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Excerpt from Reuters -- "The vast problem remains that only a fraction of garment factories are even covered by protections currently intended to be in place. The use of subcontracting in the garment industry is pervasive. According to our research estimates, more than 30 percent of garment producing facilities in Bangladesh are producing off the radar and without government or private oversight. Workers in these often smaller facilities therefore remain unprotected and invisible to regulators. It is essential that we increase supply chain transparency in order to be able to bring all garment producing facilities under appropriate safety programs."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'You have about 200 brands working together, and there's definitely more transparency, more attention to the issue of human rights in the global supply chain,' Sarah Labowitz, co-director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "Firms that place sustainability at the core of their business strategy will drive positive climate performance, create wealth while creating competitive advantage, reduce risk and create stable ecosystems that drive both ecological and corporate value."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "A stalemate over who will pay for safety upgrades and oversight to those factories has left many workers still in danger, according to Sarah Labowitz, lead researcher of the report, 'Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Bangladesh’s Forgotten Apparel Workers.' ... 'Bangladesh should enforce its own labor laws and protect its own citizens and workers but I think they lack the political will and capacity to do that. The question for everybody, including brands, is what do you do in the absence of local government enforcement and regulation,' she said."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Frank’s argument in Success and Luck is easily summarised: the idea of meritocracy and the assumption that successful people get where they are solely by dint of their own efforts disguise the extent to which 'success and failure often hinge decisively on events completely beyond any individual’s control'."

Excerpt from the Harvard Business Review -- "In crowdfunding, however, women outperform men. My research with Jason Greenberg of NYU shows that, all else being equal, women are 13% more likely to raise succeed in raising money on Kickstarter than men. Further, we find that this success comes from the support of other women, and especially when the female project creators are operating in a male-dominated space, such as technology or video games."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'In every conceivable way this looks like a bad company, but at the right price, even a bad company could be a good investment,' he said in an interview with 'Closing Bell.' Valeant's problems include losing credibility with investors, delaying its financial filings and have a board of directors in 'flux,' [Damodaran] said."
 

Excerpt from Bend Bulletin -- "A professor of business management took it upon herself to untangle the evidence and published her theory in the recent edition of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. New York University professor Melissa Schilling feels so strongly that pre-diabetes plays a role in many cases of Alzheimer’s that she’s asking all neurologists to test their dementia patients for glucose tolerance."

Excerpt from The Economic Times -- "Agreeing with the cab companies and other experts, Arun Sundararajan, professor at the Stern School of Business in New York, said, 'The nature of taxis is such that there will always be periodic supply and demand imbalances over the day. For a market-based platform like Uber, price changes are the way in which a supply of drivers is brought into the market when needed.'"

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "In the 1920s, American finance also dazzled. Indeed, profits were so high that the economists Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef estimated that average banker pay was 1.6 times higher than other professions in 1928 (which, in a neat twist of history, was the same ratio seen in 2006.)"

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "Last week, NYU Stern celebrated 'Ally Week,' a week of celebrating being an ally in support of diversity of all forms. The celebration included a film screening of Trevor, panel discussions, safe space forums, a day of service and more. Sternie Janice Yong reflected on the week: 'Again, we know there is still so much we can do to support diversity and allyship, but I can promise you that we at Stern are dedicated to seeing this effort through.'"

Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times -- "'He [Hamilton] launched the financial system, he straightened out the government's finances,' said Richard Sylla, financial history professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. 'A lot of the good things about American history were due to what Hamilton did as treasury secretary. I think Americans weren't quite aware of that.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'It is still not clear what is being offered in the auction, but I can almost guarantee you that it does not include cash on hand,' said Aswath Damodaran, finance professor at the Stern School of Business, who has owned shares of Yahoo. Damodaran initially valued Yahoo in 2014, calling the company 'a puzzle, a mystery and an enigma.' He found the core business was worth $4.6 billion and has declined in value since."

Excerpt from CrowdFund Beat -- "'In the future, donors will be a lot more circumspect and skeptical about putting in money, especially in projects where they could have even an inkling of an idea that this might be bought out by a tech giant like Google, Facebook, or Apple,' says Anindya Ghose, a professor at New York University who studies the crowdfunding sector. 'They do not believe in backing projects for financial, commercial reasons. For them it’s a lot about a cause or altruism.'"

A team of NYU students, including Andrew Hamlet (MBA ’16), Troy Manos (MBA ’16) and Zewei Liu and Yang Yang from the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, earned the top spot in the inaugural Iowa MBA Business Analytics Case Competition.

On April 20, 2016, the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights hosted a discussion between Dean Peter Henry and Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Topics included the business case for human rights, Ms. Kennedy's history of human rights activism and how investment can be a game changer with respect to human rights in the business context.

NYU Stern's Center for Real Estate Finance Research hosted the Fifth Annual Spring Symposium, "Commercial Real Estate Development in NYC: A Golden Age or a Cooling Market?" The symposium featured leading real estate experts, four different panels and explored recent development activity in several major sectors.

NYU Stern's Center for Business and Human Rights and RFKennedy Compass Program at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights will host a workshop, Measuring Human Rights Performance: Metrics that Drive Change, 20 - 21 April at NYU in New York City.

Seema Saifee, staff attorney for the Innocence Project, delivered the 11th annual Haitkin Lecture, hosted by NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program, to an audience of undergraduate Stern students.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "China’s decades of rapid development under tight Communist Party control may be coming to an end, according to Roy Smith, the New York University academic who as a banker in 1990 anticipated Japan’s decline. 'China has now arrived at an existential moment after nearly 40 years of extraordinary economic progress,' said Smith, who also warned about budding Japan-like financial strains ahead of the Chinese stock rout in 2015. The country’s 'increasingly complex and troubled economic and social system with all its scarcities' will make it tougher for Communist cadres to manage, he said."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "We can look back to the history of Wall Street, and if you look back, you had an industry that was a much larger, relative investment banking business--much smaller trading. So the issue that we have is the trading business, since the Crisis, have not been able to beat their cost of capital. You look at these banks and--how many years out are we since the Crisis--and we only have a couple of them who are operating above 10 percent ROE. The rest of them are all dragging down. And of course, you're seeing that in terms of the valuation."

Except from the Australian Financial Review -- "David Yermack, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, said blockchain could lead to far fewer banks and perhaps even remove the need for share-trading exchanges. It would render redundant millions of employees who execute and record financial transactions across banking, asset management and insurance, he said."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Responses aren’t necessarily driven by ignorance. 'Where there is a sacred value that empirical science contradicts,' science will have trouble making headway, notes Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the Stern School of Business at New York University."

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Jonathan Haidt, who believes it has gone too far, offers a fourth theory. 'If an increasingly left-leaning academy is staffed by people who are increasingly hostile to conservatives, then we can expect that their concepts will shift, via motivated scholarship, in ways that will help them and their allies (e.g., university administrators) to prosecute and condemn conservatives,' he writes."