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In a discussion hosted by NYU Stern’s Leadership Development Initiative, Dr. David Rock, Co-founder and Director of the NeuroLeadership Institute, spoke to MBA students on March 27 about key neuroscience research findings that have implications for improving leadership best practices.

Excerpt from BNN -- "The amount of contracts outstanding linked to interest rates like Libor and Euribor et cetera, those are in the region of 600 to 700 trillion dollars, so the sheer size of these markets has increased tremendously, and that increases the potential for profit if one is able to manipulate one or other of these rates or prices. On the other hand, the technology for detection of manipulation has also improved... so we are able to trace things that probably we were not able to even a few years ago. So these two factors are at work, but my own feeling is, given the stakes that are at work here, the incentive to manipulate has been substantial and a few unscrupulous people have been able to derive substantial profits and, of course, a few are being caught today."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "Back to this whole idea that innovation changes radically when companies go public: This is how innovation happens for publicly traded companies. They go in and they make these deals, they make these acquisitions, they invest in things to kind of grow the portfolio as opposed to deepening what they are already in."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "First of all, you have a bunch of countries that are fragile independent of the Fed, like Argentina and Venezuela and the domestic political and economic dynamic of it is going to matter more than what the Fed does... Secondly, I would say that within Latin America, there are some countries that are actually much more sensitive to the China risk rather than the Fed risk. Take, for example, Peru or Chile... For them, Fed normalization is not going to be a big shock."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "...it's back to what the firm has done well for a long time, which is the Office suite. But it's kind of saying we're going to favor one of the children of the company as opposed to the other, as opposed to trying to keep them together as they've been doing for the last 20-something years."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, said Citi Bike's success supported an argument for more private financing from higher fees and more corporate sponsorship -- not public funding. 'Right now the large revenue bet should be on annual subscribers,' he said. If annual memberships rose to as much as $140, 'it seems very unlikely to me that a lot of people would not renew because of price.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "There's differences between culture and differences within the company, but when you think about the example you're setting for your own organization in some ways, about what responsibility means within your organization and kind of how you think about conveying bad news...that sends a signal for how bad news should be conveyed within an organization if you send it out by text message."

Excerpt from CBS -- "Apart from New York and Las Vegas, I think in pretty much every other US city in ten years, taxi service is going to be completely dominated by these platforms."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "The model is that they [the theaters] share the revenues from the tickets with the studios who get the bulk of the revenue right up front."

Excerpt from TIME -- “'In the future, donors will be a lot more circumspect and skeptical about putting in money, especially in projects where they could have even an inkling of an idea that this might be bought out by a tech giant like Google, Facebook, or Apple,' says Anindya Ghose, a professor at New York University who studies the crowdfunding sector. 'They do not believe in backing projects for financial, commercial reasons. For them it’s a lot about a cause or altruism.'”

Excerpt from Forbes -- "NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran updated his take on Tesla on his blog this week, admitting the company has made significant strides since he last pegged its value at around $67 a share last September. Still, for all the projected positives, Damodaran doesn’t see enough to justify the current lofty price levels and puts the current value somewhere between $99 and $119 (depending on the timing of option exercises)."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Lord King of Lothbury — also known as former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King – has taken up a teaching post at New York University. NYU said Wednesday Mr. King will join the faculties of both its Stern School of Business and School of Law in fall."

New York University Stern School of Business and New York University School of Law today announced that Lord King, the former head of the Bank of England, will join the faculty of both schools in the fall 2014 semester.

The NYU Stern Center for Business & Human Rights and The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre welcome Christine Bader, author of The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, for a book talk and signing.

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'Last time around it took them two years to normalize from 5 to 5.25, too little too late … they created the biggest housing, real estate credit and equity bubble,' Roubini said Tuesday on CNBC's 'Closing Bell.'"

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "The study — entitled Buffett’s Alpha — was published last November by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Its authors, all of whom boast strong academic credentials, work for AQR Capital Management, a money management firm: Andrea Frazzini and Lasse Pedersen, both finance professors at New York University, and David Kabiller, one of AQR’s founders."

Excerpt from The Daily Beast -- “'We commissioned the study to assess and evaluate the content of the textbooks with the intention of sharing our findings with the Saudi government and with the option, depending on the findings, of making it public if the problems persisted,' Posner told the Daily Beast."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Should leaders who want to create high-performing companies try to foster feelings of wonder in their employees? The evidence suggests that the answer is yes. Not only is wonder a component of The Third Metric, but it has been shown to move the meter on the other three components: well-being, wisdom, and giving."

Christopher Howard, president of Hampden-Sydney College, joined Dean Peter Henry and MBA students for NYU Stern’s Block Lunch event series.

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "In our negotiation course, we talk about preparation being 70% of negotiation. That's the opposite intuition that most of us have. We picture negotiation success happens at the table. What we teach in our course is it's exactly the opposite. It happens before you get to the table. That's part of preparation, having those kinds of conversations with people inside the organization, people outside the organization, people who know you well, people who know the industry well, people who know the labor market for your particular set of skills well. All of these are data points that give you a sense of what's appropriate."

Excerpt from The New Republic -- “'If it escalates along the lines you suggest, it will lead to a global recession with a particularly strong negative effect on Europe at the wrong time,' said Michael Spence, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'When they meet a long distance away, they really don’t want a lot of attention — they want to keep people from attending,' says co-author David Yermack, a New York University finance professor who studies corporate boards and related issues. Poor performance is worse when companies suddenly switch to an out-of-town meeting after years of meeting close to home."

Excerpt from Harvard Business Review -- "And in CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson’s new book, The Talent Equation, written with Lorin Hitt of the Wharton School and Prasanna Tambe of NYU’s Stern School, additional research shows that these more educated employees are delivering results, as measured by costs subtracted from total sales, and divided by number of employees."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- “'We’re seeing rapid depreciation for IT skills,' said Sonny Tambe, professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and an expert on the high-tech workforce. 'So what happens to engineers over 40? You go to Silicon Valley [and ask that question] and you can see the panic in some people’s eyes.'”

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Sonia Marciano, a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, said her students expected more than big bonuses these days. 'My students, men and women, talk much more openly about an expectation of work-life balance,' said Ms. Marciano, who has been teaching for 20 years. 'It’s a shift that seems pretty real and substantial.'”