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Profs Zur Shapira and Elizabeth Boyle's study on Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, is featured

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post Canada -- "Along with NYU's Elizabeth Boyle, Shapira co-authored 'The Liability of Leading: Battling Aspiration and Survival Goals in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions,' which appeared last month in the journal 'Organization Science.'"
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Dean Peter Henry on the Fifth Annual NYU Stern Luxury & Retail Conference

Excerpt from PRWeb -- “The theme of this conference, ‘From Retail to Me-tail: Delivering to the Connected Consumer,’ unites two strengths of our School – marketing and information systems."
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An interview with Prof. Jonathan Haidt on his book, "The Happiness Hypothesis"

Excerpt from Minnesota Public Radio -- "Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival about his book, 'The Happiness Hypothesis.' It's an examination on how the mind works and the search for happiness and meaning in our lives, using the wisdom of the past as a guide."
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Prof. Alexander Ljungqvist delivered remarks at a National Economists Club luncheon on 10/13

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Excerpt from Reuters Daybook -- "Alexander Ljungqvist, finance professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University delivers remarks on "Does the Stock Market Distort Investment Incentives?," at a luncheon discussion held by the National Economists Club."  Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Daybook.
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt is referenced for his work on cooperation

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Benkler is able to focus the bulk of his efforts on a mixture of psychology, experimental economics, and business case-studies to discover the mechanisms by which cooperation occurs. Some of these, such as fairness, group identity, and morality, will be familiar to readers of psychologists such as Jonathan Haidt."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on China's economy

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "China’s economy should be $14 trillion in 5 years, equaling us in gross production, said Michael Spence, an NYU economist and Nobel Laureate."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence at the Financial Times Future of America Conference

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Excerpt from a Financial Times blog -- "In the context of the global economy, you don’t have to move the needle very far in your favour to improve employment. The US must find out where the margin is and where the opportunities they may have missed are."  Additional coverage appeared on a Financial Times Alphaville blog.
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An op-ed by Prof. Nouriel Roubini on global economic instability and inequality

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Excerpt from Project-Syndicate.org -- "Any economic model that does not properly address inequality will eventually face a crisis of legitimacy." Additional coverage appeared in Today's Zaman, Reuters, Reuters blog, Korea Herald, Aljazeera, Shanghai Daily, BusinessDay, Gulf News, Tageblatt, Wall Street Journal CFO Journal blog and EconoMonitor.
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Prof. Ingo Walter is highlighted as the head of SimCorp StartegyLab

Excerpt from Politics & Government Week -- "SimCorp StrategyLab is a private research institution, headed by Mr. Ingo Walter, Seymour Milstein Professor of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics at Stern School of Business, New York University."
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Prof. Gavin Kilduff discusses his research on business rivalry in an interview

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Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- "What is interesting is that the rivalry is often thought of as a motivating force, as benefiting performance, but I also have some research to suggest that it can have a dark side."  Additional coverage appeared on CTV.
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Prof. Daniel Altman's book, "Outrageous Fortunes," is referenced

Excerpt from The Chosunilbo -- "Daniel Altman, a former journalist and professor of economics at New York University, wrote in his book, 'Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy,' that 'lifestyle hubs' will replace financial hubs."
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Prof. Bernard Donefer on the NYSE's request to offer "dark orders"

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- “Market-makers are trying to attract order flow by being fast and having the best price. They would have to compete with the NYSE’s price."
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Prof. Vasant Dhar spoke at the 2011 Deloitte Analytics Symposium

Excerpt from PR Newswire -- "Deloitte executives, industry leaders and academics will share insights on how business intelligence and analytics can inform better decisions, improve performance and drive overall value to an organization at "Shift into Action: 2011 Deloitte Analytics Symposium" on Oct. 12-13 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix."
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Prof. Gary Katzenstein on Japan's reconstruction minister

Excerpt from SmartMoney -- "Hirano's job: to spend $300 billion rebuilding the hard-hit region -- and the supply chain as well. The outcome, says Gary Katzenstein, an associate professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, will affect giant companies like Sony and Toyota, as well as factory towns around the world."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran's book, "Investment Fables," is referenced

Excerpt from Motley Fool -- "For a company to be truly undervalued, Damodaran says in his book Investment Fables, 'You need to get a mismatch: a low price-to-earnings ratio without the stigma of high risk or poor growth.'"
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Prof. Amity Shlaes on how to grow jobs

Excerpt from The New American -- "Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, suggested returning to the gold standard 'so that monetary policy is rules-based, not personality-based.'"
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Prof. Amity Shlaes discussed The Great Depression at the George Washington Forum on 10/13

Excerpt from Athens News -- "Renowned author and Bloomberg columnist Amity Shlaes will open the series with the first plenary lecture, 'Obama Plays Monopoly: The Great Depression Revisited.'"  Additional coverage appeared in Athens News.
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An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on the Occupy Wall Street protesters

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "What do they want, and what do they need? That’s the question about the protesters who now occupy Wall Street, Washington and just about everywhere else."  Additional coverage appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and iol.co.za.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on the current phase of global economic development

Excerpt from Center for American Progress -- "Economist and Nobel Laureate Michael Spence has coined this current phase of global economic development 'the inclusiveness revolution,' noting that by the middle of the 21st century, 'perhaps 75 percent or more of the world’s people [will] live in advanced countries.'"
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Prof. Richard Sylla on Prof. Nouriel Roubini's ability to analyze financial markets

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Excerpt from Institutional Investor -- "Richard Sylla, one of Roubini’s colleagues and a professor of economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business ... considers [Roubini] to be exceptionally adept at analyzing emerging-markets and developed economies and their corresponding financial systems."
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Center for Global Economy and Business Hosts Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao

On September 26, 2011 the NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business, led by Professor Kermit Schoenholtz, hosted Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
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Prof. Thomas Sargent wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Thomas J. Sargent of New York University and Christopher A. Sims of Princeton University were honored Monday 'for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy,' said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the prize."