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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "Altman expanded his Z-score to a family of formulas to expand its application beyond publicly held manufacturing companies. Z-score, Z-prime and z-double prime can be used for public and private companies for manufacturing and non-manufacturing. Now it is more available and easier to use than ever."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Two influential academics were also included, both of whom have argued in favour of speed trading. ... Joel Hasbrouck of the New York University Stern School of Business co-authored a paper finding that high-speed trading 'improves traditional market quality measures.'"

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "This article suggests something citizens can do to spur these needed discussions and to make visible what corporations are actually doing and the effects of their actions."

Excerpt from WNYC -- "Several new city-wide initiatives geared to boost the media and entertainment industry in New York were also announced at the ribbon cutting, including ... the expansion of the city's Small Business Services partnership with NYU’s Stern School of Business Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to offer classes specifically for media business entrepreneurs."

Excerpt from SmartMoney blog -- "'You can teach yourself to be more mindful,' [Morwitz] says. 'After losing my favorite hat in a taxi, I now mindfully check the taxi seat every time after I get up and before I close the door.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg Business -- "Viral Acharya and T. Sabri Oncu of New York University’s Stern School of Business detail the risks in the repo market."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "60% of undergraduate students at NYU's Stern School of Business spend at least one semester abroad."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "In 'The ­Righteous Mind,' Haidt seeks to enrich liberalism, and political discourse generally, with a deeper awareness of human nature. Like other psychologists who have ventured into political coaching, such as George Lakoff and Drew Westen, Haidt argues that people are fundamentally intuitive, not rational."

Researchers at NYU Stern's Center for Measurable Marketing (CMM) announced today that M&M'S ranked highest among Super Bowl XLVI advertisers in generating Conversational ROI™. The confectioner generated the highest initial levels of online engagement in CMM's in-depth analysis of online buzz, finishing second only to Doritos in terms of continued conversation.

Excerpt from Le Temps -- "'It's hard to believe that eighteen banks have had interest, exactly the same time, to see the Libor decrease or increase,' says Rosa Abrantes-Metz. ... 'In terms of investment and risk reduction, it is a huge advantage to know in advance which way the rates evolve the next day (French to English translation).'"  Additional coverage appeared in La Tribune and MLex Magazine.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'The number one score [on L2 Think Tank's Digital IQ Index: Hotels report] by Four Seasons reflects the brand's robust presence on social media platforms coupled with what we believe is the best website in the industry,' said Scott Galloway, L2 founder."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'There has been extraordinary growth in the 1 percent,' Frank said. 'Ordinary people don’t want to emulate them, but what happens is that the people who are next to them want to emulate them, and so on. That social cascade ultimately explains why the middle-class home got 50 percent bigger in the past three decades.'"

Excerpt from Reuters -- "You've got trailers for the web, you've got games for the iPhone, you've got Twitter, you've got Facebook and they did one clever thing: they had a contest, they invited some fans to the set to get them involved so these kids are really honored to be there and they want to tell everyone else."

Excerpt from New York Post -- "A plan to put vending machines — selling energy drinks, snack bars, breath mints, gum and even pain relievers — inside yellow cabs won rave reviews yesterday at a city-sponsored contest for new business ideas."

More than 80 students, faculty and alumni gathered for a fireside chat about global innovation with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, award-winning global correspondent for The Economist and author of Need, Speed and Greed (Harper Collins, Mar '12), and Professor Paul Romer, director of NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project.

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "When you market from the other end of the funnel, everything is flipped in what Procter and Gamble calls “store back” marketing. The brand narrative, brand values, social media engagement, even TV commercial impact come AFTER the purchase, so they solidify rather than precondition the brand-customer relationship. In this model, shopper marketing cues must be mastered as the main trial generator."

“Believing is seeing” for people with high status, and because they expect the world to respond favorably to them, they perceive that it does, say NYU Stern Assistant Professor of Management Nathan Pettit and his co-author Nino Sivanathan of London Business School in “The Eyes and Ears of Status: How Status Colors Perceptual Judgment” (to be published in the May issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Journal).

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "'When US production goes up, the price of gas 'is certainly not going down,' Melnick said. 'The data does not suggest that whatsoever.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The findings show there is a strong psychological reward for those who perceive themselves to be of higher status, says Nathan Pettit, the study's lead author."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "When prices go up, a president’s poll ratings go down. But, in view of America’s long history of neglect of energy security and resilience, the notion that Barack Obama’s administration is responsible for rising gas prices makes little sense."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Public pressures – as well as confrontations with presidents and Congress – to avoid high interest rates have derailed the Fed’s best intentions throughout history."

Excerpt from MSN Money Frugal Cool blog -- "'We'd rather have something now than wait for (the reward) to be bigger in the future. The future exists in a vague and murky way,' notes Hershfield, an assistant professor of marketing."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2001), and Paul Romer wrote the definitive economics article on financial fraud in 1993 ('Looting: the Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit')."

Excerpt from The New York Times DealBook blog -- "'The industry is suffering from a reputation problem,' said Roy Smith, a professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. 'This creates an opportunity for boutiques.'"

Excerpt from The Chronicle of Higher Education -- "Matt Statler, a clinical assistant professor of management and organizations at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, led attendees through a shortened exercise distilled from a required course for seniors in professional responsibility and leadership. It is in this course, of all places, where students confront Cicero's arguments about virtue and expedience."