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Prof. Edward Altman's new Z-Score app for smartphones is featured

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "According to 'The Financial Professional's Post,' Professor Altman and Business Compass LLC teamed up to develop a smartphone app so that credit analysts can carry the power of the Altman Z-Score in the palm of their hands."
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An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on the Fed's involvement with the US housing market

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The Fed needs to get out of the housing business, and indeed, the rest of day-to-day commerce. And it needs to spend more energy on building the trust that Sapienza tries to quantify."
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Prof. Anindya Ghose is featured as the FT Lexicon Professor of the Week

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The five terms defined by Anindya Ghose on FT Lexicon this week are: digital marketing; user-generated content (UGC); mobile internet; sponsored search advertising; and crowdfunding."
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Prof. David Poltrack on entertainment content and the digital cloud

Excerpt from Home Media Magazine -- “It’s always been a question of access. Now we have universal access, and consumers love the concept.” Additional coverage appeared on Fora.tv, GigaOm.com and PaleyCenter.org.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the outlook for Canada's economy

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- “The resource orientation of Canada is one the sources of its strength. While there may be a slowdown in China, the forces that lead to demand for commodities being high and rising -- urbanization, industrialization, population growth, per capita income growth in emerging markets -- I don’t think they’re going to change even if there are some bumps down the road.” Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on US job growth

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal blog -- “US job growth is still too mediocre to make a dent in the overall unemployment rate and on labor income." Additional coverage appeared in The Daily Beast.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent compares the euro zone crisis to US debt in the 1790s

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Economists—notably Nobel Laureate Thomas Sargent—and the news media have drawn comparisons between the troubled eurozone today and the United States assuming states' debts in the 1790s."
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An op-ed by Prof. Evan Shapiro on the Las Vegas Consumer Electronic Show

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Even though TV executives don't necessarily work in technology, nothing at the moment affects their lives and jobs more than the connected electronics through which their content is seen."
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An interview with Prof. Scott Galloway on the US anti-piracy legislation

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "A lot of people think if you read this legislation verbatim you could effectively put Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube under not only serious economic strain, but put almost every major sharing site out of business." Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Post.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini is cited for his support of shared appreciation mortgage (SAM) modifications

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Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "Roubini, who cites Goodman's work in his own, recently co-wrote a report suggesting that SAMS could help 'unclog the real estate and financial arteries and restore healthy circulation.'"
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Prof. Paul Romer on the impact of ideas

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "[Romer] points out that millions of little discoveries ... combined with some very big ones, have exponentially improved the quality of life over the past century."
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Prof. Panos Ipeirotis on crowdsourced labor

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Crowdsourced labor can cost companies less than half as much as typical outsourcing, says Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, an associate professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, who studies crowdsourcing."
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Arianna Huffington spoke at NYU Stern on January 17

Excerpt from Broadway World -- "NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) is hosting the 2nd annual Women Entrepreneurs Festival January 17th and 18th, 2012. ... Arianna Huffington will provide the keynote address on January 17th at NYU’s Stern School of Business."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence's book, "The Next Convergence," is cited

Excerpt from Sri Lanka Guardian -- "As Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics at New York University observes in his book 'The Next Convergence' of India 'India’s earlier slow growth was partly attributable to a distrust of foreign investors and a relatively low level of foreign investment by multinational firms.'"
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An op-ed by Prof. Daniel Altman on credit-rating agencies

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Excerpt from BigThink -- "In the corporate world, there are at least three things wrong with credit-rating agencies. First, they get paid by the very companies whose securities they rate."
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"Retail 2020" whitepaper, co-authored by Professors Herb Kleinberger and Sam Craig, is featured

Herb Kleinberger delivered a presentation on "Retail 2020" at the National Retail Federation's 101st Annual Convention and Expo, held January 16-17 in New York City. The whitepaper discusses the future of retailing and outlines the implications for retailers today.
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt's book, "The Righteous Mind," is highlighted

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Excerpt from The New York Times blog -- "Haidt is sharply critical of some aspects of liberalism. Liberals’ determination to help victims often leads them 'to push for changes that weaken groups, traditions, institutions, and moral capital.'"
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Prof. Amir Malin on Lionsgate's acquisition of Summit Entertainment

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “The transaction is a net positive for all parties, but consolidation in the sector is reflective of the significant challenges in the industry." Additional coverage appeared in Vancouver Sun and BusinessDay.
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Research Scholar Robert Frank's book, "The Darwin Economy," is referenced

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Evolutionary theories impact our thinking about economics implicitly and explicitly, as occurred when Robert Frank called his new book on the current financial contraction, 'The Darwin Economy.'" Additional coverage appeared in The Daily Beast, Texas Public Radio and Princeton University Press blog.
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The Mei-Moses Fine Art Index, co-created by Prof. Michael Moses, is referenced

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Excerpt from Reuters blog -- " ... these artists have almost nothing in the way of a long-term auction history, they’re not going to be showing up in the Mei-Moses art index for a while. That requires paintings to have been sold twice. But when that happens, we’re going to have some very crazy results." Additional coverage appeared in Artinfo and RT.com.
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Prof. Nicholas Economides on the S&P downgrading the European economy

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "This is good for the European Union, and it is also good for the rest of the world. The United States would like the Europeans to take more seriously their own crisis and deal with it."
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An op-ed by Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on the fundamental weaknesses of markets

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Excerpt from Project-Syndicate -- "Most societies have important economic and social objectives that markets and competition are not designed to achieve." Additional coverage appeared in CNN blog, Today's Zaman, The Daily News Egypt, Gulf-Times.com.
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt is highlighted as a advocate of intuitionism

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Excerpt from The Guardian -- "We are far better at doing what seems the right thing to do based on the behaviour of those around us than figuring it out on our own. Jonathan Haidt ... is a respected advocate of intuitionism, as is Mark Earls at Herd, here in the UK." Additional coverage appeared in CSWire.com.