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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "In the last 35 years we have made huge strides in reducing extreme poverty, progress that is ongoing. In 1980, half the world's population was living below the extreme poverty line; that number has now fallen to 25 percent and continues to decline. A globalized economy has been the main driver, creating millions of new jobs in less developed countries."

Excerpt from Women's Wear Daily -- "'In my view, this is an opportunity for leaders within BGMEA and Bangladesh to look more broadly at the problem and think about how to solve it. The global brands also have a responsibility. I think they have also made this more difficult by making it clear that subcontracting is not a problem or that they have got it under control. They should also acknowledge that they have benefited enormously from the lack of oversight and the artificially low cost from subcontracting, because it doesn’t require compliance,' [Labowitz] observed."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "Its growth depends little on exports, limiting India’s vulnerability to slowing economies elsewhere, and as a major importer of energy and other commodities, it has benefited greatly from the sharply lower prices of the past few years. Most important, it is a place brimming with confidence these days, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s economic reform process begins to bear fruit. Modi’s changes, in fact, are already opening India to private investment as never before, setting the country on a path toward becoming the emerging-market world’s biggest success story over the next several years."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Changes in the market won’t happen overnight,' said Larry White, a professor of economics at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'You also have to remember, that these companies’ reputations may have been besmirched in areas such as mortgages and structured finance, but not necessarily in markets like corporate bond issuance.'"

Excerpt from NDTV -- "'Our results have significant implications for health experts and policy makers, since interventions in the form of taxes on high calorie foods are highly contentious,' said Mr Singh of the New York University. 'The general perception is that these taxes need to be substantial, at least 20 percent and often as high as 50 percent, to have a meaningful impact. This would be highly regressive since low-income consumers spend a greater proportion of their disposable income on food,' he added."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Critics say the market is too complex and driven by too many variables for people to predict with any kind of accuracy. 'These market timing forecasts make for great news stories but they are completely and totally useless in investing,' says Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University."

Excerpt from Business News Network -- "This finance professor at Stern School of Business (& others) & a principal at hedge fund AQR Capital, explains how markets work, detailing real life examples and why reality can be different from theory."

Excerpt from On Wall Street -- "Clients can significantly improve their after-tax returns by being more diligent when putting money away for retirement. Vanguard modeled the 'procrastination penalty' to be over 10% of the ending value of the investment when comparing one who funds on Jan. 1 to one who waits until the last moment to make a contribution for the previous calendar year."

Excerpt from Forté Foundation blog -- "Much work has been done to understand the reasons—both individual and institutional—behind the lack of diversity in leadership across all sectors. But much of the research and the resulting conversations have taken place without fully examining the model of leadership itself."

Excerpt from International Business Times -- "A growing number of high-profile economists, including Nouriel Roubini and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, have argued that inflation is too low and the labor market too weak to justify a rate hike. ... Though the effects of historically cheap credit are open to debate, some economists have cast Fed policy as an appropriate response to the recession. 'The Fed had enormous impact during the crisis,' said Schoenholtz. Though the effects of monetary policy are tough to isolate, Schoenholtz said, the Fed was 'critical in preventing a second Great Depression.'"

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'It’s going to generate some buzz and it’s a fun thing to do, but I think it’ll have limited if any commercial success,' said Samuel Craig, director of NYU Stern’s entertainment, media & technology initiative."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at NYU, said one reason those companies are still on board is that live sporting events are one of the few current television experiences that maintain a captive audience. 'In a digital age, it’s very hard to find scale,' he said. 'The temptation to get in front of a billion eyeballs is just too great.'"

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The reality is that emerging markets that benefited after the 2008 crisis from China’s economic growth, rising commodity prices, and cheap foreign capital must now adjust to reversals in all of these factors. The necessary transitions for these markets will be complex, risky, and not entirely within their control."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Our sample size for this is pretty small,' said Kim Schoenholtz, professor of management practice and director of the center for global economy and business at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'Saying that a valuation cycle and asset prices are time-driven would almost imply they have a regularity to them, which we know isn’t true.'"

Excerpt from Medical Xpress -- "'The general perception is that these taxes need to be substantial, at least 20% and often as high as 50%, to have a meaningful impact. This would be highly regressive since low-income consumers spend a greater proportion of their disposable income on food. Here, we have compelling field-based evidence that such taxes don't need to be high to be effective,' noted Singh."

Excerpt from AFP -- "Sundararajan says his research suggests people in digital labour markets often earn more than in traditional jobs. 'The evidence I have seen is that wages tend to go up when the work is related to physical presence,' as is the case with transportation, delivery or home services, he told AFP. With services that can be outsourced to distant locations, such as web design or translation, wages often fell."

Excerpt from GARP -- "'Nick Leeson is unlikely to convince serious professionals that he can add much to what they know. He is 20 years out-of-date,' says Roy Smith, professor of management practices at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. 'What he did back then would never go undetected today,' Smith notes. ... Michael Pinedo, who teaches operational risk at NYU’s Stern School, says that Leeson 'put operational risk on the map,' and his celebrity helps to bring attention to an important subject. But there are limits to what he can impart to today’s executives 'because so many of the procedures have changed.'"

Excerpt from International Business Times -- "Aswath Damodaran is a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University who focuses on corporate finance and valuation. He says unions will affect the cost structures of Uber and Lyft 'by making the independent contractor model that they are wedded to even less defensible than it is.' He also says they are likely to shake up the current revenue-sharing balance: The companies take in roughly 20 percent commission on each fare."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Both NYU Stern and Duke Fuqua business schools have brought bitcoin programs to their MBA students. ... 'Many of the major banks may use blockchain technology to create internal systems for transferring money across borders or between banks,' said David Yermack, professor of finance at NYU Stern."

Excerpt from Quartz -- "Fixing these problems is an enormously complex undertaking, but it’s a necessary one. Bangladesh’s garment industry has helped millions to escape poverty, and it’s not for the best if brands pull out of the country. The best solution, Labowitz and Baumann-Pauly write, is 'shared responsibility,' in which all parties acknowledge the scope of the problem, allow space for honest discussion, and act together to fix it."

Excerpt from BuzzFeed -- "'There’s no doubt that the problems affect their "brand promise" of being more than fast food,' said Irv Schenkler, professor of management communication at NYU Stern."

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "In the wake of Rana Plaza, factory safety programs meant to improve fire and building protocols were agreed upon by politicians and several major brands such as Costco, Walmart, and Macy’s. But according to the NYU report, these agreements only cover 27 percent of factories and 45 percent of laborers who work for some of the largest and most advanced factories in the country. And for the most part, even the factories that fall under the purview of these programs haven’t completed the reforms necessary to make them safe. The holdup, the study finds, is a battle over who should pay for expensive electrical and structural upgrades—the factories or the brands that buy from them."

Excerpt from Commercial Observer -- "Under the extension, the existing rules continue. However, in the interim, lawmakers are contemplating a bill which would address the integrity and other noncontroversial portions of the reforms that were on the table. Whether or not this bill gains traction, the EB-5 negotiation process must resume as early as possible in early 2016 given that the extension will expire in only nine months and passing any major legislation in a presidential election year will pose a major challenge."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Scott Galloway, founder of research firm L2 and professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern Business School, expects [social shopping] will continue to underwhelm because social networks are for social activities, not shopping. 'Social still plays a huge role in retail or a brands’ business, but it’s just not where the actual retailing gets done,' Mr Galloway says."

Excerpt from Dagens Næringsliv -- "New requirements for renewable energy will require massive investment. States and development banks have limited capacity. Much of the money must therefore come from the private sector, says Van Nieuwerburgh."