specifically tailored to business students is needed at the school. “This is the changing nature of the workforce, and this is what our graduates are going on to be doing in the next five to 10 to 20 years,” Gompers told Bloomberg BW. Read more

Published: April 29, 2014

NYU Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3/ Adcom / On-Campus

Please see below for the sort of questions I was asked in my interview: 1. A little bit about my career decisions and what I enjoy the most/least at work. 2. A time I received constructive criticism and how this has helped me progress. 3. Why an MBA? 4. Why Stern? 5. My future goals and my connection to Nigeria 6. Where I would like to intern? 7. What would I consider doing if my plans don’t work out? 8. What am I the go-to person for? And then we had time for questions at the end. The interview was Read more

Published: April 28, 2014

NYU Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions / Round 2 / Adcom / Off-Campus

I opted to interview off-campus. Stern bunches up all the offsite candidates from various rounds and conducts the interview around Mid-March. My interview date was the 15th of March. The location for the interview was the business lounge in a 5 star hotel , located in the heart of Delhi. I reached around 30 mins. before my scheduled time. Another candidate was going through his interview. When my turn came, the Adcom officer walked out of the conference room to meet me. After a minute of initial conversation he offered me was a NYU t-shirt. Then he introduced himself and Read more

Published: March 31, 2014

NYU Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus

My interview was on-campus, and I arrived one hour before my scheduled time as I was worried about getting late. There were other students too who came there for the interview. The interview atmosphere was not as tense as I thought it would be and the interviewer talked nicely and professionally. The interview went pretty fine and it took almost half an hour. I was asked these questions: * I was asked to tell briefly about my educational history. * Then I was asked why am I going for NYU Stern. * Then he asked if I considered Read more

Published: March 30, 2014

NYU Stern School of Business Appoints Alumnus as New Dean of MBA Students

Conor Grennan, an alumnus of New York University’s Stern School of Business, will become the school’s dean of students for the MBA program effective tomorrow, the school announced today. In his new role, Grennan will serve as a liaison between the Stern’s administration and its more than 2,500 full-time and Langone MBA students. Before attending Stern’s full-time MBA program, Grennan founded non-governmental organization (NGO) Next Generation Nepal, which has rescued approximately 500 trafficked children in post-war Nepal and reconnected them with their families. While at Stern, he wrote Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal, a New York Times best-selling book chronicling motivations for and experiences with his NGO. Grennan earned his MBA from Stern in 2010 and served as president of the student body during his second year there. Read more

Published: March 27, 2014

NYU Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub

I reached the interview site early and was ushered in 10 minutes before the scheduled interview time as I was the first candidate being interviewed. The interview lasted 30 minutes and was pretty informal–more of a conversation than an interview. The interviewer seemed to know about my goals and was looking to gain greater perception about my motivations/interests. 1. How did you come about securing a job just after graduation (undergrad)? Tell me a bit about your education. 2. How did you come to know of your second job? What factors made you take it up? 3. Why do Read more

Published: March 10, 2014

Harvard, Stanford, Wharton Tie for First in U.S. News Business School Rankings

U.S. News & World Report released its annual rankings of the best graduate schools, and a familiar cast of characters topped the list of top business schools, though with a few minor shifts. The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania sashayed up from third place up to tie for first with Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business gained some ground as well, moving up from the No. 6 spot last year to No. 4 this year. Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, meanwhile, dipped – sliding into the No. 6 spot vacated by Chicago Booth. MIT’s Sloan School of Management, which tied with Kellogg for fourth last year, also slipped, falling to fifth place. Read more

Published: February 16, 2014

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / On-Campus

I interviewed as part of Stern’s Spotlight on Women in Business/Stern’s Women in Business Conference. The first day included a half hour interview with an admissions representative (she was actually a member of Stern’s Office of Career Development who also happened to be a Stern alumna) followed by a coffee chat, Stern Stories: a panel of women discussing their experiences at Stern, evening reception (chance to mingle with fellow interviewees and meet faculty, current students and admissions members), and a ticket to Stern’s weekly Beer Blast. The interview was relatively low pressure: 1) Why Stern? 2) Walk through Read more

Published: February 9, 2014

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus

I arrived to campus a day before to take the 04:00 PM tour – this was was very important. Next day the interview was at 9:30AM in the Adcom office. Very informal, no behavioural questions at all. Just a nice conversation, first about my trip to the US just for the interview, the snow, etc. Then: 1. Why do your MBA in New York City? (about the city.. not the school) 2. As an international, how would I find a job in the field that I want? 3. Ok, but why will they hire you Read more

Published: December 2, 2013

New York University Names New Global Research Professor to Teach at Stern School of Business

Political scientist and foreign policy expert Ian Bremmer has been named a Global Research Professor at New York University (NYU) and will teach at NYU ’s Stern School of Business, the school announced today. Bremmer is president and founder of Eurasia Group, which provides political risk analysis to financial, corporate and government clients. In his new role, he will teach courses at Stern on the intersection between political science and business. He will also organize lectures and seminars at both the business school and the Center for Global Affairs at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Read more

Published: October 27, 2013

$10 Million Alumni Gift Creates New Scholarship Program for College Seniors at NYU’s Stern School of Business

New York University (NYU)’s Stern School of Business has received a $10 million gift from an alumnus to establish a new scholarship program supporting exceptional college seniors seeking to pursue their MBA at Stern directly following graduation. William R. Berkley, chairman of the NYU Stern Board of Overseers and vice chairman of the NYU Board of Trustees, pursued his MBA at Harvard Business School immediately upon graduating with a Bachelor of Science from NYU in 1966. With the creation of this new scholarship program, named in his honor, he hopes to create opportunities for other graduating seniors who want to proceed directly on to business school. “At 20 years old, I had big ideas and I was incredibly eager to get started. I knew the tools of an MBA would be essential, and I had no time to lose,” Berkley said in a statement. “I had the rare opportunity to pursue my passion at a young age, and we want to bring to Stern the brightest students in the world who are ready to do the same.” Read more

Published: September 18, 2013

Clear Admit Career Services Director Q&A: Pamela Mittman, NYU Stern School of Business

Next up in our Career Services Director Q&A Series is Pamela Mittman, assistant dean of career services and leadership development at NYU Stern School of Business. An alumna of NYU Stern’s full-time MBA program, Mittman brings both a student and alumni perspective to the role. Before joining Stern as an administrator more than 10 years ago, she worked in consulting and financial services. In her current role at NYU Stern, she oversees career services and leadership development for all MBA students. In answering our questions, Mittman helps to describe the very personalized career development process students will encounter at NYU Stern, including a special program known as IGNITE, which begins as soon as students arrive on campus. She also urges students to give careful thought to their personal brand, even when it comes to casual postings on social media pages. Check out more of what she has to say… Read more

Published: September 17, 2013

NYU Stern School of Business Launches New Event Series for Prospective Applicants

New York University’s Stern School of Business this month will launch a new series of events designed to connect prospective MBA applicants with Stern faculty and provide a glimpse of the Stern MBA experience. “The Future of Business” event series will kick off on Saturday, September 28th, at 10 a.m. with a panel discussion on financial services and real estate. Three Stern professors – former investment banker Charles Murphy, Stern Center for Real Estate Finance Research Director Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Robert Whitelaw, chair of Stern’s finance department – will speak in a TED-talk format, after which participants will have a chance to mingle with admissions officers and students from Stern’s full-time MBA, Langone MBA for Working Professionals and Executive MBA programs. Read more

Published: July 22, 2013

U.S. News Ranks 10 Full-Time MBA Programs That Lead to Highest Student Debt

As part of its Short List series, U.S. News & World Report today took a closer look at the student debt load incurred by full-time MBA students graduating from top business school programs. According to data provided by schools as part of its annual ranking, U.S. News found that full-time MBA graduates in 2012 emerged with an average of $49,619 in debt. At the 10 schools where graduates incurred the most student debt, the average per student was $97,154. Graduates of New York University’s Stern School of Business top the list in terms of average debt. There, the average graduate has a debt load of $105,782. Six figure debt is also the norm for graduates from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, U.S. News reports. Read more

Published: May 13, 2013

NYU Stern School of Business Dean Bowls, Publishes

In the midst of leading one of the top MBA programs in the world, Dean Peter Blair Henry of New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business somehow also finds time both to publish and to unwind with students. A recent tweet from the school (#Stern2013) leads to photos of Henry just after he’s released a bowling ball down the lane. While scores aren’t revealed, he has the look of a cranker with a smooth delivery. Let’s just say, he didn’t throw a powder puff. Besides offering up an opportunity to show off their bowling lingo, MBA Bowling Night 2013 also gave Stern students a chance to unwind and celebrate the final weeks before graduation with both Dean Henry and Stern President John Sexton. Check out the slideshow for yourself. Read more

Published: March 28, 2013

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / AdCom / Off-Campus Hub

I had my interview off-campus. To tell youthe truth I was pretty nervous. I reaced 15 min before time hoping to hang around and get used to the atmosphere, but I never got the chance. As soon as I reached I was handed a folder with my interests. Thanks to all the reviews I knew what to expect in this part. As I was the first candidate being interviewed that day the Adcom came right out to meet me and I was ushered in before the scheduled time. It was a very relaxed affair all in all. Once we got Read more

Published: March 10, 2013

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alumnus / On Campus

I had my interview during Diversity Connect with an alumnus, which I know is unusual for NYU, so I really wanted to share my experience. I will say, expecting to interview with an adcomm member meant that I prepared wrong for this interview. (About half of the Diversity Connect folks interviewed with the adcomm, the other half with alumnus that the adcomm had carefully matched us with.) The alumnus still had all of my information and had read my full application. However, the answers she was looking for were totally different – I had professors names and course names to Read more

Published: February 27, 2013

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1/Adcom/On-campus

These are the questions they asked me. 1. Tell me about yourself? 2. What do you feel is the weakest aspect of your resume? 3. Which achievement are you most proud of? 4. Is Stern your first choice? If you are admitted to other schools, what criteria your decision will be based on? 5. What’s the main difference between your current position and your goals? Why do you think you are ready for an MBA at this moment of your career? 6. What programs have made you interested in Stern? And what clubs will you Read more

Published: February 27, 2013

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / On campus

I interviewed with a “senior associate admissions director.” The conversation is very friendly. She took very few notes (which at the time to me could be good or bad). She definitely knows my application from inside out. When we sat down she smiled and said “so you play the guitar?” (She was referring to part of my essay 3). “When/how did you start and what kind of songs do you play?” Then the interview moved to real business: Tell me about how you ended up at your current role (job)? What’s your post-MBA career goal? How is your Read more

Published: February 25, 2013

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1/Adcom/On-campus

I had my interview in New York. I live in Europe, so travelled to NY for the interview the day before. At 11.00 am on the day, I was greeted by the receptionist and given a Stern T-shirt and an information pack. My interviewer was one of the admissions directors . She was quite friendly and had clearly read my application materials really well. She started off with an informal question from my ‘creative essay’ – I had written about my hobbies and then moved on to the following more formal questions: 1. What made you switch to your current Read more

Published: February 19, 2013

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / On campus

I interviewed at Stern as part of Women’s Interview Day. Before the interview, the entire group of prospective students gathered around banquet tables where we had the opportunity to ask current students questions. Everyone was very friendly and informative, yet casual. We were then led into the interview reception area, where our individual interviewers greeted us one-by-one. My interviewer was a member of the admissions committee, however some of the women I talked to were interviewed by people in the financial aid office, career development office, etc. My interviewer was already well versed in my application, and she used the Read more

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CLASS SIZE: 352

Women: 47%

MEAN GMAT: 733

MEAN GPA: 3.64

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December 21, 2024 12:13pm ET

Applying: Dartmouth / Tuck, Northwestern / Kellogg, UPenn / Wharton, UT Austin / McCombs, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Military/Corporate Logistics

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey

GRE: 302

GPA: 3.63

Years of Work Experience: 9

Notes:

Submitting for R2, but retaking GRE after application deadline. Military Vet with Corporate experience.

December 20, 2024 5:17pm ET

Applying: Columbia, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Healthcare

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG

GRE: 332

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: Florida

Post MBA Location: Consulting

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25F, lgbtq, 3 years as a registered nurse. also have started working for an early stage VC in the past several months.

December 19, 2024 4:44pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Insurance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Entrepreneurship

GRE: 318

GPA: 3.59

Years of Work Experience: 3.5

Location: Georgia

Post MBA Location: Southeast

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Looking to launch a tech startup post MBA, without any background in tech. Come from a quant heavy background and undergraduate coursework. I regularly attended admissions events, in person and online at my schools. I hope that focusing energy on my few top schools and spending a lot of time on essays will help me overcome the less than average test score (164 quant 154 verbal) and GPA.

Serial entrepreneur with a history of profitable small businesses. Was promoted twice in 3.5 years. Involved in many extracurricular activities in and outside of work. My background is very centered around financial services/insurance, is this a red flag for a pivot to Tech Entrepreneurship?

Transferred between two state schools in the southeast. School I graduated from is a top 25 undergrad business program. Obtained a few professionals designations post grad.

December 18, 2024 11:38am ET

Applying: Michigan / Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Held various positions in Finance and Accounting in a healthcare institution

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Other Companies: BCG , Deloitte , Other

GPA: 3.0

Years of Work Experience: 11

Location: International

Notes:

I am passionate about healthcare enhancing patient quality care. So exploring in that field is what I would love. Got a 72k scholarship from Vandy and named Forte Fellow. UNC 50k. I'm having a hard time deciding though my heart is leaning towards Owen

December 18, 2024 10:23am ET

Applying: Arizona State / W.P. Carey, Indiana / Kelley, Ohio State / Fisher

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Facility management

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting

GRE: 309

GPA: 2.8

Years of Work Experience: 3

Notes:

Graduate GPA -3.869

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December 21, 2024 8:37am ET

Accepted to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on December 11, 2024

GMAT: 675

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

December 21, 2024 2:38am ET

Waitlisted at Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on December 10, 2024

GPA: 3.27

GMAT: 760

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: CA

December 20, 2024 11:16pm ET

Accepted to Babson / Olin

Round: Round 1

Received via email on December 17, 2024

GPA: 3.9

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: South Asia

December 20, 2024 7:50pm ET

Accepted to Columbia

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on December 10, 2024

GMAT: 750

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: India

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$100k scholarship

December 20, 2024 3:21pm ET

Accepted to Yale SOM

Round: Round 1

Received via email December 20, 2024

GPA: 4.0

GMAT: 750

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

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100% scholarship

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