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Professor Dolly Chugh offers advice for companies to successfully manage cross-generational teams

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Excerpt from Livemint -- "Psychologist Dolly Chugh of NYU Stern School of Business points out that when it comes to inclusive behaviour, it is important to keep in mind that we are all “a work-in-progress". Irrespective of the generation we belong to, we may have certain “ordinary privileges" that others may not have access to."
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In a radio interview, MBA student Amy Nordrum emphasizes the importance of science journalism for understanding emerging technologies

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Excerpt from NPR -- "’Right now I work at a publication that is tailored to professional engineers in all different kinds of fields but that doesn't mean that they're experts necessarily in the field we're writing about. So in a lot of ways, it's also similar to writing for a broader audience, in which you need to define your terms, you need to remove jargon and you need to try to translate these developments in technology and engineering for people who are outside of that specialized field.’”
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Professor Michael Posner discusses how the spread of disinformation on social media could impact the 2020 election cycle

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Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "Tech companies have not clarified their policies for handling deepfakes or more crudely edited and demonstrably false videos, said Michael Posner, the director of New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights who researches disinformation."
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Stern's MBA program is highlighted for its top ranking in finance

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Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "Located in New York City, the financial capital of the world, NYU Stern offers an excellent MBA program for a career in finance. The curriculum spans everything from microfinance to global banking, sales and trading, public finance, and M&A. And in 2018, 33.8 percent of the graduating MBA class went into financial services—more than any other industry."
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Professor David Yermack's comments on bitcoin at the Mapping the Financial Frontier Conference are featured

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Excerpt from Crowdfund Insider -- "So very famously, the first block of the Bitcoin blockchain, which was created on January 3, 2009, it has the headline from that morning’s Times of London, that the chancellor’s on the brink of a second bailout for the British banking system. And this is there really to announce to the world that there is a better way and to throw down a challenge to the existing financial system that we are going to put you out of business if you don’t adapt and recognize that there’s a better way to do payments and transfers."
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Professor Joseph Foudy explains how higher tariffs may threaten business operations in China

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Excerpt from CGTN -- "'Firms are A,B,C – Anywhere But China,' explains Joseph Foudy, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'And so they are just radically reducing their exposure because even if we get an agreement today, who’s to say that it doesn’t break down, and we’re not looking at a new round of tariffs late this year or early next year?'"
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Stern's MBA program is highlighted for its top ranking in finance

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Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "Located in New York City, the financial capital of the world, NYU Stern offers an excellent MBA program for a career in finance. The curriculum spans everything from microfinance to global banking, sales and trading, public finance, and M&A. And in 2018, 33.8 percent of the graduating MBA class went into financial services—more than any other industry."
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Professor David Yermack discusses the impact Facebook's virtual currency proposal could have on the payments industry

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The idea marks a 'long overdue' attack by Big Tech on the payments industry, says David Yermack, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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Executive Education Short Course: Leadership Training for High Potentials

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This program will introduce you to a variety of analytical frameworks related to leadership and will focus on how to apply those frameworks to analyze and address important leadership challenges.
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Professor Julia Hur offers her perspective on how employee requests for reimbursements may indicate a desire for higher compensation

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Julia Hur, an assistant professor at New York University, blames performance incentives. 'Crazy reimbursement is a kind of expression of strong desire for more money,' she said, adding that performance incentives make people think about money and as a result, they become obsessed with getting reimbursed."
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Professor Aswath Damodaran's research on pharmaceutical companies' profit margins is cited

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Excerpt from The Economist -- "According to a recent study by Aswath Damodaran of New York University’s Stern School of Business, on this basis drug firms’ margins are 24%, higher than most other sectors (see chart)."
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Professor Amy Webb's book, "The Big Nine," is reviewed

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Webb’s book at times reads like a thriller in which the ending looks bleak. But she affords us a clear, jargon-free view of the power and potential of AI — and how we as citizens should seek to influence its development — before a coming superintelligence shapes human lives in ways we cannot yet imagine."
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In a radio interview, Professor Haran Segram comments on Slack's direct listing

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Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "Direct listing is a luxury, in a sense. You have to have a brand name and enough cash on the balance sheet for you to go direct-listing because you don't have to raise capital right now."
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Professor Haran Segram explains the difference between a direct listing and an IPO Business

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "'[Slack] was not waiting for the money coming from IPO to run their day-to-day operations,' Segram said. 'It is a very selective group can do this direct listing, the major factor being the brand recognition.'"
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The Sustainable Share Index™, research by the Center for Sustainable Business and IRI, is referenced.

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Excerpt from Quartz -- "An extensive review of five years of consumer-product sales by researchers at New York University’s Stern Center for Sustainable Business found that products marketed as sustainable saw sales grow much faster than products not marketed that way."
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Center for Business and Human Rights Deputy Director Paul Barrett shares his views on Facebook's creation of a Strategic Response team

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Excerpt from NBC News -- "Barrett said it was promising that Sandberg, Facebook's No. 2 executive, was paying attention and had set up a new team, but he said it was unrealistic for the team and to bear the world's problems, even with lots of outside advice. 'A large, international bank is not going to rely on local NGOs to help it run its global operations. It’s going to have people all around the world who are part of the organization,' Barrett said."
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New Research Shows European Consumers Are More Likely to Buy from Brands that Support Refugees

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New research from the NYU Stern School of Business and Tent Partnership for Refugees unveiled on World Refugee Day 2019 reveals that, despite increasing polarization in Europe around the refugee crisis, consumers in Italy, France, and Germany are more likely to buy from brands that support refugees.
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Professor Anat Lechner offers insights on body and food-shaming in the workplace

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "'To feel real in a workplace and not just like a cog in a wheel, I think we have a need to connect when we can,' Lechner explains. 'We may not choose to talk about going through divorce or some big disease we have, so we revert to things that are real, but a little less intimate.'"
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In a pair of in-depth Q&As as part of P&Q’s “Best and Brightest”, Executive MBA students Bryan Kelly and Emily Yu reflect on their time at Stern and how the program has added value to their careers

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- Bryan: "'The executive MBA program at NYU Stern offered everything I was looking for in my business training. It is ranked as one of the top EMBA programs in the country, is located close to my place of work, and has a great and diverse curriculum that provides both strong foundational classes as well as a wide array of elective classes that offers numerous specialization areas. I was particularly interested in specialized classes in leadership and strategy. In addition, several classes in healthcare business and economics were particularly relevant to my career development.'"
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Stern's new healthcare MBA specialization and application deadlines are highlighted; recent MBA graduates Christopher Costello (MBA ‘19), Andrew Kwan (MBA ‘19) and Lia Winograd (MBA ‘19) share advice for prospective applicants

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "The healthcare sector represents about one fifth of the US economy, with New York City serving as a key epicenter with its numerous hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and laboratories. Unsurprisingly, all sectors of the healthcare space have demand for the kind of business acumen that NYU Stern is famous for cultivating."
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NYU Stern Announces 2019-2020 MBA Application Deadlines & Essays, New Healthcare MBA Specialization

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Today, NYU Stern announced its 2019-2020 application deadlines and essays for its two-year Full-time MBA, Langone Part-time MBA, and two focused MBA programs (Andre Koo Technology and Entrepreneurship MBA and Fashion & Luxury MBA). Of note, Stern’s two required EQ Endorsements and the popular “Pick Six” visual personal expression essay both remain. Stern is also launching a new MBA specialization in Healthcare.
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In a live interview, Professor Dolly Chugh shares the importance of being what she calls a "good-ish" person, from her book, "The Person You Mean to Be"

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Excerpt from TODAY -- "If we think of being a good person as being without blind spots, never making a mistake, we put ourselves in a very tight corner with no window. There's no room to grow there. And what we know from years and years of psychological research is we all have blind spots. There's things we don't notice in our own behavior. Let's give ourselves room to grow: what I call being 'good-ish.'"

 
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Executive Education Short Course: Negotiation Strategies: Optimizing Outcomes through Collaboration and Conflict Resolution

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This program is designed to improve existing negotiation skills in order to optimize outcomes, enhance collaboration and expand relationships.
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Professor Jonathan Haidt is quoted in a feature story on the importance of incorporating ethics into business education

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "At New York University’s Stern School of Business, Jonathan Haidt, professor of ethical leadership, applies moral psychology to the way ethics is studied and integrated into the business curriculum. He says if students are taught how to integrate social and environmental considerations into decisions, ethics will follow. He argues against 'the shareholder primacy view' and encourages students to think in the long term. 'When you do that, ethics flows naturally,' he says."