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A team of four Stern MBA students won the ninth annual National Energy Finance Challenge on October 18, 2013, in Austin, TX.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "New York University professor and valuation expert Aswath Damodaran says that it doesn't make sense that a fund firm would keep Twitter's price constant throughout 2012, even as prices of other social-media companies changed sharply. 'What it effectively means is that the old investors of the fund are going to lose money to the people who are able to buy the fund now at a depressed price,' Mr. Damodaran says. 'It's not fair to existing shareholders if others can exploit dated pricing.'"

Excerpt from NBC News -- “'There are lots of people who are hesitant about posting on Airbnb because of the lack of clarity about what’s legal and what’s not; this will only add to that,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business. 'It may also give people who may be coming to the city pause about whether it’s OK or not for them to stay at an Airbnb.'”

Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "Aswath Damodaran, a professor of finance at NYU, thinks Congress's latest deliberations over the debt ceiling didn't change anything for the dollar or U.S. bonds."

On October 18, 2013, NYU Stern's Association of Hispanic and Black Business Students (AHBBS) will host their Inaugural C-Suite Symposium: "Finding Your Passion in Corporate America."

The Advisory Board of the NYU Stern Center for Real Estate Finance Research and Bloomberg invite you to a full-day exploration of four current hot topics in real estate finance.

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The global economy faces tremendous trials in the coming years: growth, employment, and distributional challenges in many advanced and developing countries; far-reaching institutional reform in Europe; the complex middle-income transition in China; and the continuing need to reduce poverty worldwide. Managing them effectively requires designing a system of global governance in which one country’s internal politics cannot jeopardize all countries’ prospects."

Lord Mervyn King, Distinguished Visiting Professor at NYU and former head of the Bank of England, recently spoke to NYU Stern faculty and students at an event hosted by the Center for Global Economy and Business.

Excerpt from AP TV -- "If it just kicks the problem down the road a week, that's a little bit of a relief, but at least we didn't go over the cliff this week, but gee, now we have to worry about next week."

Excerpt from Stern Opportunity -- "Will universities fight or embrace the sea change coming to higher education? I hope they will embrace the change. Of course, the skeptic will say: 'Wouldn’t universities, in this case, be acting against their own self-interest?' I think not. It is surely the smart bet to be a part of a revolution that will bring affordable education to more and more of the planet. Opportunities to make a living from such a grand enterprise will surely emerge – and it will surely be much harder to take advantage of these opportunities from the sidelines."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Here's what I think is the key thing. Angela Ahrendts has always been ahead of the curve in redefining things. She took Burberry from a $2 billion market capitalization company to a $7 billion market capitalization company through innovation. And so I think you have to assume that somebody as smart as she is knows what she's doing this and in her view is a new challenge. She's breaking the mold yet again."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In my Managing Change elective, taught by a Principal at Booz & Company who is in the Organization, Change and Leadership practice, I’ve met new classmates who are also in management consulting. It’s been interesting to hear their viewpoints on the cases that we’ve discussed as they bring a higher level, strategic approach to analyzing opportunities and challenges. Having been in the retail industry for 18 years, I’ve developed my own expertise in driving opportunities and creating additional value within retail. Gaining a new perspective from my Stern classmates has been invaluable."

In a new study, NYU Stern Professor Adam Alter and his co-authors, Stern alumnus Eesha Sharma (PhD '13) of Dartmouth College, Dan Ariely of Duke University and Nina Mazar of the University of Toronto, find that people believe financial constraints should not excuse immoral conduct. However, when people actually feel worse off financially, they loosen their own moral standards to redress the perceived unfairness of their situation.

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "[Druckenmiller] and Canada are simply convinced that only a Vietnam-war-scale movement by the young can break through the web of special interests to force politicians to put in place the reforms that would actually secure both today’s seniors and future seniors, today’s middle class and the wanna-be middle class. (Watch their N.Y.U. presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbgIiAnpcPc)."

Excerpt from VentureBeat -- “[The layer design] is not confusing. We all now expect bright colors. We are increasingly addicted to more stimulation, gradation, nuances. Everything has temporariness to it, short shelf life. We’re not looking for anything fixed [or] stable. We came to terms with instability… [It feels like] sometimes it’s there, sometimes not. It’s not committed. It’s reflective of the times.”

Excerpt from Institute for New Economic Thinking -- "If Congress and the White House fail to raise the debt ceiling this week and the United States defaults on its debt, what can we expect and how can we protect ourselves against these events?"

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "In developed markets, who drives luxury? Affluent people. In emerging markets, it's actually middle-class consumers. The average luxury consumer in the U.S. has $175,000 in income, she's 53 and it is a she. She spends $3,000 a year on handbags. The average luxury consumer in China makes $17,000, is 33 and spends $2,000 on handbags. The emerging middle class in these developing markets loves luxury."

Excerpt from Crain's New York -- "'The role of elite business schools should be to identify those big issues that have material relevance in the world,' said Mr. Henry, 44. 'If you have a deep interest in finance, we can make you a far more effective allocator of capital and a more impactful professional.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "JPMorgan has been singled out by regulators with 'unprecedented aggressiveness,' NYU’s Smith said in an e-mail. 'Most of these settlements either would not have been necessary or would have been for much lesser amounts in Weill’s time.'”

Excerpt from Forbes -- "[Baumols' Cost Disease] is the idea that it’s much easier to improve productivity in some areas than it is in others. Specifically, Baumol is addressing the difficulty of improving labour productivity in services as against the ease with which it can be increased in manufacturing. It is this which tells us that we should expect health care and college costs to rise faster than general inflation because these are largely services provided by human labour."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'If there is not an agreement, the resulting financial damage could even tip us into a recession,' especially because the economy is growing at a relatively paltry rate of 1.5 to 2 percent, the New York University economist said."

Excerpt from The Chicago Tribune -- "NYU's Sundararajan said consumers have clearly seen value in online services like Airbnb and Uber and regulators should create space for them. 'I'm not arguing that we should not have any regulation at all,' he said. 'But these are clearly things that people want and things that aren't inherently unsafe. So let's create a simple framework.'"

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "My advice for women early in their careers is to establish themselves as a brand that can evolve over time. Figure out what your brand stands for and how your brand can adapt as you grow in your career."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Aswath Damodaran, a professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, is among those who think that too many companies rely too heavily on the performance of their shares when computing executive compensation. 'I’m a great believer in markets, but sometimes we need more attention paid to what did this management do to the value of the company and less to what did this management do to the price of the stock,' he said. 'I would like to see compensation systems where managers are rewarded based on what kind of projects they are working on and how big their returns on invested capital are.'”

Excerpt from Forbes -- "To explore the new implications of this vastly improved evolutionary theory for business, we recently organized a one-day symposium at Stern titled 'Darwin’s Business: New Evolutionary Thinking About Cooperation, Groups, Firms and Societies.' The conference featured an international roster of experts on evolution, economics, and human nature."