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Excerpt from Livemint -- "In a paper titled Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures Versus Founding Teams Jason Greenberg of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and Ethan R. Mollick of University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School posit that companies started by solo founders survive longer than those started by teams."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'It’s an innovative case,' said Nicholas Economides, an economics professor who looks at competition issues at New York University Stern School of Business. He thinks the EU has a real challenge if it attempts to show that Amazon’s use of the data is anticompetitive. 'Information alone is not going to make the case,” Mr. Economides said."

Excerpt from Reason Foundation -- "The authors analyzed asset allocation and return data for the nation’s 25 largest pension funds over a 10-year period. They found no correlation between allocations to infrastructure (and other alternative investments) and net investment returns. They hypothesize that higher expenses for these exotic investments offset their higher gross returns, but cannot verify this contention due to inadequate and inconsistent expense data reported by the funds."

Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton on SiriusXM -- "'There are many things that have been going wrong in the fashion industry, starting with the fact that this is a male-dominated industry in terms of leadership and in terms of designers,' Serdari said. 'So what has been produced over the years for women has been dictated by men and follows some sort of ideal of an ideal woman that is not reflecting the reality and the actual size of women today.'"

Excerpt from Front Office Sports -- "'Given (PBR’s) core audience, being the one league that embraces the ‘Right’ side of the political spectrum makes a bunch of sense,' Adamson says. 'If you stand for everything, you stand for nothing. Sports is about more than just watching an event. It’s about connecting with people who share the same passion and have the same view on life.'"

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "A 2008 study from New York University professor Priya Raghubir and University of Maryland, College Park professor Joydeep Srivastava tested whether people approached other forms of payment similar to how they used credit cards. Their study found that consumers spent more when they were given scrip, a form of a stored-value certificate, rather than cash."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'If a significant fraction of [the world’s bond market] has negative interest rates, that’s pretty unusual,' said Sylla. Even in recent history, he added, such occurrences are rare. In 1940-1941, he said, rates on short-term U.S. bonds went negative as the economy still grappled with the fallout from the Great Depression."

Excerpt from the Econ Focus -- "'There is definitely some regulatory arbitrage and quite a bit of fraud that has happened,' says Howell. 'But I think ICOs also open the possibility for some exciting new business models.'"

Excerpt from Adweek -- "'All retailers have the same problem in July…people are at the beach and in vacation mode, not shopping mode,' said Allen Adamson, co-founder of marketing services firm Metaforce and adjunct associate professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. 'What has changed is Amazon is a big enough gorilla to create something that can change people’s perception of what they should be doing on a hot July day.'"

New York University Stern School of Business is accepting applications for the 2019-2020 cohort of Endless Frontier Labs (EFL), a program for early-stage science- and technology-based startups. The program is structured to optimize each startup’s chance of scaling into a successful company through a goals-based mentoring process.

Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "NYU Stern’s Executive Education division will host consulting firm SRW & Co for The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) Global Leadership Program from April 13 – 17, 2020."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'It’s special because it only happens once a year,' Meyvis said. 'There are so many brands and retailers that have promotions all the time — often times you don’t have a sense of urgency.'"

Excerpt from American Banker -- (6:20) "My objection to CECL is that it is technically flawed to such a degree that it would potentially cause institutions to record very large accounting losses, which decrease the regulatory capital, when, in fact, there are zero economic losses."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh: A smart how-to that will help you recognize your privilege and unconscious bias, confront inequality, and stand up for diversity and inclusion at work, home, and in the world."

Excerpt from Vox -- "Alixandra Barasch, an assistant professor of marketing at New York University who studies the social aspects of consumption, has found that taking photos can actually help people engage with their surroundings, as they notice details they otherwise would have missed and make considered decisions about what to capture."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Pankaj Ghemawat of NYU Stern School of Business, one of the authors of the DHL report, sees a 'semi-globalised' world in which international threats and opportunities matter but most business activities take place domestically. For most firms, this will mean supply chains will need to become not just shorter, but also faster and smarter."

Excerpt from CBS News -- "'Digital talent now is not a luxury anymore. It's something that companies need just to survive,' said New York University business professor Ari Ginsberg."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Today’s hot spot is Ethiopia, which has attracted investment by Calvin Klein and H&M. With labour costs of just $26 a month, it might seem a dream destination for the frugal clothier. But a report released in May by the NYU Stern Centre for Business and Human Rights argues that these wages are too low to meet workers’ basic needs, which is fuelling unrest."

Excerpt from Market Screener -- "If you find the notifications are disruptive, distracting or are causing information overload, you can always turn them off in the app's Preferences settings. But a 2019 research study by NYU Stern School of Business (about how app users manage their personal finances when sent overspending messages), has shown that these technological nudges lead to a decline in spending."

Excerpt from ICAS -- "'The key driver is that you want to be able to lock in your most loyal customers and to get them to use you as often as possible and to get them out of the market,' said Allen Adamson, Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'Even if you’re losing money – it’s a loss leader. They will buy something else once in a while, but they won’t change their habits.'"

Excerpt from WIRED -- "Data from social media platforms like Facebook has given scientists unprecedented glimpses into human relationships and how they’re formed, says Theresa Kuchler, a coauthor of the paper and assistant professor of finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business who studies how people make economic decisions."

Excerpt from Psychology Today -- "Stanford University’s Ashley Martin teamed up with New York University’s Michael North and Columbia University’s Katherine Phillips (2019) to put ageist stereotypes to the test with these more behavioral methods, studying as well the interaction between ageism and sexism."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- “'We don’t need this commission,' said Michael Posner, the State Department’s assistant secretary for DRL from 2009 to 2013. 'What we need is for the U.S. government, the secretary of state and the president to abide by and uphold international human rights standards we already have adopted.'"

Excerpt from Tech Insider -- (4:00) "Had they opened up, had the CEO or another senior executive spoken to this more general sense of concern, indicating that the compnay is doing everything it can as soon as it can to find out more and will report back, that could have at least lessened the sense that the company was being evasive."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- “'The crisis heightened the realization than non-U. S. large financial intuitions like Deutsche were even more fragile, had even less capital than was true of major U.S. banks,' said Larry White, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business. 'Deutsche may well be too big to fail, too big to manage effectively.'”