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Excerpt from The Economist -- "Berkshire Hathaway has beaten the market over the long run by investing in relatively low-risk stocks the market was underpricing, according to 'Buffett’s Alpha', a study by three economists, Andrea Frazzini, David Kabiller and Lasse Pedersen. The study found that when it comes to outperforming the market on a sustained basis (see chart), Berkshire Hathaway is arguably without equal."

Excerpt from Entrepreneur -- “'One strategy is adding features that mimic the old-world experience to enhance familiarity,' says Sundararajan. 'They can integrate what people might miss from the old experiences they are trying to disrupt, and create that bridge.' For instance, Airbnb launched its own concierge service, so that travelers could still feel pampered as if they were at a traditional hotel."

Excerpt from USA Today -- "One of the take-away messages of the survey is that employers are expecting more of their employees in entry-level jobs, says Prasanna Tambe, an assistant professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, and one of the authors of The Talent Equation. Those first jobs are more complex than they used to be, requiring more industry acumen and technical skills, he says. In fact, for many jobs today, it's important to have a blend of interpersonal and technical skills, Tambe says. It's hard to get all that from classes in college. A lot comes from hands-on work experience."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "'We have young people losing their lives sewing clothes,' she said at a forum at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where she presented her report, co-authored with the center’s research director Dorothée Baumann-Pauly. Since last July, Labowitz and her colleagues have interviewed more than 100 people about business practices in the supply chain, including factory owners, buyers, agents, workers, trade unionists, journalists, bankers and finance professionals and academics in Bangladesh and in the U.S."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "You basically have a hardware company that looks like, if you look at the balance sheet and the income statement, it looks like a software company. Or maybe not a software company, but a services firm, much less a hardware firm. So ... this really does quiet a lot of naysayers around Tim Cook's abilities and his leadership and the numbers. They delivered today in spades."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'It doesn’t seem to be in the best interest of society to place the same regulatory burden on someone who does something occasionally and someone who does something frequently,' Sundararajan says."

In new research that analyzes data from China’s stock market from 1995 to 2012, NYU Stern Professors Jennifer Carpenter and Robert Whitelaw, along with undergraduate student Fangzhou Lu, find that despite its reputation as a “casino,” China’s stock market has functioned well by several measures.

On April 23, NYU Stern’s Center for Real Estate Finance Research hosted their third annual Spring Symposium.

Excerpt from De Telegraaf -- (translated from Dutch using Google translate) "For the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the euro area countries, Greece's lenders, the primary surplus is good news, economics professor Nicholas Economides of New York University told this newspaper. The likelihood that Greece can repay its loans is thus increased, he says."

Excerpt from Rolling Stone -- "Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef have found that 30 to 50 percent of the wage difference between the financial sector and the rest of the private sector was due to unearned 'rent,' or money they gained through manipulating markets."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "Indeed, though domestic investment is constrained by credit availability, major European and Latin American multinationals have begun investing in the Spanish economy, attracted partly by its enhanced competitive posture and structural flexibility, and, on a slightly longer time horizon, by a recovery in domestic demand. Private equity is flowing in as well, not only because the valuations are attractive, but also because potential growth in Spain now seems within reach."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The company’s approximately 15,000 New York hosts are probably a 'drop in the ocean' compared with how many residents might consider using the service to help pay rent if not for regulatory or other concerns, [Sundararajan] said."

Excerpt from WIRED -- “'The extent to which ­people are connected to each other is lower than what humans need,' NYU professor Arun Sundararajan says. 'Part of the appeal of the sharing economy is helping to bridge that gap.'”

Excerpt from CNET -- "NYU Stern School of Business professor Tulin Erdem, meanwhile, on Friday also testified that she conducted her own studies, using eye tracking, to determine what devices consumers would buy. She concluded that Apple's patented features didn't boost desire for Samsung's products."

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, spoke with Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project, Interim Director of NYU's Marron Institute on Cities and the Urban Environment and Professor of Economics, in a public presentation on April 22.

Excerpt from Globo.com -- "Being brief becomes more and more necessary as our attention is being pulled in a million different ways. If you're briefer, you probably have more opportunities to convey the message much more quickly. The audience has less time and, probably, you have less time delivering it."

Excerpt from Men's Health UK -- “'We’re seeing a fundamental shift in our consumption from ownership to shared access,' says Prof Arun Sundararajan of New York University. That’s a boon in two ways: if you’re an owner, you can make money from something lying around the house (not the children); and you can use something you seldom need without buying it outright. 'If you don’t have to own stuff to use it, that expands your choices,' says Sundararajan."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "A study released on Monday by New York University’s Stern School of Business showed how hard [it is to improve garment working conditions]. It said that a major problem with the accord and the alliance was that while they will inspect 2,000 of Bangladesh’s more than 5,000 apparel factories, the more than 3,000 others generally have worse conditions — and middlemen often secretly send them orders from Western brands."

Excerpt from NPR -- "I spoke to Katherine Milkman at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She conducted the study with Modupe Akinola and Dolly Chugh. And Milkman told me she was especially struck by the experience of Asian students."

Anita Raghavan, author of The Billionaire’s Apprentice and contributor to The New York Times and Forbes, delivered the Ninth Annual Haitkin Lecture at NYU Stern this spring. 

Excerpt from Estadao -- (translated from Portuguese using Google translate) "[The NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights] is the first of its kind in the U.S., where there is a great discussion on the relationship between business, government and the public. Here, [Brazilian think tank] FGV is doing this program with the faculties of Law and Administration, in order to do research and to work with Brazilian companies."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Here's the argument against the whole thing. The wearables market is already evolved, it's already got a great player and it's [the iPhone]."

Excerpt from Business News Daily -- "'While people may be drawn to brands that fit their identity, they are also more likely to desire a sense of ownership and freedom in how they express that identity,' wrote Amit Bhattacharjee, Jonah Berger and Geeta Menon, co-authors of the study. 'Identity marketing that explicitly links a person's identity with a brand purchase may actually undermine that sense of freedom and backfire.'"

Excerpt from Associated Press -- “'If the company is donating to the NRA it’s perfectly reasonable for the shareholders to ask for a report on political donations,' Yermack said. 'If it’s his private money that’s not really a proper topic — what people do with their own money on their own time.'”

Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "'Although there might be conflicts of interest, there are also opportunities for alliances. It's a grey area, because it is not completely clear whether Google and Twitter are competitors,' [Yermack] added."