Edward Altman  
Professor of Finance
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Director of Research in Credit and Debt Markets, Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions

Professor Altman has an international reputation as an expert on corporate bankruptcy, high yield bonds, distressed debt and credit risk analysis. He has been a consultant to several government agencies, major financial and accounting institutions and industrial companies and has lectured to executives around the globe. He was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame and the Turnaround Management Association's Turnaround, Restructuring and Distressed Investing Industry Hall of Fame.

William Baumol
Professor of Economics; Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship
Academic Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
PhD, University of London

Professor Baumol's honors and awards include 10 honorary degrees, the presidency of the American Economic Association and membership in the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous books and articles, and won the 2005 International Antonio Feltrinelli Prize, Italy's highest cultural and scientific award.

Adam Brandenburger 
JP Valles Professor of Business Economics and Strategy
PhD, Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Professor Brandenburger is a leading game theorist, business strategist and former professor at the Harvard Business School. One of Stern's most popular professors, he teaches Business Strategy and Game Theory and Business Strategy. He was voted NYU Stern MBA Professor of the Year in 2006.

C. Samuel Craig
Catherine and Peter Kellner Professor in Entrepreneurship and Arts and Media Management
Deputy Chair, Marketing Department
Director, Entertainment, Media and Technology Program
PhD, 1971, Ohio State University

Professor Craig teaches courses in advertising management, marketing management, and courses in the entertainment, media and technology initiative. He has been with NYU Stern for more than 25 years. His primary research areas of interest include advertising strategy, the entertainment industry, international marketing and marketing strategy.

"If you crave excitement, change, diversity, then Stern is for you. What you'll find here is a great education in an atmosphere where everything is dynamic. Stern is a great preparation for a dynamic and chaotic real world."

Aswath Damodaran
Professor of Finance; David Margolis Teaching Fellow
PhD, UCLA

Robert Engle 
Michael Armellino Professor of the Management of Financial Services
PhD, Cornell University

Professor Engle is a 2003 Nobel Prize winner in Economics. He is an expert in time series analysis with a long-time interest in the analysis of financial markets. His research has produced such innovative statistical methods as ARCH (for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize), cointegration, band spectrum regression, and, most recently, common features. "Anybody who is tracking the risks they are taking [in financial markets]," says Harvard professor John Campbell, "owes a real intellectual debt to Rob Engle."

Watch a profile of Professor Engle on CNBC.

Tülin Erdem
Professor of Marketing
PhD, University of Alberta

Professor Erdem’s research interests include advertising, brand management and equity, consumer choice, customer relationship management, decision-making under uncertainty, econometric modeling and pricing. Before joining NYU Stern, she was the E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Marketing at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. She is currently serving as the President of INFORMS Marketing Society and as the Research Director of the Center for Digital Economy Research (CeDER) at Stern.

Scott Galloway  
Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing 
MBA, University of California, Berkeley

Professor Galloway teaches Brand Strategy to second-year MBA students. He founded Red Envelope, considered the premier Internet-based branded consumer gift retailer. In 1992, Professor Galloway founded Prophet, a brand strategy consultancy, that employs over 100 professionals in the US, Europe and Asia. Scott was elected to the World Economic Forum’s “Global Leaders of Tomorrow” which recognizes 100 individuals under the age of forty “whose accomplishments have had impact on a global level.”

Alvin Lieberman
Clinical Professor of Marketing
Executive Director, Entertainment, Media and Technology Program
MBA, New York University

Professor Lieberman teaches several courses, including The Marketing of Entertainment Industries, Global Impact of Entertainment, The Business of Producing, Sports Marketing and The Craft & Commerce of Cinema. He previously served as Executive Vice President of Young and Rubicam Direct Response Division. He then joined Simon and Schuster as World-Wide Director of Marketing and became Executive Vice President of the company’s Silhouette Books division. He was also the founder and CEO of Grey Entertainment, an advertising and marketing company whose client roster included Warner Brothers Studios, ABC Entertainment, News American Corp. and Harper Collins Publishers.

Eitan Muller
Professor of Marketing
PhD, Northwestern University

Professor Muller is a major figure in the field of marketing. In addition to his position on the Stern faculty, he holds the Nathan Galvaston Chair in Hi-Tech Marketing at the Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses mainly on managerial issues related to new product introduction. He has published numerous papers and was the recipient of the 1990 Harold H. Maynard award for his contributions to marketing theory and thought.

"One of the things that distinguishes Stern is its emphasis on international issues. And it's not just in the Global Business specialization. It's across the board. Stern students get all of the technical background they could possibly want, but they are also getting the big picture of how the global macroeconomy really works."

Nouriel Roubini
Associate Professor of Economics and International Business
PhD, Harvard University

Thomas Sargent
William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business
PhD, Harvard University

A leader in the field of macroeconomics, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, former professor of economics at Stanford University, and adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

"I always know that a class has gone well if I've learned something as well. That means to me that there's an exchange going on, that the students are fully engaged. There's also a great community among Stern students that makes them fun to be around. I like to get to know them and for them to get to know me as a teacher and as a person."

Joel Steckel
Professor of Marketing
PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Sheila Wellington 
Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations
MA, Yale University

Professor Wellington, former president of Catalyst, the premier nonprofit research and advisory organization dedicated to women's issues in the workplace, joins Stern to teach "Women in Business Leadership". Unique to NYU Stern among all U.S. graduate business schools, this seminar explores the legal, political and economic frameworks that shape a woman's business environment.

Russell Winer
William H. Joyce Professor of Marketing; Chair, Marketing Department
Acting Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
Co-Director, Center for Digital Economy Research; Deputy Dean
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

Dean Winer teaches Marketing Concepts to Stern students and recently published Marketing Management, an acclaimed MBA textbook.