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On February 6, 2018, the NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted the Spring 2018 Economic Outlook Forum.

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "Consider first a study that was published in 2006 by Malcolm Baker, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, and Jeffrey Wurgler, a finance professor at NYU. They devised a number of objective indicators of irrational exuberance that, in backtesting, were highly correlated with bubbles such as the 1929 stock market crash and the bursting of the Internet bubble in early 2000."

Excerpt from the Stamford Advocate -- "Clearly the benefit of the ads can be great. But there is a basic problem of clutter and there being lots of ads. The challenge is getting your message across to the audience."

Excerpt from BBC -- "The beauty of fashion is that it’s conspicuous; everyone knows what you’re wearing, so if you’re wearing a scarce, fashionable product, you get the benefit of knowing privately that you own something scarce, but also the benefit of being able to show other people that you own a scarce product."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "[Balanciaga] Creative director Demna Gvasalia and CEO Cédric Charbit have updated the brand’s DNA with contemporary elements of streetwear that make the brand relevant today. Additionally, the luxury house showcases the type of combined leadership (creative and business) that many other brands should follow as they strive to grow in the oversaturated fashion industry."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "...from 1928 through 2017, the S&P 500, including dividends, generated an average annual return of 9.65%, compared with 4.88% for 10-year Treasury notes, according to data from Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'It’s very hard to draw the line between what an engineer has acquired on their own and what is the property of the company and has been embedded in a product,’ [Sundararajan] said. ‘But the spillover of engineers working for one company and going to another after acquiring valuable knowledge is endemic in Silicon Valley and in the tech sector in general.'"

Excerpt from Fashionista -- "The ultimate goal is to save time, especially on routine activities, and focus on experiences that matter more. Additionally, since social media has made everyone’s life more public, people want to be certain that their posts reinforce public perception about their personal style. They will happily invest in kits/bundles that ensure they appear stylish."

Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "Raghubir, the marketing professor, said that if Groupon wants to succeed, it will have to do more than reintroduce a tweaked product to old clients. It will have to repair its reputation. And it'll take more than a clever Super Bowl ad to do that. Customers understand that they can save money with Groupon, she said. But they may have been burned before. It will take time to prove to them that they can trust this version of Groupon."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Nouriel Roubini of Roubini Macro Associates said Bitcoin is the 'biggest bubble in human history' and this 'mother of all bubbles' is finally crashing, in an interview with Tom Keene and Francine Lacqua on Bloomberg Television. Bitcoin dropped below $8,000 Friday, a 60 percent tumble from its peak of $19,511 on Dec. 18. It isn’t just Bitcoin, Roubini added. There are more than 1,300 cryptocurrencies or initial coin offerings, and 'most of them are even worse' than the largest digital token. These constitute a 'a bubble to the power of two or three,' he said."

Excerpt from Biography - "...I think [Steve Jobs] saw possibilities that other people didn't see, which is a characteristic of most great entrepreneurs."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "Apple is usually a leader in branding and messaging, but this time it stumbled, said Tom Meyvis, professor of marketing and coordinator of the Ph.D. program in marketing at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Consumers were faced with too many iPhones being released at the same time, and too many variations of the iPhone X, he said. 'Consumers eventually adapt to everything, even continuous improvements,' Meyvis said."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "'A talking fridge that adjusts its energy use to be less intensive and helps you better manage your food so you have less food waste would be extremely useful,' said Whelan of NYU."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "This week’s proposal—for a new asset, sovereign-bond-backed securities (SBBS)—both leaves states responsible for their own debts and encourages banks to diversify sovereign risk. Issuers of SBBS, which could be public- or private-sector entities, would buy euro-area government bonds at market prices, and repackage them. Buyers of SBBS would be paid interest and principal (and be exposed to default) as if they owned the underlying bonds."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "I think there's a challenge on the business side figuring out how to both be profitable. I'm pro company; I want companies to make a profit. But how to then operate in a globalized environment — globalized world — where we have very weak governments and very powerful companies. And so the idea that government alone is going to protect people from all the things that can go wrong — inequality, mistreatment of workers, etc. — it's not realistic."

Excerpt from Professional Planner -- "'The frantic pace of many of our lives leads us to rely on' fast thinking, which may not be suited to facing ethical dilemmas, which may require a slower thought process, Dolly Chugh wrote in a paper published in Social Justice Research."

Excerpt from the Stamford Advocate -- "'Shrinking its footprint generally has been part of the recovery for RBS,' Lawrence J. White, a professor of economics in New York University’s business school, said in a recent interview. 'It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that as part of the overall shrinking that they would be shrinking their North American operations.'"

Excerpt from China News -- "We understand the importance of creative thinking in the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and we are honored to work with the WeWork Creator Contest to help creators realize their dreams."

Excerpt from Fox Business -- "Scott Galloway, a professor at New York University Stern School of Business and author of the best-selling 'The Four,' said these companies distort financial markets and capital flows. 'The reason why they need to be curbed or specifically broken up is that as evidence today, we don’t have fair competition,' he told FOX Business’ Liz Claman on 'Countdown to the Closing Bell.'"

Exerpt from MIT Sloan Management Review -- “Smartphones rule our lives. We text, swipe, and shop from our devices. And every time businesses tap into these phones, they are generating valuable streams of data that, using combinations of machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence, they can put together and figure out a better way to curate their messages and their offers.”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "NYU has given me so many unbelievable opportunities and experiences that I know could not happen in any other university. ... Just last month, I was able to attend a Ranger’s ice hockey game at Madison Square Garden! Another exclusive Stern opportunity I am looking forward to: Hong Kong for our spring break as part of our International Studies Program (more details to come on this in the spring)!"

Excerpt from Moneyish -- "'If you think of the kinds of opportunities that these new capabilities will lead to, it’s almost like the sky’s the limit,' Dhar concluded. 'If you’re a writer and suddenly you have the ability to query the entire world … and have the computer come back and give you an intelligent answer — the scope of productivity is just huge.'"

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Although recruiters talk about the need to have a diverse environment, Hori still believes that the primary motivation is not to miss out on the best graduates. 'I’d like to think it’s a heart and soul move,' she says. 'But there are many more options today for the top talent on MBA programmes.'"

Translated excerpt from El Pilon -- "Nicolás Galarza explained, 'during the investigation we realized that there are several collaborative schemes in which the private sector manages and is responsible for the maintenance of parks, freeing those burdens from the mayorships. This is a win-win scheme: from the point of view of the private sector, this means that it will be a park that will have more people visiting, improves security, improves traffic, businesses increase their sales, improves the value of the properties; and from the point of view of the administration, significant resources are saved to be allocated to other priorities for the city...'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "...I think Amazon already knows where they want to be and they're just creating this hunger games environment to mature the best term sheet possible and then give it to the city's mayor where they want to be and ask him or her to match it, which will be irresistible."