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Prof. Robert Gordon on Mitt Romney's potential tax benefit from carried interest

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal blog -- “It’s hard to say with certainty. But if he is or was a general partner in deals, it’s safe to say he has benefitted from carried interest."
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NYU Stern will participate in the QS World MBA Tour in February

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Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "Participating schools include Columbia Business School, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, IE, NYU’s Stern School of Business, Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, Cornell’s Johnson School and many more."
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Prof. Robert Salomon on Kodak's recent bankruptcy filing

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Excerpt from CNC World -- "Unfortunately, when the digital revolution occurred, film became something that increasingly became obsolete. And as film began its path to obsolescence, Kodak missed the opportunity on several occasions to jump into the digital world."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini predicts China's economy will slow in 2012

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “It’s going to be a significant growth slowdown this year. Housing is deflating. Export growth is slowing down." Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Taipei Times, Financial Post and another Bloomberg piece.
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Prof. Sinan Aral is featured for his research on product contagion

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Excerpt from MIT Sloan Management Review -- "Although active-personalized viral messages are more effective in encouraging adoption per message and are correlated with more user engagement and sustained product use, passive-broadcast messaging is used more often, generating more total peer adoption in the network."
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NYU Trustee and Member of the Board of Overseers Chandrika Tandon is cited

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "While the percentage of female leaders remains dismal, you don’t have to look far to find that in several industries power women come in pairs. ... beloved PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has a sister, Chandrika Tandon, who is a Grammy-nominated artist and trustee of New York University."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini says the global financial markets will remain volatile

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “If you think about all these tail risks about the global economy, the reality is many of them are not temporary. Many of them are not transitory and many of them are not random events. They’re going to be sources of volatility.”
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Prof. Ralph Gomory's warning that US competitiveness is declining is cited

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Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- " ... former Intel chief Andy Grove, former HP CEO John Young, Dow Chemical CEO Andrew LIveris, former IBM Chief Scientist and Sloan Foundation President Ralph Gomory, Harvard Economist Dani Rodrik, and author Pat Choate have warned of declining U.S. competitiveness and its devastating economic and security implications."
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Prof. Edward Altman's new Z-Score smartphone App is featured

Excerpt from Finance Professionals' Post -- "This smartphone App provides the client with timely assessments of the credit risk and probability of default of companies on a global basis based on the famed and well tested Altman Z-Score family of models." Additional coverage appeared in Business Insider.
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Prof. Edward Altman's new Z-Score app for smartphones is featured

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "According to 'The Financial Professional's Post,' Professor Altman and Business Compass LLC teamed up to develop a smartphone app so that credit analysts can carry the power of the Altman Z-Score in the palm of their hands."
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An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on the Fed's involvement with the US housing market

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The Fed needs to get out of the housing business, and indeed, the rest of day-to-day commerce. And it needs to spend more energy on building the trust that Sapienza tries to quantify."
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Prof. Anindya Ghose is featured as the FT Lexicon Professor of the Week

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The five terms defined by Anindya Ghose on FT Lexicon this week are: digital marketing; user-generated content (UGC); mobile internet; sponsored search advertising; and crowdfunding."
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Prof. David Poltrack on entertainment content and the digital cloud

Excerpt from Home Media Magazine -- “It’s always been a question of access. Now we have universal access, and consumers love the concept.” Additional coverage appeared on Fora.tv, GigaOm.com and PaleyCenter.org.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the outlook for Canada's economy

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- “The resource orientation of Canada is one the sources of its strength. While there may be a slowdown in China, the forces that lead to demand for commodities being high and rising -- urbanization, industrialization, population growth, per capita income growth in emerging markets -- I don’t think they’re going to change even if there are some bumps down the road.” Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on US job growth

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal blog -- “US job growth is still too mediocre to make a dent in the overall unemployment rate and on labor income." Additional coverage appeared in The Daily Beast.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent compares the euro zone crisis to US debt in the 1790s

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Economists—notably Nobel Laureate Thomas Sargent—and the news media have drawn comparisons between the troubled eurozone today and the United States assuming states' debts in the 1790s."
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An op-ed by Prof. Evan Shapiro on the Las Vegas Consumer Electronic Show

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Even though TV executives don't necessarily work in technology, nothing at the moment affects their lives and jobs more than the connected electronics through which their content is seen."
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An interview with Prof. Scott Galloway on the US anti-piracy legislation

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "A lot of people think if you read this legislation verbatim you could effectively put Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube under not only serious economic strain, but put almost every major sharing site out of business." Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Post.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini is cited for his support of shared appreciation mortgage (SAM) modifications

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Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "Roubini, who cites Goodman's work in his own, recently co-wrote a report suggesting that SAMS could help 'unclog the real estate and financial arteries and restore healthy circulation.'"
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Prof. Paul Romer on the impact of ideas

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "[Romer] points out that millions of little discoveries ... combined with some very big ones, have exponentially improved the quality of life over the past century."
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Prof. Panos Ipeirotis on crowdsourced labor

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Crowdsourced labor can cost companies less than half as much as typical outsourcing, says Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, an associate professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, who studies crowdsourcing."
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Arianna Huffington spoke at NYU Stern on January 17

Excerpt from Broadway World -- "NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) is hosting the 2nd annual Women Entrepreneurs Festival January 17th and 18th, 2012. ... Arianna Huffington will provide the keynote address on January 17th at NYU’s Stern School of Business."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence's book, "The Next Convergence," is cited

Excerpt from Sri Lanka Guardian -- "As Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics at New York University observes in his book 'The Next Convergence' of India 'India’s earlier slow growth was partly attributable to a distrust of foreign investors and a relatively low level of foreign investment by multinational firms.'"