NYU
Courses
Becoming
You
Offered in the undergraduate, full-time MBA, part-time MBA, and Executive MBA programs at NYU Stern School of Business, “Becoming You” makes extensive use of exercises, activities, psychometric testing, research, and lectures to teach a transformational methodology that guides students through the profound, exhilarating, and sometimes surprising journey of discovery to their authentic purpose, a life and career rich with meaning. In short, “Becoming You” is designed to help students uncover the best, most thoughtful answer to the often elusive question, “What should I do with my life?”
Developing Managerial Skills
Developing Managerial Skills covers the wide, exciting, and occasionally daunting gamut of activities comprising the art, science and sheer discipline of management, covering topics including hiring, culture-building, making hard decisions, and navigating crises. Ultimately, the goal of Developing Managerial Skills to introduce the principles that allow burgeoning managers to understand their role(s) in the organization, along with the effective blocking-and-tackling practices that will allow them to unleash that knowledge for the good of their teams and organizations.
The NYU Stern | Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing
Seeking to advance the understanding, discovery, and pursuit of authentic purpose.
We are experiencing a crisis in our workplaces, where employee dissatisfaction and disengagement are at an all time high. Can management scholars, business leaders, and workplace practitioners join forces to reverse that trend?
We believe the answer is yes, and that fostering purpose and developing purposeful-work can be key solutions. Individuals across generations are searching for authentic meaning at work, and the leaders of an increasing number of organizations, faced with a retention and engagement crisis of their own, are poised to help.
So often, public discourse surrounding purpose and meaning feels disconnected from the realities of our modern workplaces and neglects contemporary scholarship on these topics. Our goal at the Initiative is to go beyond simply defining the “what” and the “why,” and hone in directly on the “how.” How might we bridge the gap between proven strategies and current practices?
To that end, the Initiative focuses on three main pillars of pursuit:
Program development: Creating curricular materials for both academic and organizational settings that can be used to support and guide individuals as they seek to discover their authentic selves and most fulfilling career paths.
Conferences and events: Organizing large and small gatherings where scholars and business professionals can discuss contemporary issues around meaning, identity, work, career formation, and employee care and engagement.
Research, publications, and outreach: Supporting a public profile for IPF’s work across various platforms, from academic journals, to op-eds, to podcasts, in hopes of widening and deepening the public conversation around purpose and flourishing.
