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Excerpt from the London Review of Books -- "In the mid-1980s, the economists Menachem Brenner and Dan Galai began to lobby the US options exchanges to create a ‘volatility index’, based on options prices, that would measure stock-market volatility in a way loosely analogous to – albeit mathematically far more sophisticated than – how the Dow Jones average or the Standard & Poor 500 Index summarises the market’s overall level."

Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "Paul Schmelzing, a doctoral candidate in history at Harvard University, recently published a Bank of England working paper that sought to remedy this dearth of information. He began with the work of Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla, whose monumental tome 'A History of Interest Rates' contains a wealth of data going back centuries."

Excerpt from TopMBA -- "'Because of our exceptional finance faculty, NYU Stern continues to work closely with many investment banking partners and to attract students who are focused on roles in the industry,' adds Briggs. 'We have seen a consistently strong level of interest over the past five years, with growing concentrations of students leveraging this finance foundation to move into roles in the technology sector.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "I studied at NYU’s campus in Florence, Italy (which is located on a hilltop overlooking downtown Florence) for my sophomore Fall semester. I got to learn Italian, eat with local Florentine families, and teach English to young Italians, all while taking some business coursework such as Intro to Marketing and Organizational Communications."

Excerpt from U.S. News & World Report -- "The recently passed corporate tax cut from 35 to 21 percent is likely to help telecom companies more than most. The effective aggregate tax rate for telecom services companies is 34 percent, according to a recent analysis from Aswath Damodaran, professor of finance at NYU Stern."

Excerpt from InvestorPlace -- "'The Effect of Dividends on Consumption' a Brookings Paper on Economics by Baker, Nagel and Wurgler expounds on this topic: 'consumption indeed responds much more strongly to returns in the form of dividends than to returns in the form of capital gains.'"

Excerpt from NPR -- "But adapting a new safety net for the new workforce will take time, says Arun Sundararajan, a management professor at New York University. And he says the transition could be messy. 'Full-time employment didn't sort of come packaged with all of these wonderful things that we now associate with it; it was built sort of painstakingly over 100 years,' Sundararajan says."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "As the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt concluded in his 2012 book, 'The Righteous Mind,' if we have 'affection, admiration, or desire to please' other people, we lean toward them and attempt to 'find the truth' in their arguments. Social proximity matters."

Excerpt from SHRM Magazine -- "'[Ageism] sneaks up on us,' North says. 'We really don’t think about age and aging until later in life. But we need to examine the issue and recognize the value that comes with age and experience.'"

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'Well, it is true that Softbank has tremendous clout given its investments. Traditionally, Softbank has supported local players over Uber in these markets,' Anindya Ghose, the Heinz Riehl professor of business at New York University (NYU), told Quartz. 'But to me, it does not seem like a great decision for Uber to move out of India. First, India continues to be a very important market and Uber’s performance in India has been stronger than ever of late.'"

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "According to Seth Freeman, a conflict and negotiation expert and a professor at NYU Stern School of Business, ultimately– no matter what type of personality you have, there are three important things that are critical to any successful negotiation: credibility, preparation, and listening. 'The perception is that negotiators are born and not made. People think that it’s about negotiating quickly on your feet. That’s not real negotiation. Really good negotiation is boring to watch, [because] lot of it is dependent on preparation.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "...Children especially don't have the resources, the capacity, to control themselves in the same way that adults do. Having said that, adults spend four hours a day on screens and that is growing every year. That has grown from three hours two years ago. So I think it is a concern for adults as well, but especially for children who need to be guided by adults."
 

Excerpt from NPR -- "'Twenty years from now, I don't think a typical college graduate is going to expect that full-time employment is their path to building a career,' Sundararajan says. He says that will ultimately lead to many other changes, from education to social structures and public services."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "NYU Stern, [Yermack] says, was in the right place to develop expertise — close to a culture of fintech entrepreneurship around Union Square and, what he calls, the 'legacy banks' of Wall Street that were looking for qualified staff for their new blockchain applications. His course was a gamble: three years ago it started with 30 students; this year 100 are enrolled. Next year, between 200 and 300 will take it."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Among the most difficult, strategic and important tasks for marketers is deciding the optimal number of target personas and the criteria for defining them because it majorly affects brand positioning, and budget and talent resource allocations."
 

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'States can really do nothing to change the fact that federal employees aren’t receiving paychecks, and that will certainly be the biggest impact on the economy,' said Constantine Yannelis, a finance professor at New York University."

Excerpt from NJ Today -- "The report, SEC Enforcement Activity: Public Companies and Subsidiaries, Fiscal Year 2017 Update, analyzes data from the Securities Enforcement Empirical Database (SEED)."

Excerpt from the Economic Times -- "'It will be important for Indian ecommerce retailers to implement a mobile shopping experience which uses local payment methods, local shipping and returns, and a localised checkout which calculates duties and taxes,' says Anindya Ghose, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "'If you are in a larger house and ready to downsize or move, this will be a pure gain for you,' said Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, professor of finance and director of the Center for Real Estate Finance Research at New York University Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Mic -- "'The example … is that The Simpsons had something that looked much like an Apple Watch,' Gary Simon, a retired professor of statistics at New York University Stern School of Business, said in a Skype call. 'Well, you know, a communications device on the wrist goes back to Dick Tracy, and the features on the Apple Watch are not going to match exactly the features that The Simpsons would have had on the watch. You have to decide whether that’s an effective prediction or not,' Simon said."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “One of the most obvious events would be an indictment of the president. I’ve asked my friends, though, and they don’t seem to think it’ll be a very volatile moment. Maybe that’s consistent with the idea that volatility, or lack thereof, comes from Washington. I think more about geopolitical events: deterioration of conditions in the Middle East or North Korea. What really scares me the most is a cyberthreat. That countries could get into our computer system. That could produce a lot of volatility and damage our system.”
 

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Two economists, Germán Gutiérrez and Thomas Philippon, have argued that corporate America is underinvesting. One reason is that companies are impatiently funnelling cash to investors and executives rather than take a long-term view."

A team of NYU Stern MBA students won the eighth annual MBA National Case Competition sponsored by Deloitte. The team, including Eric Gioseffi (MBA ‘19), Denitsa Kosharova (MBA ‘19), Utkarsh Satyawadi (MBA ‘19) and Kelly Williams (MBA ‘19), earned a combined scholarship of $20,000 for their presentation, which took the top honors, marking Stern’s first win in the competition.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Each year, we scour the internet and reach out to the world’s most elite business schools to find startups launched in the past five years with at least one founder who graduated with an MBA in the same time period. We then rank them on one standard: how much funding each new venture has raised."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'Poor planning regulations are responsible for unaffordable housing in many prosperous cities,' Bertaud told the Thomson Reuters Foundation."