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Excerpt from the The Economist-- "Mr Dell’s plan to emphasise software in future contains three bets. The first is to be the best all-in-one provider of bundled IT. That may not be easy. Norman White of the NYU Stern School of Business observes that combining a commoditised hardware business with an innovative software business is particularly hard to do."

Excerpt from Bloomberg-- "'It’s not surprising that Lyft is going public before Uber because in many ways they are in better shape to go public than Uber is,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s business school and the author of 'The Sharing Economy.' Lyft is led by its founding CEO, the company has an experienced executive team in place, it has a more focused mission and it’s raised more modest sums of private capital, he said."

Excerpt from CityLab -- "A report by Shlomo Angel, a leading expert in global urban expansion at New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management, finds the 84 percent figure to be far too high, and contends that the conventional 55 percent figure is more on target."

Excerpt from Vice --"[AI] may be full of commercial opportunity, but not without long-term consequences. We’re the generation living through the great transition in human history—a 70-year transition to a future powered by AI. We must get past our generalized anxiety and fear about that future, and acknowledge that our paranoia or uncurbed exuberance will distract us from making critically important observations—and fixes—in the present."

Excerpt from the The New York Times -- "Presumably, part of Mr. Goidadin’s appeal to Smythson was the growth achieved during his tenure at Burberry. "It is an obvious place for them to look for talent,' said Thomaï Serdari, an adjunct associate professor of marketing at N.Y.U. Stern School of Business and founder of the strategic branding company Brand(x)Lux. 'It’s a very successful story of a company that has been transformed from a singular product company into a fashion company.'"

Excerpt from HR Magazine --"In one study New York University professors Frances Milliken and Elizabeth Morrison interviewed 40 full-time employees working in consulting, financial services, media, pharmaceuticals and advertising, and found the two most frequently-mentioned reasons for remaining silent were fear of being viewed or labelled negatively, and fear of damaging work relationships."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Messrs. Lukianoff and Haidt take on the problems of campus culture through the lens of safety—not that we have too little of it but that we have too much. After a generation of protecting kids from danger, both real and imagined, we have left them with the social equivalent of a peanut allergy, hypersensitive to offense and unable to cope with ordinary disagreement."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Quint -- "'Walmart invested in a company which is burning cash over the last 10 years with no end in sight,' Damodaran said in a presentation at the Nordic Business Forum 2018, which was held on Sept. 26-27. 'With such expenditure, Walmart, a retail giant that was founded over 50 years ago, is trying to look young again.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I actually think for the tech sector, the GDP slowdown is not going to be that important. Most of these companies are making money from digital ads, which are now acquiring from traditional ads, and therefore a general slowdown would not really make a huge difference for them."

Excerpt from Bloomberg-- (0:20) "They certainly need to be examined. This is a very opaque marketplace. When you compare these ad exchanges to financial exchanges, which are incredibly transparent, we really have very little idea as to what goes on behind the scenes."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The simple key take-away is that Instagramability needs to be a consideration in both product development and marketing program conception. For authenticity, credibility, cost, and effective brand personality communication, making products and services highly Instagram worthy, is a great way to go."

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."