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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Middle-market companies rebounded from a lackluster first quarter and grew revenues and earnings between April and June this year, according to a new report from middle-market lender Golub Capital. ... Golub helped compile the results with Edward Altman, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, who noted that the results for the smaller companies portend continuing slow growth for larger public companies in the S&P 500 when they report second-quarter earnings."

Excerpt from NPR -- "In the beginning of the program, people thought, OK, we're going to get into this program. After a year, we'll be fine. We will have a one-year recession, and after a year, we will be growing. ... According to the targets, Greece would recover almost immediately in 2011, and that didn't happen. Greece did not recover in 2011, did not recover in 2012, did not recover in 2013."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "On March 17, [Jules] Kroll reeled in the city of Chicago as a client for its general obligation bonds, assigning a rating of A- and a stable outlook. Less than two months later, Moody’s slashed Chicago’s rating two notches to junk level (Ba1) after the Illinois Supreme Court rejected a plan to overhaul the state’s pension system. Fitch and Standard & Poor’s cut their ratings within three days, and each member of the Big Three set the future outlook as negative. Only Kroll had left its rating untouched, at A- and stable, as of July 2... Are those higher ratings justified? 'Kroll will say, ‘We’re better,’' says Lawrence White, a professor at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'That may be so, or they may be giving in to make the issuer happy. We won’t know until five years from now.'"

Excerpt from CBS MoneyWatch -- "'The deal looked imminent,' said Nicholas Economides, a professor of economics at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business in an interview with CBS MoneyWatch. 'That's why nobody expected that there would be a referendum. Now as a result of the referendum, the prime minister feels emboldened.'"

Excerpt from Chicago Tribune -- "Steven Blader, an associate professor who studies fairness at New York University's business school, said: 'While there is nothing inherently wrong with someone wanting to make money off a commodity that others want, maybe some tickets do change the equation. Maybe some require an assumption that a moral obligation is attached? It's tricky, but the overall implications should give pause. You may not be forcing anyone to buy a ticket, but at what point are shows being played just for wealthy people? I think it's legal, I can probably convince myself a large profit on a ticket is even moral, but I have a harder time convincing myself that this kind of thing is good for the broader goal of music being accessible to all walks of society.'"

Excerpt from CCTV -- "... Austerity is not a good thing and it's not what's best for Greece. But if the only other option is for Greece to leave the Euro and issue its new currency, the new drachma, then austerity has to be the best solution, the lesser of two evils. Under austerity, Greece is going to lose something like 5% of its income in the next year. If they go to a new currency, it's going to lose 50% of its income very quickly. So austerity and a deal with the Europeans is definitely a good thing. It's the lesser of two evils."

Excerpt from Inc. -- "'There is demand on the buy side and the sell side, and I don’t think there is a problem with that,' Whitelaw says. The problem is the lack of transparency in the market for private shares, which the SEC has rightly identified, although it’s perhaps incorrectly using the Dodd-Frank financial regulation reform law to attack the problems, Whitelaw adds."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Choosing the right claims, the right number of claims, and the optimal size and placement of each is a moving target that has to be constantly reassessed among all potential target consumer segments.  It’s not always intuitively obviously.  The good news is that digitally testing a range of options has never been easier."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Greeks have been ill served by their European allies, the IMF, and their government. By failing to acknowledge the inevitable in 2010 and assuming that Greece could reform itself and begin growing again and service its existing debt, the European allies and the government simply extended the pain and increased the damage to the Greek economy. They compounded the error in 2012 with further lending. Two centuries of history tell us what the inevitable outcome must be. Only after a default/restructuring occurs can Greece begin the long slow process of recovery."

Excerpt from The New Yorker -- "Arun Sundararajan, a business-school professor at N.Y.U. and an expert on the sharing economy, told me, 'It’s very unlikely drivers’ take-home pay would rise. There also would be fewer drivers. They would be able to drive more hours, but they’d have less flexibility in how they worked.'"

Excerpt from Charlie Rose -- "Europe doesn't really play very significantly in China right now... With the Chinese this week, it's much more about their own stock market and what they're trying to do domestically to balance both [a] more open economy with the needs to appease and placate Chinese short-term investors. ... What the Chinese intend to do internationally is overwhelmingly focused on economics right now because that's where their power is."

Excerpt from CNN -- "'Yes' is hope and a future for Greece in Europe. 'No' would mean Greece goes out of the Eurozone, possibly out of the EU. It's a very uncertain future for Greece, a very sad one, and in fact a very poor one...the vast majority of the Greek economists, not only in Greece but also abroad, have declared that it's best to go with a 'Yes.'"

Excerpt from NPR -- "And without functioning banks Greece's economy will grind to a halt. Economides says so far there has been some panicked buying of essentials like fuel and medicine. But if the banks stay closed, things will get much worse. 'As the banks are closed and people have a hard time importing stuff from abroad, very soon in a week, two weeks, three weeks, there will be shortages because merchants are not going to be able to import,' Economides says."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "'If you're the film that gets in before the weekend, you begin to build buzz,' says New York University professor Al Lieberman, a former film and television marketer. 'It's out in the press immediately and on social media right away.' ...There are some risks of opening early. People are even more likely to spread the word about a movie they didn't like, Lieberman says, especially if they're a diehard fan who has stayed up until the wee hours to see it."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'I've got clear evidence that the wage rates on TaskRabbit across every profession, are significantly higher than the Bureau of Labor Statistics average for the same profession,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. Sundararajan said because customers will rate a 'taskers' performance on the website, taskers who engage in things like plumbing, electrical work, editing or moving, can charge higher rates if they get good reviews. Those assessments then provide another benefit for a tasker, more jobs."

Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "The ramifications of demerging would go beyond economics. 'Greece would become a small country in the Middle East,' Economides said. 'Instead of being in the center of Europe, it would be subject to the larger powers of the Middle East, in particular its biggest neighbor Turkey, which would be a national disaster.'"

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "There are also opportunities in marketing, according to Professor Thomaï Serdari, strategist in luxury marketing and branding at NYU Stern School of Business. 'The field of luxury marketing, as an academic and business discipline, is growing as the luxury market grows,' she said."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "'Our community leaned into hard topics this year. There were awkward moments and sometimes misinformed things were said. But, as a community, we let it get messy. Doing so allowed us to see what needed to be cleaned up.' ... 'When these MBAs enter the workforce, yes, they’ll be able to stand up for injustices, but they will also know how to broach the topics that everyone else is too afraid to touch,' Hurnyak points out."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "[The referendum] was quite unexpected. I thought that the Greek government and the lenders were very close to an agreement and then suddenly, the Greek prime minister did not want to take responsibility for the agreement and instead called a referendum to throw the responsibility to the Greek people."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "But a crowdfunding campaign to bail out a country seems to be a first, according to Anindya Ghose, a professor of information technology and marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, who has been researching crowdfunding for the past six years. 'It’s very unique,' Mr. Ghose wrote in an email. In at least one way, though, the campaign and the reaction to the crisis in Greece fit into what Mr. Ghose has seen in his research: Altruism is a key motivating factor inspiring people to donate."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "For Greek New Yorkers, the crisis has both emotional and practical implications, said Nicholas Economides, an economics professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'They are seeing a disaster unfolding in front of them, but they are far away,' he said. Because the banks are closed and withdrawals at ATMs are limited, there is no feasible way to send money to relatives living there."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'Consumers are basically browsing and decision-making has moved online,' said Scott Galloway, a professor who teaches marketing and branding at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Al Jazeera -- "The way out is for Greeks, who are overwhelmingly pro-Euro, to vote 'yes' and then have a renegotiation, hopefully with a different government in charge in Greece, with the creditors, and have a reasonable solution. Greece is not a crazy place. It's not a very poor place... Greece is not a third world country. Greece is in the center of Europe and can easily remain in the center of Europe with a 'yes' vote."

Excerpt from CNN -- "The problems of Greece is that if it goes to Grexit, it's going to be a total disaster mode... It's the most irresponsible government I've seen in Greece in decades. There is no concern about contagion in other countries; the problem is that Greece cannot even deal with its own problems... The full drama, the disaster is going to be in Greece and not the rest of the European Union."

Excerpt from LinkedIn -- "Since January 2015, 59 Greek businesses have closed down each day on average. Banks have hemorrhaged cash; since mid-December 2014, when elections were announced, more than €40 billion has been withdrawn by depositors. That includes more than €5 billion last week alone, and that was before Tsipras’ surprise announcement of a referendum announcement and subsequent capital controls. The true cost of shutting down Greek banks for a week are still too difficult to calculate, but it’s safe to assume it will cost Greece at least hundreds of millions of euros in lost economic activity."