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An op-ed by Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz on Bangladesh factory safety plans from US, Euro brands

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Excerpt from Quartz -- "The two plans initiated by US and European brands are an unprecedented acknowledgment of their responsibility and commitment to improve working conditions where their products are made. To be sure, there are flaws in both plans and their competing nature makes implementation all the more challenging. But they are an important step forward for workers in Bangladesh."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on why slowing growth in China could be good for US companies

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think what I see in companies that do very well, I see also in countries. And that is, they put economic 'stuff' in the right place...it's an enormously important skill."
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Prof. Joshua Ronen's research on auditors' conflicts of interest is cited

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The auditing business rests on what Joshua Ronen, a New York University accounting professor, once called 'a structural infirmity.'"
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Profs John Asker and Alexander Ljungqvist's research on reinvesting is featured

Excerpt from Morningstar -- "In 'Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?,' professors John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist held company size and industry constant and found that the private companies in their (new and extensive) database plowed an average of 6.8% of their assets back into their businesses each year, as opposed to 3.7% for the public companies."
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Prof. Hal Hershfield on saving for retirement

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- “'There’s a real disconnect because your life pre-retirement is much different than your life post-retirement,' says Hal Hershfield, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business who conducts research on judgment, decision-making and social psychology with an emphasis on how thinking about time can alter decisions and emotions."
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In an op-ed, Prof. Jonathan Haidt explains why capitalism is the world's "greatest hope"

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "I think in the long run our greatest hope is capitalism. That might sound like a strange thing to many people now because America is engaged in a debate on the ethical nature of capitalism. What I'm hoping is that we as Americans, and people in other countries, too, can think more clearly about capitalism as the engine of growth that lifts people out of poverty. It can only work when you have efficient markets, and you can only have efficient markets when you have government tamping down on monopoly, on those who exploit public goods, and on those who pass externalities on to others."
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Profs Asker & Ljungqvist's research on investments by private vs. public companies is featured

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Investors depend on long-term returns from stocks to fund their retirements. What a nasty irony, therefore, that public ownership gives company managers reason to favour short-term profits over long-term growth. In a recent paper, John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist – researchers at New York University and Harvard – find new evidence of this. They compare investment levels at a large sample of private and publicly traded companies over a decade. They find that the private ones invest more than the public ones, growing their total assets by, on average, 6.8 per cent a year versus 3.7 per cent."
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In an op-ed, Prof. Michael Spence details Myanmar's potential for economic growth

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "If Myanmar were to invest quickly and heavily in broadband and mobile telecoms, it could be one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, potentially quadrupling GDP from $45bn in 2010 to over $200bn in 2030, and taking 18m people out of poverty."
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Profs Ralph Gomory and William Baumol's research on free trade is featured

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "In 2000 he partnered [with] the noted economist William Baumol in Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests, a book that explodes the myth that nations always benefit from free trade. In a debate where most anti-trade arguments don’t pass even elementary tests of economic literacy, Gomory marshaled higher mathematics to confound economic orthodoxy."
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Executive MBA student Tim Reid discusses the customization of Stern's EMBA program

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In the NYU Stern Executive MBA program, customization is alive and kicking. In early May, we were given 39 electives to choose from to build our curriculum for the 2nd year of the program. By offering this multitude and breadth of courses, we can tailor our experience to our career goals and interests."
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Prof. Michael Posner is interviewed about Stern's new center for human rights

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Prof Posner has three items on his agenda: to develop a group of well-educated business leaders who respect human rights; to advance the research agenda with rigorous analysis; and to convene the companies and individuals who decide strategy."
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Prof. Scott Galloway discusses possible marketing strategies for hedge funds

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Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "The best marketers will probably invest in digital, boring things like search and email and CRM, some limited event marketing, and I would say print."
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Prof. Scott Galloway on Microsoft's future

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Excerpt from CCTV -- "It feels like this company could be accused of chasing the shiny bright object and re-orging. And that's typically signs of a company that has kind of plateaued or declining."
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Dean Peter Henry on Microsoft's business strategy

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Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "Every company has to think about not just their present but their future. And if this industry is going the way of consumers really wanting an integrated approach - hardware, software and services - then this rather large organization really needs to realign itself in order to be able to provide that kind of delivery. And that's going to require teamwork and collaboration."
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Dean Peter Henry on recent grocery store mergers

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Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "On the one hand, with technology...it is the age of the consumer because there is so much information out there ... but on the other hand, it's an age of a squeezed consumer and so everyone's trying to find ways to those consumers that are really struggling with low employment."
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Prof. Hal Hershfield on how visualizing your "future self" can help boost savings

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Over at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Hal Hershfield, a psychologist and marketing professor, is studying the idea of how getting acquainted with your future self can help you save more today. ... 'What our research has been showing is that if people think of their future selves as a different person altogether … then that has deep implications,' he said. 'If you can somehow boost their connectedness with that person in the future, they save more.'”
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Prof. Michael Posner on the Bangladesh factory safety plan from US brands

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Excerpt from Los Angeles Times -- "The safety goals represent 'a collective step forward' by American retailers, said Mike Posner, a business and human rights professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'But it does not make sense for there to be two competing initiatives, an American one and a European one, that run the risk of duplication and confusion at the local factory level,' he said in a statement."
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Prof. Michael Spence was interviewed on reform in China at the Global Alumni Conference in Shanghai

Excerpt from China Economic Review -- "The country is rapidly upgrading its engines for growth, and some signs of that are already in plain sight, according to Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics and a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. Spence spoke with China Economic Review in Shanghai in late June."
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Prof. Gavin Kilduff's research on rivalry and unethical behavior was highlighted

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "In a paper published last year, Gavin Kilduff of NYU’s Stern School of Business, Adam Galinsky of Northwestern University, Edoardo Gallo of Oxford and James Reade from Birmingham University studied Serie A football teams in Italy. Players, they found, were more likely to commit serious fouls in 'derby' encounters between arch-rivals."
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Prof. Matt Statler's participation in an education report by the Carnegie Foundation is highlighted

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Guillet de Monthoux is one of the leading figures of the current movement, trying to address the findings of CR II with their fellow teachers at business schools, mostly in Europe...He credits his good friend and colleague, Matt Statler, Professor at Stern School of Business, NYU, for introducing him to the report and thus the Carnegie Foundation and their researcher and one of its authors, Bill Sullivan."
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In an op-ed, Prof. Ralph Gomory discusses US innovation and manufacturing

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Excerpt from Huffington Post -- "We are allowing much of manufacturing, the great innovation engine that turns ideas into reality, to vanish quietly from our shores. Our global corporations may be benefitting from this; most Americans are not."
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Prof. Rosa Abrantes-Metz on the new NYSE oversight of Libor

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Changing the administrator won’t address Libor’s underlying problems, such as its use of estimates and an increasing propensity of banks to leave their submissions unchanged, according to Rosa Abrantes-Metz, an economist with New York-based consulting firm Global Economics Group Inc. and a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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Dean Peter Henry's book, "Turnaround," is reviewed

Excerpt from Financial Post -- "Henry brings a unique and pragmatic perspective to the study of international economic growth, having been raised in Jamaica before moving to the United States, where he is now Dean of New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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In an op-ed, overseer Henry Kaufman explains the challenges the Federal Reserve faces

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Assuming Ben Bernanke leaves his post this year, his successor will inherit a serious policy challenge: disengaging from quantitative easing. Returning to more traditional monetary policy will be tricky. First, there is no precedent in the Fed’s 100-year history. Has there ever been a period in which the US central bank and its leading counterparts worldwide have simultaneously pursued QE against a backdrop of economic faltering and uncoordinated fiscal policies?"
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Prof. Scott Galloway on the importance of technology for retailers

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Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "All the research shows that, effectively, once you get a consumer to buy from more than one channel - get someone to buy from the side in addition to the store or from a catalog, they immediately begin purchasing more."