Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, our weekly look at MBA student news papers to better understand the vibrant student life at MBA campuses across the US. This week we’ll travel to New York City, using The Stern Opportunity to see what’s going on at NYU’s MBA program.
Earlier this month Stern students had the chance to attend the Government Business Association’s “Regulating the Financial Markets” event, a panel discussion aimed at exploring the causes of and solutions to the financial crisis. Both Professor Eric Dinallo, former New York State Insurance Commissioner, and Frank Kelly, leader of Government Affairs and the Investment Advisory group at Deutsche Bank, offered their thoughts about how government regulation could solve this situation, as both men are involved in Congress’s current discussions about financial regulatory reforms. After Dinallo and Kelly gave speeches, audience members questioned the experts on topics such as rating agency regulations and executive compensation caps.
The Stern Campus Green Initiative and Stern facilities workers recently partnered with the NYU Recycling Program, and together these groups made the campus more “green”: the Kaufman Management Center now has single stream recycling, in which paper, plastic, metal, and glass can be mixed in one recycling bin. This differs from the previous system, in which the Center had separate bins for each material. This change was made to help the Stern community recycle more easily and thus make the campus more environmentally sustainable.
In late January, Stern will host its first-ever “Case Co-opetition,” an invitation-only event in which second-year MBA students from Stern, Columbia, Chicago Booth, Harvard, Kellogg, and Wharton will compete for a $4,000 prize. The event will begin with a welcome reception in which the student participants will participate in team development activities led by Madison Avenue executives and senior level management from the event’s sponsor, Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA). Teams of four students will then spend 48 hours developing a marketing strategy for MBUSA, with access to marketing, consulting, and luxury brand advisors throughout the process. After the ideas are judged by MBUSA managers, management consultants, and professors, teams may also be selected to implement their winning strategies with MBUSA after the competition.
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