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Excerpt from Investment Weekly News -- "The event will culminate with a closing keynote presentation on sovereign debt today and its position in the global economy from Edward I. Altman, PhD, Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business and an internationally renowned expert on corporate bankruptcy, high yield bonds, distressed debt and credit risk analysis."

Excerpt from Science News -- "Power laws are one of those intriguing facts that force people to write new theories that hopefully will explain them."

Excerpt from Forbes -- ”Family firms are managed with lower risk and higher overall financial health."

More than 130 experts and thought leaders from the public, nonprofit, for-profit and academic sectors, representing 25+ countries, gathered for the Eighth Annual Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, presented by NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The annual conference explores the latest theory and research on social entrepreneurship and its impact on global communities.

Excerpt from Retail Wire -- "Where a purchase is made marks the beginning of the journey, not the end. Is the traditional path to purchase model becoming less relevant?"

Excerpt from Stamford Times -- "Visiting Associate Professor of Management at the NYU Stern School of Business, Gary Katzenstein, will speak at the World Affairs Forum on Nov. 16 at UConn-Stamford."

Excerpt from Fastcoexist.com -- "NYU economist Paul Romer, the originator of the idea of Charter Cities, is working with the Honduran government to help make sure the project there is a success."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Let me tell you, I'm a bull. I think America's greatest days are ahead of them. Any way you want to mention them. We have tough decisions to make. we're going to have to make them. I think this election coming up is going to create definition one way or the other." Additional coverage appeared in Capital.gr, The Washington Post, Bloomberg

Excerpt from Interactive Investor -- "Dr Edward Altman, an American academic, devised the Z-score during the 1960s, although his original work has since been updated. Altman believes that the Z-score will signal 70-80% of bankruptcies of publicly listed companies - before they happen."

Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "Responsibility is in the hands of the Greek government to bring reforms to the economy. The willingness of the European community to support Greek debt depends upon those reforms taking place, and all of that is a big question mark."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I think most likely there is going to be a short government before elections. He will participate in that government. He is going to endorse the treaty, but at the same time, the actual implementation law for the treaty will not be ratified before a new government comes up." Additional coverage appeared on CBC, SETimes.com, Southern Daily Press, Tech Policy blog, Bloomberg TV, The Huffingotn Post, Ilsussuduario, Kathimerini, Bing.com and Trends.

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Europeans have decided to continue their reliance on ratings for financial regulation – but apparently not when those ratings are unfavorable."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "The question here is, is this Amazon, where its losses are funding some sort of sustainable advantage, like what Amazon did with convenience and incredible distribution facilities that were kind of expensive at the time or is this Pets.com where it's funding growth that's not sustainable? And we would probably argue that it's the latter."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'If someone works half-time at Starbucks and half-time at McDonald's, it counts twice,' says Thomas Cooley, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business who has spent time studying the jobs data."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims, Harvard classmates, were just awarded the 2011 Noble prize for Economic Sciences. Selected for their real-world science of modeling, the laureates are extolled for explaining the impact the global markets have on domestic economies."  Additional coverage appeared on a Reuters blog.

Excerpt from Indie Wire -- "When I first got [to Tribeca Film], there were three of us, including Keith, and Sharon Badal who now heads shorts programming."

Excerpt from BigThink -- "Greece has brought most of its problems on itself. Its people have a history of evading taxes, and its government fudged the books for many years. But Greece isn’t the only country to blame." Additional coverage appeared in BigThink

Excerpt from Future of Capitalism -- "Amity Shlaes, the chairman of the International Policy Network, which awards the prizes, began the awards dinner by noting that Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) did not hide his religiosity."

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

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."

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

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."

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.

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."

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."