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Prof. Robert Salomon on Staples's acquisition of Office Depot

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "The rise of big-box stores and online retailers like Amazon have since changed the competitive landscape, says Robert Salomon, an associate professor of management and organizations at NYU's Stern School of Business."
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MBA student Lindsey Melki and Michael Petit (MBA '14) are highlighted in a story on veterans pursuing MBA degrees

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Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Lindsey came to the high-ranking business school after a career piloting Blackhawk helicopters over Iraq and training thousands of US soldiers, many of whom may soon enter the civilian workforce. 'Coming to Stern is the first step I’m taking as I prepare to move into the corporate realm,' she told NYU Stern’s website. 'I feel the army has given me the leadership experience I need. There are other areas of business in which I still have a lot to learn.'"
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Prof. Nicholas Economides on Greece's relationship with the ECB

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Excerpt from Fortune -- "Without fresh funding, Greece could go bankrupt by mid-2015 at the latest. 'This puts the ECB in the most central position,' says Economides. 'The ECB is in a position to throw Greece out of the Euro. They’re not politicians, they’re a bank. Depending on the ECB is an extremely risky position for the new government to put themselves in.'"
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Prof. Kim Schoenholtz on when the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "In some sense, you could argue that when the Fed starts to normalize after this very unusual period, that that will be actually psychologically helpful because it will tell the world that the US is back on a normalization path. That will be a sign of health. I don't expect the Fed to rush into this. In fact, you could argue that, with oil prices having fallen so far, that that will give the Fed a bit of a chance to be even more patient. Inflation is lower and we have had a positive supply-side shock. If anything, the textbook response to that is to wait longer."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini outlines factors contributing to inequality

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Before we find a policy solution, we have to understand the reason why there is this rising inequality. I think it's a combination of factors that are complicated. One is that technological innovation is becoming increasingly capital-intensive, skill-biased and labor saving. Eventually, the robots are going to replace lots of not just blue collar, but even white collar jobs. And, secondly, trade and globalization has lead to competition from Asia and other parts of the world for low-value-added, low-skill jobs, both in manufacturing but now in services... Third of all, there is this winner-take-all, superstar effect. If you are the best trader, the best banker, the best lawyer... of course you now have a market of potentially billions of consumers of your products and services. And therefore, they can enjoy more of the benefits of globalization. So there are many different factors that are leading to this concentration of income and wealth."
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Prof. Thomaï Serdari on Bottega Veneta's new multimedia microsite

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Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "'For a brand like Bottega Veneta, a brand of inconspicuous quality that relies heavily on the quality of materials, design and craftsmanship, building the microsite is a studied strategic initiative,' said Thomaï Serdari, Ph.D. brand strategist and adjunct professor of marketing at New York University, New York. 'It allows the brand to tell the story of the product and treat it as an exceptional entity amongst its other offerings.'"
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Prof. Arun Sundararajan's congressional testimony on the sharing economy is cited

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Excerpt from AFP -- "Arun Sundararajan, a New York University economist who studies the sharing economy, told a January congressional hearing that 'this transition will have a positive impact on economic growth and welfare, by stimulating new consumption, by raising productivity, and by catalyzing individual innovation and entrepreneurship.'"
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Prof. Stephen Brown's research on the Dow Theory is featured

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Excerpt from Marketwatch -- "Consider a study conducted in the mid-1990s by three finance professors — Stephen J. Brown of New York University, William Goetzmann of Yale University and Alok Kumar of the University of Miami. They fed Hamilton’s market-timing editorials from the early decades of the past century into neural networks, a type of artificial-intelligence software that can be 'trained' to detect patterns. Upon testing this neural network version of the Dow Theory over the nearly 70-year period from 1930 to the end of 1997, they found that it beat a buy-and-hold strategy by an annual average of 4.4 percentage points. Their study appeared in the August 1998 Journal of Finance."
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Prof. Arun Sundararajan discusses contract employment in the sharing economy

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Excerpt from WIRED -- "'The broader context here is for us to start thinking about a safety net that is creative, that is not contingent on employment by a large company,' says Arun Sundarajaran, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on reports of Google and Uber developing driverless cars

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Excerpt from San Francisco Chronicle -- "New York University finance Professor Aswath Damodaran said the entire brouhaha centers on a fantasy. 'What we have is two companies supposedly fighting over a market that does not even exist,' he wrote in an e-mail."
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Prof. Nicholas Economides on the future of Greece's economy

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Without European loan support, Greece will run out of money in March, possibly sooner,' said Nicholas Economides, professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'This could result in a new Greek bankruptcy within the euro or even a "grexit,"' the term used for a Greek withdrawal from the common currency."
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Prof. Anindya Ghose's research on the link between Craigslist and HIV is featured

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Excerpt from Newsweek -- "Conducted by Jason Chan, assistant professor of information and decision sciences at the University of Minnesota and professor Anindya Ghose from NYU’s Stern School of Business, the study revealed a surprising increase in cases of HIV when a city adopted the intermediary service provider."
Research Center Events

Economic Outlook Forum

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The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business will host the Economic Outlook Forum on February 3, 2015.
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Prof. Melissa Schilling's amicus brief on the Forest Laboratories anti-trust case is cited

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Excerpt from Clinical Leader -- "But will the ruling promote competition and consumer welfare, or will it have the exact opposite effect? Attorneys from the law firm Ballard Spahr, along with Melissa Schilling, a professor from New York University’s Stern School of Business, have filed an amicus brief on behalf of 12 leading professors of management, organization, and policy supporting an appeal of the district court ruling. The brief notes the high cost of research and development will result in the injunction having the opposite effect. According to the brief, 'To the contrary, it is inefficient and anti-competitive to force a company to continue to support a product that it has replaced and for which the government’s witness agrees there is no 'market need.'"
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In an op-ed, NYU Global Research Prof. Ian Bremmer explains how companies can thrive during geopolitical crises

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Excerpt from Strategy + Business -- "Sustaining a business in uncertain times requires executives to prioritize stability, resilience, and relationship management. Underpinning all three is a shift in strategic direction—from a focus on growth above all else to a focus on having enough. You make your company prosper enough by maintaining and improving the quality and caliber of what you do. You decentralize your business enough so that the parts can be strong if the whole faces risk. And you maintain and improve the relationships that your business depends on enough by integrating them with your whole company. Developing these executive practices won’t shield you from crisis, but it will help ensure that when the dust settles, your company is not just standing, but moving forward."
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Prof. Justin Kruger discusses his research on punctuality

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'This is a judgment that you’d think that people would be motivated to get right,' said Justin Kruger, a social psychologist and professor in the marketing department at NYU’s Stern School of Business. 'There are all sorts of disincentives and punishments for being late, and the paradox is we’re late even when those punishments and consequences exist.'"
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Prof. Arun Sundararajan on Instacart, a grocery delivery app

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Sundararajan argued that this business model is risky for Instacart and other firms like it because it hands over so much control to workers who don't feel particularly invested in the company's overall health. Workers have detailed similar experiences at other rapidly growing apps, Uber and HomeJoy among them. Sundararajan suggested that a company like Instacart consider, at minimum, pairing newbie shoppers with expert mentors when they are starting out. 'Eventually these companies’ brand comes from consistent high quality, and that rests almost entirely in the hands of freelance workers,' Sundararajan said. 'It’s simply smart capitalism to have a healthy workforce of people motivated to work for you.'"
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Prof. Scott Galloway on the decline of RadioShack

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'I wouldn't even call this a failure. I'd call it an assisted suicide,' says Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at New York University's Stern Business School. 'It's amazing it's taken this long for this company to go out of business.'"
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In an op-ed, Prof. Michelle Greenwald evaluates this year's Super Bowl commercials

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "The temptation in developing Super Bowl ads is to go part way: to create the ads that seem clever in some way, but not strategically sound or effective in achieving important brand objectives. Having been on both the client and agency side, I know first-hand that it can be a tricky balancing act managing the creative process between brands and agency creative teams. The challenge and management skill is to not ... stifle creativity, but also not to loose the incredibly valuable opportunity to increase positive brand understanding. In the end, advertising, no matter how subtle and two-way the communication, is about making more people want to buy, benefit from, or identify with brands."
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Assistant Dean Isser Gallogly on the appeal of an MBA to veterans

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Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "'Many veterans joined the military to feel a sense of purpose, and upon transitioning to civilian life they want to continue to feel this sense of purpose in their future careers,' says Isser Gallogly, assistant dean of MBA admissions at NYU Stern."
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Prof. Michael Posner discusses the shift of power from governments to corporations

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Excerpt from BBC -- "When we came out of World War II in the 1940s and created the United Nations, the assumption was that governments were all-powerful; they could handle anything. And we live in a very different world today. ... If you look at the global economy, half of the world's largest economies today are actually not states. Half of the biggest economies are private companies. So, Walmart is the 31st biggest economy in the world, roughly the size of Belgium or Nigeria or the Philippines. And I think we haven't really adjusted to those changes."
 
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Prof. Andrea Bonezzi's research on retail therapy is highlighted

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Excerpt from Chicago Tribune -- "Buying stuff to make ourselves feel better after a failure is not only expensive but could backfire and lead us to think more about our shortcomings, according to the study, 'Perils of Compensatory Consumption,' by Rucker, the Northwestern professor, Monika Lisjak of Erasmus University, Andrea Bonezzi of New York University and Soo Kim of Cornell University. Just as bad, retail therapy can strip consumers of mental resources and impair their self-control, the study says. And less self-control has been shown to potentially lead to excessive spending."
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Prof. Scott Galloway explains how TurboTax can fix its reputation after a price-increase controversy

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "When a company messes up, three things need to happen, Galloway says. 'The first is to acknowledge the issue, to basically admit that you made a mistake,' he says. 'The second is to have the top guy or gal make that admission – so to get the CEO front and center. And the third is to overcorrect. To offer consumers a better deal than they originally had. Those are the only three things you need to remember, and they are consistently ignored.'"
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In an op-ed, Dean Peter Henry argues that capitalism creates jobs

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Excerpt from OZY -- "What no one is saying is this: We need more jobs — and capitalism creates them. If we continue on this trend of bashing capital and open markets, our labor markets don’t stand a chance."
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In an op-ed, Prof. Nouriel Roubini discusses the effectiveness of unconventional monetary policies

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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "Simply put, we live in a world in which there is too much supply and too little demand. The result is persistent disinflationary, if not deflationary, pressure, despite aggressive monetary easing. The inability of unconventional monetary policies to prevent outright deflation partly reflects the fact that such policies seek to weaken the currency, thereby improving net exports and increasing inflation. This, however, is a zero-sum game that merely exports deflation and recession to other economies."