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The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business will host a Fireside Chat with James Forese on November 7, 2018.

Excerpt from Chicago Tribune -- “'There was a general perception that they would take money from anyone,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s business school who wrote a book titled “The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism.”

Excerpt from Sustainable Brands -- "Kicking off the conference was NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) Director Tensie Whelan, who broke down the Center’s new Sustainability Monetization Framework tool for unlocking growth opportunities."

Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "'For the city, it should be just a straightforward thing: We will get more benefit than what we are giving away,' said Alain Bertaud, a senior research scholar at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management and author of Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. 'But we are dealing with a lot of data, which are not very clear. [Government] might be tempted to make a deal that will be to the detriment of the maintenance of the city.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Student success today is also very different. We are training students for more diverse industries, dynamic workplaces, and economies. Students need to be more adaptive and global in outlook than ever before, and it’s exciting for me to bring my leadership development skills to NYU. Having a global orientation will help the student to succeed not just in college, but all throughout their career in a rapidly changing environment."

On November 6, NYU Stern hosted the latest installment of the "In Conversation with Lord Mervyn King" series featuring Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief, Vogue, and artistic director, Condé Nast.

This program equips executives with a general understanding of accounting and financial principles as they relate to organizations' operations and decision-making processes.

Excerpt from euronews -- (translated from Spanish using Google Translate) "Foudy believes that if Trump loses the mid-term elections, a quick deal with Europe would be possible: 'Most trade negotiations are measured in years, sometimes in decades and not in months... I believe that if the President feels hurt in these elections, Europe could really see an opportunity to close a deal and see it in the next 3 or 4 months on the most favorable terms.'"

Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "This is tremendously important, not just because it gives employees the time and flexibility to vote, but because it provides them with another nudge that it's Election Day. When your CEO emails you and sends a calendar invite about the importance of voting, you get the message."

NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program hosted Innocence Project Staff Attorney Seema Saifee and Darryl Howard, who was exonerated after serving 24 years for a wrongful murder conviction, this fall.

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "NYU Stern School of Business released its 2018 MBA Employment Report at the end of last month, revealing that more graduates in the Class of 2018 had accepted full-time job offers three months after graduation than anytime in the past five years. Not only that, many recent grads reported a large jump in salary and bonuses."

Excerpt from InsideSources -- "'Money gets you access,' said Lawrence White, professor of economics at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'Even if it comes a Democratic Congress, and there’s financial reform regulation on the table, the Wall Street guys want to be able to talk to the staff of the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee,and just point out, here are the implications [from our end].'"

Excerpt from Forbes -- "'Given Tesla's struggles to scale production of the Model 3, someone with deep experience in managing large-scale, high-tech manufacturing and the associated supply chain might be extremely valuable for the board,' said Melissa Schilling, an innovation and strategy professor at New York University who has followed Tesla and SpaceX very closely and served on the National Academy of Sciences committee on 'Overcoming the Barriers to Adoption of Electric Vehicles.'"
 

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "I believe the real fire starter is the tobacco of our generation, social media, and the algorithms that have determined that the path to more engagement, clicks, and Nissan ads is paved in rage. The algorithms sense if you lean left or right, then begin shoving you to the poles and serving you increasingly provocative and extreme content you can’t turn away from, to scratch a tribal itch."
 

Excerpt from Digiday -- "'It’s costly to create an environment for training that doesn’t happen that often,' said Ghose. 'You’re trying to train employees for some weather-related disaster, so creating an environment like that in the real world is going to be tricky or expensive. So, why not have employees simulate that? In this way, you save a bunch of money.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'I think nobody knows what they (the U.S.) would view as a successful conclusion including, by the way, the Chinese. There is some confusion about the more precise aims of what this exercise are,' he said."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "'While the top three industries employing Stern students are consulting, investment banking, and tech, graduates are pursuing roles in a range of diverse areas including growing industries like fintech,' explained Briggs."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Kathleen DeRose, clinical associate professor of finance at NYU Stern School of Business in the US, says: 'Fintech is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy, and students will need an understanding of data science to be prepared for the future of work.' ... 'We are now seeing markets being recreated by machine learning, artificial intelligence, and decentralized consensus systems. It is an exciting and very interesting time.' [says Yermack]."

On November 5, the NYU Stern Military Veteran's Club will kick off Veterans Week.

Excerpt from The New York Post -- "And like the overall economy, New York state has a trade deficit with China, according to Joseph Foudy, an economics professor at New York University."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'There was a general perception that they would take money from anyone,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s business school who wrote a book called The Sharing Economy."
 

Excerpt from Advisor Perspectives -- "I am not optimistic about reversing the trend of the ever-rising estimates, but I found a way of substantially improving their accuracy and reliability, thereby enhancing the usefulness of reported earnings and asset values to investors."

Excerpt from VICE News -- "'It's way too soon to say that American elections are secure from online attacks,' Paul Barrett, the deputy director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU Stern School of Business, told VICE News."

Excerpt from Providence Business News -- "Gotta Have Sole is very important to me and while I am definitely focusing on my studies, I have incorporated it into my college life. I am the philanthropic chair of my fraternity and [fellow members] will be assisting with footwear deliveries to shelters in New York City."

On November 2, prospective doctoral candidates are invited to attend an Open House to learn more about the Stern PhD Program and meet Stern faculty and current PhD students.