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Professor Thomaï Serdari explains the role of community in luxury retail

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Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "Communities built around social, cultural or fitness interests – for example, whisky tasting clubs or cycling groups – offer consumers a platform through which to exchange facts and opinions about products and services. Consumer-generated content spreads quickly, thanks to technology. Reputations are built or destroyed easily. This has already had significant consequences for the luxury retail market that has seen an array of brand extensions being built around such communities with clearly defined values."
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Stern's specialization in Fintech is spotlighted in a story on top MBA curriculum trends

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Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Financial technology is high on the agenda across the finance world, as incumbents seek to avoid disruption by nimbler startups and as every financial company, large and small, turns to tech to improve efficiency and create new products and services....Stern offers an entire fintech specialization..."
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Center for Business and Human Rights Deputy Director Paul Barrett contributes to an article on the NRA's influence in Australia, Brazil, and Russia

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Founded 148 years ago in New York by two Union Army vets to promote marksmanship, the group describes itself as the “oldest civil rights organization in America.” Its public events and messaging are often draped in the Stars and Stripes. Yet for all the patriotic symbolism, many of the forces shaping the NRA these days are distinctly non-American."
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In a Q&A interview, Professor Baruch Lev discusses how CFOs can better communicate with the investment community, from his book, "The End of Accounting"

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Excerpt from Strategic Finance -- "Don’t wait for the FASB [Financial Accounting Standards Board] or the SEC [Securities & Exchange Commission] to adapt financial reporting to the 21st Century. It may take a while. Start disclosing relevant information to investors. It’s not only good for investors—it’s good for you, too. Research overwhelmingly shows that improved transparency reduces cost of capital and stock volatility, increases managers’ credibility, and mitigates shareholder lawsuits."
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In an in-depth Q&A, Professor Tensie Whelan highlights the Center for Sustainable Business' work, including its Monetization Methodology framework, which measures the financial impact of sustainability

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Excerpt from Radar -- "We’ve developed a methodology that will articulate, quantify and communicate the financial impact of sustainability, the Center for Sustainable Business Monetization Methodology. We have found that if you imbed sustainability into business practices, it drives benefits like risk mitigation, employee engagement, and operational efficiency which results in outcomes like a lower cost of capital and better financial performance."
School News

Geeta Menon, Dean of the Undergraduate College, reflects on the School’s accomplishments during her eight years as Dean

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Excerpt from STERNBUSINESS -- "As I forge ahead in my eighth year as Dean, I am incredibly proud of all that we have accomplished since I took the helm in 2011." 
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Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the outlook for tech company IPOs in 2019

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "Airbnb is an accomodation company; Uber and Lyft are in transportation, but they fall under the tech umbrella."
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In a contributed article, Professor Amy Webb highlights three tech trends to watch in 2019

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Excerpt from Barron's -- "If 2018 has taught us anything, it’s that chaos is the new normal, and that it’s time to get smarter about anticipating change. But it also revealed an unsettling truth: We simply aren’t paying enough attention to meaningful signals in the present, and that’s why we’ve been caught in this constant cycle of surprise."
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In a Q&A interview, Professor Dolly Chugh shares how to combat implicit bias, from her book, "The Person You Mean to Be"

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Excerpt from Goop -- "Do an audit and get a sense of what you’ve surrounded yourself with in your life, and in what ways you are potentially hearing the same voices, hearing some voices more than others, and perhaps reinforcing systems you do not mean to enforce. Systems that are exclusionary. These kinds of self-audits—that are quiet and private and no one needs to know you’re doing them—start offering hints as to what is happening in our lives."
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Professor Vasant Dhar discusses the impact of big data in 2018

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Excerpt from Towards Data Science-- "Vasant Dhar, a Professor at NYU, the chief editor of 'Big Data' magazine said that '2018 saw the general increase of Big Data adoption in sciences, healthcare, government, and other industries. Cloud-based predictive analytics help to increase business efficiency, while legal regulations concentrate on security, data governance, and performance stability.'"
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Professor Priya Raghubir explains how stock market volatility impacts consumer spending

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Excerpt from the Associated Press -- "When consumers start feeling uneasy or less wealthy, they forgo or postpone the big discretionary items on their budgets, says Priya Raghubir, a marketing professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'Large expenses such as home renovations, cars, all of those could be put on hold,' Raghubir says."
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Professor David Yermack's joint research on endowment fund performance is featured

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Excerpt from Bloomberg-- "In a paper just published by the European Corporate Governance Institute, finance professors Sandeep Dahiya of Georgetown University and David Yermack of New York University studied the tax returns of more than 28,000 U.S. nonprofit organizations filed with the Internal Revenue Service between 2009 and 2016. The results make for grim reading."
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Professor Lawrence White shares his outlook on the US economy

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Excerpt from Fox Business -- "Markets are always looking forward, and they're worried. We have a government shutdown and perhaps... what happens in March when we have to have the national debt rolled over and renewed? We've got a Secretary of the Defense who has resigned and is being forced out early. There's just a lot of uncertainty, a lot of worry, and that doesn't make the markets feel very good."
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Professor Roy Smith is quoted in a story on the criminal charges against Goldman Sachs in connection with a state investment fund in Malaysia

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Excerpt from Financial Times-- "Roy Smith, a former partner and now a professor at New York University, says the fraud at 1Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB, ranks among the biggest crises the bank has faced. 'It could conceivably have a much larger price tag on it [than other scandals] because these things escalate over time,' he says."
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Professor Tensie Whelan explains how quarterly earnings reporting can drive bad decision-making by firms

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Excerpt from AFP -- "'If you look at the scandals, at Wells Fargo, at Volkswagen, underneath they were trying to make their quarterly numbers in unrealistic ways and they were being pressured to do so by analyst expectations,' Whelan said."
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Professor Tom Meyvis is interviewed about how companies are using algorithms to score their customers

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Excerpt from ACM -- "'Organizations using these methods walk a fine line,' says Tom Meyvis, a professor of marketing at the Stern School of Business, New York University. 'You can wind up with customers that, at one end of the spectrum, are angry about being mistreated, and others, at the other end of the spectrum, feel a deep sense of entitlement and are easily disappointed.'"
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Professor Allen Adamson provides insights on the volatility of tech company valuations

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Excerpt from Money Inc. -- "'Many companies, like Uber and Lyft, are creating a new category in which investors have become more interested in revenues than profits,' Adamson said. 'There’s little consideration of the staying power of such companies. Instead, they care mostly about the first customers, who may be early adopters, and less so about where the next customers will come from.'"
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Professor Sabrina Howell's joint research on the connection between corporate R&D investment and employee entrepreneurship is referenced

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Excerpt from Brookings Institute blog -- "Using U.S. Census data from 1990 to 2008, Tania Babina of Columbia Business School and Sabrina Howell of NYU Stern School of Business find that a doubling of a firm’s research and development spending increases the number of employees who leave to become entrepreneurs by 8.4 percent. One reason employees form start-ups rather than remaining with the parent firm is that risky ventures are often more successful when they are run as separate entities, which benefit from being highly focused and externally financed."
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Stern's offerings in marketing for undergraduate students are featured

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Excerpt from College Magazine -- "NYU’s Stern School of Business offers over 40 courses to marketing students. That course catalog reflects new marketing trends with classes like Search and the New Economy. And with specialized courses like Luxury Marketing, Leisure Marketing and The Business of Video Games, students can pursue careers in any industry."
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Stern's newest faculty are included in a roundup of new professors at top b-schools

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In 2016, Poets&Quants counted 143 new profs — from full professors to guest lecturers — at the top 20 schools. Last year, that number ballooned to 198 at 24 schools. And in 2018, looking at the top 27 schools — including P&Q’s top 25 — there are 277. Among them are 168 whose full-time teaching jobs this fall are the first in their career."
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MBA students Amy Kong, Tricia Nussbaum, Catherine Pan and Jillian Witt are profiled for winning third place in WeSolv's Salesforce Product Marketing Strategy Challenge

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Excerpt from Medium -- "This NYU Stern team presented creative solutions and detailed steps for implementing them, including new social media page concepts with sample content and modifications to the Salesforce website to help facilitate the customer journey. They also suggested new interactive demos that more clearly articulate the value of Salesforce’s retail execution solution."
 
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Hila Lifshitz-Assaf explains her research on innovation at NASA

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Excerpt from Red Hat Command Line Podcast -- "One of the things that attracted me about NASA was that they were the bravest in the sense that they really took strategic research and development (R&D) challenges, that their scientists and engineers and top brains were working at the same time and opened them to the crowd. And I have to say that still today, many other organizations, when they do open source science or crowdsourcing, they do not take their core strategic challenges. They take something that is on the side, that doesn't risk their organization too much, whether it succeeds or fails, and NASA did something that really changed things, once it succeeded."
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Professor Haran Segram is quoted in a story on investing in the stock market

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Excerpt from Wealth Professional -- "'[P]eople don’t make rational decisions at a time when it comes to money,' said Haran Segram, a clinical assistant professor of finance at New York University. 'I tell my students, it’s a patience game.'"
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Professor Marti Subrahmanyam is quoted in a story on the bond market's performance

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Excerpt from the The New York Times -- "'As those spreads are widening, definitely there is going to be a reluctance to invest, especially in risky ventures,' said Marti Subrahmanyam, a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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Professor Jonathan Haidt is featured in a trend story on how universities are teaching students to cope with failure

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'Children do not become strong if they are protected from setbacks, teasing, exclusion and conflicts,' said Jonathan Haidt, a professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business and co-author of 'The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.'"