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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions against public companies and their subsidiaries remained at near-record levels through the first half of the 2019 fiscal year, which ended March 31. According to a report released today by the NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business and Cornerstone Research, enforcement actions reached these levels despite the federal government shutdown that led to a one-month period during which the SEC suspended non-emergency enforcement operations.

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "Panos Ipeirotis, a leading researcher most known for his work tracking the ebbs and flows of MTurk worker demographics, estimates that 2,000 to 5,000 workers can be found on the MTurk platform at any given moment."

Excerpt from the Harvard Business Review -- "Sometimes it’s even motivating just to know that your rival is out there. And I know you’re familiar with the evidence on this, but I’ve just been floored by Gavin Kilduff’s research on how much your rivals’ success can affect your own."

Excerpt for Business of Fashion -- "To be sure, more work is being done to establish the business case for sustainability. For instance, New York University’s Stern School of Business is working on a project to assess the return on investment apparel companies can expect from environmental and social initiatives."

Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "The NYU Stern School of Business offers full-time MBA students a chance to specialize in real estate. According to the school, it 'provides rigorous training in the development, investment, and financing of real estate projects.' Students who choose the specialization are taught to think strategically about real estate in primary and secondary markets including the legal, taxation, and regulatory environments they’ll encounter."

On Tuesday, May 14 and Wednesday, May 15, the NYU Stern School of Business will co-host the JOIM-NYU Stern Conference on AI and Finance.

Excerpt from TRT World -- "The very public nature of this conflict is going to make it very difficult for either country to back down."

Excerpt from Retail Dive -- "You always walked into the store because you saw them as an authority that would help you. Today that authority has become YouTube, or it’s your friend. All you’re really doing is trying to confirm what your mind has already made up."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'I would not be able to put a price on the network I have built at NYU Stern. I think most MBA students would agree, your classmates are the most valuable part of this experience. I have met some truly high caliber people through NYU Stern and made some lifelong friends.' - Christopher Costello. 'In my time at Stern, I’ve worked on projects for companies across a multitude of industries, helped plan a national conference for Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA), and studied abroad at the London Business School. Each experience has shown me just how much I can stretch myself in a multitude of capacities and further confirmed the importance of being able to work with a wide range of individuals.' - Andrew Kwan"

Excerpt from The Africa Report -- "A new report by NYU-Stern titled 'Made in Ethiopia: Challenges in the Garment Industry’s New Frontier; found that factory workers earn $26 per month, by far the lowest wage in the world. It’s an appallingly low figure, even by the already low-wage standards of the global garment industry."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "I think it's really interesting to see how proactive LVMH has been in taking a stand and addressing the issue [of culturally insensitive designs] from the inside out with the acquisition."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'If Uber cannot deliver profits over time, it spells real trouble for the gig economy,' said Aswath Damodaran, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'They have not demonstrated that they can do all the things they want to do and also do it profitably — so the scrutiny of public markets will certainly be a big first test for them.'"

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "One hopes this fear is overblown and that the clothing firms will make a long-term commitment not only to cheaply sourced goods but also to supporting a strong Ethiopian economy in which workers are protected."

At the conclusion of an eight-month competition, NYU’s most promising innovators received cash prizes and pro-bono startup services valued at more than $300,000 at NYU Stern’s annual Entrepreneurs Challenge, organized by the School’s W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs. 

On Friday, May 10, NYU Stern's Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation will host a fireside chat titled "Politics, AI and 5G" featuring Huawei CTO Paul Scanlan in conversation with NYU Stern Professor Arun Sundararajan.

At the conclusion of an eight-month competition, NYU’s most promising innovators received cash prizes and pro-bono startup services valued at more than $300,000 at NYU Stern’s annual Entrepreneurs Challenge, organized by the School’s W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs. 

Excerpt from City Journal -- "As New York works to improve the response times of its emergency medical professionals, it should conduct a borough- or neighborhood-wide pilot of United Rescue’s program—testing whether the service effectively complements EMS, and planning to scale it up if it works. If United Rescue can do for New York what it has done on a smaller scale for Jersey City, it will save lives and promote the volunteerism that can strengthen communities across the city."

Excerpt from TIME -- "Your job is to find something you’re good at, and after ten thousand hours of practice, get great at it. The emotional and economic rewards that accompany being great at something will make you passionate about whatever that something is."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "While eco-friendly features like recyclable or compostable packaging 'used to be a nice-to-have, it's now a must-have.' If a brand over-packages today, they're 'incredibly vulnerable to being seen as out of touch,' according to Adamson."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "With his colleagues Derrick Wirtz and Dale Miller [Kruger] replicated the longstanding findings that college students believe you should trust your first answer in a multiple choice question, and yet that switching to a second answer tends to improve your grades."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I certainly agree with the call for creating a new tech regulatory agency, there is some damage to Facebook from Zuckerberg's voting control. But I think spinning off WhatsApp and Instagram is not really going to solve the core issue that Facebook's business model -- optimizing advertising revenue -- is at odds with a lot of other societal objectives, and simply splitting Facebook up into WhatsApp and Instagram and Facebook is not going to solve that problem."

Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "Companies compete for our limited attention by creating products that are impossible to resist."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think this is a liquidity event for the early investors... [i.e.] cashing out your investments in the early rounds. So, they're taking advantage of [the fact that] this is a pricing game, rather than a valuation game for Uber. You tell a good compelling story and then you fetch the highest price possible. That is what's happening here."

Excerpt from BBC -- "We shouldn't just be too pessimistic about what can be done. Individuals can do a lot, even in deprived communities—maybe especially in deprived communities, if other firms have just not bothered to go in there."

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "One is struck by the sharp drop in the 2018 revenue growth rate (42%). True, following a fast growth period, a certain slowdown is expected, but this 2018 slowdown seems a bit early in Uber's game. The quarterly revenues confirm the slowdown - third and fourth quarters 2018 and first quarter 2019 (estimated) revenues were rather flat: $2,944 million, $2,974 million, and $3,075 million (mid high-low), respectively. Is competition taking its toll or is it the constant push-back from cities and taxi drivers? In any case, Uber's road ahead surely appears challenging."