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In an op-ed, Profs Jennifer Carpenter and Robert Whitelaw address the rising Chinese stock market

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "This optimism should be taken seriously. This run-up is not a bubble, and so investors should not fear another crash. Our research shows that after a rocky first decade, which earned China's stock market a reputation as a casino, stock prices in China predict future profits as well as they do in the U.S. Moreover, this predictive power is highly correlated with China's corporate investment efficiency, suggesting that stock prices are teaching corporate managers important lessons as well."
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Research Scholar Taeya Howell's research on gender roles is featured

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Excerpt from Pacific Standard -- "For their most recent paper, Tinsley and her team conducted four separate studies... the research appears to have exposed something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, in that women with high gender determinism channel themselves into lower-paying jobs."
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Prof. Scott Galloway on Coach's acquisition of Stuart Weitzman

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think Coach is a fantastic brand, and it's been counted out and rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated... Michael Kors and Kate Spade have sucked all the oxygen out of the room because they've done a great job, but look for Coach to come back. I like this acquisition... A lot of great specialty retail brands were built on the back of shoes. Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin. Kenneth Cole originally started out as a shoe guy. So they get great domain expertise here. It says it's an accretive acquisition. It sounds like a win."
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt's research on morals is featured

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Haidt says problems that are 'tame problems' can be solved by experts. These are problems like: How can we prevent Cholera? They are 'definable, understandable and consensual.' Scientists can converge on a solution. But problems that are 'wicked problems' cannot be solved by experts. These are problems like poverty, racism and education. Our approach to these problems is 'shaped by moral and political values,' he says, and that is true even of the experts."
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In an op-ed, NYU Global Research Prof. Ian Bremmer identifies the top geopolitical risks of 2015

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Excerpt from TIME -- "In 2015, political conflict among the world’s great powers is in play more than at any time since the end of the Cold War. U.S. relations with Russia are now fully broken. China’s powerful President Xi Jinping is creating a new economy, and the effects will be felt across East Asia and the rest of the world. Geopolitical uncertainty has Turkey, the Gulf Arab states, Brazil and India hedging their bets."
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In an op-ed, Prof. Pankaj Ghemawat and Senior Research Scholar Steven Altman argue that globalization can benefit India

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Excerpt from Business Today -- "It would be a folly to advocate more (or less) globalisation without a clear understanding of how globalised India really is today. We answer that question here based on the results of our DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014, which measures the globalisation levels of 140 countries. It factors in hard data related to trade, capital, information, and people flows."
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Dean Geeta Menon is named to the Economic Times's top 20 list of Global Indian Women

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Excerpt from Economic Times -- "As dean, Menon works with three core principles for the undergraduate college — academic excellence and innovation; glocal (global plus local) perspective, increasing opportunities for students to participate in the academic, cultural and professional communities of NYC; and a vibrant Stern community, working through students, alumni, parents, corporate partners and employers. Under her watch, applications to the undergraduate college have reached an all-time high."
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt's research on liberal and conservative stereotypes is cited

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Stereotypes flourish in ignorance. Liberal and conservative perceptions of one another can be ignorant and patronizing because they have so little personal experience of one another. Intriguingly, research by the social psychologists Jesse Graham, Brian A. Nozek and Jonathan Haidt has shown that liberals exhibit the least accurate perception of those with opposing political views."
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Prof. Scott Galloway on Amazon's entry into the grocery business

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "'Grocery is the largest consumer category in the world,' [Galloway] says. 'It’s this unique combination of being the biggest consumer category in the world and also the most digitally inept, which all spells opportunity.'"
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Prof. Thomas Cooley on the economic challenges facing the ECB

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'I do think they’re at a critical moment,' said Thomas F. Cooley, an economics professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University. 'There has got to be some attempt on the part of the E.C.B. to stimulate the economy. They are the only ones capable of doing the heavy lifting.'"
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Prof. Jeffrey Carr is profiled

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Excerpt from mbaMission -- "[Carr] served formerly as the executive director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and has quickly garnered a reputation as one of the school’s most respected marketing experts, featured by such major news outlets as NBC and the New York Times. Carr is president of Marketing Foundations Inc. and has worked on projects for Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, General Electric, Pfizer, Kodak, Time Inc., and Unilever."
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Prof. Arun Sundararajan discusses Uber's use of surge pricing

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Excerpt from Economic Times -- "'Surge pricing is a way of balancing supply and demand,' agreed Arun Sundararajan, a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, whose research is focused on digital economics."
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MBA student Troy Green shares his economic predictions for the coming year

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "With lower energy prices, I think we're going to see an environment where retail consumption is going to increase and ... [for] companies who have a cost structure highly tilted towards energy prices, you're going to see that reduced and you're going to see an increase in earnings and an increase in free cash flow."
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Prof. Alvin Lieberman explains why New Year's Eve in Times Square attracts advertisers

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Excerpt from CCTV -- "'You’ve got a captive audience. We love that in the advertising industry because the folks are there, waiting for something to happen. The ball to drop, the countdown, there’s entertainment,' said Al Lieberman, director of entertainment, media and technology at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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Prof. Richard Sylla on how two companies have topped the Inc. 5000 list twice

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Excerpt from Inc. -- "'Today we are focused on technology, and there is so much fascination about the latest major innovations,' says Richard Sylla, a professor of economic and financial history at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'And our fascination with technology today borders on the fascination with energy in the 1970s and 1980s.'"
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In an op-ed, Prof. Nouriel Roubini discusses the impact of technology on the labor market

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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "Recent technological advances have three biases: They tend to be capital-intensive (thus favoring those who already have financial resources); skill-intensive (thus favoring those who already have a high level of technical proficiency); and labor-saving (thus reducing the total number of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs in the economy). The risk is that robotics and automation will displace workers in blue-collar manufacturing jobs before the dust of the Third Industrial Revolution settles."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on strong investor interest in private tech companies

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Excerpt from The Times of India -- "'I believe that markets often get the macro trend right but get over-optimistic about the micro trends. There'll be a day of reckoning, where investors will start demanding results and start re-pricing these companies. There'll be a shaking out of the sector and the wheat will be separated from the chaff,' says Aswath Damodaran, professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University."
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Prof. Thomas Cooley on the FSOC

Excerpt from American Banker -- "Tom Cooley, professor of economics at New York University's Leonard Stern School of Business, said the idea of investigating asset management is not necessarily wrong on its face. But he said the FSOC's approach opened it up to criticism and made the council look weak. 'That was just kind of wrongheaded in the way you think about asset managers,' Cooley said. 'They kind of got it wrong and kind of jumped the gun, and [it] got a lot of people who don't like Dodd-Frank to jump down their throats.'"
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Prof. JP Eggers on how teen retailers can revive their brands

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "[Teen retailers] have been caught in a situation where there have been two real problems. One, they've had these CEOs who have been very outspoken, controversial, gotten themselves into trouble. But we're also seeing a real shift in the generations and the needs and wants of the teenage population. What worked for these companies 5-6 years ago is just not working at this point in time. They need to find a way to connect to a bunch of consumers who don't spend as much money on clothing, who aren't as interested in having the absolute hottest new item on the market, but they still need to find a way to appeal to these consumers."
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Prof. Mervyn King is interviewed about the UK's banking system

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Excerpt from BBC -- "'The idea that we can go on indefinitely with very low interest rates doesn't make much sense,' said Lord King. However, he warned that if interest rates rose now, it 'would probably lead to another downturn.'"
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Prof. Michael Spence's research on economic growth after WWII is highlighted

Excerpt from Beijing Review -- "According to research by the Commission on Growth and Development led by Nobel laureate Michael Spence, after World War II, 13 economies utilized the latecomer advantage to achieve annual GDP growth of 7 percent or more for 25 years or longer, more than double the growth rates of developed countries."
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Prof. Samuel Craig on the planned merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "Earlier this year, TWC and Comcast announced plans to merge. (TWC has approximately 11 million video subscribers, and Comcast CMCS, +166.98% has around 22.6 million video customers.) More movies, television shows and live sporting events being produced by one company means less competition and more seller power, says Samuel Craig, director of the Entertainment Media and Technology Program at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt's book, "The Righteous Mind," is highlighted

Excerpt from LinkedIn -- "In his excellent book on moral philosophy The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt argues that social binding is one of the secrets of the human race’s extraordinary rise, and that some cultural attributes of human society, such as religion or patriotism, actually inspire people to be willing to sacrifice their very lives for the benefit of the larger group. Military exercises such as marching in step together work well for armies precisely because they trigger our 'hiving' instinct."
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Prof. Joseph Foudy on Federal interest rate increases

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Excerpt from CCTV -- "'As long as we we continue to see solid labor market data, it’s pretty likely that you’re going to see a Fed increase, [in the] third or fourth quarter of 2015,' professor Joseph Foudy of New York University’s Stern School of Business said. 'It would take some pretty significant negative surprises to push that off. Similarly speaking, we’d have to see sudden strong increases in inflation, particularly wage inflation, before you got any talk of moving it earlier.'"
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran's on the valuations of tech start-ups

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The market is a victim of 'the ladder of pricing,' says Aswath Damodaran, a professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University and an expert in corporate valuations. Investors and founders are arguing that if 'A' is worth 'X' billion, then their own company, which has just as many 'eyeballs,' or just as much revenue, or just as big of a market opportunity, must be worth near or above 'X,' he says."