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On Friday, Oct. 13, the NYU Stern Association of Hispanic and Black Business Students (AHBBS) and Supporting Excellence and Advocating Diversity (SEAD) will co-host the 5th annual Diversity in Business Forum entitled, “Breaking Barriers: Community and Leadership”. 

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "In his first book, The Four, [Galloway] poses the question, 'wherever you stand in the debate regarding Apple and privacy . . . Would we have endured this hand-wringing if the shooter’s phone had been a BlackBerry?' No, is his answer. Apple gets away with it because it is perceived as cool and innovative."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Mr. Galloway, whose new book, 'The Four,' analyzes the power of Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple, said the social media network was still fumbling its response. 'Zuckerberg and Facebook are violating the No. 1 rule of crisis management: Overcorrect for the problem,' he said. 'Their attitude is that anything that damages their profits is impossible for them to do.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The research aims to shed light on some of the critical questions facing regulators as Airbnb brings hotel activity to residential neighborhoods, raising concerns about safety of residents and tourists and the loss of affordable housing for local residents. 'It’s a complex new problem that’s being generated by the blurring of lines, personal and commercial,' said Arun Sundararajan, one of the paper’s authors and a professor who studies the so-called sharing economy at NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business."

New joint research from Professor Arun Sundararajan reveals how the geography of Airbnb usage patterns in New York City have evolved over time while revealing unexpected trends in short- and long-term rental prices. 

The NYU Stern Office of Alumni Relations will host the next installment of the "Author Lecture Series" featuring Professor Scott Galloway and Barry Ritholtz, chairman and CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management.

The demand for excellent communication is a constant for any professional. But, what is excellent communication? The expectations of audiences and the need for instant feedback have changed the communication dynamic executives face each day. 

Excerpt from CNN Quest Means Business -- "'The biggest pressure is the large banks and large corporations that are headquartered in Barcelona, and that are thinking very seriously about moving to Madrid. Because if there is independence or even if there is a situation of uncertainty continues the way it is now, it's not good business to be in Barcelona for them. And that can have a huge negative impact on the Catalonia economy.'"

Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- "The Creative Destruction Lab is opening its first program outside Canada in partnership with New York University's Stern School of Business. The New York program, an offshoot of the acclaimed tech startup assistance program based at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, will begin next September, admitting 25 ventures for its first nine month program."

Excerpt from ThinkAdvisor -- "Dhar further urged investment advisors to be skeptical about adopting many AI offerings – and especially look at the scientific background, credibility and motivation of the developers. If social media is used, he warns there could be manipulation risks. 'Really kick the tires and do due diligence,' Dhar advised. 'It’s an exciting area, but an area where people should be really cautious…. It’s important not to get caught up in hype.'"

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'Voice is the new battlefront and India is a key battle-ground for Amazon. (It can help to) further decimate local Indian competitors like Flipkart and tap into a rapidly expanding market,' Anindya Ghose, director of New York University’s Center for Business Analytics, told Quartz."

NYU Stern has announced the creation of the Yuki Arai Faculty Award in Finance, thanks to the generosity of Yuki Arai, MBA ‘10. Arai’s generous $500,000 gift provides support in perpetuity for outstanding research created by Stern faculty members.

Excerpt from BestBlackFriday.com -- "​I don’t see the trend of more shopping online changing. Bricks & mortar retailers continue to run the risk of having their business disrupted by Amazon and other vertical brands like Bonobos, Casper, and Warby Parker. Especially the middle-of-road retailers like JC Penney and Macy’s are going to have to worry about offering the kind of consumer experiences like Amazon etc.​"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'Even if you’re not going to be working specifically in sustainability, businesses need to have employees who understand these issues, understand how to work with different stakeholders, and understand how sustainability can bring innovation and a competitive advantage,' says Tensie Whelan, director of the Center and instructor of the course."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "One of the features of mainstream economics today is the huge diversity of models that are around. Academic prestige tends to come to those who add to that number. But how do you decide which model to use when investigating a particular problem? The answer is by looking at evidence about applicability."

New York University Stern School of Business announced that it will enter a partnership with the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management to establish the first Creative Destruction Lab – CDL-New York City – in the United States. The program is laser focused on maximizing value for science and technology startups through the unique CDL model that integrates the venturing process with the MBA curriculum. CDL Toronto, where the model has pioneered, has generated more than $1 billion of equity value creation in the five years since its founding.

On Tuesday, Oct. 10, the NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted a fireside chat with former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers and Professor Kim Schoenholtz, director of the Center. 

Excerpt from The Chronicle of Higher Education -- "'Human beings are kind of built to be pretty hierarchical creatures,' a likely artifact of evolution and the pecking orders of the animal world, he says. 'Even if you try to suppress it in the workplace, interpersonally and within groups, hierarchies still take shape.'"

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'If Uber does perceive a threat to market share from this new round of funding for Ola, their new CEO Dara (Khosrowshahi) will simply put in more funds in India to level the playing field,' Anindya Ghose, director of New York University’s Center for Business Analytics, told Quartz. 'There is no way Uber will yield additional market share to Ola in India and incur the risk of what happened in China.'"

Excerpt from Phys.org -- "One big problem facing media organizations is that new technologies impacting the future of news such as AI are out of their control, and instead is in the hands of tech firms like Google, Amazon, Tencent, Baidu, IBM, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, according to Webb. 'News organizations are customers, not significant contributors,' the report said. 'We recommend cross-industry collaboration and experimentation on a grand scale, and we encourage leaders within journalism to organize quickly.'"

Excerpt from China Daily -- "New York University Stern School of Business has established a China Initiative to help grow China-focused research and discussions, and facilitate China-related discussions between the university's faculty and other academics, students, alumni, and the wider local intellectual community. Jennifer Carpenter, an associate professor of finance at NYU Stern, started the initiative. She said studying China's businesses is incredibly challenging and rewarding because it requires academics to engage with facts and data through a completely different perspective. 'China is often hard to understand because it's a totally different system. You cannot run China data through a US model,' Carpenter said."

Excerpt from Valor Econômico -- "The most common mistakes companies make when trying to globalize are related to management. 'You can not manage the business as you do in your own country,' [Salomon] says. Every adaptation has a high cost and ends up being an additional burden for them. 'We have data that shows, for example, that foreign companies in the United States are more prosecuted for regulatory violations than local ones, perhaps because they are an easier target or because they make more mistakes because they do not understand how it works,' he says."

Excerpt from Be the Next Her -- "I moved to New York City for my MBA at NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business as a Forté Fellow. I am excited to be back in school and face a different set of challenges, meet new people, travel and get ready for what will come next."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Mahoney and his collaborators – Sumit Agarwal of the National University of Singapore, Souphala Chomsisengphet of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Johannes Stroebel of New York University’s Stern School of Business – found 'no evidence of an increase in interest charges or a reduction in access to credit.' While credit cards continued to be a highly profitable part of the banking business, the legislation had saved American consumers more than $20 billion a year, they concluded."

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "In his recent book Irresistible, Adam Alter shows that the 'like' button pioneered by Facebook and adopted by other social media platforms, including Instagram, is modelled on the system of uncertain reward, designed to hook us into returning to the site over and over to check the responses to our latest post."