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The Stern Investment Management and Research Conference (SIMR) Conference will feature keynote speakers Daniel K. Kingsbury, head of the US division and CEO and president of Pioneer Investment Management Inc., and Whitney Tilson, founder and managing partner of T2 Partners LLC and Tilson Mutual Funds, as well as panel discussions focused on investment strategies and “best ideas.”

In collaboration with NYU Stern and Columbia Business School, NOVA (Italian MBA Association) presents its 12th annual conference, organized in New York City on November, 11th-13th, 2011.

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "You can't sustain an Italy rescue if constantly we're getting negative news about GDP growth, about company profitability, about unemployment, etc. They've got to change that and change the perception that it's going to be changed."

Excerpt from Council on Foreign Relations -- "The metaphor is: suppose you live next to a nuclear power plant and there is a leak. Well, you know, you could try to fix the power plant -- that's fixing Italy; otherwise, putting duct tape on your window, which is like putting capital in your banks, is not going to help you very much." Additional coverage appeared in the Associated Press Planner.

Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "Representatives from almost a dozen schools at NYU will be participating in the [NYU Entrepreneurs Festival], including from Stern School of Business, the College of Arts and Science, and Tisch School of the Arts."

Excerpt from Barron's -- "The recent flooding in Thailand could result in over $10 billion of losses for the global insurance industry, according to William Berkley."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Look closely at the Harvard protest and you find a problem opposite to the one alleged. Ec 10, though still Keynes-flavored, does feature intellectual variety relative to the rest of Harvard’s curriculum." Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Livemint, and The New American.

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "For me, this is essentially academic work. What I do is I go down to their offices, they ask me some questions, and I go to the blackboard. It’s almost like a seminar. We talk about what makes the macroeconomy tick."

Excerpt from RetailWire -- "If you could find advertising vehicles that were "recency-tilted" by their nature, that is, more likely to deliver impressions closer to the purchase, you will get greater ad response — practically guaranteed." Additional coverage appeared in RetailWire.

Excerpt from Columbia Spectator -- "One of the most popular classes at the school is called Ready, FIRE! Aim, taught by Lawrence Lenihan, a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and founder of Pequot Ventures and FirstMark Capital."

Excerpt from Foreign Affairs -- "Foreign Affairs Managing Editor Jonathan Tepperman interviews Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence on current trends in unemployment, government spending and policy, the speed of globalization, and Obama's options for a troubled economy." Additional coverage appeared in ipolitics360.com.

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "In "Crisis Economics," Roubini teams with professor Stephen Mihm to discuss the ongoing financial crisis, providing context and assessing the risks and opportunities that policymakers now face." Additional coverage appeared in FirstPost.

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- “Computers couldn’t ID humans in the photo ... but humans couldn’t know the context.”

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "...Italy may, like other periphery countries, need to exit the monetary union and go back to a national currency, thus triggering an effective break-up of the euro zone."

Hosted by NYU Stern, a two-day meeting entitled, "Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain," will explore the state of the field of human electrophysiology. The event will convene experts working in the field to talk about progress, challenges, technologies, ethical implications, applications, hardware, software, scientific questions and clinical considerations.

Excerpt from The New Yorker -- "Up steps Lawrence White, of N.Y.U. ... White gives a good account of himself, getting in jabs at Steve for bucking the market and me for failing to read all of 'Prices and Production,' Hayek’s 1931 tract." Additional coverage appeared in Reuters blog and The Daily Beast.

Excerpt from Barron's -- "Given the results of Profs. Baker and Wurgler's research, this strongly suggests that corporate managers view their debt as being overvalued and their equity undervalued."

Excerpt from The Washington Post blog -- "It’s much easier for regulators to write complex rules than simple rules."

Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "Fashion, technology, energy and a very wealthy private and corporate sector -- which Greece does not have, and there's no chance for a country to survive over the long run without some sort of competitive advantages."

Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- “Once you start micro-managing the data looking for patterns, you will find them simply because there is so much data that there have to be patterns."

Excerpt from VoxEU.org -- "Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims gave us a coherent framework with which to think about and discuss these critical policy issues. And they fully anticipated the difficult dilemmas we now face as a consequence of recent fiscal policy."  Additional coverage appeared on Wall Street Pit.

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Visionary politics from both the left and right has caused deadlock in our legislative system. And, given eminent domain, public goods and free rider issues, plus the American love of a bureaucratic planning wrangle, we couldn't get politics out of infrastructure even if Ron Paul were king." Additional coverage appeared in The Daily Beast.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Hersh Shefrin, a finance professor at Santa Clara University in California, says individual investors should look at New York University's Volatility Lab website (See vlab.stern.nyu.edu/) to monitor factors such as leverage, along with a company's overall stability."

Excerpt from Fora.tv -- "Along with academics at the NYU Stern School of Business, the L2 Innovation Forum will present a series of lectures from industry thought leaders, authors, marketing specialists and CEOs from a number of well-known retail brands, social media companies and marketing firms."