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Excerpt from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) -- "Researchers from the Stern School of Business at New York University have now investigated this in more detail using recently available data on the geographical distribution of friendship relationships on Facebook. As part of the 'Data for Good' project, the company is providing a 'Social Connectedness Index' (SCI), which determines the strength of the social connection between two locations based on Facebook friendships. In this way it can be determined which other places Facebook members of a city have particularly frequent contact with."

Excerpt from Adweek -- "It’s probably music to Jeff Bezos’ ears as he attempts to sell Go technology elsewhere: Anindya Ghose, professor of business at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said cashless transactions are going to get a boost now. 'Because of the pandemic, retailers will quickly adopt mobile payments and other forms of electronic payments,' he said. 'Contactless payments will now be the norm for retailers in many countries around the world.'"

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Paul Barrett, an expert in disinformation and fake news at New York University, has identified similar trends adding that some malicious actors are feeding off each others disinformation for their own ends. 'It’s a three ring circus of disinformation,' he told the Guardian. 'In the current state of affairs it is almost impossible to pick out one strain and isolate it, because simultaneously Russian and China and Trump getting into the act and imitating each other more and more. It is incredibly difficult for an ordinary citizen to navigate what’s true.'"

Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "'Bulgari Hotels is creating content that may help entertain those who take shelter at home during the COVID-19 pandemic,' said Thomai Serdari, director of fashion and luxury at Brand(x)Lux and Professor at NYU Stern."

Excerpt from Republic World -- "Will Covid-19 result in the acceleration of automation and will automation become part of our daily life? While presenting his research on how digital technologies transform society Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU Stern School of business had said "Crisis can be sort of a catalyst or can speed up changes that are on the way it almost can serve as an accelerant."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Law -- “'Companies now are frantically creating cash-flow models and all types of financial models to try and predict how long can we last with nobody buying our product. But those models are based on estimates. Nobody knows. We don’t know how long we’re going to be quarantined,' said Amal Shehata, an audit and accounting professor at New York University Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from L'Obs -- "Professor of economics and researcher at New York University (NYU), Thomas Philippon built with Callum Jones and Venky Venkateswaran a model to simulate the scenarios of confinement and deconfinement. It seeks to find the point of balance between health and economic constraints. How and when to confine and deconfine to save the most lives while minimizing the loss of economic activity?"

Excerpt from WIRED -- "Amazon did not reply to a query about activity on Mechanical Turk, but Panos Ipeirotis, an NYU professor who has studied Mechanical Turk workers, says he’s seen more Turkers recently from Canada, Italy, and Brazil in particular."

Excerpt from InvestorPlace -- "According to Ed Altman, a professor at the New York University Stern School of Business who created the Altman Z-Score to measure financial distress, a big chunk of so-called investment-grade bonds should be in the junk category already. Altman examined 350 BBB-rated U.S. companies as of the end of 2019 and determined that more than 30% of them, with $600 billion or more of bonds, should have been rated 'junk.'”

Excerpt from AlphaWeek -- "'I had been a CTA for many years, and it was getting harder to make money. Volatility was coming down; interest rates were coming down. The risk was something I began to look at in more detail, and I began to study academic literature and found Robert Engle's work,' says Rothe."

Excerpt from Adweek -- “'The pandemic is an acceleration of what trends were happening anyway,' said Paul Hardart, clinical professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Adweek -- "Sustainability matters to consumers. NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business found that from 2013 to 2018, 50% of CPG growth came from sustainable product offerings and 81% of consumers say that brands should help improve the environment."

Excerpt from Los Angeles Times -- "It will be gradual and guarded, and many businesses will continue grappling for months or even years with significantly lower sales. 'Consumers will not simply flock to restaurants because they are open,' said Tom Meyvis, a marketing professor at New York University who focuses on consumer behavior."

Excerpt from Handelsblatt -- " When futurologist Amy Webb appears at conferences like South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, there is rarely a place left. Thousands follow each year as the founder of the Future Today Institute presents her “Tech Trends Report” . For her analysis, the Professor of Strategic Future Planning at the Stern School of Business at New York University is collecting hundreds of trends and technologies that will become more important in the coming months."

Excerpt from Quartz -- “'This is almost certainly something that can be done in many parts of India as mobile text messaging apps are also very popular in the country and can enable this kind of grassroots coordination in large housing complexes and gated communities of India,' said Anindya Ghose, professor of technology, operations, and statistics at New York University’s Stern School of business."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Unprecedented debt issuance over the years could lead to a historic number of defaults driven by the coronavirus and the drop in oil prices, with a peak coming in 2021, according to Dr. Edward Altman. 'I’m afraid we are going to have a large number of bankruptcies in the next 12 to 24 months,' the Stern School of Business, New York University professor emeritus said in a webinar sponsored by the school on Tuesday."

Excerpt from Financial Sense -- "You might not hear many people talking about the return of inflation right now. Richard Sylla says that doesn’t mean inflation isn’t coming. The NYU professor and co-author of A History of Interest Rates joined Jim Puplava on a recent edition of the Financial Sense Newshour podcast where they discussed the return of inflation, ultra-low interest rates, MMT and the financial impacts from the coronavirus."

Excerpt from BYU Radio -- "When we used to take photos with our kodaks and our disposable cameras, it was more of a special occasion when we would get out the camera. You might have a slideshow night and share that with a few people. Now we’re sharing our photos with hundreds or thousands of our followers. That’s drastically changing the nature of the photo-taking process. This is definitely a new phenomenon."

Excerpt from S&P Global -- "Part of the concern is that companies could be cut off from creditors, said Joseph Foudy, an economics professor at New York University. 'You get into a cycle where we downgrade them, which raises their borrowing costs, which leads to more fears of insolvency, which leads to downgrading, and you get into some kind of cycle where the downgrades themselves become the problem because they get cut off from banks,' he said."

Excerpt from CCN -- "BBB-rated corporate bonds, which make up a majority of the investment-grade corporate universe, are also a major concern. Many of these BBB-rated companies don’t pass the criteria to be rated BBB by the rating agencies. As New York University Economist Nouriel Roubini put it, the Fed is essentially buying junk bonds."

Excerpt from Philadelphia Inquirer -- "Overseas investors are less equipped to take on the administrative tasks that would accompany a foreclosure than domestic funders, so are more likely to extend forbearance, said Gary Friedland, who specializes in the EB-5 program as a scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "The framework proposed by Prof. Damodaran offers a more nuanced approach to normalization which we have applied to the financial performance of Western Forest Products Inc. ("WEF") (OTC:OTCPK:WFSTF),over the past ten years to see where we stand on a mid-cycle valuation and the results point to a compelling entry point for contrarian value investors."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "Nicholas Economides, economics professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said when it comes to policies directed at the labor market, size matters. In the U.S., the stimulus package was about 10% of GDP and there was a discussion about increasing it 'while in the euro zone they’ve talked about 500 billion euros which is less than 5% of the GDP of the euro zone. I think that would be totally inadequate,' he told Fortune."

Excerpt from Psychology Today -- "While organizations often tout the performance benefits of having a diverse workforce, the reality is more nuanced. Here’s how management scholars Frances Milliken and Luis Martins describe their findings in a well-cited 1996 review paper: 'Diversity thus appears to be a double-edged sword, increasing the opportunity for creativity as well as the likelihood that group members will be dissatisfied and fail to identify with the group.'”

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "Also, I’d like to hijack this question to emphasize the importance of paying it forward. When I was a 1st-yr MBA student, I was fortunate to have a 2nd-yr friend who must have practiced 7 case interviews with me. He was an inspiration and it was only right to pay it forward when I became a 2nd-yr student. You’ll experience the same thing."