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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Being a single mom of a teenage daughter, full-time physician, and executive MBA student is a real challenge. I learned to prioritize and structure my time efficiently so every minute is used with purpose."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'The two key elements of global growth have remained the U.S. and China, and now the U.S. and China are on the verge of a trade war,' he said. 'There are actually signs of a slowdown of global growth in emerging markets, and the Fed keeps on tightening. So, this is a moment of some degree of fragility.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'A robot has no consciousness, no ethics,' says Vasant Dhar, a professor of information systems at New York University’s Stern School of Business who runs a robo adviser for institutional investors. For a robo to qualify as a fiduciary, 'you’d have to have a machine that has a strong moral code and understands the implications' of violating it, such as a regulatory fine or lawsuit, he says."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I think in a strange way these stocks are benefiting from the big tech companies succeeding as much as they have, because almost all of these stocks have come into play and some of the price you see in there is almost an acquisition premium that you're paying so you are hoping that these stocks will be taken over by somebody else in that war for tech. So I think that there is a point in which you have to ask, are these companies becoming too large to be acquisition targets."

Excerpt from Quartz -- "Our research showed that women feel the same emotions as men in the workplace, but they are often penalized because the 'expression' of those emotions is crying versus an alternative reaction (e.g., raising one’s voice or pounding on a table in frustration)."

Starting with a review of financial data in a company's annual report and accounting statements, participants will gain a well-rounded understanding of how basic accounting information may be used in communicating with financial managers, as well as to assess a firm's future prospects and value.

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "'This is moving much faster than people expected. Business schools will have no choice but to update curriculums,' says David Yermack, professor of finance and business transformation at the New York University Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "To gauge relative performance, they compared baskets of stocks with the best and worst scores on a credit-quality test published in the late 1960s by New York University finance professor Edward Altman."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Rather than promoting a 'common-enemy identity politics' that admonishes white people and others with 'privilege,' Mr. Haidt said Friday, professors and administrators should embrace a 'common-humanity identity politics.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'AT&T did practically everything right, and the Justice Department did everything wrong,' said Nicholas Economides, a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business who watched part of the trial."

Excerpt from American Entrepreneurship Today -- "The $300K Entrepreneurs Challenge finals were the culmination of the eight-month competition that began the prior fall with the registration of over 600 students, faculty and alumni drawn from 17 schools across NYU’s global network. Over two hundred teams were then formed, receiving tutoring and mentoring over the following months.In addition to the Challenge, the winner of Stern’s W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs Mobile App Contest was announced, who will have their app fully developed---awarding them a prize valued at $75,000." 
 

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "...We have a strong economy but it doesn't seem to be exploding. You never know, Middle East tensions, the Middle East going up in flames, something like that could cause an explosion but absent that it is pretty much steady as she goes. The interest rate increase announced today, not unexpected, and the fact that we are going to have a few more later this year, again, not a big surprise."

Excerpt from NASDAQ -- "...Ad fraud and high frequency of targeting of irrelevant ads are pain points. What the Blockchain will do is, because of its transparent ledger system it will actually enable both the pain points to be addressed."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'Today, European markets have lower concentration, lower excess profits, and lower regulatory barriers to entry,' Germán Gutiérrez and Thomas Philippon write in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Companies across sectors increasingly understand the value MBAs can bring to their organizations in data analytics roles. These roles are a way for MBAs to combine their quantitative and research skills with their deep business understanding to develop innovative data-driven solutions."

Excerpt from AM New York -- "A 2013 study by Robert Seamans, of the NYU Stern School of Business, and Feng Zhu, of the Harvard Business School, showed classified-ad buyers saved $5 billion between 2000 and 2007 while local newspapers lost billions in potential revenue."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "'The EQ endorsement was as a big hit, and applicants gave us wonderful feedback about how much they liked being able to express their EQ and IQ in this way,' Gallogly shares. 'And it gave us insight as readers of applications that we historically had not gotten.'"

Excerpt from Esquire -- "As a living monument to the Dunning-Kruger effect, Trump honestly believes that he knows everything there is to know, both about negotiating and about Kim and his nuclear program."

Except from Poets & Quants -- "[The Pick Six and EQ Endorsement] speak[s] to us looking at them beyond a business person to a person that wants to make a contribution and impact. And so it has to be a more holistic and much more individualistic view of what they are, what their DNA is, and what they think their roadmap towards impact will be."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Without human labor costs, Nuro’s robot has a better chance to make on-demand delivery profitable than the string of failed startups that have littered Silicon Valley in recent years, says Arun Sundararajan, a business professor at New York University who specializes in the economics of digital goods and networks. But it will take a little getting used to, he says, for consumers."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'Based on the research we did, there’s no question that Craigslist’s entry had a big effect on the newspaper industry,' Mr. Seamans said. 'The effect was the change in the way newspapers run their business. What we find is that, as Craigslist is entering different markets at different points in time, newspapers are shifting away from the classifieds ads model.'"

NYU Stern announced its 2018-19 application deadlines and essays for its Full-time MBA, two focused MBAs (Andre Koo Tech MBA and Fashion & Luxury MBA) and Langone Part-time MBA programs.

Designed for those who wish to better understand and further develop their potential and propensity to lead others, this course will help you hone some of the essential self-reflective skills necessary to give form and substance to your vision.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "A series of coincidences indeed, but Nacson credits his B-school experience for awakening his entrepreneurial spirit. 'The cohort that I belonged to was very much composed of entrepreneurs and people who had gone through the entrepreneurship experience in different fields. That brought my attention to the excitement and interest already embedded in me,' he says."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Investors are becoming much smarter -- some, at least -- and they are desperately looking for some information in those intangibles,' [Lev] said. 'You capitalize, you amortize, and you have an income statement that says something, unlike today.'"