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In an op-ed, Professor Amy Webb shares insights from her work as a futurist advising firms on strategic planning

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Excerpt from the Harvard Business Review -- "Deep uncertainty merits deep questions, and the answers aren’t necessarily tied to a fixed date in the future. Where do you want to have impact? What it will take to achieve success? How will the organization evolve to meet challenges on the horizon? These are the kinds of deep, foundational questions that are best addressed with long-term planning."
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Professor Paul Hardart discusses how companies use surprise drops as a marketing tactic

Excerpt from Adweek -- "'In pretty much every sector of the media landscape, from films to plays to music, we are seeing franchises and/or known artists with built-in awarenesses drawing the largest audiences,' said Paul Hardart, clinical professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business. 'People are busy, and getting their attention is hard. [Surprise] drops are a potential way to get consumer attention.'"
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Professor Richard Levich is quoted in a story on tech companies' desire for the Federal Reserve to create a real-time payments system

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "'What we need is an improvement in the payments and exchange system and not necessarily a new currency,' Richard Levich, professor of finance and international business at NYU’s Stern School of Business, told Regulatory Intelligence."
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Professor Lawrence White explains the historical context behind the use of the word "unskilled" in connection with low-wage jobs

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Since there are more people who could wait tables than who could be doctors, waitressing jobs pay less, White said. Yet use of the term in economics is not meant to qualify low-paying or high-paying jobs as being hard or easy."
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Professor Adam Alter's book, "Irresistible," is cited in an article on Instagram's move to hide likes

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Excerpt from PR Week -- "Adam Alter, author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, says our brain responds to receiving social media likes the same way it responds to drugs - and that not knowing how many likes you’ll get makes it highly addictive."
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Scholar-in-Residence Gary Friedland comments on recently finalized legislation in connection with the EB-5 immigrant investor program, based on his joint research with Professor Jeanne Calderon

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Gary Friedland, a scholar-in-residence at New York University Stern School of Business who has studied the EB-5 program, said he was surprised that an administration with ties to the real-estate industry is changing the program. 'Since Trump took office, we’ve been predicting that the regulations would be buried in regulatory purgatory, never completed,' he said."
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In an interview, Professor Jonathan Haidt shares his views on free speech and intellectual debates

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Excerpt from ABC News Australia -- "What I've learned in writing 'The Coddling of the American Mind' is that we have two mega-trends coming that are going to make things so much worse than they've been. And so one is social media, which is already here. Social media shreds any sense that we live in a shared world. It's very difficult to agree on facts, and that's likely to get worse and worse. The other mega-trend is the arrival of Gen Z."
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Professor Henry Assael is quoted in an article on the decline of company attack ads

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Across all industries, attack ads appear to be softening, according to Henry Assael, a marketing professor at New York University. 'Generally,' he said, 'the American consumer doesn’t like to see a fight going on — they would prefer to see just a straight story than one company attacking another.'"
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In an op-ed, Professor Ronni Burns shares insights from her volunteer work preparing former inmates for job interviews

Excerpt from the New York Daily News -- "The Fortune Society, one of the most respected criminal justice reentry and advocacy organizations in the country, is an amazing place. They truly know how to provide the services and support to give thousands what they so desperately need – a second chance, a shot at redemption, an opportunity to lead the lives they might have had. They see people for who they are, not their convictions. Many of the staff themselves were formerly incarcerated. Their mantra? 'Don’t define me by the worst thing I ever did.'"
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Professor Navin Manglani discusses Google's scrapped plans for a censored search engine in China

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "'The censorship required for Google and other tech companies make China a tricky market,' said Navin Manglani, professor of technology for NYU Stern School of Business. 'Furthermore, Chinese competitors often either implicit government support, through the government imposing significant regulations for non-Chinese companies, or explicit government support, through grants or funding. The government is quite leery of foreign companies achieving prominence in China.'"
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In an interview, Professor Richard Berner underscores the need for more data in the securities lending and hedge fund markets in order to regulate non-bank systemic risk

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Excerpt from Risk.net -- "'In securities lending there aren’t sufficiently granular data to do the analysis. We’ve made improvements in some other areas – money market funds and so on – but we need better data for financial intermediation that occurs outside of the banking system and in private markets where we lack data,' he says."
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Professor Anthony Karydakis is quoted in an article about falling yields from US government bonds

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "That impact, however, 'is probably going to be marginal at best,' said Anthony Karydakis, an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. The reason, he said, is that corporate borrowing will likely be slowed by worries about trade tensions."
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Professor Amy Webb is featured in a story about the Westworld panel at San Diego Comic-Con, which she moderated, and her work as a futurist

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Excerpt from Los Angeles Times --"'A while back, Google unveiled AutoML, a neural net that can build its own "children" to perform certain tasks,' she said. '"Westworld" spins out these ‘what-if’ scenarios many, many degrees — which is exactly what we do as futurists. We should all be asking what happens when just a few people build AI systems that will in turn build their own progeny.'"
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In an interview, Professor Arun Sundararajan shares his outlook on both FTC’s and the Justice Department's antitrust probes into Facebook

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Excerpt from Fox Business -- "'It certainly raises the bar on tech regulation in general. It’s very different from just a dollar fine or collective executive accountability,' Sundararajan told FOX Business. 'It’s possible that we will see directives to Apple and to Google and to others that ask for similar guarantees, but I think it’s unlikely.'"
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The 2019 Sustainable Procurement Barometer, research by the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business in partnership with Ecovadis, is spotlighted

Excerpt from Just Style -- "Developed by Ecovadis and NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business, it analyses data from 210 buying organisations across all industries and geographies, along with an independent study of suppliers conducted among 399 companies."
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In an in-depth interview, Lord Mervyn King offers his outlook on the future of the British economy

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think there are two different aspects to the question of no-deal. One is the likely longer run impact on the UK economy, which I think has been overplayed, considerably overplayed. No one really knows, but there's an awful lot of bogus pontification [or quantification?] going into the estimates of how bad it would be. The second issue, however, is the shorter term one: whether the immediate consequences can be managed. And that depends entirely on how much preparation has gone into it."
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Dean Raghu Sundaram joins other deans in sharing recommended summer reads for future business majors; Professor Dolly Chugh's book, "The Person You Mean to Be," is highlighted

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants for Undergrads -- "Author Tara Westover tells the story of her life growing up with no formal education in a survivalist household, and how she eventually completed her doctorate at Cambridge. It’s been chosen as the summer reading for all incoming NYU undergraduate students because the transition to college can be a step into a larger, more public, and more diverse world of ideas, people, and cultures. ... Chugh provides us with an eye-opening guide to becoming the person we’d truly like to be, and not just be a good person, but a good-ish person, who is always moving forward."
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Professor Nicholas Economides explains how some of Amazon's business practices could be considered antitrust behavior

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "'Once you start bundling irrelevant stuff like video service, which retailers cannot match, that creates the possibility of an antitrust issue, and this is something that may be investigated,' he said."
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The Dunning-Kruger effect, Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on self-perception, is referenced

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Excerpt from the The New York Times -- "David Dunning and Justin Kruger discussed the many reasons people who are the most incompetent (their word) seem to believe they know much more than they do. A lack of knowledge leaves some without the contextual information necessary to recognize mistakes, they wrote, and their 'incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it.'"
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Isser Gallogly, associate dean, MBA Admissions and Program Innovation, highlights Stern's MS in Accounting program in a feature story on specialized master's programs at New York City-based b-schools

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Excerpt from MiM Guide -- "'New York City offers unique advantages. After graduating from our program, many students begin their careers working in one of "The Big Four" large public accounting firms — Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG,' says Isser Gallogly, associate dean at NYU Stern, referring to the school’s one-year MS in Accounting course."
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To Address Public Pension and Infrastructure Funding Gaps, Connect the Two: NYU Stern Infrastructure Finance Initiative

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A new book by NYU Stern Professor Ingo Walter and co-author Clive Lipshitz illustrates the challenges facing America’s public pension system and its public infrastructure and suggests solutions to both, particularly by connecting the two.
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Professor Jonathan Haidt shares his outlook on democracy in the United States

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Excerpt from The Australian -- "'I am now very pessimistic,' Haidt said. 'I think there is a very good chance American democracy will fail, that in the next 30 years we will have a catastrophic failure of our democracy.'"
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Stern EMBA Speaker Series: Jo Ann Jenkins

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On July 19, 2019, NYU Stern's Executive MBA Program and NYU Washington DC hosted a Stern EMBA Speaker Series event at NYU’s downtown DC location featuring Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO of AARP.
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In a podcast interview, Professor Baruch Lev offers suggestions on how firms can share relevant, useful information with their investors

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Excerpt from IR Magazine -- "Price comes, of course, from the stock market, from this floor, but book value comes from accounting. And it's completely mistaken, particularly because of this expensing of all intangibles. When we correct book values of companies—for the expensing of R&D, for the expensing of other intangibles—meaning we capitalize and amortize, rather than expense them immediately, we get substantially higher income from value investing. I mean, it's almost double."
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Professor Adam Alter's book, "Irresistible," is cited in an article on Instagram's design updates

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Excerpt from Marie Claire UK -- "New York University professor Adam Alter, author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked explains that when we get ‘likes’ on social media our brain releases dopamine, known as the pleasure chemical."