Faculty News

Prof. Aswath Damodaran discusses stock buybacks

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "When [Damodaran] looks at the biggest companies buying back the most stock—companies like Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, IBM—he sees a pattern. 'I mean you look at that list,' he says, 'and every single one of them, you look at the last decade, have a history of destroying value— of investing in things where they have nothing to show for it 5 years out, 10 years out.  I look at that list, and I say: Thank God for buybacks.'"
School News

In an op-ed, MBA student Siddharth Dandekar explains his valuation of Ashland Inc. stock

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Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "My base case valuation based on comparable company multiples implies a price target range of $122.39 - $130.87 for Ashland compared to DCF intrinsic value of $125.55 — upside of 20.5% to 28.8% compared to current price of $101.57. Applying the worst case scenario discussed earlier, the stock has a valuation range of $109.0 to $112.07 (still an upside of ~8.8%). Running the model based on higher than estimated growth (higher than company estimate but in line with industry outlook) provides a best case SOTP price target of $134.68 (a 32.6% upside). As expected, the stock offers significant upside when valued as a separate businesses."
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Prof. Marti Subrahmanyam reacts to the Chinese stock market opening to foreign investors

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "'It's like water,' said Marti G. Subrahmanyam, professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, said. 'So long the floodgates have been kept closed and water could not flow from China to Hong Kong. They are slightly opening the floodgates.'"
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Prof. Roy Smith discusses the implications of stricter government regulations on Goldman Sachs

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'They are concentrated in the hardest part of the business,' said Roy C. Smith, a former partner at Goldman who is now a historian of the financial industry at New York University. 'In terms of the modern life of the place, this is the most difficult ordeal to manage its way through that the firm has ever faced.'"
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Prof. Roy Smith weighs in on Wall Street's settlements with the Justice Department under Geoffrey Graber

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Critics such as Roy Smith, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, say prosecutors were driven by 'political fever' to extract massive penalties from Wall Street. 'They have to deliver something, so they come up with this,” said Smith, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) partner. 'The fact that it’s unfair never really gets considered. The banks have no choice but to hunker down and accept it.'"
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Prof. Michael Spence discusses the impact of underinvestment on economic growth

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The best thing about the American economy is that it is structurally flexible, so the private sector is actually adjusting pretty fast. But we need very heavy investment infrastructure, education, skills, and other things to try to bring the lower half of distribution up."
School News

In an op-ed, MBA student Lauren Stoneberg discusses Stern's Mindfulness in Business Initiative

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "The Stern School of Business has joined with Global Spiritual Life at NYU, with support from the Lenz Foundation, to introduce the NYU Mindfulness in Business Initiative. The first event of the year featured Dan Harris, best-selling author and co-anchor for ABC's Nightline. Being in business school, I expected Harris's recommendations for mindful living to consist of checklists and frameworks. Instead, he shared with us his path to meditation, and the clarity he's found as a result. He made no promises, but offered a convincing case about the value in stepping back and gaining the presence of mind to become aware of thoughts and impulses before acting on them."
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Prof. Karen Brenner discusses Bill Gross's departure from Pimco

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Iconic, charismatic leaders can excite investors, and boost innovation during their tenures. But the 'great man' approach can lead to stymied growth or worse, once the guy heads for the door, said Karen Brenner a professor at New York University Stern School of Business. 'You never want to let it get to a point that the company’s leader is seen as its core operational strength,' Prof. Brenner said."
School News

New York Fed President William Dudley's remarks at Stern are highlighted

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Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "This combination, a more robust and resilient LIBOR for transactions that require a reference rate with a bank credit risk component and the development of an alternative reference rate for transactions like interest rate derivatives that don't, will strengthen our financial system and help undo some of the damage caused by earlier transgressions."
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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "At NYU Stern, MBA students work with growing businesses within New York City’s fashion industry through a masters workshop with the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Paired with designers, they advise on finance, product market strategies and business plans. MBA student Laura Musano recently completed the workshop, working on a project for handbag collection Kara. 'I really liked that it opened up two-way learning,' she says. 'Not only could we use our skills but it felt like we were really helping the business grow.'"
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Prof. Al Lieberman on Derek Jeter's new website, The Players' Tribune

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Excerpt from Fox News -- "Alvin Lieberman, a marketing professor at NYU and director of the school’s entertainment, media, and technology program, sees fierce competition for The Players’ Tribune. 'Jeter has to fight among the 200-plus cable channels and the many thousands of social networks,' he told FoxNews.com. 'Will he make an impression? Yes. The question is, how long will it last?'"
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt's research on liberals, conservatives and morality is highlighted

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Indeed, scholars find that some of the most elemental differences between liberals and conservatives occur on the moral plane. In his now famous research, New York University’s Jonathan Haidt interviewed hundreds of people and surveyed tens of thousands more about their moral biases. He told outlandish stories (one involved a family eating its dog) and gauged his subjects’ immediate moral reactions. The differences were stark."
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Prof. Joseph Foudy on recent growth in the job market

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Excerpt from the New York Post -- "'It was a pretty good report,' said Joseph Foudy, a business professor at New York University. 'The fact that job growth was in a range of sectors tells you it’s not just a one- or two-industry story.'"
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Stern's Reaching Out MBA fellowship for LGBT students is highlighted

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Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "'Our goal is to make it clear to those who are entering their career with MBAs that business is a place for them, and that they should be proud to be out,' says Matt Kidd, the executive director of Reaching Out MBA. So far, the business schools at Columbia, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Dartmouth, MIT, and NYU have all agreed to fund one of the scholarships, which will be called Reaching Out MBA fellowships."
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Prof. Nicholas Economides discusses net neutrality at an FCC hearing

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Excerpt from Politico -- "An Internet roundtable was held focusing on the economics of the issue, and Chairman Tom Wheeler put forth an interesting question: 'Is there difference between prioritization and paid prioritization? Does the exchange for value change the economics?' he inquired in front of a panel of economists. It’s unclear if they got to the bottom of it, but Nicholas Economides, an NYU professor and executive director of the NET Institute, gave this answer: The ISPs have to prioritize their networks to run smoothly, he explained. 'The payment is the crucial thing because the payment can create disincentives that I think are perverse from the point of view of the public interest, but they are perfectly natural from the business point of view. From the business point of view, it makes perfect sense to create artificial scarcity and make more money.'"
Student Club Events

Reaching Out MBA Conference

On October 2nd, over 30 Stern students and administrators descended on San Francisco for the Annual Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) Conference. The weekend came on the heels of good news from the Stern Administration announcing an LGBT fellowship, and included Stern-facilitated admissions, alumni, and career events.
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Prof. Arun Sundararajan discusses how the digital economy is changing the cab industry

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Excerpt from PBS NewsHour -- "Uber’s creating a platform that’s replicating the traditional model of taxi, just doing it far more efficiently."
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Prof. Anindya Ghose discusses the dot com bust vs. tech stocks today

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Excerpt from MyFoxNY -- "There's a lot of good that's come out of the 1999-2000 dot com bust. Ecommerce is what it is today because of what we have learned from the mistakes in the past. There is collateral damage. Sure, investors lost, but society benefited."

 
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran's blog post on Yahoo and Alibaba is featured

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Yesterday’s gap was $9.23 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The shortfall reflects an estimate by Damodaran, the author of four books on company valuation, that Yahoo has $8.02 billion in cash. The discount is a sign of 'investor concerns, merited or not, that Yahoo’s management might do something senseless with the cash,' he wrote two days ago in a posting on his Musings on Markets blog."
Press Releases

NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights Lays Out Next Steps on National Action Plan for Responsible Business Conduct

The directors of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the New York University Stern School of Business, Michael Posner and Sarah Labowitz responded to the Obama administration’s announcement that it would begin the process of writing a national action plan to examine the impact of business on global human rights in a letter to President Obama.
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NY Fed’s William C. Dudley on Restoring Confidence in Reference Rates

On October 2, William C. Dudley, president & CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, stressed the importance of restoring confidence in reference rates in a public speech at NYU Stern.
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In an op-ed, Prof. Nicholas Economides outlines suggestions to improve Greece's economy

Excerpt from Greek Reporter -- "The strategy that leads Greece quickly and with certainty to growth and reduction of unemployment is simple. Greece borrows €5bil per year issuing new bonds and uses all the moneys in public investments. Greece does not put a single euro from these moneys in the general budget, and the money is not wasted to 'pay' the IMF, which would send inspectors to Greece even if it extends no further loans. With some attention and care, Greece can reach a 3-5% growth in 2015 and higher in 2016. And by the end of 2016, this growth would result in 600,000 new work positions."
Student Club Events

NYU Stern MBAs win First and Second Place in 11th Annual Carl Marks Student Paper Competition

Two teams of NYU Stern MBA students were honored at the Turnaround Management Association Annual on September 30 for winning first and second place in the 11th Annual Carl Marks Student Paper Competition.
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NYU Global Research Prof. Ian Bremmer discusses the protests in Hong Kong

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Excerpt from PBS NewsHour -- "Occupy Central has now become Occupy Hong Kong. As of tomorrow it’s likely to become Occupy larger than that. And if the — if local police, through threat and selective arrests, are unable to disperse these demonstrations, we’re likely to see a very significant violent crackdown."
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Prof. Roy Smith discusses Goldman Sachs's policy change on staff investments

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'It’s six years after the crisis and they are still facing continued litigation, so if you were in that foxhole wouldn’t you do something?' said Roy Smith, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former Goldman Sachs partner. 'You protect yourself by causing these restrictions.'"