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Excerpt from Financial Times Germany -- "The argument that a collapse of the banking system must be prevented, is basically correct: without a functioning banking system is not functioning economy. But here is worth looking into detail. It is crucial not to confuse the rescue of banks to bail out their shareholders and bondholders (Translated from German)."

On February 9, 2012, the Strategy & Operations Club (SOC) and Management Consulting Association (MCA) co-hosted the 2nd Annual NYU Stern Strategy Forum. This year’s theme, "Emerging from the Great Recession," focused on leaders who have made significant strides by moving businesses abroad and who understand the impact this has on the future.

The NYU ProMotion Pictures program facilitates interdisciplinary media projects among students within the Stern School of Business, as well as the Interactive Telecommunications Program and the Graduate Film Program, both in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts. The SUBWAY® brand challenged students to develop a scripted episodic web series based on a brand brief entitled, Every Breakfast Sandwich Tells A Story.

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The reality is that most of the gains in good times – and until the PSI – were privatised while most of the losses have been now socialised. Taxpayers of Greece’s official creditors, not private bondholders, will end up paying for most of the losses deriving from Greece’s past, current and future insolvency."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "From a distribution perspective, watch and jewelery brands have traditionally sold through third-party retailers that not only manage inventory but also the relationship with the end consumer. The shift to digital requires both a shift in operations to facilitate a direct-to-consumer selling channel and a much larger strategy for managing these relationships"

Excerpt from Variety -- "'Today's content industry depends upon creative, business and technological excellence, and the opportunity for our students to combine forces has been truly inspiring for them and our faculty alike,' said Sam Craig, director of the entertainment, media and technology program at NYU's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Reuters blog -- "From the point of view of taxpayers, policy action to address the systemic threat is long overdue. Aside from the government-sponsored enterprises, the most glaring omission in the Dodd-Frank financial reform was the failure to address critical short-term markets such as those for money funds and repurchase agreements."

Some 50 academics, practitioners and policymakers gathered at NYU Stern in March for a roundtable discussion on securities litigation post-Dodd-Frank, co-hosted by Stern’s Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting and NERA Economic Consulting. Industry experts discussed recent developments in shareholder litigation and regulatory enforcement, the impact of regulatory reform and current academic research.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'His skills in communication in that environment are so extraordinary,' said NYU Stern School of Business professor Kim Schoenholtz. 'What we've seen under Chairman Bernanke is the willingness to explore a variety of mechanisms to communicate the Fed's goals.'"

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'There is too much emphasis on getting out, and getting on with business rather than whether it is going to work,' said Ed Altman, the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Claudia herself supports such female non-profits as NEST, ShestheFirst, FACE Africa, and has always participated in the women in business community including panels for Stern Women in Business, the New York Times Small Business Summit, the Women’s Small Business Expo, and more."

Tony Alvarez (MBA '76), co-founder of Alvarez & Marsal LLC, a global professional services firm with expertise in turnaround management, corporate restructuring and performance enhancement, spoke to a group of MBA students through NYU Stern’s Leadership Luncheon Series, coordinated by the School’s Leadership Development Team.

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'With the iPad, Apple is relying on the fact that they have a package to offer with the iPhone, iPod and laptop at home and all the content under that umbrella,' said Eitan Muller."

Excerpt from The Epoch Times -- "'New York City has a long history of trying to encourage locally based smaller retailers and trying to discourage larger chains' retailers headquartered somewhere else,' said Lawrence J. White, professor of economics at NYU, mentioning the that the city has yet to have a Walmart and only recently opened a Target."

Excerpt from CNBC -- " ... if job creation continues at the 12-month average of some 142,000, more than 1.1 million jobs will be added by Election Day. 'He’s lucky that the recovery has taken so long, coming now rather than a year ago,' says White."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "If Bank of America should stumble again, and the FSOC had done nothing to prevent it, the political, as well as the economic, fallout could be devastating."

Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "'Cloud computing is increasingly used for things it wasn't used for before,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. He cited personal music collections that are now kept in Apple's cloud, and the use of the Web for everything from social networking to finding babysitters."

Excerpt from TIME -- " ... Ersner-Hershfield [have] come up with an imaginative way, by taking pictures of subjects and running them through software that adds 30 years to their age. People who see the self of tomorrow and then participate in a simulated 401(k) exercise put away more money than those who haven't gotten a glimpse of the person who awaits them three decades hence."

Maintaining a tradition that began in 2006, the Stern Private Equity Club (SPEC) held its Seventh Annual Stern Private Equity Conference at NYU’s Kimmel Center on March 2. The sold-out conference had a record turnout of more than 350 attendees, bringing together over 200 professionals in private equity, as well as over 150 students to hear industry panels led by thought leaders.

The NYU Stern Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions recently hosted its third annual conference to explore several controversial issues related to modernizing the sector. The conference included presentations from industry leaders and academics, such as Professors Matthew Richardson, John Biggs, Viral Acharya and Eric Dinallo.

The Ninth Annual NYU Stern-Citi Conference in Leadership & Ethics addressed the theme of “Social Innovation as a Transformative Economic, Social and Political Movement.” Organized by NYU Stern’s Citi Leadership & Ethics Program and Business & Society Program Area, with generous support from the Citi Foundation, the conference featured this year’s Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership & Ethics, Jeffrey Hollender, co-founder of Seventh Generation.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal Japan -- "Mr. Foudy ironically, currently, China also have the same problem. Both in the U.S., even if it has a bachelor's degree, many low-skill workers, fewer personnel he experienced moderate skill and technical knowledge. Company would have no choice but to increase the investment in vocational education and training. In any case, the story of the long-term in the span 10 to 20 years (Translated from Japanese) ."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Philippon's conclusion -- based on an analysis of the financial sector's output in recent decades, as well as what its workers have been collecting in profits and wages -- is that high finance is highly inefficient."

Excerpt from Women's Wear Daily -- "Galloway said publishers should be spending more with Facebook because it’s the least expensive way to target a young, affluent audience."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Tom Pugel, vice dean for MBA and executive programs at Stern, said the program should appeal to doctors-in-training who seek to manage a hospital or medical organization, as well as those who will need to oversee the business side of their own small practices, or medical professionals with an interest in working for a pharmaceutical company or in consulting."