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Professor Russell Winer weighs in on Budweiser's Super Bowl commercial

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Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times -- "'Trump's grandfather immigrated from Germany, so there's a double dose of irony,' said Russell S. Winer, a marketing professor at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'I think Americans will like the ad, as they don't think of immigrants from Europe the same way as immigrants from Africa or Muslim countries in the Middle East.'"
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Dean Peter Henry comments on the White House's executive order on immigration

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Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "'As President Hamilton so eloquently stated, the order and its immediate impact have left many of us with heavy hearts and deep concerns for those who are directly or indirectly affected,' [Henry] wrote. 'As an immigrant who was welcomed to this country almost 40 years ago and proudly became a U.S. citizen, it is a particularly sobering time for me.'"
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Research by Professor Jeanne Calderon and Scholar-in-Residence Gary Friedland on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program is featured

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Excerpt from CityLab -- "...as Friedland and Jeanne Calderon explain in a report for the Stern Center, in EB-5 deals, the developer often serves as both lender and borrower, setting terms for the loan it both generates and receives. 'The fraud uncovered to date spans all parts of the nation,' Friedland and Calderon write."
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Professor Gavin Kilduff's research on athletic rivalry and performance is referenced

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Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "'Some people may find it surprising that runners actually pick one and another out [to try to beat] at these kind of races, but my experiences speaking with them suggests they indeed do,' said lead author Gavin Kilduff..."
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Professor Gian Luca Clementi is interviewed about the impact a tariff on imports would have on the apparel industry

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "Those are going to have a higher price, and that is going to put a dent on the wallet of American consumers and also on the bottom line of American companies."
School News

A Stern Signature Project focusing on urbanization in Ethiopia is featured; MBA-MFA student Ria Tobaccowala, MBA student Sarada Anne and Research Scholars Shlomo Angel and Patrick Lamson-Hall are quoted

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Participation in the projects 'widens students’ perspective of humanity', says Shlomo 'Solly' Angel, a professor at NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Planning. 'Projects like this have nothing to do with making money,' he says. 'They have to do with students getting acquainted with people who are so different from them in terms of culture, income and outlook.'"
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Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on the growth of the sharing economy

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Excerpt from Motherboard -- "The way Eriksson has been living her life for the past year is a glimpse of how a growing number of us will be living in the future, according to Arun Sundararajan, New York University business professor and author of The Sharing Economy. ... 'We’re transitioning into an alternative of corporations and mass production,' Sundararajan says."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan's book, "The Sharing Economy," is reviewed

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Excerpt from The Chronicle of Higher Education -- "No economy ever achieves an absolute separation of commerce and cooperation. Market traders have always needed some basis on which to trust one another, be that recommendation, regulation, or repeat interaction. In his new book, The Sharing Economy, Arun Sundararajan, a professor in New York University’s Stern School of Business, argues that the border between market exchange and social reciprocity is becoming more porous than ever."
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Professor Jonathan Haidt's work on the conflict between globalism and nationalism is referenced

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, calls it the clash between globalists and nationalists. The globalists, who tend to be urban and college educated, want a world like the one described in John Lennon’s song 'Imagine' — no religion, walls or borders dividing people. The nationalists see that as a vision of hell. They want to defend their culture and emphasize the bonds of nationhood — flag, Constitution, patriotism. They also want to limit immigration, an instinct that globalists are often quick to condemn as racist."
 
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Professor Thomas Cooley is interviewed about the proposed border adjustment tax plan

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Excerpt from USA Today -- "Thomas Cooley, an economics professor at New York University and former dean of the university's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, agreed, saying that a stronger dollar could cushion the fallout for retailers and other importers. Still, if the proposal goes into effect, 'there will be winners and losers,' he said, with companies that have U.S.-based factories faring far better than their counterparts that don't. 'In that sense,' Cooley said, the proposed tax change 'encourages domestic investment ... in the U.S.'"
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Professor Jonathan Haidt's work on morality is highlighted

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Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "As social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has argued for years, doing things in groups is really hard, and the larger the group, the harder it gets. Moral values like group loyalty -- an instinctive group loyalty, not some dry intellectual thing carefully reasoned from first principles and self-interest -- make it possible for us to do this very difficult thing."
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The work of Stern International Volunteers (SIV) in Ghana is spotlighted

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Excerpt from Citi 97.3 FM -- "The five-year project by the NYU Stern School of Business (SIV Ghana) and Adanu, is to among other things to improve education, potable water, health care and small scale businesses in the area. Waodze-Tsatoe community is one of the numerous communities deprived of basic social amenities in the Afadzato South District."
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Professor Belen Villalonga shares insights on the profitability of family-run companies

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Excerpt from Fortune -- "Belen Villalonga of New York University has found that controlled companies have higher-than-average profitability."
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Professor Adam Alter's forthcoming book, "Irresistible," is included on a list of creative leadership books

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "The new book from a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU Stern and the author of Drunk Tank Pink, the bestselling study of how environmental factors shape how we think and behave. Here, Alter tracks the rise of behavioral addiction – to social media, TV binge-watching, work and more – and explores how we can both set better boundaries and learn to use addictive products for good."
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Professor Paul Wachtel discusses Alan Greenspan's work

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Excerpt from the Foundation for Economic Education -- "Paul Wachtel, an NYU economics professor who was on Greenspan's dissertation committee, defends Greenspan’s work, claiming, 'the chapter written by Greenspan in 1959 on investment risk and stock prices anticipated by 10 years the Q ratio developed in 1969 by the late James Tobin,' who would become a Nobel laureate."
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Professors Arun Sundararajan and Michael Posner's comments at World Economic Forum meetings in Dubai and Davos, respectively, are featured

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Excerpt from Quartz -- "'There’s a growing concern about the gap between what’s true on the internet and what’s not, and how the internet and these social networks and platforms are affecting both political and social interactions,' said Posner, a former member of the Obama administration and professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Donald Trump’s upset in the US presidential election was viewed as the first 'earth-shaking impact of this kind of bias,' Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU Stern who attended the meeting, told Quartz."
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Professor Aswath Damodaran's research on growth in financial markets is featured

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "In November, investors were expecting to earn 6.3 percentage points more by owning risky stocks instead of safe bonds, according to Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University. By Wednesday that premium had shrunk to 5.7 percentage points."
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Professor Robert Whitelaw is interviewed about how artificial intelligence may impact venture capital investments in China

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Excerpt from China Radio International -- "What we've seen with artificial intelligence is to some extent, there were many decades where there was a lot promised and very little delivered. But I think now that in some sense, technology, computer systems, the programming has caught up with that potential. People are starting to see that artificial intelligence can, in fact, have big implications for how we do many things."
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Professor Thomaï Serdari shares her views on Calvin Klein's offering of bespoke services to all customers

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Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "'Opening up its bespoke services to everyday clients will help Calvin Klein elevate the customer’s perception of the brand and also intrigue them with the possibility of something both unique and special (as all bespoke items are) as well as representative of the iconic American style the brand ushered in the past with its collections,' [Serdari] said."
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Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on self-perception is featured

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Coined in 1999 by then-Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the eponymous Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias whereby people who are incompetent at something are unable to recognize their own incompetence. And not only do they fail to recognize their incompetence, they’re also likely to feel confident that they actually are competent."
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Professor Luke Williams's remarks on innovation at Oracle CloudWorld are featured

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "'If you’re vested in growth, you have to be vested in innovation,' noted Luke Williams, a professor of innovation at the NYU Stern School of Business, who spoke Tuesday at Oracle CloudWorld. The challenge for companies is that existing organizations are 'systems of continuity' that tend to resist real change unless they’re under an almost existential threat."
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Professor Jamyn Edis is interviewed about artificial intelligence

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Excerpt from The Karen Hunter Show -- "When you search on Google for something, sneakers, let's say, and you click on the images tab, it will bring up a whole bunch of sneakers. Someone in the past had to tag that image with it. Now, computers are tagging it automatically."
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Professor Kim Schoenholtz discusses the potential impact of President Trump's trade policies

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Excerpt from FAZ -- "'...winners and losers will lobby for their respective positions,' conclude the economists Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz, who are renowned in international economic relations."
Press Releases

NYU Stern Faculty Publish “The Infrastructure Finance Challenge” eBook

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A faculty team from the NYU Stern School of Business has recently published an eBook, The Infrastructure Finance Challenge, an analysis of the drivers, challenges and actionable choices for the future of infrastructure finance.