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Marking its tenth year, NYU Stern’s Citi Leadership & Ethics Program appointed Mindy S. Lubber, president and founding board member of Ceres, a nonprofit organization that advocates the adoption of sustainable business practices, as its 2012-2013 Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Next year we are also going to have austerity in the core of the euro area because the newly agreed fiscal compact says that even Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Austria have to cut their deficits,' Roubini told reporters at a conference today in Berlin organized by IG Metall, Germany’s biggest trade union."

Excerpt from USA Today -- Now that RelayRides and other companies are starting to inch beyond San Francisco, ride sharing has gone from "niche" to "on its way to becoming mainstream," says Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Excerpt from Forbes -- "'Family ownership is actually good,' Villalonga told me. 'It’s better having power more concentrated, and owners more committed."

Excerpt from Bloomberg BusinessWeek -- "Nouriel Roubini, Jonathan Haidt, and Paul Romer, professors at New York University’s Stern School of Business, were each named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s top 100 Global Thinkers for 2012 (@NYUStern, 11/26)."

Excerpt from the New York Daily News -- "CUSP will address the challenges facing cities, including infrastructure, tech integration, energy efficiency, transportation congestion, public safety and public health, Koonin said."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Silber delivers just the right amount of human portrait to make his main story engrossing: how the U.S. left the gold standard at the start of the 1970s; how it simultaneously lost control of inflation; and how it regained monetary credibility under Volcker’s Fed chairmanship from 1979 on."

“We are currently living through the most dramatic shift in global economic history,” argued The Right Honorable Gordon Brown, former prime minister of the United Kingdom and NYU’s first Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence. As part of NYU Stern’s Block Lunch event series, hosted by Dean Peter Henry, Brown spoke to more than 100 MBA students this week.

Excerpt from the New York Daily News -- “The city has taken important strides towards becoming a tech-friendly place... Now it’s time for City Hall to take its tech-friendliness further and deliver more of its benefits to the average New Yorker. Deregulating digital taxi services would be a good place to start.”

Excerpt from the New York Daily News -- "'Suddenly everyone is going to see their paycheck go down and that’s going to slow consumer spending,' said associate professor of economics Joe Foudy, at the New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from the Huffington Post -- "Currently, only a handful of business schools -- Stern (NYU), Darden (UVA), HBS (Harvard) -- offer courses that focus on women in leadership."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "I think that the worst consequence of the fiscal cliff is that it's really taking attention away from what really needs to be done for the long run."

Excerpt from Nightly Business Report -- "I know they say you can't be too rich or too thin, but companies can in fact be too rich and sometimes you want to shrink out the cash."

Excerpt from Bloomberg BusinessWeek -- "Marisa Rosenthal, a student at New York University’s Stern School of Business, encourages people to buy an iPhone case through Bonobos to benefit charity:water, a nonprofit that provides clean drinking water to those in developing nations."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'What we are seeing now is a gamesmanship dance in which firms do whatever they can to avoid regulation, which is an age-old phenomenon,' said Thomas Cooley, a professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from the Star Tribune -- "The concept comes from economist William Baumol, whose groundbreaking work studying the arts in the 1960s with a Princeton University colleague led to his simple observation that productivity gains in the performing arts are all but impossible to achieve."

Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- "NOURIEL ROUBINI, For being not just gloomy, but right... PAUL ROMER, For dreaming big about how to reinvent cities... JONATHAN HAIDT, For revealing the psychology of partisanship."

Excerpt from the Harvard Business Review -- "A sophisticated understanding of the past is one of the most powerful tools we have for shaping the future."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'If you can talk to someone who’s gone through it who has a positive view, then they could really alleviate some of the concerns,' said Bryan Bollinger, an assistant professor of marketing at the Stern School of Business at New York University who has studied patterns of solar adoption."

Excerpt from the Wall Street Journal -- "Ralph Gomory, former head of Sloan Foundation, and NYU economic historian Richard Sylla, trace the history of the corporation in a long essay to be published next year in Daedalus, and ask, 'How do we align the actions of corporations with the broader interests of the country?'"

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Perhaps the central challenge for the future of Europe is to decide which risks qualify for insurance and which do not. Their choices must balance insurance with incentives. And once they decide, they must make a firm commitment to paying any claims that make their list."

The first NYU Start Up Job Expo, hosted by NYU Stern's Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Office of Career Development, Career Center for Working Professionals and Entrepreneurs Exchange Club, as well as the NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development, the Wasserman Center for Career Development at NYU-Poly, the NYU Entrepreneurs Network and NY Tech Meetup, to be held on Thursday November 29. This event will provide students with a chance to connect with professionals in the entrepreneurial community, such as, ffVentures, Lore, Lot18, Quirky, TargetSpot, Venmo and Yipit.

On November 28, 2012, a team of five NYU Stern MBA students won the first place $2,000 prize in the second annual Cable Interacts Interactive Launch Competition. Kibi Anderson, Ben Colman, Joshua Cohen, Austin Clements and Taj Corinaldi, advised by Professor Alvin Lieberman, competed against teams from Columbia Business School, MIT Sloan, Georgetown McDonough School of Business, Boston University School of Management and Howard University School of Business.

Excerpt from CBS News -- "The chance of your winning if you don't play is zero, but the chance of your winning if you do play is about the same."

Excerpt from U.S. News -- "Ghose has also observed significant demand from job recruiters for analytical skills. 'Most companies understand that there is some value in business analytics and big data, but they just don't have, often, the in-house skills to do something with that,' he says."