Faculty News

An op-ed by Prof. Daniel Altman on Fed policy and Duvvuri Subbarao's recent NYU Stern speech

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Excerpt from BigThink -- "Last week my colleagues at New York University’s Stern School of Business hosted a lecture by the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Duvvuri Subbarao, in which he openly sympathized with Bernanke’s plight. ... Flooding the economy with money is all Bernanke can do."
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Prof. Viral Acharya on liquidity risk

Excerpt from RepoWatch -- "Liquidity risk – which was at the heart of the September 2008 financial meltdown and explains regulatory concerns about a Greek default today – remains an open issue in financial regulatory reform."
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Prof. Scott Galloway on Steve Jobs's love-hate relationship with fame

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Excerpt from ABC News -- "He wasn't flaunting it like Donald Trump. ... He didn't do Architectural Digest. Do you even know what his wife looks like?"  Additional coverage appeared in Deseret News, Moneywatch and San Antonio Feeds!
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence's research on US job growth is referenced

Excerpt from The Economist -- " ... the vast majority of job growth has been in areas like education and health care, where productivity and wages are stagnant, a trend well documented by Michael Spence."  Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Post.
School News

Ryan Heller (MBA/MFA ’11) on NYU Stern and Tisch Kanbar’s dual MBA/MFA degree program for producers

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "I felt the combination of these two degrees was going to make me a little more unique and give me that extra look for a job."
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Ariel Fish (MBA '10) on her positive experience at NYU Stern during the financial crisis

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "In a way, the fall of '08 was a great time to be coming into business school. It gave me a little bit of protection. ... As much as [the mood] was uncertain, it was also very hopeful that things would change by the time we graduated."
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Prof. David Poltrack on word-of-mouth vs. social media advertising for TV

Excerpt from GigaOm -- “If the conversation is on the Internet instead of in the workplace, you can immediately go and find that show."
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Sir John Vickers Discusses the Vickers Report at NYU Stern

NYU Stern Salomon Center Hosted Sir John Vickers who discussed the proposed financial regulation set forth by the UK's Independent Commission on Banking. Following his speech, he joined a panel discussion led by Gillian Tett, US managing editor of the Financial Times; James Staley, CEO of JP Morgan's investment bank; and Ingo Walter, Seymour Milstein Professor of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics, and Vice Dean of Faculty.
Press Releases

Center for Measurable Marketing Studies the Impact of Social Media on Store Traffic

NYU Stern’s Center for Measurable Marketing Proves that Social Media Drives More Retail Store Traffic than Traditional Media
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Prof. William Baumol is cited for his separate definitions of invention and innovation

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "We should divide 'technological advance' into two sections, as William Baumol (the goto economist on these matters) does. In his definitions, there is invention, which is the creation of spiffy new things. There is also innovation, which is using either these spiffy new things to do interesting things"
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the ECB's policies

Excerpt from Bloombrg TV -- "Credibility means you decide, and then you speak. Today in the eurozone it's the opposite - everybody is talking, there's a cacophony of voices, and no decision is being taken."  Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Post, The Australian, Business Spectator, Dario Economico, five Bloomberg pieces, three Bloomberg Businessweek pieces, TIME, CNBC and The Wall Street Journal.
School News

Dean Henry will participate in an Q&A with Gordon Brown at a NYU Abu Dhabi Institute event

Excerpt from Middle East Events -- "Brown will answer questions from the Dean of the Stern School of Business at NYU, Peter Henry, a leading economist and financial observer, before taking questions from the audience."
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NYU Stern will host the Ultra Light Startups pitch event on October 13

Excerpt from NYConvergence -- "Ultra Light Startups is partnering with the New York Angels to give young entrepreneurs access to NYs angels."
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Vice Chair of NYU Trustees & Vice Chair of the Board of Overseers Kenneth Langone (MBA '60) is cited

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Unemployed job applicants would find it harder to get hired under an anti-discrimination provision in President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, according to Home Depot Inc. (HD) co-founder Kenneth Langone."  Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg, Bloomberg Businessweek, iStockAnalyst, San Francisco Chronicle, BangorDailyNews.com, Cincinnati.com and Tampa Bay Online.
Faculty News

Prof. Ilan Lobel's research on learning in social networks is featured

Excerpt from Vimeo -- "We study what are the determinants of information aggregation in social networks, establishing what properties of the network topology, the agents’ information structure and the agents’ preferences drive (or preclude) learning in large networks."
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Prof. Craig Stacey on the power of word-of-mouth communication

Excerpt from ContentLead -- “There has been evidence from survey and experimental research for more than 50 years to demonstrate the power of word-of-mouth communication."
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An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on Barney Frank's policies

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Frank has got it wrong. After a while dumping money into the economy doesn't bring recovery, it just widens the potential for inflation."
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Prof. Eric Greenleaf on downtown Manhattan's overcrowded elementary schools

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- “At this rate, in a few years, every single Downtown school will have a waitlist — even the incubator Peck Slip school"  Additional coverage appeared in Our Town Downtown, Tribeca Trib and DNAinfo.
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Prof. William Baumol's Cost Disease is applied to software application development

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Excerpt from a CIO blog -- "It's called Baumol's Cost Disease because Baumol realized something more -- that competition in the labor marketplace isn't limited to neatly confined distinct positions within which individual candidates compete for work. It's broader than that."
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Prof. Scott Galloway on the likability of small-business entrepreneurs

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "Small businesses, entrepreneurs are the corporate equivalent of dolphins. Everybody likes dolphins ... It's a good group to associate with." Additional coverage appeared on Canada.com.
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Prof. Scott Galloway says magazine brands must embrace social media

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Excerpt from AdAge.com -- "Social media is the corporate equivalent of skinny jeans, making you look hip, Mr. Galloway added."  Additional coverage appeared in Folio Magazine and AdAge.
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Prof. Scott Galloway on the long-term value of Facebook

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Excerpt from New York Post -- "[I]n the next 10 to 20 years, I don’t think [Facebook] will be in the top 100' most valuable companies." Additional coverage appeared on Forbes.com and Innovation Excellence.
School News

Vice Chair of NYU Trustees and Vice Chair of the Board of Overseers Kenneth Langone (MBA '60)

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'I love learning, but I’m biased,' said Kenneth Langone. 'I’m chairman of the NYU Langone Medical Center,' of which the [NYU Cancer] institute is a part within the larger domain of New York University."
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NYU Stern is highlighted for its affiliation with the nonprofit Global Goods Partners

Excerpt from MBA Social -- "Global Goods Partners is a non-profit, social venture that creates economic opportunity for women artisans in some of the world’s poorest communities by providing access to the US market for their fair trade, handmade products."