Newsletter - Winter 2009

Dominican Republic President Visits NYU-SCPS President Leonel Fernández of the Dominican Republic visited NYU-SCPS this past September for a private meeting at the NYU Midtown Center with Dean Robert Lapiner, Divisional Dean Anthony Davidson, and select faculty to discuss key economic and business trends and professional education programs at NYU. The SCPS Division of Programs in Business has run a well-regarded business certificate program for working executives in the Dominican Republic for nearly two years. article continues...

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CEOs Offer Insights That Can't Be Found in a Textbook

It’s a defining formula: industry lead­ers at all levels regularly serve as members of the NYU-SCPS faculty, connecting our curricula and pro­grams to the expertise and driving energy of their professional fields. And, they link our students to lifelong academic and career-enhancing net­works. CEOs who return to the class­room add a special dimension to the experience of studying at SCPS—they provide in-depth, firsthand strategic visions of their industries and the factors shaping them, and serve as inspiring examples and mentors for their students.

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Finance Faculty Turn the Global Crisis Economic Into a Learning Opportunity

The ongoing global financial crisis—the subprime lending fiasco, a painful credit crunch, and the collapse of major investment banks and multinational companies—poses interesting challenges and questions for a finance professor.

How do you train young bankers about credit risk, knowing that banks share the blame for the current situation? And where do you begin, considering that even the newest textbooks are already out of date?

Michael Oberstein, chair of the finance department in the SCPS Division of Programs in Business, says “We’ve been updating all our courses in real time, 24/7, to respond to what’s happening out there.“

 

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Three Who Took Writing Classes Write Their Own Ticket

 

• Carmen Wong Ulrich: How a How-To Writer Learned How
• Brian Harris: From Bottom Lines to Punch Lines
• Stanley N. Alpert: Kidnapped and Making the Best of It

 

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