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Professor Haran Segram is quoted in a story on investing in the stock market

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Excerpt from Wealth Professional -- "'[P]eople don’t make rational decisions at a time when it comes to money,' said Haran Segram, a clinical assistant professor of finance at New York University. 'I tell my students, it’s a patience game.'"
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Professor Marti Subrahmanyam is quoted in a story on the bond market's performance

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Excerpt from the The New York Times -- "'As those spreads are widening, definitely there is going to be a reluctance to invest, especially in risky ventures,' said Marti Subrahmanyam, a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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Professor Jonathan Haidt is featured in a trend story on how universities are teaching students to cope with failure

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'Children do not become strong if they are protected from setbacks, teasing, exclusion and conflicts,' said Jonathan Haidt, a professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business and co-author of 'The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.'"
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Professor Lawrence White shares his outlook on the Federal Reserve's interest rate increases

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Excerpt from the Associated Press -- "Lawrence White, an economics professor at New York University’s Stern School, said he expects the Fed to remain mindful of the mistakes of the 1970s, when officials allowed inflation to erupt, requiring sharply higher interest rates and a painful recession to root out. 'We have not had such low unemployment in almost 50 years,' White said. 'The Fed has to be cautious.'"
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In a live interview, Professor Paul Romer emphasizes the importance of cryptography and innovation in the future of money

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Excerpt from Bloomberg-- "We haven't yet seen the full application of technologies that have been invented. Take cryptography--there are ways to secure all of our communications and keep secret things we want to keep secret, but they're not being used. People...need to focus on this problem of diffusion--how do you make sure something gets widely used?"
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Professor Lawrence White discusses how tariffs will impact the economy

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Excerpt from PolitiFact -- "The consensus among economists, White said, is that 'tariffs, like any tax, generally introduce an inefficiency and makes the two sides of the trading relationship poorer — not richer.'"
School News

A fireside chat featuring former Secretary of the US Treasury Timothy Geithner at the “2008 Financial Crisis: A Ten-Year Review" conference, co-hosted by Stern, is featured

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Excerpt from the CFA Institute blog -- "Finance is inherently vulnerable to failure, Geithner said, and the financial crisis was caused by a cascading series of failures: failures of supervision and regulation and the failure to adapt. The ensuing panic demonstrated that our system had outgrown its Great Depression-era safeguards."
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Professor Eric Greenleaf discusses FleetCor's "Universal Pricing" strategy

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Excerpt from Capitol Forum -- "Eric Greenleaf, a professor of marketing at New York University who has taught masters and doctoral level courses in pricing strategy and theory, told The Capitol Forum by email, 'Unless FleetCor customers are told what the ‘Universal’ price is at any given time, they will not know how much they are paying, nor how the price compares to the publicly available price.'"
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Professor Pankaj Ghemawat's work on global leadership is cited

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Excerpt from BusinessWorld -- "The demand for managers capable of dealing with the emerging challenges and opportunities of globalization will continue to be on the rise. In a survey of senior executives, reported in a 2012 McKinsey article on ‘Developing Global Leaders’, by Pankaj Ghemawat, 76 percent believed their organizations needed to develop global-leadership capabilities, but only 7 percent thought they were currently doing so effectively."
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Professor Anindya Ghose explains why he believes aggregation apps in India have bargaining power when negotiating for commissions

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Excerpt from Economic Times -- "The aggregators provide a valuable service and cannot be written off so easily, says Anindya Ghose, Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business at New York University’s Leonard N Stern School of Business. There might be issues but these intermediaries have a significant brand recall and brand affinity. 'At the end of the day, most of the aggregator apps have a heavier hand and have the ability to dictate terms, at least to the institutions in the mid and low end of the spectrum.'"
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Professor Haran Segram is interviewed for a story on seasonal changes in the stock market

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Excerpt from BBC Capital -- "Although it’s good to be mindful of seasonality, you should pay closer attention to concrete evidence, like growth potential for a company and how profitable it’s been over the last year, says Haran Segram, a clinical assistant professor of finance at New York University. 'I’m a firm believer in the fundamentals of a stock – the cash flow, the risk and growth, rather than the particular month to invest,' he says."
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Professor Michael Spence is quoted in a story on public policy and economic growth in China

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Excerpt from Bloomberg-- "Yet even with the political and trade headwinds, the new digital economy, services and higher value producers could keep China on track to join the ranks of wealthy nations, said Spence. 'A trade war expanding to technology and cross border investment will slow China down — and not just China — but not probably derail this progress,' he said."
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Professor Robert Seamans' joint research on the impact of innovation on labor markets is featured

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Excerpt from the The New York Times -- "...the fourth effect is that 'technology may replace specific tasks rather than entire jobs — leaving substantial room for human employment in jobs that will be changed by worker’s having a new tool at their disposal.'"
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In a live interview, Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses Lyft’s future in the personal transportation market ahead of company’s IPO

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Excerpt from CNBC -- (0:12) "I am definitely optimistic about Lyft. I think it is priced at a modest range, the 15 to 20 billion dollar range. They are stable, they are founder-led. They haven't really inflated their valuation to the point that Uber has. They have got some really good strategic partnerships with Waymo, with DD, with GM."
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Edward Altman explains his views on credit cycles while providing insights from his Z-Score research

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Excerpt from Macro Voices --"We are in a benign cycle. We are now just about nine years into it, the longest, by far now, since the modern economic period. It’s not likely that we will leave that for at least 6 to 12 months."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on what Apple's new campus in Austin, Texas means for the nation’s political divide

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Excerpt from the The New York Times -- "The part of the digital revolution that I have been waiting for, that I haven’t seen kick in in the United States, is the large platforms enabling opportunities for individuals who may not have high-tech skills."
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Aswath Damodaran offers insights on how to evaluate different tech companies as investments, citing Tesla as an example

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Excerpt from the The New York Times -- "Will Tesla become profitable enough to justify its current price? Professor Damodaran believes its shares are grossly overvalued. 'But it’s hard to know with a young company,' he conceded, adding that Tesla is 'a risky proposition but not an impossible one.'"
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Professor Stephen Ryan is quoted in a story on Revolution Lighting Technologies' financial reporting issues

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Excerpt from Stamford Advocate-- "'Recognizing revenue prematurely, particularly over numerous years — as appears to be the case here — is generally viewed as a serious accounting error,' said Stephen Ryan, a professor of accounting in New York University’s business school. 'This is suggestive that there were not very good internal controls.'"
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Stern's MS in Business Analytics program is spotlighted on its fifth anniversary for its unique curriculum; Roy Lee, Assistant Dean of Executive Programs, and current students Stephanie Grosse Kamphake and Shivika Mehta are quoted

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'In terms of when we first started the program and the changes that we see, over the years not only the content has changed,' Lee says. 'Yes, we’ve changed our content where analytics is something that’s really also changing. We have obviously a really set tool kit or fundamentals that we do teach. But our curriculum has changed over the years by adding a series of hot topics on things that have been really relevant in the marketplace.'"
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Professors Tülin Erdem's and Vishal Singh's joint research on how helping refugees boosts consumer perception of a brand is referenced

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Excerpt from AdAge -- "A new report from the NYU Stern School of Business and the Tent Partnership for Refugees examined purchase behavior for brands that hire refugees, deliver services to refugees or source from refugee businesses, and found that Americans are more likely to buy from such retailers."
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"The Coddling of the American Mind," co-authored by Professor Jonathan Haidt, is featured as one of the "Best Books of 2018" by Warby Parker co-founder and co-CEO Neil Blumenthal

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Excerpt from Bloomberg-- "This incredibly thought-provoking book describes the negative impact that social media and overparenting are having on today’s youth. It made me reflect on my own actions, as both a CEO and a parent, and what ways I’ve contributed to today’s 'safetyism' culture. Its core message has stayed with me—and has led me to develop new ways to drive innovation and smart risk-taking at the office, while also helping me to encourage independence and resilience with my children at home."
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Professor Anindya Ghose is quoted in a story on the factors influencing pricing and commission rates on sharing economy apps in India

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Excerpt from Quartz -- ""While high-end restaurants and hotels with brand recall could still exist off these platforms—even if it may not be the most lucrative option—'Ola and Uber drivers are entirely reliant on their respective platforms to earn their revenues,' said Anindya Ghose, the Heinz Riehl professor of business at New York University."
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Stern's Undergraduate College is recognized for its leadership in providing students with high-quality international experiences

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "As for an international experience, more than 95% of alumni from NYU’s Stern School of Business reported having at least one impactful international experience — more than any other school."
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New Research Shows U.S. Consumers Prefer Brands that Support Refugees

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Report from the Tent Partnership for Refugees and NYU Stern demonstrates that when brands support refugees, American consumers – particularly millennials – are more likely to purchase their products.
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Professor Paul Romer is featured in an in-depth story about the day he both received the medal for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics and got married in Stockholm

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Excerpt from the The New York Times -- "Later in the day, the couple arrived at the Stockholm Concert Hall for a different kind of reception, one filled with celebratory applause and presentation speeches, a diploma and a medal that His Majesty, the King of Sweden, gave Mr. Romer, who is a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences."