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NYU is recognized by Coinbase as one of the top three "2019 Leaders in Crypto Education"

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Excerpt from Coinbase -- "Uniting the top 10 schools on the list — which in the U.S. include MIT, New York University, Stanford, and the University of California-Berkeley — is a deep commitment to crypto and blockchain at both the student and faculty level."c
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NYU Stern is highlighted for its top-ranked research productivity

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In both the UT-Dallas North American and global rankings, updated in March, Wharton is trailed by NYU’s Stern School of Business, source of 259 articles in the last four years."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on YouTube's growth strategy and celebrity partnerships

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Excerpt from VICE -- "'Going after a greater fraction of the video entertainment market seems like a perfectly natural thing for them to be doing,' Sundararajan said. YouTube Premium, the platform’s paid subscription service, is another move toward slurping up the dollars people spend on 'mainstream home entertainment,” as he terms it."
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In a live interview, Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the case against a former Google engineer accused of stealing the company's trade secrets

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Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "If I were [Uber], I would just stay away from this, [and] hope that the US attorney takes it in a direction that really has nothing to with Uber, but has to do with Levandowski trade secrets and the culture of Silicon Valley..."
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In a live interview, Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the case against a former Google engineer accused of stealing the company's trade secrets

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Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "If I were [Uber], I would just stay away from this, [and] hope that the US attorney takes it in a direction that really has nothing to with Uber, but has to do with Levandowski trade secrets and the culture of Silicon Valley..."
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In an interview, Professor Lawrence White comments on WeWork's future growth prospects

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Excerpt from Kanka News -- (Translated from Chinese using Google Translate) "White said that although WeWork's poor performance in the first half of this year was a loss of 900 million US dollars, the joint office model itself has great appeal to SMEs, and WeWork, which is a leading company in this field, still has bright prospects."
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In a radio interview, Professor Thomaï Serdari highlights the challenges luxury retailers face in today's landscape

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Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "The key here is the desirability of the location, which is true -- it's still very much alive and it creates a lot of competition amongst retailers to get to these highly desirable spots that, in turn, drive the rent high up. But the issue here is the marketing strategy that a lot of these retailers are applying... The gap is between having foot traffic and having activations that actually convert the desirability to purchases. I think this is where a lot of these retailers miss out and this is why we see such a high turnover even on Madison Avenue."
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Professor Jennifer Carpenter examines President Trump's remarks at the G7 summit regarding the US and Chinese economies

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "The market capitalization for both the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges totaled $8 trillion in November 2017, and declined to about $7.5 trillion in July 2019, according to Jennifer Carpenter, a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business who studies Chinese markets."
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Professors Samuel Craig and Alvin Lieberman provide commentary on the launch of new platforms in the saturated streaming market

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Excerpt from Kanka News -- (Translated from Chinese using Google Translate) "New York University Business School professor Alvin Lieberman said, 'Netflix relies mainly on getting quality content from others, and now we can see that Disney is expected to surpass Netflix, because Disney owns the companies that create content.'...Samuel Craig, another professor at New York University's business school, pointed out that Disney's long-term success is highly probable, but it still requires a lot of capital investment in the early stage, and it will cost a lot of time. 'This is a war of burning money, especially at the beginning. Disney will lose a lot of time at the beginning, because there will be a lot of upfront investment. The accumulation of consumers will be relatively slow, and users will not start to flock.'"
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The DHL Global Connectedness Index, research by Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, Senior Research Scholar Steven Altman and Associate Research Scholar Phillip Bastian, is cited

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Excerpt from The Sun Daily -- "According to the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2019 report, the country ranked 15th among 190 economies worldwide and it had maintained a strong position in the DHL Global Connectedness Index (GCI), ranking second in Southeast Asia and 12th out of 169 countries for trade connectivity."
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Professor Alixandra Barasch is interviewed about her research on the effects of photo taking on experiences and memory

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Excerpt from The Telegraph -- "'Photo taking enhancing visual details but takes away from auditory details: people will remember what they saw, but fewer details about the facts they learned, or what the tour guide said,' she says."
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Professor Joshua Ronen analyzes General Electric's accounting of its petroleum holdings

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Excerpt from The Economist -- "Joshua Ronen, an accounting professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, has reviewed GE’s official filings about its holdings in Baker Hughes and found them 'confusing'."
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Center for Business and Human Rights Deputy Director Paul Barrett is quoted in an article on China's disinformation campaign in Hong Kong

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Excerpt from The Hill -- "'The Russians wanted to get Donald Trump elected,' Barrett said. 'I assume the Chinese would ... go against Trump because they’re not very fond of him.'"
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Paul Romer shares his outlook on taxing targeted ad revenue and the importance of investing in human capital

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Excerpt from O Globo -- (translated from Portuguese using Google Translate) "Studying the impact of knowledge on growth, American Paul Romer - one of the 2018 Nobel Prize winners of economics - sees social skills as one of the trump cards of the future job market. But the New York University professor thinks these skills are neglected by schools and businesses, and may be undermined by children's exposure to digital-mediated interactions. For him, investing in human capital is the way to reduce inequality."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan explains the impact of Facebook's internal bias report and a European regulator probe into Libra on the company

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Excerpt from Fox Business -- "'I think we've passed the tipping point of negative publicity on Facebook,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'Users are likely getting immune to new reports relating to privacy or bias, so it is possible that Facebook is over the most challenging phase on this front. As the antitrust cases against Facebook pick up steam, they are likely to become the primary investor focus.'"
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Executive Director of MBA Admissions Rabia Ahmed is quoted in an article highlighting Stern's addition of the Executive Assessment (EA) to its standardized test options for full-time MBA applicants

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Excerpt from MetroMBA -- “Stern has always been an early adopter. We were among the first programs to accept the GRE a decade ago, and now we are excited to add the EA to our full-time MBA admissions process. As a school on the move, we recognize that business is rapidly evolving, and we’ve responded with new program options as well as innovations in our admissions process, such as the EQ Endorsements, to ensure we are assessing talent for today’s changing workforce.”
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Professor Jonathan Haidt's research on workplace leadership is referenced

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Excerpt from Harvard Business Review France -- (translated from French using Google Translate) "Jonathan Haidt of the Stern School of Business at New York University also showed that when their leaders show the spirit of sacrifice, employees are touched and feel inspired. As a result, they are more loyal, involved and willing to make efforts to help and be friendly with their colleagues."
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Professor Joshua Ronen comments on GE's statements regarding its investment in Baker Hughes

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The Markopolos group’s critique was based on GE’s prior statements on the matter in securities filings, which were 'confusing,' said Joshua Ronen, an accounting professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who reviewed the filings."
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Professor David Yermack's joint research on cryptocurrency's impact on monetary policy is featured

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Excerpt from Coin Telegraph -- "The existence of private decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) has a healthy impact on governments’ fiscal and regulatory policy, a new analysis contends. The argument was put forth in a paper published on Aug. 16 by Max Raskin (NYU School of Law), Fahad Saleh (McGill University) and David Yermack (NYU Stern), entitled 'How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy?'"
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Stern's addition of the Executive Assessment (EA) to its standardized test options for full-time MBA applicants is highlighted; Executive Director of MBA Admissions Rabia Ahmed is quoted

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "According to Executive Director of MBA Admissions Rabia Ahmed, 'Stern has always been an early adopter. We were among the first programs to accept the GRE a decade ago, and now we are excited to add the EA to our full-time MBA admissions process. As a school on the move, we recognize that business is rapidly evolving, and we’ve responded with new program options as well as innovations in our admissions process, such as the EQ Endorsements, to ensure we are assessing talent for today’s changing workforce.'"
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NYU Stern School of Business Now Accepting GMAC’s Executive Assessment as Part of Full-time MBA Application

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Today, New York University Stern School of Business announced that candidates applying to the School’s full-time MBA programs can now choose to take the Executive Assessment, designed by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), to fulfill the application’s standardized test requirement.
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Professor Thomas Philippon's joint research on the impact of globalization on wages is referenced

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Excerpt from Welt -- (translated from German using Google Translate) "In a recently published study, they correct the data series for three possible confounding factors - and come to twelve countries, including the US, France and Germany to a clear conclusion: 'We find no general decline in the wage share in our sample of highly developed economies.'"
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Professor Paul Hardart offers insights on celebrity shout-out startup Cameo's business model and prospects for growth

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Excerpt from Fast Company -- "'The great thing about this compared to having a startup where you’ve got to build an audience and sell eyeballs is, this is a transaction,' says Paul Hardart, director of the entertainment, media, and technology program at New York University Stern School of Business. 'There is a real business model.'"
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Professor Matthew Lee's joint research on gender bias and entrepreneurship is cited

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "In their study of female entrepreneurs, the social scientists Matthew Lee and Laura Huang found that venture capitalists were more likely to fund companies led by women if those companies were presented as having a social impact. This provides a 'cover' that helps women overcome the perceived mismatch between the stereotypes of the good, community-focused woman and the hard-driving entrepreneur."
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In an in-depth Q&A interview, Professor Tensie Whelan highlights the value of sustainability practices for businesses

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Excerpt from Barron's -- "ESG [environmental, social, and governance factors] is becoming part of investors’ understanding of risks and opportunities for business, and the regular way in which they analyze companies. That continues regardless of what’s happening in the markets. Something like 50% of growth in the CPG [consumer packaged goods] sector comes from sustainability marketed products. This is not a short-term thing; it’s an ongoing shift in consumer behavior, business behavior, investor behavior."