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NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation recently hosted a new workshop series entitled, "Lean Startup Summer Boot Camp." The five-session series explored human-centered research, divergent thinking and problem solving to validate or invalidate startup or product ideas early on.

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "What Greece needs is a certain amount of money that it will be free to invest and that needs to be found somewhere. And in my opinion, the best way to get this money is to get a grace period from the European Union of 3-5 years and not pay interest on the inter-government loans for those years and these loans are $5-6 billion in interest per year so if Greece takes this money and invests it in infrastructure projects, then you will see suddenly the unemployment rate go from 26 or 27% down at least ten points so you won't fix the whole unemployment problem of Greece, but you'll fix, very significantly, parts of it."

Excerpt from the Village Voice -- "New York University economist Arun Sundararajan calls PAVE's investment-based model one 'whose time has come.' He predicts that soaring debt will not only drive students to seek alternatives to college—most notably Massive Open Online Courses—but to consider alternate forms of financing their education."

Excerpt from CKGSB Knowledge -- "Durairaj Maheswaran, the Paganelli Bull Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, sees the globalization of companies in terms of a 'Five C' model of competitive advantage. In simple terms, this model examines how a company’s core benefit, competition, culture, corporate structure and country of origin impact its globalization strategy."

Professor Russ Winer, chair of NYU Stern’s Marketing Department, along with Stern PhD student Stephanie Tully, examine the willingness to pay for socially responsible products in their new paper, "Are People Willing to Pay More for Socially Responsible Products: A Meta-Analysis."

Excerpt from San Jose Mercury News -- "'It's a groundbreaking new economic paradigm,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business who studies digital economies. 'This isn't just a recession-era phenomenon. It's a technology-driven change.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "CBS has more customers now. We're basically price takers with Time Warner Cable or whatever you have in New York. You have to take whatever they offer you and every year your bill's gone up more than inflation, and you ask yourself, has there really been any innovation? There's been so much innovation on our phone, very little innovation around the TV. I think what you're going to see here with TV is that less is more, and then people are going to have the opportunity for the first time to pick the 10 to 15 to 20 channels they actually watch and just pay for those channels, similar to what happened with music and iTunes."

Excerpt from All Things Digital -- "A study conducted by NYU think tank Luxury Lab (or L2) stated that 35 percent of “prestige brands” were active on Vine, while the same report said about 26 percent of those prestige brands were experimenting with Instagram video."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "The study we did at NYU shows that less than 3% of the traffic that brands and retailers who were generally large advertisers in any medium...less than 3% of the traffic they're getting is actually coming from social media versus 33% for search. So, placed in context, social media isn't having as large an impact as originally thought on the business world."

Executive MBA students from the Class of 2013, along with family and friends, gathered at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers to celebrate their scholastic achievements at a Graduation Celebration.

Excerpt from CCTV -- "I wouldn't say [investors] are being driven out of India. They're pausing a little bit at the present moment and that's because of a number of political factors, for the most part, and some economic factors. There's a huge consumption demand because we have a rapidly growing middle class which wants the same sorts of things that middle-class people everywhere in the world want and so there is an attractive market opportunity."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "We must ask those who would repeal Obamacare how they propose to solve the adverse-selection problem. That problem is not an abstraction invented by economists to justify trampling individual liberties. As experience in most countries around the world has confirmed, it is a profound source of market failure that renders unregulated insurance markets a catastrophically ineffective way of providing access to health care."

Excerpt from BBC Capital -- "Tax-haven status can be a real boon for countries without natural resources, a large industrial base or significant tourist income. If a company has a large office in a tax haven, there can be a big benefit for the local community, from jobs to better infrastructure that’s built to support the needs of multinationals, said Damodaran."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Too much style drift can be a worrisome sign, says Marcin Kacperczyk, an assistant professor at New York University's Stern School of Business who studies mutual funds. Though some managers end up with big company stocks because of short-term liquidity issues, 'it's a big red flag that makes you wonder what else the manager is doing.'"

Excerpt from Westchester County Business Journal -- "Last September, Gambardella enrolled in New York University’s Langone Master of Business Administration Program for Working Professionals, which is administered at the SUNY Purchase campus. Gambardella has kept a full-time job while taking businesses courses in leadership and organization, statistics, firms and markets, accounting and marketing while employed full-time at her company."

Excerpt from CCTV -- "At this point, given this very very high unemployment, the European Union has to set some money aside to help Greece, Spain and Portugal create jobs, especially Greece. And I think one way to do it is to allow Greece not to pay interest for a few years on the loans that it owes to the EU area countries."

Excerpt from LiveMint -- "What a unified regulator allows you to do is take a very holistic view on the system, not just a banking view or insurance view or a markets view. A unified regulator typically does consist of representatives from these different regulatory agencies and they all come together and can take a holistic view. The downside is that if this unified regulator becomes in some sense the authoritative regulatory figure, then you might see very little regulatory innovation, which is often necessary because as the institutions change, as the markets change, the regulators have to evolve their policies and usually this works much better with a decentralized regulator than with a single central regulator."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "Today, corporate profits account for 12 percent of GDP, while net investment has shrunk to 4 percent. When Asker, Ljungqvist and Farre-Mensa looked into this anomaly, they unearthed a startling fact: While publicly traded firms devote 3.7 percent of their total assets to investment, comparable privately owned firms devote 6.8 percent. Using a new database that provides more information on more privately held firms than had previously been available, the economists discovered a problem at the heart of this nation's shareholder version of capitalism."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "'Should you sell short? I personally would not, since it is entirely possible that the momentum game that was so firmly against Facebook last year might work in the other direction now,' he added. 'There may be investors who will be drawn in to the stock if it crests the $38 IPO price, though there is really no economic or value significance around the number.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "A number of large users of aluminum in the U.S., including the Coca-Cola Co. and MillerCoors LLC, allege that big banks -- some of which own aluminum warehouses and play a big role in the market -- have intentionally created bottlenecks, with the end effect of driving up prices and boosting their profits. In recent Senate testimony, MillerCoors estimated that the practice cost buyers of aluminum about $3 billion last year alone."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I have done five valuations of facebook in the last year and the lowest number I have got is $24 and the highest number I have got is $28. So the value of the company hasn't actually wavered that much over the last year and three months. I don't share the euphoria that people have about mobile monetization because I think they needed to do that. If they hadn't done it, it would have been disastrous. So at $38, I think the stock is richly priced."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "'People ask if this is exaggerating GDP, and the answer is precisely no,' says Kim Schoenholtz, director of the Center for Global Economy and Business at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'What you’re seeing is just a better reading on the state of the economy. Our measurement science is improving.'”

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "A fascinating series of posts over at Aswath Damodaran’s Musings on Markets. Damodaran has been looking at risk and equity valuations in emerging and developed markets. He began with a round up of risk in emerging markets, where he found investors believe emerging markets are getting riskier. He concluded by using three different multiples to look at how investors price risk and return – and found he had much to learn."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- “'Demand for analytics training courses is rising quickly,' says Anindya Ghose, co-director of the Center for Business Analytics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'There is a huge focus on the quality and quantity of data and how it can be harnessed to take businesses to the next level.'”

Excerpt from Barron's -- "In spite of the QEs, inflation is going to remain low because growth is weak, and therefore all this extra money is going into the reserves of the banks, as velocity is collapsing. If anything, inflation is now falling both in emerging and advanced economies. So buying gold as a hedge against inflation, in spite of all these QEs, is not a good investment."