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Robert Frank, research scholar at NYU Stern and the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management at Cornell University, delivered the 2016 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Lecture on April 12.

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Selections are made by a team that includes both store buyers and MoMA curators. Both perspectives are important because the Store is considered as an integrated extension of the Museum that reflects the organization’s design philosophies."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "And last month, two New York University real-estate professors, Jeanne Calderon and Gary Friedland, released a report that listed 27 major projects that have sought a total of $5.4 billion in EB-5 financing, including multiple large Manhattan-based developers like Tishman Speyer and Harry Macklowe. Nineteen are in New York or Miami, and these projects all come in addition to a similar-sized list the professors compiled last May."

In a new paper published by The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Professor Melissa Schilling, a strategy and innovation expert at the NYU Stern School of Business, uncovers a surprising new connection between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease: hyperinsulinemia, which is most often caused by prediabetes, early or undiagnosed diabetes, or obesity, is responsible for almost half of all cases of Alzheimer’s disease.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'Companies are facing these really complex issues of human rights, which are rooted in politics, geography, development and these really complex questions,' Labowitz explains in an interview with Poets&Quants. 'Companies are facing these questions all the time, but they’re not being addressed in business schools.'"

Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- "'We always knew that transnational accountability mechanisms don’t reach every single multinational corporation,' she said. 'But in the last 10 years, we [have seen] this explosion of companies where we have no leverage whatsoever.'"

Excerpt from Forbes -- "As Nobel laureate Michael Spence has argued, the internal growth of economies would never have reached today’s rates without the cross-border flows of resources, capital and technology."

Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "'The banks are under severe pressure from this digital intermediation, which could cause them to lose business to new competitors and cause assets to flow out of the banks into someplace not regulated,' says NYU’s Smith. 'For a long time these companies were just little pin pricks, but they can’t be ignored anymore.'"

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Authorities need to face the reality that direct evidence will probably be harder to come by, and that proactive reform of deficient structures is needed, coupled with active market screening."

In a new study, Professor Jason Greenberg of the NYU Stern School of Business and Professor Roberto Fernandez of MIT Sloan School of Management find that using the alumni connections of current employees to woo and win talent will yield better results than job offers extended through on-campus recruiting efforts, summer internships or other search channels.

NYU Stern Executive Education is pleased to offer one of the premier courses on global political risk and its impacts on business. Taught by Ian Bremmer, a preeminent thought leader on foreign policy and global political risk, and a team from the prestigious Eurasia Group, this course offers an executive-level assessment of the global risk environment and the basis for determining how politics influences a variety of economic concerns.

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "This polarised image of vulnerable victims needing protection from vilified perpetrators is hardly a promising basis for a mature and respectful exchange of views on campus. It shuts down free speech and the marketplace of ideas."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'The jobs coming through the alumni channel are perceived as having significantly better growth potential,' [Greenberg] says, linking this preoccupation with longterm cash flow to the net present value calculations that are a staple of MBA courses. 'They are willing to take less today for a job that has better prospects in the long run.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'We are reaching the limits of what monetary policy can do and we have to have the use of fiscal policy,' Roubini said."

Excerpt from PayScale.com -- "The results of this research indicate that when co-workers are at the same status level, they are less likely to support one another than when they have a little more distance between them. Perhaps this is because these employees feel competitive with one another, or they feel that it wouldn't be fair to them and their time to help someone who is in roughly the same place as they are. Similarly, when someone's status is very distant, they are less likely to help out as well. There is, however, a kind of sweet spot where co-workers are most likely to support one another and offer help – a moderate status distance."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "In his new book, 'The End of Alchemy', Mervyn King argues that financial crises arise because people hold mistaken beliefs about an uncertain future. 'Crises don't come out of thin air,' he writes, 'but are the result of unavoidable mistakes made by people struggling to cope with unknowable futures.'"

Excerpt from CBS News -- "'Many large corporations truly believe the administration's attitude on corporate mergers is anti-business and politically motivated,' said Roy Smith, a professor at New York University and a former Goldman Sachs partner, in an email. 'Those more left-leaning think government has to protect the people from greedy corporations, etc. There is no agreed answer to the question. But it seems to be true that the Obama people are more restrictive on M&A than the (Bill) Clinton people were.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I would say that part of the yen's strength, and is also the same thing with the euro, has to do with what's going on with the United States. The Fed has gone very dovish. They've now signaled that they're going to hike only, at best, twice a year. Even some Fed governors were talking down the dollar."

Excerpt from The Economic Times -- "I think that increasingly countries are interconnected. If there is a correction in the US, you are going to see it ripple through the globe and you are going to see larger impacts in emerging markets and developed markets. So Indian markets are less about the Indian economy than they used to be, they are all connected to the global economy and that is why these negative interest rates in Europe and Japan are problematic because they are sending a signal about future growth that is not good for the global economy."

Excerpt from the International Business Times -- "'In 10 years there may be no more stock exchanges and far fewer banks and so forth. All of these things can be made 90 percent cheaper by introducing this technology,' said David Yermack, chairman of the finance department and a professor at New York University Stern School of Business. 'Financial services are going to get a lot cheaper for most people.'"

Philip Krim, co-founder and CEO of Casper, joined Professor Jeffrey Carr, MBA students and alumni for a 2015-2016 Langone Speaker Series event.

On Friday, April 8, NYU Stern and Columbia Business School will co-host the 2016 MBA Media & Entertainment Conference.

On April 4 and 5, the NYU Stern Urbanization Project and UN-Habitat released the preliminary results of Monitoring Global Urban Expansion, a research program exploring the characteristics of the world’s 4,230 cities, at the Habitat III Thematic Meeting on Public Space in Barcelona, Spain. 

Excerpt from Inc. -- "Based on our own research last summer during the NYU Launchpad Program, when we talked to hundreds of potential users--we even put up a lemonade stand in Washington Square Park--60% of those who didn't have tattoos wanted to get one but didn't. They are into fashion or think it's cool, or hip...people are hungry for ink and not getting it because of its permanence."

Excerpt from Women's Wear Daily -- "'It will be the end of the billion-dollar brand. By trying to mean something to more people, the luxury brand [actually] means less to [everyone],' he concluded. That thought is predicated on the view that luxury is about having something that no one else has, even though that inherently also means fewer sales. 'Shifting from large megabrands to small specific brands will disrupt every facet of the fashion industry,' Lenihan concluded."