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Excerpt from The Guardian -- "...Bangladesh’s garment sector remains a risky place to do business and a dangerous place to work. An April 2014 report by the NYU Stern Center for Human Rights found that industry efforts to improve factory conditions had affected fewer than 2,000 of the estimated 5,000-6,000 workplaces. Complicating the issue, hidden subcontractors do much of the country’s textile manufacturing work. 'The worst conditions are largely in the factories and facilities that fall outside the scope of these agreements,' the report said."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "A further slowdown in China is a distinct possibility. China’s leaders must do what it takes to ensure that such a slowdown is not viewed as secular trend – a perception that could undermine the consumption and investment that the economy so badly needs."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think that, over the next year and a half, gradually all [oil] prices are going to go higher. By the end of next year, it might be closer to... $70 a barrel for two reasons. One, demand is going to recover, but, more importantly, lower prices imply that high marginal cost producers... are going to produce less, and more importantly, everybody around the world is now reducing capital spending in the oil sector by 30% and over the next few years that reduction in capex spending is going to reduce the increase in supply in the future and therefore is going to affect prices in the future. But we're not going to go back to a world of... $100 per barrel."

Excerpt from Inc. -- "Says Richard Sylla, a professor of economic and financial history at New York University's Stern School of Business, smaller businesses in such neighborhoods may also be seen as exploitative because they tend to charge higher prices, as they are competing on margin against much larger stores that can afford to charge less. 'A motivation [for looting] is that you are getting even with people who spend their year exploiting you,' Sylla says."

Excerpt from Metro -- "We would like to see applicants take ownership of the application process and to be accountable. Ultimately, it's your application and you need to be responsible for your part of the process."

Excerpt from USA Today -- "'Humans and other animals tend to glide through life unless they encounter a reason to engage more deeply with the world,' Alter said. 'Harsher weather tends to temporarily dampen your mood, which acts as a signal that everything isn't OK in the world. That makes you more vigilant and potentially hard-working, whereas sunshine can dampen your motivation by signaling that all is right in the world.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "Spence realized that there is a lot of information asymmetry in the job market. Employers want employees who are smart, conscientious, hard-working and team-oriented. But they can’t tell most of those things from an interview or two. So prospective employees might prove themselves by getting some credential -- completing some difficult educational program -- to prove they have what it takes. Thus was born the signaling theory of education."

Excerpt from Quartz -- "Encouraging stronger ties to Russia might increase the Russian share in some of these metrics, but the European Union continues to be a more attractive partner for Greece. Athens should be careful; Russia is in no position to replace European support of the Greek economy."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'If anything you would have to say this is a muddling through,' said Mr. Smith, who has written about Deutsche Bank’s strategy. Deutsche Bank remains enormously complex and difficult to manage, he said. 'It’s a big bull of a bank,' Mr. Smith said. Mr. Smith pointed out that the name of the reorganization plan, Strategy 2020, means that even if Deutsche Bank meets all its goals, it will still have been 12 years since the beginning of the financial crisis 'before they get to some kind of equilibrium.'"

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'Even for the most successful multinationals, profit margins in international markets are on average lower than margins in the domestic market,' said Robert Salomon, a professor of international management at the NYU Stern School of Business. 'It’s the liability of foreign markets. By virtue of the fact that you are foreign, you are at a disadvantage.'"
 

Excerpt from The New York Post -- "David Yermack, a New York University business professor who specializes in corporate governance, said family feuds in boardrooms don’t readily resolve themselves. 'You need stability in the founding family or the company is likely to face all kinds of disruption,' he said. 'It often hurts productivity in that management gets caught in the middle after implicitly being asked to choose sides.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The problem is that the Europeans, at the time that they had a chance to make a deal with the previous coalition government... When they had the chance, they didn't really do it... and then the extreme left gets elected and now it's very hard to make a deal. Greece has a good chance of going to bankruptcy, to actually not able to pay its loans in the near future, the next few weeks."

Excerpt from Quartz -- "Meanwhile, one small team of researchers at NYU’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights has made it their mission to put all of Bangladesh’s garment factories on a single map. 'You can’t do anything to fix something,' Nayantara Banerjee, a Stern graduate fellow and the project’s manager, told Quartz, 'if you can’t find it.'"

Stern's Asian Business Society (ABS) will host the club's annual conference on Friday April 24. Themed, "Global footprints of Asian Companies," the conference will feature directors from growing global Asian companies who will share their experiences of expansion into Western markets.

The 4-School Conference brings together faculty, students, and researchers from Stern, Columbia, Yale and Wharton.

The Seventh Annual NYU Stern Volatility Institute Conference brought together academics, practitioners and regulators to discuss the latest research and ideas on "Fixed Income Risk: Measurement, Modeling and Management."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "Although the government has registered only about 3,400 factories, Sarah Labowitz, director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University, has estimated that there are closer to 6,000 -- many of them smaller buildings that subcontract with the larger companies when big orders come in. 'It’s really about the invisible factories,' Labowitz says. 'There’s a network of thousands of factories that don’t maintain direct relationships with buyers. Nobody knows how many there are.'"

Excerpt from TIME -- "Even for those migrants who safely reach European shores, their troubles are far from over. The EU requires that asylum petitions be processed by the country in which migrants first arrive. As a result, southern countries such as Malta, Italy and Greece have found themselves overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of incoming migrants, while richer northern countries receive relatively few."

Excerpt from NPR -- "'I myself have been selling stocks and raising cash, because I think I might be able to buy a lot of these stocks at lower prices, say 6 months or a year from now,' says Richard Sylla, a financial markets professor at NYU's Stern School of Business. And that means he knows about all kinds of esoteric-sounding yardsticks for measuring the stock market. On some metrics, like the 'Shiller CAPE ratio,' he says, 'our markets as a whole, they are as high as any time except 1929, 1999 and 2007.'"

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "Crowdfunding for medical costs isn’t a new phenomenon per se. Communities have long rallied around people in need, whether that’s a house of worship taking up a collection for a grieving member or a school holding a fundraiser for a sick student. Indeed, helping 'has always been network-based,' said Jason Greenberg, assistant professor of management at NYU Stern School of Business. Before the Internet, it was just done on a much smaller scale."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Cecchetti and co-author Kermit Schoenholtz, of New York University’s Stern School of Business, suggest a 'cash reserve account' that would keep people from having to pay for things by sending cash in armored trucks. During the day, funds in the account would be payable just like money in a checking account. But every night they’d be swept into cash held in a vault, sparing the money from the negative interest rate that would apply to money in an ordinary checking account."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'This will raise concerns about the stability of financial markets,' said Robert Engle, finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'That this trader could put the markets in a tailspin with actions that are hard to detect is bad news.'"

Excerpt from Fortune -- "Within two to four weeks, Greece will not be able to pay salaries, pensions and loan obligations to the International Monetary Fund and other lenders. The clock is ticking and time is running out. Greece must grasp the only lifeline left and negotiate with creditors now to save itself."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "To figure out which big oil stocks screen as being a default risk, we used the Altman Z-Scores Plus website, founded by a former student of the Z-Score creator, New York University finance professor Edward Altman. Altman is known for his corporate distress prediction models. An Altman Z-Score of below 1.81 is considered a red flag."

Excerpt from TIME -- "The international community favors an Iran deal, and the American public is wary of undertaking military actions that could lead to another Middle East war."