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Excerpt from Forbes -- "CourseHorse, winner of the 2011 New Venture Competition, recently raised $500,000 in a seed funding round and launched a co-branded site with Time Out New York."

Excerpt from the New York Daily News -- "'Letting the talent be part of the process and letting her connect with the audience achieves that and moves beyond her simply being a puppet,' added Craig, director of the Entertainment, Media and Technology Program at NYU's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "My co-host in the discussion about financial innovation was Prasad Chintamaneni, the head of global markets, banking and financial services at Cognizant. We were joined by Raj Dhinsa, a managing principal at Verizon's financial services practice, Marti Subrahmanyam, the Charles E. Merrill professor of finance at Stern School of Business at New York University and Steven Liles, a senior vice president of enterprise automation and innovation at BB&T Corp. in Winston-Salem, N.C."

Excerpt from Fox Business -- "I think that we should be paying more attention to Europe. I think that the attention we're paying to the fiscal cliff is not actually productive. In fact, it's leading to polarization of positions that have to be negotiated in private and the less I hear from Washington, the better I like the fiscal cliff."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "All entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers, but some are willing to go above and beyond for an idea they believe in. NYU Stern alumnus Samir Ibrahim and serial entrepreneur Charles Nichols, winners of the Audience Choice Award at the 2011-12 Entrepreneur’s Challenge fit this description perfectly."

Excerpt from TechCrunch -- "For Sundararajan, the sharing economy provides a way for real-world assets to be disaggregated in space and time and repackaged into standalone services. That’s disrupted the scope of what can be disrupted by digital tools, and allows people to time-share goods that would otherwise go unused at certain times."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Getting to January without a deal would cause anxiety that everyone wants to avoid — especially Republicans, since opinion polls suggest that most voters will blame them if negotiations break down. But the president and Republicans would prefer to reach agreement now on whatever they would be willing to agree to after new year."

Excerpt from the Huffington Post -- "'Manufacturing and housing are the most cyclical sectors of the economy,' said David Backus, chair of the economics department at NYU's Stern School of Business. 'What you see in a typical recession is that they're going to go down a lot and then they're going to go back up a lot. The latter hasn't happened yet.'"

On January 11, 2013, New York University Stern School of Business will convene its faculty thought leaders and some of India’s top corporate leaders and policymakers for a full-day event entitled, “India in the 21st Century: From Potential to Progress.” The participants will investigate the unique opportunities and challenges facing India, an emerging market leader and driving force in the global economy.

Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership & Ethics Mindy S. Lubber, president and founding board member of Ceres, a nonprofit organization that advocates for sustainable business and investment practices, spoke candidly with MBA and undergraduate students this fall.

Excerpt from Science Daily -- "Research on the experience-altering nature of emotion has typically focused on nonperceptual experience, such as changes in cognitive appraisals. It is clear, however, that these influences extend to perception,' the researchers conclude."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "When you look at the volatility numbers, what you see is actually very surprising. Volatility has been declining of broad market assets like the S&P and the Dow and so forth in the US but also in Europe."

Excerpt from the Wall Street Journal -- "'To keep Greece in the euro zone, effectively you need a transfer union, you have to realize that the problems of Greece are long-term, it’s going to take 10 to 20 years to do the austerity and the reform to stabilize Greece and therefore you have to give money and you have to be patient,' Mr. Roubini said."

Marking its tenth year, NYU Stern’s Citi Leadership & Ethics Program appointed Mindy S. Lubber, president and founding board member of Ceres, a nonprofit organization that advocates the adoption of sustainable business practices, as its 2012-2013 Distinguished Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Next year we are also going to have austerity in the core of the euro area because the newly agreed fiscal compact says that even Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Austria have to cut their deficits,' Roubini told reporters at a conference today in Berlin organized by IG Metall, Germany’s biggest trade union."

Excerpt from USA Today -- Now that RelayRides and other companies are starting to inch beyond San Francisco, ride sharing has gone from "niche" to "on its way to becoming mainstream," says Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Excerpt from Forbes -- "'Family ownership is actually good,' Villalonga told me. 'It’s better having power more concentrated, and owners more committed."

Excerpt from Bloomberg BusinessWeek -- "Nouriel Roubini, Jonathan Haidt, and Paul Romer, professors at New York University’s Stern School of Business, were each named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s top 100 Global Thinkers for 2012 (@NYUStern, 11/26)."

Excerpt from the New York Daily News -- "CUSP will address the challenges facing cities, including infrastructure, tech integration, energy efficiency, transportation congestion, public safety and public health, Koonin said."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Silber delivers just the right amount of human portrait to make his main story engrossing: how the U.S. left the gold standard at the start of the 1970s; how it simultaneously lost control of inflation; and how it regained monetary credibility under Volcker’s Fed chairmanship from 1979 on."

“We are currently living through the most dramatic shift in global economic history,” argued The Right Honorable Gordon Brown, former prime minister of the United Kingdom and NYU’s first Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence. As part of NYU Stern’s Block Lunch event series, hosted by Dean Peter Henry, Brown spoke to more than 100 MBA students this week.

Excerpt from the New York Daily News -- “The city has taken important strides towards becoming a tech-friendly place... Now it’s time for City Hall to take its tech-friendliness further and deliver more of its benefits to the average New Yorker. Deregulating digital taxi services would be a good place to start.”

Excerpt from the New York Daily News -- "'Suddenly everyone is going to see their paycheck go down and that’s going to slow consumer spending,' said associate professor of economics Joe Foudy, at the New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from the Huffington Post -- "Currently, only a handful of business schools -- Stern (NYU), Darden (UVA), HBS (Harvard) -- offer courses that focus on women in leadership."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "I think that the worst consequence of the fiscal cliff is that it's really taking attention away from what really needs to be done for the long run."