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Prof. Arun Sundararajan says anonymous data is now a "gray area"

Excerpt from GigaOM -- " ... rules about protecting users’ personally identifiable information aren’t as meaningful as they once were. During a recent conversation with NYU Stern School of Business professor Arun Sundararajan about intent-based privacy, he called anonymity a 'gray area.'"
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Prof. Thomas Philippon argues for a Eurobills market

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'A market for Eurobills can start small, improve financial stability and banking regulation, and provide much needed liquidity to solvent countries,' say its creators, French economist Christian Hellwig and New York University economist Thomas Philippon."
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Assistant Dean Isser Gallogly on Stern's part-time MBA program

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Excerpt from Find-MBA.com -- "Isser Gallogly, assistant dean of MBA admissions at NYU's Stern School of Business, Stern's part-time program is generally for 'people who like their industry, like their function, and are seeking the knowledge that an MBA program can provide them to do better and go further in their careers.'"
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Prof. Thomas Cooley on the euro zone crisis

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- “I don’t think we’ll get all the way to the unraveling of the euro system. The way they are approaching solutions to it is the one that’s going to cause the most possible pain and damage to the countries on the periphery.”
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Maria Bartiromo's speech at the 2012 Stern Graduate Convocation ceremony is featured

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo delivered the commencement address at NYU Stern last week, and she told graduates about the time in 1993 when Lou Dobbs said she was making the biggest mistake of her career by leaving CNN."
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Research by Prof. Aswath Damodaran on miners' return on capital is cited

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Excerpt from Reuters blog -- "Miners’ average return on capital was 19 percent in January, according to data from Aswath Damodaran at New York University. The industry’s average cost of capital in 10 percent. Fast back to 2000, before the China boom kicked off, and returns were at 6 percent."
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Prof. Anindya Ghose on the Facebook IPO

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Excerpt from MSNBC -- "Anindya Ghose, an associate professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, reckons the bankers pricing the deal overestimated the company’s projected revenue growth rate. With a more modest outlook for future revenue growth, he reckons Facebook shares would be worth a price 'in the mid to upper 20s' -- closer to the first estimate of $28 the company gave investors."
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Prof. Anindya Ghose comments on the price of Facebook stock

Excerpt from Ignites -- "The correct price for the stock is in the upper 20s, according to Anindya Ghose, associate professor and Robert & Dale Atkins Rosen faculty fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business. He notes several factors that may be contributing to the falling share price: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who he says is not very popular with investors, bad timing, the structure of the IPO and concerns about Facebook itself."
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Research by Prof. Thomas Philippon finds the financial industry less efficient than in the past

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "In fact, for all its innovation, the financial industry of today is less efficient than it was in the age of the railway, according to research by Thomas Philippon at New York University. That is, it charges the rest of society more for financial intermediation than it did 130 years ago."
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An op-ed by Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on why some economies stop growing

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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "If invested in infrastructure, education, and external financial assets, natural-resource revenues can accelerate growth. But, too often, such revenues distort economic incentives, which come to favor rent-seeking and interfere with the diversification that is essential for growth."
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Prof. Kim Schoenholtz on the US bond market

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Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "'The bond market is not imposing discipline on us as borrowers,' says Kim Schoenholtz, professor of management practice at NYU's Stern School of Business. 'Often countries are compelled to [consolidate] when markets charge them a risk premium. For the moment markets are not charging the U.S. a risk premium.'"
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An op-ed by Prof. Ralph Gomory on rebuilding US manufacturing in a mercantilist world

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "So even in a mercantilist world, and even within the limited framework of what we have traditionally done, we could act to incent production here and to balance trade."
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Prof. Vicki Morwitz's research on budgeting by month vs. by year is cited

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Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "Research by the University of Southern California's Gulden Ulkumen, Cornell University's Manoj Thomas, and New York University's Vicki Morwitz found that college students were about 40 percent off-target when budgeting by the month, but only 3 percent off when thinking by the year."
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An op-ed by Prof. Aswath Damodaran on Facebook's IPO

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Much as I would like to believe that the pricing of Facebook in the IPO was based upon an assessment of the fundamentals, I am a realist. Much of what passes for valuation on Wall Street and corporate boardrooms is not valuation, but pricing."
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Prof. Kim Schoenholtz on the US bond market

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Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "'The bond market is not imposing discipline on us as borrowers,' says Kim Schoenholtz, professor of management practice at NYU's Stern School of Business. 'Often countries are compelled to [consolidate] when markets charge them a risk premium. For the moment markets are not charging the U.S. a risk premium.'"
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Prof. Joseph Foudy believes Facebook was valued too high

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Excerpt from International Business Times -- "'The fact that [Facebook has] gone down in price is purely a reflection of the initial offering price and the fact that it was so rich. I mean the company's valued at something like 75 or 100 times earnings and we really have no indication that its going to be able to earn the kind of revenue that would justify that valuation,' said Foudy."
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Prof. Joel Hasbrouck on how the divergent valuations of Facebook affected NASDAQ

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Excerpt from Fox Business -- " ... Joel Hasbrouck, a finance professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, who believes the troubles suffered by Nasdaq were a function of 'wildly divergent beliefs' about Facebook’s valuation. 'That would stress just about any market,' he said"
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NYU Stern Establishes Center for Global Economy and Business

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Building on its strengths in economics, finance and global commerce, New York University Stern School of Business has established the Center for Global Economy and Business to promote faculty research into the global aspects of modern economies and business.
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Stern grads are cited for seeking jobs in diverse industries, such as finance, luxury goods & media

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Graduates from NYU Stern, most noted as a finance school, also do well in luxury goods and the media industry. Christian Dior, Estée Lauder and Tiffany have all recruited there this year, along with Disney, LinkedIn and Quidsi, the retailing division of Amazon."
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Prof. Nicholas Economides says the ECB, not the US, must rescue Greece

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"The U.S. is not able to contribute in any way with the new funds established 'European'' and the response to the crisis, starting with the rescue of Greece'' must come from Frankfurt , in the form of a substantial expansion of funding for the firewall, the trench fighting for the common currency (Italian to English translation)."
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Prof. Anindya Ghose says Facebook's biggest challenge is its privacy policies

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Excerpt from Xinhua -- "'One of the biggest challenges Facebook has faced is its privacy policies,' Anindya Ghose, professor of New York Stern School of Business, expressed his concern about the social network's future."
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Prof. Paul Romer argues good cities are built from good rules

Excerpt from ArtInfo.com -- "A good city, according to Romer, is built not on street layouts, transit designs, and housing projects, but on good rules. Rules are what predicate Romer's contentious 'charter city' concept, which instructs countries to graft new cities onto unused land and govern them with imported 'charters.'"
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Prof. Yakov's Amihud's research shows the consequences of a transactions tax

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Excerpt from MSNBC -- “A transactions tax will end up punishing Main Street, hurting the economy and reducing U.S. Treasury revenues in the next few years. It will thus exacerbate the effects of the financial crisis.”
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Stern's new Loan Assistance Program for MBA graduates with careers in social enterprise is featured

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "The New York University Stern School of Business, with its Social Enterprise Association MBA Club, recently established a Loan Assistance Program for full-time, part-time, and EMBA graduates who pursue careers in social enterprise. Unlike most programs of its kind, this one makes more people eligible."
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Prof. Scott Galloway discusses the Nasdaq trading debut of Facebook

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Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "Underwriters have never had as much information on a stock before its gone public [as they did with Facebook] ... "