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Research by Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on US job trends is cited

Excerpt from ThinkProgress -- "[Spence] divided employment into two sectors. One sector is called tradable jobs – jobs where you make stuff like airplanes, cars, food and electronics that can be shipped and sold around the world. The second sector is called non-tradable jobs, which are jobs that can’t be traded, like real estate, hotel and restaurant workers, health care professionals and government jobs." Additional coverage appeared in Wellington Advertiser
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini's book, "Crisis Economics," is highlighted

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Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "Nouriel Roubini, in 'Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance' (highly recommended), does an excellent job of detailing the full extent of the bailouts which far exceeded previous monetary efforts with some interesting and innovative strategies that likely avoided another depression."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini is cited for his outlook on China's real estate market

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "For the last few months, everyone from Nouriel Roubini to news reports from CNN have been asking when China’s development bubble will burst. At the heart of the hard landing call is China’s real estate market, its lenders, and the developers who probably overbuilt." Additional coverage appeared in Forbes
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Prof. Sheila Wellington offers women career advice

Excerpt from Financial Times Women at the Top blog -- “There will be an assumption that a woman can’t accept that promotion or can’t move because she’s got kids in school. So [the company] offers the job to Jim instead of Jane. I really worry about this. Particularly now because we need all the brains we can get."
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Prof. Edward Altman on the distressed debt sector

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- “These funds don’t pick at the carcasses of companies that have died, but try to bring them back to life."  Additional coverage appeared on VCCircle.com.
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Prof. Lasse Pedersen's paper, showing value & momentum create positive asset returns, is highlighted

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "In a recent paper, Clifford Asness, Lasse Pedersen and I showed that applying value (using long-term five-year return performance of the asset class) and momentum (using performance over the past year) to assets as diverse as government bonds, equity index futures, commodities and currencies produces strikingly similar results to those for individual stocks."
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Vice Chair of NYU Trustees & Vice Chair of the Board of Overseers Kenneth Langone on Simpson-Bowles

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Excerpt from MSNBC -- "What happened with Simpson-Bowles? There was a perfect one; that was a home run! And they could all say, ‘look, here’s two bipartisan guys knowledgeable on the situation, no ax to grind, no re-election, none of that.’ And guess what? Nothing happened."
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Prof. Vicki Morwitz's research on comparison-driven self-evaluation and restoration is cited

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Excerpt from Scientific American blog -- "A study recently published online in 'The Journal of Consumer Research' found marketing from the bottom up works in some but not all cases. Vicki Morwitz of New York University, and Edith Shalev of the Technicon Israel Institute of Technology acknowledged in their article the existence of a new form of social influence process called Comparison-Driven Self Evaluation and Restoration."
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt's research on libertarians is cited

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Excerpt from BigThink -- "According to Jonathan Haidt and his colleagues, their patterns of moral sentiment and judgment make libertarians look a lot like liberals who care a great deal about liberty and not very much for suffering."
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An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on targeting nominal gross-domestic-product growth

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "In short, the big vulnerability of NGDP targeting is that it’s a license to inflate. It will inevitably undermine the Fed’s mandate to maintain price stability." Additional coverage in Bloomberg Newsweek, National Post, The New York Times Economix Blog, National Review
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran's book, "Investment Fables," is cited

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. Nouriel Roubini is cited for his views on the European economic crisis

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- " ... many prominent voices have argued for more than a year that it is impossible for Greece to regain competitiveness while clinging to the euro currency. They include prominent economists like Nouriel Roubini ..." Additional coverage appeared in CNBC, The Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal Blog, Estadao, AFP, Financial Times Blog, Economist Blog, Forbes
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Executive Board Member and Prof. Richard Bernstein on investment strategy

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Whether the U.S. economy falls into a recession or expands more slowly matters little when it comes to stock-market strategy, according to Richard Bernstein, chief executive officer of Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC." Additional coverage appeared on Bloomberg, The New York Times, NewsMax.com and Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent joins the multistrategy hedge fund Hutchin Hill

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Excerpt from The New York Times Dealbook blog -- “We believe working with Professor Sargent will be of significant value in developing a deeper understanding of the macroeconomic background that has had such a large impact on risk sentiment and asset prices, especially during the past three years."
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Profs Kelly See and Elizabeth Morrison's research on power and advice taking is featured

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Excerpt from Human Resources Executive -- "Power can lead people to be less open to factual advice, even when that advice can help achieve accuracy objectives and improve performance."
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Prof. Nicholas Economides on Greece's decision to hold a referendum

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "The European Union has missed the opportunity to get rid of the Greek problem once and for all by putting some money there in making Greece an isolated case. Right now the EU has to face the consequences in all the other weak countries."
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An op-ed by Prof. Baruch Lev on how to win investors over

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Excerpt from Harvard Business Review -- "... research by me and other academics indicates that guidance increases analyst following and cuts down on unwelcome surprises, which in turn reduces stock price volatility and lessens the threat and consequences of shareholder lawsuits."
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Prof. Roy Smith on the MF Global failure

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Excerpt from a TIME Magazine blog -- "We are going to have significant players in the shadow banking business have liquidity problems and we have to be willing to allow firms to sour when that occurs. ... MF Global was correct to be identified as small enough to fail."
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Members of the Board of Overseers Kenneth Langone and Leonard Stern are featured in the Haute 100

Excerpt from Haute Living -- "The legendary Kenneth Langone was the former director of the New York Stock Exchange and a financial backer of Home Depot. Today, his focus is on philanthropic efforts. ... As Chairman and CEO of Hartz Mountain Industry and Hartz Group, Leonard Stern began the Hartz Mountain’s real estate operations in 1966 when he started to purchase land in New Jersey’s Meadowlands."
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CITL Assistant Director Maya Georgieva on developing digital apps

Excerpt from Campus Technology -- "The development of the app should not simply seek to duplicate what already exists in terms of web resources. ... Rather, it should make services/data easier to access and interact with."
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NYU Stern hosted the Dream it Do it High School Challenge on 11/13

Excerpt from New York Daily News -- "First series of “Dream It Do It” workshops with high school students hosted at NYU Stern."
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PhD student Solon Barocas on data mining

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Excerpt from O'Reilly Radar -- "It's really difficult to explain what data mining actually is. I think of it, in a sense, to be a particular form of machine learning. And these are complicated things — very, very complicated." Additional coverage appeared in Forbes.
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An interview with MBA student Rak-Joon Choi on Korean food

MBA student Rak-Joon Choi (MBA '12) was interviewed by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) for a documentary on how Korea is perceived by other cultures. Choi's segment focused on Korean food.
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Prof. Robert Frank on supply and demand in the marriage market

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "... no matter how unbalanced the overall sex ratio may become (in either direction), 'there will always be specific men and women who are in high demand as romantic partners—think Penélope Cruz and George Clooney.'"
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt on moral judgement

Excerpt from Metapsychology-- "Haidt argues that immediate, unreflective moral intuitions are the basis for our moral judgment, and that moral reasoning is used in order to influence the moral judgments of others."