City & State New York's annual Manhattan Power 100 list highlights the executives, founders, and civic leaders who are shaping the borough's business, civic, and education landscape. The 2025 edition recognizes leadership across healthcare, technology, finance, and education — categories where workforce shortages are reshaping how employers, schools, and policymakers collaborate.
Noodle and its Scholars Network platform are among the New York–based organizations working at the intersection of higher education and employer demand: partnering with universities to grow clinical-program enrollment while connecting students to hospitals and health systems that fund their education in exchange for a work commitment.
For Scholars Network, recognition on a power list of this scope reflects the growing visibility of employer-backed education financing as a credible answer to clinical labor shortages.