Business and Organizational Studies
The courses in this pre-professional area are designed to expose students to the principles of building effective organizations, with a particular focus on the for-profit sector. Organizations can be conceptualized in many ways as a group of groups, a vehicle for creating economic value and sustainable competitive advantage, or a community of people pursuing a common mission. Each metaphor adds unique insights into the challenges and rewards of building an integrated network of people, systems, and financial resources that create economic and social capital.Study Away Opportunities
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Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship
The courses in this pre-professional area are designed to help students explore the dynamics of social innovation, organizational change, and transformative leadership with a particular focus on the not-for-profit and government sectors. Different courses expose students to the influential role that individuals can play within these sectors as entrepreneurs, analysts, policymakers, and social architects. Each perspective adds unique insights into the challenges and rewards of mobilizing people, resources, and popular sentiment to address and overcome pressing social issues.
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College of Social Science
NYU’s agreement with the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to create NYU Abu Dhabi is the outcome of a shared understanding of the essential roles and challenges of higher education in the 21st century: a common belief in the value of a liberal arts education, concurrence on the benefits a research university brings to the society that sustains it, a conviction that interaction with new ideas and people who are different is valuable and necessary, and a commitment to educating students who are true citizens of the world.
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