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Prof. Cynthia Franklin is highlighted for participating in the Women's Economic Empowerment Summit

Excerpt from Targeted News Service -- "Women executives, business owners, and entrepreneurs engaged in a discussion with White House Office of Public Engagement Senior Policy Advisor Bibi Hidalgo, NYU Stern School of Business' Senior Associate Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation Cynthia Franklin, Managing Director of Golden Seeds Peggy Wallace, and Manhattan Chamber of Commerce President Nancy Ploeger on reaching the next level of success."  Additional coverage appeared in Congressional Documents and Publications.
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt's research on revenge is featured

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Excerpt from BigThink -- "This paper by Jonathan Haidt, John Sabini, Dena Gromet, John Darley on 'What exactly makes revenge sweet? How anger is satisfied in real life and at the movies,' finds that women report taking a bit less satisfaction than men in avenged personal slights."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini shares his global economic predictions

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "A Greek default could trigger a global economic shock on the scale of that suffered after Lehman Brother Holdings Inc.’s 2008 failure, said Nouriel Roubini."  Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businesswee, four Bloomberg pieces, Yahoo! News blog, The Economist blog, Bloomberg Markets, New York Post, Boston Globe blog, two CNBC pieces, Barron's blog, The New York Times and Financial Times.
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An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on the policy changes that allowed for Steve Jobs's success

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Over time, what we might call the Jobs Economy led to a jobs economy. In the past quarter-century, Apple and innovative companies like it yielded employment for a whole region, Silicon Valley; an improvement in America's standard of living with the creation of personal computing; and productivity gains throughout the economy."  Additional coverage appeared on History News Network and Future of Capitalism.
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Prof. Samuel Craig on NBC's programming

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Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- “NBC is not going to be feasting this year. The Playboy Club was a disaster for them. They've got to rethink.”
School News

NYU Trustee and Boad of Overseers Member Chandrika Tandon is highlighted

Excerpt from Microfinance Monitor -- "On Friday night, the Grammy-nominated artist Chandrika Tandon, Chairman of Tandon Capital Associates ... rendered some excellent fusion music, and even got the crowd to sing along with her on the bhajan Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram, in honor of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary on October 2nd."
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Prof. Roy Smith on the Volcker Rule

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Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "The rule is essentially a backdoor-breakup plan for Wall Street, said Roy Smith." Additional coverage appeared in Investment News and Bloomberg.
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran is featured for lecturing on valuation at IIM Lucknow

Excerpt from PR.com -- "In any valuation exercise, the first principles are more important than any model technique used. These views were emphasized by Professor Aswath Damodaran while interacting with a group of second year students at IIM Lucknow."  Additional coverage appeared on SkyNewswire.com and CoolAvenues.
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A book review of "Guaranteed to Fail," authored by NYU Stern faculty

Excerpt from The Economist -- "['Guaranteed to Fail'] offers two useful things ... The first is a comparison of America’s mortgage system with those of other countries. Few have anything like the same level of state support, yet many have comparable levels of home ownership and housing affordability."
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Prof. Luis Cabral on the euro zone economic problems

Excerpt from El Imparcial -- "The problem is Greece, and from that country spreads to the rest, until uncertainties are resolved will not end the debt crisis (translated from Spanish to English)."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on corporate splits

Excerpt from The Economist -- "One or two [splits] had a whiff of desperation, says Aswath Damodaran of the Stern School of Business. It was as if, having ruthlessly cut costs and still not improved their performance, the mother companies had simply run out of other ideas."
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2011 Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent is featured for his contributions to economics

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Macroeconomists must piece truths together one disaster at a time. That dismal scientists can tell us anything is in large part due to Thomas Sargent of New York University and Christopher Sims of Princeton University, who were awarded the Nobel prize for economics on October 10th."
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Nobel Laureate Professor Michael Spence & The Economist’s Matthew Bishop Talk about Jobs

In conjunction with The Economist’s special report on the “Future of Jobs” (September 2011), Nobel Laureate Professor Michael Spence and Matthew Bishop, US business editor and New York bureau chief at The Economist, discussed recent trends in the job market in NYU Stern's Paulson Auditorium.
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Prof. Anthony Karydakis says the euro zone crisis is a threat to the US

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "The euro zone debt crisis is still playing out. That remains a dark cloud on the horizon that can present a direct hit to the U.S. economic recovery." Additional coverage appeared in Economic Times.
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An op-ed by Prof. Michelle Greenwald on convergence products

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Excerpt from Inc. Magazine -- "The ultimate convergence product in my mind is the Apple iPhone, in large part due to all the apps designed for it and technology embedded in it."
Student Club Events

Graduate Finance Association (GFA) Conference

The theme of the 2011 GFA conference is "Navigating Uncertain Waters." The conference will include a keynote address by Eric Varvel, Chief Executive Officer, Investment Bank of Credit Suisse; panel discussions; and a cocktail reception.
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A discussion with Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence & The Economist's Matthew Bishop on jobs

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Excerpt from WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show -- "Nobel Laureate and NYU Stern professor Michael Spence, author of author of 'The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World,' and The Economist's New York Bureau Chief Matthew Bishop discuss recent trends in the job market, both in the United States and around the world, the rapid growth in developing markets that are catching up with the industrialized West, and what the United States must do to remain competitive."  Additional coverage appeared on BigThink and Foreign Policy.
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Prof. Scott Galloway says one in five fashion brands still lack e-commerce capability

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Excerpt from Vogue -- "Most fashion brands still approach digital as a series of pet projects rather than presenting a coherent multi-platform strategy. Although 94 per cent of brands in the Index have a presence on Facebook, one in five still lacks e-commerce capability." Additional coverage appeared in FashionEtc, Fashionista, Style Clone, The Telegraph and Business of Fashion.
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Profs Zur Shapira and Elizabeth Boyle's study on Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, is featured

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post Canada -- "Along with NYU's Elizabeth Boyle, Shapira co-authored 'The Liability of Leading: Battling Aspiration and Survival Goals in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions,' which appeared last month in the journal 'Organization Science.'"
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Prof. Marcin Kacperczyk's research on "sin-stocks" is highlighted

Excerpt from SmartMoney -- "Some research has found that the best-performing stocks over long periods are in the "sinful" categories like tobacco, says Marcin Kacperczyk, an assistant professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business."
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Dean Peter Henry on the Fifth Annual NYU Stern Luxury & Retail Conference

Excerpt from PRWeb -- “The theme of this conference, ‘From Retail to Me-tail: Delivering to the Connected Consumer,’ unites two strengths of our School – marketing and information systems."
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An interview with Prof. Jonathan Haidt on his book, "The Happiness Hypothesis"

Excerpt from Minnesota Public Radio -- "Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival about his book, 'The Happiness Hypothesis.' It's an examination on how the mind works and the search for happiness and meaning in our lives, using the wisdom of the past as a guide."