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Excerpt from MBA Insight -- “With NYU Stern’s location in downtown New York City, we are in constant dialogue with leaders across industries to keep a pulse on business needs and to ensure we are consistently innovating to meet the market’s evolving needs. An innovation the School recently introduced is a new category of specialized MBA: our two new focused full-time MBA programs, the Andre Koo Technology and Entrepreneurship MBA and the Fashion & Luxury MBA. These one-year programs are designed for students who have a definitive career focus in technology, or fashion and luxury, and are designed to deliver a rigorous, real-world educational experience. The focused MBA programs are now offered in addition to Stern’s traditional two-year MBA program.”

Excerpt from the Luxury Daily-- "'Male beauty lines are still proliferating today because several well-established brands realize that without such products or services, they risk losing their existing customers to competing brands that already offer a beauty line,' said Thomaï Serdari, brand strategist and professor of luxury marketing at New York University and coeditor of 'Luxury: History Culture Consumption,' New York."

Excerpt from Entrepreneur-- "According to a study by Manoj Thomas, assistant professor of marketing at Cornell University, and Vicki Morwitz, research professor of marketing at New York University, people are quicker to respond to easy-to-calculate discounts. In the study, people surveyed saw easy-to-calculate discounts as being bigger discounts than difficult-to-calculate discounts -- even if they two were equal."

Excerpt from Forbes-- "Anindya Ghose, professor at New York University and advisor at Lucidity, talked about a recent success case out of several they have had with beta clients: 'Lucidity, Toyota and Saatchi & Saatchi collaborated to attain transparency in a three-week digital ad campaign, which yielded some 10 million Toyota ad impressions in the U.S. Lucidity was able to identify ad fraud or bot fraud to move spending to websites with higher performance. As a result, the campaign resulted in a 21% lift in visits to Toyota's website when compared to similar ad buys it made without Lucidity.'"

On November 30, 2018, NYU Stern's Executive MBA Program and NYU Washington DC hosted the second Stern EMBA Speaker Series event at NYU’s downtown DC location featuring EMBA alumna Baly Ambegaoker (MBA ‘15), Co-Founder, Chairwoman and Co-CEO of CENTERPOINT.

Excerpt from Digital Bulletin -- "I think visualization is now an interface that allows us to understand the world; anything from your smartphone to smart cities."

Excerpt from Recode -- "The market just loves monogamy, or specifically recurring revenue, and Microsoft for a long time has had just this tens of billions of dollars of recurring revenue in the form of Office. Satya Nadella and Microsoft, as we’re all barking at the moon and talking about Facebook and Apple, they just keep plugging along. It’s incredible."

Excerpt from Stamford Advocate-- "'That skepticism is entering into the areas of public pension funds and university endowments, which are major investors with hedge funds,' said Lawrence J. White, a professor of economics in New York University’s business school."

Excerpt from Bloomberg-- (34:02) "It's a buyer beware situation. You're buying those customers, but you're also buying the technology and the infrastructure, and part of that is making sure they now apply enough duct tape and chewing gum to make sure they lock this down. Once, somebody can get forgiven, twice, it's much, much worse."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'I would buy Apple because, to me, the cash flows are there and I can see it continuing to go back to that steady state,' the finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business said Friday on CNBC’s 'Squawk Alley.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'Professor Arthur Kroeber really opened our eyes to the impact of China on the global economy in the aptly titled "China’s Global Rise and its Economic Implications" elective during our second year. It was great to learn from an economic practitioner with many years of on-the-ground experience.'
Nate Kimball, New York University (Stern)"

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "'We begin working hand-in-hand with our MBA students on the recruitment process before they even arrive on campus for their first semester,' she says. 'Our early and continuous engagement, coupled with the quality of our students and a strong employment market in New York City, has led to great results across a variety of career paths.'"

Excerpt from YourStory-- "Timing is key; you need cash flow, or a source of capital, to come in at the right rate to build up production and distribution capacity, or you can suddenly find yourself insolvent and your business evaporates even if its underlying idea was a great one."

Excerpt from MM&M Magazine -- "Dr. Lechner says having more women in senior roles has been shown to make organizations less prone to sexual and gender harassment... 'It goes to the issue of how permissive is the organization of sexual harassment, and permissibility is tied to leadership,' she adds."

Excerpt from the ValueWalk-- "On October 24, NYU Stern hosted a fireside chat and reception to celebrate Professor Paul Romer winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "I think it's entirely plausible that we could be heading into a situation in which due to certain circumstances and the distribution of wealth and the distribution of health care, it's plausible that we could have engineered humans who succeed in life."

Excerpt from the The New York Times-- "The answer, probably, is the Dunning-Kruger effect: inept people are often confident in their abilities, because they’re too inept to know how badly they’re doing."

Excerpt from The Washington Post-- "'Today's Airbnbs are homes that are built for personal use that are somehow being adapted for occasional commercial use, but the next step is to rethink the home so that mixed-use is there from the get-go,' Sundararajan said."

Excerpt from Analytics Insight -- "'Our students gain a sense of confidence and credibility. Post-graduation, our students gain confidence by having technical capabilities to speak the language to understand how to work with data and become a translator of that information, or a disruptor of business thought and strategy in a positive and impactful way,' said Roy."
 

Excerpt from the The New York Post -- "'I really press my students in my entrepreneurship class to get over their fears and really do something,' says Pollack. 'In ethical philosophy, I tell them to contemplate owning their time and not living their parents’ dreams, but living their own.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "This is a point in time where [Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg] should be stepping up in front of the cameras, in front of the government regulators and reassuring them that Facebook is worthy of the public trust."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'You could have done better just by investing in Treasurys,' Prof. Yermack said in an interview, 'and that’s pretty sorry.'"

On Wednesday, November 28, NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business hosted a panel discussion entitled, “Impact Investing in the Creative Economy.”

Excerpt from Deloitte blog-- "Social Psychology research teaches us that to reduce intergroup conflict, leaders need to focus on superordinate goals, such as the overarching shared goal you have as an organization. We need to switch the frame away from ‘old vs young’ or ‘senior vs junior’, to focusing on the shared business outcomes we are trying to achieve together."

Excerpt from WFN1 CEO Money Business Show -- "I believe data visualization is a leadership skill for managers and executives. It's a way to create a culture within your business... a data-sharing culture."