Leadership Lessons from Stew Leonard Jr.
My Leadership Group and I get together every other month to keep each other updated on our progress in the different aspects of our lives (career, family, personal, and health). We highly trust each other and are comfortable showing vulnerability, presenting personal issues and ask for advice and support. Last week we were very fortunate […]
Student Report: Joy on Demand
By Munashe Makava, 2nd Year LDP The Joy on Demand workshop was an extension of the mindfulness training we went through last year. Last year’s training gave us exercises to do daily to exercise our minds, based on focusing attention on a chosen object. Joy on Demand on the other hand incorporated that training as […]
Student Report: A Meeting with Colgate-Palmolive CEO Ian Cook
By Anne Gregory, 2nd Year LDP On June 28th, myself and 14 other Colgate-Palmolive (CP) interns were welcomed to the 11th floor for a lunch with our CEO: Ian M Cook. The space, aptly titled the Palmolive Room, was immaculately kept: from the tri-folded floral napkins to the printed name plates to the timing of […]
Student Report: A Presentation on the Role of Stress and Physicians with Chris Hicks, MD
By Rushabh Shah, 2nd Year LDP This summer, I returned to the med school, as part of the MD/MBA curriculum. The first rotation I had back was through NYU’s Emergency Department. On July 20th, the department invited speaker Chris Hicks, MD, to give a presentation on the role of stress and physicians while treating patients in […]
Student Report: Fireside Chat with Triller Marketing Director Dan Berger
By Ariana Chapman, LDP Class of 2016 This was a fascinating meeting about how an app that helps you create your own music videos through Google. App developer David Leiberman developed Disney’s Frozen karaoke app worked with Colin Tilley who has worked on music videos for famous artists to develop an app that makes it […]
Student Report: Discussion with ABC Freeform Executives
By Ariana Chapman, LDP Class of 2016 Two executives (Revenue Partnerships and Strategy and Integrated Marketing) from ABC Freeform about the company’s name change from ABC Family, a channel for television and movies targeting “Becomers” generation (14-21 year-olds addressing the question “Who are you becoming?”). The channel came to the realization that they were no […]
Student Report: A Conversation with Justice Sotomayor
By Natasha Go, LDP Class of 2016 Photo from LATimes.com After attending NYU Law’s February event, “A Conversation with Justice Sotomayor,” featuring Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a NYC native and one of my personal heroes, I was inspired to seek truth in the small decisions I make every day. Justice Sotomayor talked with Professor Steve Sussman […]
Student Report: Tom Szaky
By Nicole Andrew, LDP Class of 2016 Photo from news.com.au Tom Szaky came and spoke to the class about establishing and growing his firm TerraCycle, now a global recycling company. Tom described how he founded the startup and came to commercialize his idea to package fertilizer in used soda bottles. The most inspiring part of Tom’s […]
Student Report: A Talk with Gary Sernovitz
By Suranga Samarakoon, LDP Class of 2016 On March 29th, 2016, the Stern Energy Club Invited Gary Sernovitz, Author of The Green and the Black, to be a guest speaker on the social and economic implications of the US shale revolution. In a matter of a few years, the United States has gone from an importer […]
Student Report: A Negotiation with Olaf de Bakker and Robert Maguire
By Vijay Nori, LDP Class of 2016 The discussion featured high stress negotiations where both buyer and seller are pushing hard on a single lever – price of the good in opposite directions. Buyer pitch In any negotiation, understanding the true purpose of the counterparty is important. This becomes doubly important when the counterparty is an agent. In […]
Student Report: A Fireside Chat with Tommy Kail
By Katherine Ressmeyer, Stacey Han, and Jarrod Burke Managerial Skills professor Dolly Chugh invited Tommy Kail, the Director of Broadway-hit Hamilton, to speak at Stern on Monday, March 28. Beyond touching on his impressive resume, which in addition to Hamilton includes In the Heights and Grease Live!, Kail spoke about the role leadership plays in the theater. As the director, he is […]
Student Report: Take the Lead
By Katherine Ressmeyer Gloria Feldt, the former CEO of Planned Parenthood and co-founder of Take the Lead, spoke on Monday as part of SWIB’s women’s week. After speaking to her growth trajectory at Planned Parenthood, where she worked for 30 years, she shared her insight into women in the corporate world. Feldt said the largest difference she […]
Student Report: Michael Lebowitz
By Munashe Makava and Jorge Fernandez-Cuervo Michael Lebowitz, Founder and CEO of Big Spaceship The event was a town hall where Michael started by telling us of changes that had taken place in the company since the time the case we studied in the Leadership in Organizations class was written. The audience then had the opportunity to […]
Student Report: Discussion with Gordon Brown
by Edouard Arbellot de Vacqueu, LDP Class of 2016 I had the privilege to attend Gordon Brown’s talk on September 30. Considering his preeminent role in reforming UK’s economy during his 10 year tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer, then his global leadership in helping contain the aftermath of the financial crisis as UK’s Prime […]
Student Report: NYU Leadership Week 2015 Panel
by Rushi Hazaray, LDP2 Student & Dual Degree MBA/MPA Rushi Hazaray, a second year LDI Student & Dual Degree MBA/MPA recently had the opportunity to attend a NYU Leadership Week 2015 panel on leadership development as part of her studies at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. The panelists were: – Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla, Director, The Ghanian […]