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Excerpt from AFP -- "For Aswath Damodaran, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business who has researched the company's business model, Netflix's top brass 'don't want to be in the movie business. They want to be in the subscriber business.'"

Excerpt from Quartz --"'The main reason why Indian customers like it (Club Factory) is due to the very high quality of its AI and machine learning-powered recommender systems that learn user preferences very quickly and offer highly curated offers targeted at individuals,' said Ghose. 'Plus they offer cash on delivery too.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "It depends very much on whether this is going to be a full scale trade war between the US and China or not. You have a scenario in which tariffs could be mild, another one in which you could have 25% tariffs on all the trade between the US and China... The direct trade impacts are low, but then you have to consider the impact on business and consumer confidence, on CAPEX, on financial markets, potential contagion, and therefor the direct trade links are small, but the indirect ones can lead to a greater impact on the global economy."

Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "'The solution to unaffordable housing does not consist in inventing clever regulatory gimmicks or in designing massive subsidies to be paid by the taxpayer or by a few wealthy households. The answer will always consist of increasing the supply of land and floor space and removing any land and floor regulatory straight jacket,' says Alain Bertaud, one of the authors, in the report."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "'If you’re servicing the same government workers, much more localized population, then it is really about good will,” said Jason Greenberg, assistant professor of management at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'Good will matters,' he added."

Excerpt from eCampusNews -- "'We need to structure even informal online learning experiences to make sure they happen,' says Sosulski, who is the author of two books about online learning. 'If you just ask students to introduce themselves, don’t be surprised if that doesn’t happen.' She recommends making directions to students explicit rather than open-ended. But once discussions are under way, it doesn’t take much effort from the instructor to keep them going."

Excerpt from TheStreet -- "'They're taking a page out of the HBO playbook from years ago that awards matter. It's a top- down market, and the Oscars and Golden Globes create an aura of creative excellence that trickles down,' Adamson said. 'This is a really smart long-term play for Netflix.'"

Excerpt from CNN -- "By 2022, 25% of the American workforce is estimated to be comprised of workers age 55 and older, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But claims of age-based discrimination are already on the rise, says Michael North, assistant professor of management and organizations at New York University. Comparing the number of age discrimination complaints filed to the EEOC in 1999 to the number of claims now shows that the problem isn't going away."

Excerpt from Publishers Weekly -- "The National Book Critics Circle has announced 31 finalists in six categories––autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry––for the annual National Book Critic Circle Awards. This year's autobiography category has six finalists, and author Terrance Hayes is nominated in two categories, criticism and poetry."

Excerpt from WalletHub --"People who pay cash instead of using a credit card are missing out on the increasing benefits card issuers are doing out, such as 'cash back' and frequent flyer miles."

Excerpt from UPI-- "'The two things that really made it unique were the lack of any product demonstration, discussion of product features and what it could do, just the MacIntosh is coming and "1984 won't be like 1984" and the execution itself which was pretty revolutionary,' Winer told UPI. 'That was all brand new for the Super Bowl, which historically had never seen advertising with a combination of those two kinds of features.'"

Excerpt from SciDev.Net -- "Lawrence White, an economics professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, calls this work 'another sophisticated, well-researched article in a long line of research that stretches back over five decades, showing the adverse consequences of ambient air pollution —- in this case fine particulates.'"

Excerpt from Mingtiandi -- "'High housing prices misallocate resources toward real estate at the expense of the rest of the economy,' Bertaud pointed out. 'This misallocation could eventually significantly slow down economic growth and causes a housing bubble to burst, freezing investments in the entire economy. Japan, has not yet completely recovered from its asset bubble created in the 1980s.'"

Excerpt from ORF -- (translated from German using Google Translate) "Petra Moser, together with her team at New York University, is exploring what this de-facto abolition of copyright means for the distribution and use of books - and for science in general."

Excerpt from ASQ Blog -- "And I think it proved itself in the end, that I was able to see specifically in the study which labs, which R&D professionals of those labs were adopting open innovation or not. That was not something that was easy to see even for the managers, initially, because they were doing so much of talking and kind of talking the talk but not walking the walk. And I was able to see both the talk and the walk because I was in the labs. So that made a big difference."

Excerpt from Journal Sentinel -- "'Distributive bargaining is win-lose,' Freeman said in a recent interview, while making clear he was speaking generally and without political messaging. 'It’s hard bargaining, haggling, the perception that a negotiation is a zero-sum game, that the more I get, the less you get.'"

Excerpt from Chicago Booth Review -- "Giving some consumers a clean credit slate doesn’t necessarily lead to more loans overall, research suggests. And wiping the slates for some consumers can hurt others, find New York University’s Andres Liberman, Princeton’s Christopher Neilson, the Chilean Banking Association’s Luis Opazo, and Chicago Booth’s Seth Zimmerman."

Excerpt from Daily Mail-- "Aswath Damodaran, NYU Professor of Finance, [sharing] his thoughts on the last 10 years of Bitcoin... said rather succinctly, ‘The hype got ahead of the actual substance. It will end up being is just another fad like Beanie Babies and Pokemon.’"

Excerpt from NBC News -- "'Running out of space? [Check] your downloads folder,' says Navin Manglani, professor, Information Systems at NYU Stern. 'Many times, we think a program or other file may not have downloaded properly and may download multiple copies. Or we may not even need the dmg or exe file after we have installed the program. These programs can eat up a significant amount of space on your hard drive in your downloads folder.'"

Excerpt from CBS News -- "'It presented Facebook with a terrified opportunity to learn, to train their systems to better recognize small changes' in users' appearances, she told CBS News."

Excerpt from Retail Dive -- "The flagship store here on 34th Street, frankly I think it's a mess. The workers are not particularly customer focused. They need what we call rebranding, but broader than 'we need a new logo.' Do some research into what are the associations in people's minds, what are the perceptions. 'Who's our target audience?' and 'Can you bring back that magic feeling outside of the holidays?'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Fintech companies tend to chase product growth above all else, as is common with many venture-backed businesses. But finance is one of the most heavily regulated parts of the economy, which leaves less room for creative interpretations of the rules -- and a career opportunity for legal and compliance experts, said David Yermack, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'This should be a bonanza for lawyers for some time to come.'"

Excerpt from Today -- "He also pointed out that the company sold the playgroup portion of its business, which may have been a bad idea. 'Gymboree used to be connected to an experience,' he said, 'but when they separated the two businesses, what was left was not very distinctive.'"

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "The economist Paul Romer, who won a 2018 Nobel Prize for research into how technological change can be transformative, recently described his concerns over policies that impede the free flow of new knowledge and insights. He believes they are especially detrimental to nations that run the danger of being left behind."

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "'Commercial life is so much a part of the cultural landscape, compared to 20 to 30 years ago,' she says. 'Given that fact, and given that Millennials are looking for meaning, if you put the two together, I think that’s why we’re seeing [these ads].'"