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Excerpt from Inverse -- "David Yermack, a professor of finance and business transformation at New York University, tells Inverse this idea actually isn’t really new. He says the only thing that’s new about it is that it relies on blockchain, but that’s not a huge development."

Excerpt from Nature -- "Over the past half-century, Bowmaker shows, economic advisers to US presidents from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump have enabled central bankers and treasury officials to implement untethered ideas. Often described in terms borrowed from mathematics or physics (such as the ‘velocity of money’), these concepts neither command an expert consensus nor are they necessarily reproducible."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Engle isn’t so sure that geopolitical risk in markets is all that high right now. In his work, he analyzes the factors driving cross-asset and cross-country volatility. When something affects all asset classes across countries, the cause is likely to be geopolitical. By his measure, such international events haven’t been particularly severe at all in recent years."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Allen Adamson, a founder of the branding firm Metaforce and an adjunct professor of branding at New York University, said that the country’s new campaign was irrelevant because, for many people, the two names were interchangeable, so the rebranding wouldn’t affect their behaviors."

Excerpt from Nikkei Asian Review --"NYU's Sundararajan is convinced that a well-functioning democracy still promises a better overall outcome for society. 'Capitalism needs a certain control mechanism,' he said, 'and the right kind of democracy will push the government toward the right kind of control.'"

Excerpt from Agencia EFE -- "Professor Menachem Brenner of the Stern School of Business at the University of New York, predicts that the new year will once again be marked by the trade war between China and the United States. 'My personal view is that you could never tell if it is overvalued or undervalued. Whoever says it has about a 50% chance of being right.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Dare it. Dream it. Drive it. It almost sounds like a Broadway musical headliner or a motivational speaker’s motto. Together, these words convey possibility, a sense that fear and limits can be batted down with a mix of glee and grit. In reality, this motto is more academic than theatrical, the new brand expression and curriculum structure at the Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Il Foglio Quotidiano -- "The promise of Donald Trump to raise barriers to trade with China hits of duties has created a feeling of economic insecurity over the course of 2019, but despite this, as documented by a study published in mid-December by DHL and the NYU Stern School of Business, international flows of capital and trade have suffered only a slight decline and 'the world is now more connected than in almost all other moments of history, with no signs of a broad reversal of the trend of globalisation.'"

Excerpt from CXOTalk -- "Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist and professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and the Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm. Now in its second decade, the Future Today Institute helps leaders and their organizations prepare for deep uncertainties and complex futures."

Excerpt from FindMBA -- "New York City has always been a haven for LGBTQ rights and issues. Like the Big Apple, NYU’s Stern School of Business welcomes and embraces diversity. It has a student club called OutClass that serves as a professional, educational and social forum for LGBTQ students. Stern students also attend the annual Reachout Out MBA conference for LGBTQ students from around the world. And NYU has its LGBTQ Student Center, a welcoming environment for all students and faculty who want to understand more about LGBTQ issues."

Excerpt from Working Capital Review -- "'These are the four verticals of AI. In each of these verticals, we have a race between the US and China and at least in on two of these verticals, China’s clearly ahead of the US in AI implementation – the first of which is consumer AI and the second of which is the perception AI. I think the third vertical the business AI, we are ahead of them mostly because we have a lot of really high quality unstructured data. In the fourth vertical the autonomous AI. It’s a neck and neck race right now brewing between, the Googles and Teslas with self-driving cars and they’re on counterparts in China.'"

Excerpt from CGTN -- “'This whole kind of…fantasy about ‘we’ and ‘community’…it was just thrown in their faces. People have a sense of fairness: if the CEO suffers together with them, you know we all went under, you know you stuck with the troops, we all went under. He didn’t stick with the troops.'”

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "The Indian government has chosen to focus on ideological considerations rather than economic slowdown, American economist Nouriel Roubini said on Thursday."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "As the recent global surge of reports on competition policy and digital regulation suggests, the search for possible answers is underway. Unfortunately, academic economics is behind the curve. As Thomas Philippon remarks in his excellent recent book The Great Reversal, in studying the growing dysfunction of the American economy, 'I was surprised by the gap between economic research and policy.'"

Excerpt from TechPolicy.com -- "Many online platform companies –Google and Facebook are examined in Professors Economides and Lianos’ article—utilize a requirement provision in the boiler plate contract with their users that allows the company to collect personal information from each user without compensation. In exchange, the user has access to the services provided by these companies. However, users have no option other than to allow access to their personal data if they want to use the services offered."

Excerpt from LA Times -- "Scott Galloway is a marketing professor at New York University with serious chops in the business world, and serious insights into how Big Tech has maneuvered itself into positions of invulnerability in this culture. He has some ideas about how California’s new laws will fare against the power of the mega-companies of Silicon Valley."

Excerpt from WIRED -- “'I think the new ban on AI-driven deepfakes is a step in the right direction, but it’s disappointing that Facebook’s new policy apparently won’t result in the removal of provably false videos doctored with less advanced means,' said Paul Barrett, the deputy director of NYU’s Center for Business and Human Rights and an expert on political disinformation."
 

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Racial quotas on immigration from southern and eastern Europe in the 1920s left the U.S. with about 1,200 fewer scientists than if the quotas had never existed, conclude Petra Moser and Shmuel San of New York University."
 

Excerpt from Global Finance Magazine -- “'Cryptocurrency innovations—if they really are advantageous—are likely to be nationalized at some point as an exercise of national sovereignty,' Richard Sylla, Professor Emeritus of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business told Global Finance."
 

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s book, The Coddling of the American Mind, warns of the consequences of industries becoming too politically homogeneous: If the police service is full of instinctive authoritarians and academia the exclusive home of liberals, both are likely to become more extreme."

Excerpt from U.S. News -- "Executive MBA students at NYU select 12 elective classes in their second year, which means that they can customize their coursework. They also can elect to concentrate on one business discipline or specialize in two or three business fields simultaneously. Potential specializations vary widely, from financial instruments and markets to supply chain management and global sourcing to entrepreneurship and innovation."
 

Excerpt from Woman's World -- "Once you’ve allowed yourself breaks from your devices, it is possible to reintegrate them into your life in healthier ways, promises technology expert Adam Alter, Ph.D., who notes that the average person checks her email about 15 times per day, ratcheting up anxiety with every click. The tension-taming solution: 'Just check your personal email three times per day, say, 9 am, 12 pm and 4 pm,' he suggests."
 

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "NYU Stern Finance Professor Edward Altman came up with the Altman Z-score in 1967. Altman himself concluded the Z-score had an accuracy between 82% and 94% in predicting bankruptcy."

Excerpt from Progressive Grocer -- "Groundbreaking 2019 research from IRI and New York University’s Stern Center for Sustainable Business quantified what sustainability proponents intuitively understood: Sustainability is good for business. The research found that half of CPG growth between 2013 and 2018 stemmed from sustainability-marketed products."