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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "I think it's entirely plausible that we could be heading into a situation in which due to certain circumstances and the distribution of wealth and the distribution of health care, it's plausible that we could have engineered humans who succeed in life."

Excerpt from the The New York Times-- "The answer, probably, is the Dunning-Kruger effect: inept people are often confident in their abilities, because they’re too inept to know how badly they’re doing."

Excerpt from The Washington Post-- "'Today's Airbnbs are homes that are built for personal use that are somehow being adapted for occasional commercial use, but the next step is to rethink the home so that mixed-use is there from the get-go,' Sundararajan said."

Excerpt from Analytics Insight -- "'Our students gain a sense of confidence and credibility. Post-graduation, our students gain confidence by having technical capabilities to speak the language to understand how to work with data and become a translator of that information, or a disruptor of business thought and strategy in a positive and impactful way,' said Roy."
 

Excerpt from the The New York Post -- "'I really press my students in my entrepreneurship class to get over their fears and really do something,' says Pollack. 'In ethical philosophy, I tell them to contemplate owning their time and not living their parents’ dreams, but living their own.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "This is a point in time where [Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg] should be stepping up in front of the cameras, in front of the government regulators and reassuring them that Facebook is worthy of the public trust."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'You could have done better just by investing in Treasurys,' Prof. Yermack said in an interview, 'and that’s pretty sorry.'"

On Wednesday, November 28, NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business hosted a panel discussion entitled, “Impact Investing in the Creative Economy.”

Excerpt from Deloitte blog-- "Social Psychology research teaches us that to reduce intergroup conflict, leaders need to focus on superordinate goals, such as the overarching shared goal you have as an organization. We need to switch the frame away from ‘old vs young’ or ‘senior vs junior’, to focusing on the shared business outcomes we are trying to achieve together."

Excerpt from WFN1 CEO Money Business Show -- "I believe data visualization is a leadership skill for managers and executives. It's a way to create a culture within your business... a data-sharing culture."

Excerpt from WGN Radio -- "What I was trying to do with the book and trying to do for myself in my daily life is to hold up my best self...as a reminder and to be and be a little unflinching in acknowledging the gaps. And as a social scientist those gaps are actually not a huge surprise. We know where they come from in the human mind, so once we see those gaps we can start doing the work of addressing them."
 

Excerpt from the The New York Times-- "The ability of large, cash-rich companies to buy smaller businesses before they have the chance to emerge as formidable competitors has altered the corporate landscape, said Thomas Philippon, a professor of economics at New York University, who has studied the increased dominance of large companies in many American industries. 'What would have happened to Instagram if Facebook hadn’t had bought them?' Mr. Philippon said. 'They would have competed with Facebook for sure.'"

Excerpt from The Washington Post-- "Petra Moser, a New York University Stern School of Business economist, has long studied patents and innovation, most notably in a widely cited analysis of two 19th-century world’s fairs. Patents don’t capture every human advance, she said, but 'they’re our most complete record of innovation.'"

Excerpt from NBC News-- "Ginsberg noted that the city and state aren't cutting Amazon a check — they're giving the company a break on state and city taxes it will be paying, money they wouldn't be getting otherwise. The state and the city say even with the breaks, the deal will create $27.5 billion in tax revenue over the next 25 years — a 9-to-1 payout on the investment."

Excerpt from CNN-- "'The regulators have not taken preventive action to prevent the buildup of risk,' says Richard Berner, who until last year ran the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Research. 'So they have to think about what they do when bad things happen.'"

Excerpt from Metro -- "'Due to Amazon, I think more retailers are offering deals year round,' he said. 'People are becoming a little bit, I’d say, skeptical about whether or not you’re going to get the best deal on Cyber Monday.'"

Excerpt from Fast Company-- “'Seventy-five percent of Americans can reach their phones without moving their feet 24 hours a day,' says Adam Alter, author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. 'It’s easier to resist the charms of your inbox if it’s not within reach.'"

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "Eckerle discussed 'Why Sustainability Makes Dollars and Sense,' highlighting that when a company includes sustainability in their strategy and practice, it helps improve their efficiency, brand reputation, employee engagement, profitability and stock price performance. This raised important insight into the side of sustainability people don’t think of right away – analyzing how taking sustainable action not only protects our environment, but can also bolster profitability and higher levels of consumer engagement – providing greater incentives for companies to take higher sustainable action."

On November 26, join the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, the NYU Department of Environmental Studies and the Environmental Humanities Initiative to learn about the exciting new world and investor opportunities of sustainable protein.

Excerpt from amNewYork-- "'The extra utility that consumers get from experiencing and playing ... it's almost like an artistic expression,' she added. 'In terms of getting people into physical stores, this is necessary. It's innovation that this is coming out of a dying medium, they have to.'"

Excerpt from the CNN-- "'This is a big brand crisis,' said Tulin Erdem, a professor of marketing at NYU's Stern business school. 'Sometimes brands do recover ... but on a scale of 1-10, [this is] really high up.' ... 'People are really influenced by what's happening online,' [Serdari] said. 'They do shop primarily online, and they're excellent researchers,' she said. They 'have experience in the luxury market and they really know what they're buying.'"

Excerpt from Il Sole 24 Ore -- (translated from Italian using Google Translate) "'There is a direct correlation between the economic slowdown and the rate of corporate bankruptcies,'..."

Excerpt from Financial Times-- "Two liberal academics take on what they portray as an epidemic of 'safetyism' in American universities that is threatening free speech and scholarly debate. The authors offer a tour of this new world, incorporating safe spaces, trigger warnings, micro-aggressions and de-platforming."

Excerpt from the Glamour-- "'Trust and authenticity are keys to buyers today, particularly millennials,' says Russell Winer, Ph.D., a professor and the deputy chair of the marketing department at NYU Stern School of Business. 'If that is destroyed, a company can be seriously hurt.'"

Excerpt from TopMBA -- "J.P. Eggers, Vice Dean of MBA Programs at Stern, suggested the school is both fully aware of the opportunity the move will provide and ready to play a big part in its success: 'We are thrilled that soon, Amazon will be in our backyard, providing an opportunity to leverage our unique locational endowment, as we do with many companies, to further the already strong connections between us.'"