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Stern Who?
Corporate Speak
100

The name of Stern's all encompassing online platform.

What is SternLife?

100

This financial instrument is nicknamed "junk" due to its high risk and high yield.

What is Finance? (High Yield Bonds)

100

This acronym represents the profitability ratio used to evaluate an investment's efficiency.

What is ROI?

100

This person has an auditorium named after him in UC.

Who is John Paulson?

100

This phrase means to set something aside temporarily to focus on more urgent priorities.

What is "put it on the back burner?"

200

The Rotunda Lounges are located on these floors.

What are floors 3 & 4?

200

A trading strategy named after an aquatic predator that profits by detecting massive trades before they’re executed.

What is Fiction?


200

These four companies dominate the global accounting industry.

What are Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG?

200

He started this green cleaning products company and is a professor at Stern.

Who is Jeffrey Hollender?

200

This three-word phrase describes aligning everyone’s goals and efforts to achieve a common objective.

What is "get on board?"

300

The name of the interim Dean of Stern

Who is J.P. Eggers?

300

This bizarrely named economic theory suggests that a banana shortage could lead to a banking collapse.

What is fiction?

300

This business term refers to dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers.

What is market segmentation?

300

The author of the Anxious Generation.

Who is Jonathon Haidt?

300

This phrase is often used in meetings to suggest revisiting a topic later for further discussion.

What is "circle-back?"

400

Located in the heart of New York City, this is the address of the Stern School of Business.

What is 44 West Fourth Street?

400

A real financial term, this refers to the simultaneous buying and selling of similar securities to profit from price discrepancies.

What is finance? (Answer: arbitrage)

400

This term refers to the difference between a company’s current assets and its current liabilities.

What is working capital?

400

A professor at Stern, this bestselling author wrote The Four and Adrift.

Who is Scott Galloway?

400

This phrase means to dive deeper into a specific topic or detail during a discussion or meeting.

What is "Lets Double Click?"

500

Before being named after Leonard N. Stern, this was the original name of the school.

What is the School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance?

500

The "Butterfly Effect" is a term used in finance to describe the impact of small changes in market conditions on major economic systems.

What is "fiction"? (Answer: While the Butterfly Effect is real in chaos theory, it's not a finance term.)

500

This framework analyzes industry competition through five forces, name the framework and forces.

What is Porter’s Five Forces?
Threat of new entrants, buyer power, supplier power, threat of substitutes, and competitive rivalry?

500

Like Lentils? This professor started the famous food company.

Who is Hans Taparia?

500

When you complete the easiest tasks first.

What is "low-hanging fruit?"