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Excerpt from Betabeat -- "Brooklinen, if they get full funding from their Kickstarter, will manufacture and sell luxury, 100 percent Egyptian cotton bedsheets starting at $100 a set. The company was founded by Rich Fulop and David Fortune, two current MBA students at NYU Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- “'We found that faculty ignored requests from women and minorities at a higher rate than requests from white males, particularly in higher-paying disciplines and private institutions,' Katherine Milkman of the University of Pennsylvania, Modupe Akinola of Columbia University, and Dolly Chugh of New York University report in their study titled 'What Happens Before? A Field Experiment Exploring How Pay and Representation Differentially Shape Bias on the Pathway into Organizations.'”

Excerpt from ABC.net -- "That, to me, is the most staggering piece: that this color, something that we see visually, can actually change how we feel physically. It turns us into weaker people as we perceive the color...It was such a fascinating effect to me that it became an emblem for what I discuss in the book, which is how the world, in all sorts of strange ways, influences how we think, feel and behave in ways that we wouldn't expect."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- “'I would call this a rookie move,' said Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at New York University. 'Doing it on Twitter is no different as if they’d changed their uniforms to bull’s-eyes.'”

Excerpt from LinkedIn -- "Operating as a luxury brand implies investment in long-term brand value. Simplicity and clarity help you remain focused so that you can keep producing well-developed, complex ideas that are executed with care and attention."

Excerpt from Portland Press-Herald -- "The research – by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Uma Karmarkar and Bryan Bollinger, an assistant professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business – showed that the correlation between reusable bags and indulgent foods doesn’t apply to people with children at home."

Excerpt from St. Louis Post-Dispatch -- “'It’s really expansive for the economy,' [Sundararajan] says. 'You’re creating greater variety and you’re using resources more productively. Cities need to recognize that this is good for the local economy.'”

On April 26th, Stern in Africa will host the NYU Stern Africa Economic Forum 2014, themed, “The African Gold Rush: Realities of Africa’s Economic Growth and Potential.” The conference will present a balanced depiction of the current state of Africa, in addition to highlighting the promising transformations that are taking place across the continent.

On April 25, NYU Stern and NYU Law co-hosted the NYU Global Governance Roundtable: Building Ethical and Sustainable Global Companies.

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- “'I think the headline for the past earnings quarter was Wells Fargo,' notes Roy Smith, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former general partner at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 'They seem to have their business model operating on all cylinders.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Unusual trading patterns around the afternoon fixing in London are a sign of collusive behavior and should be investigated, Rosa Abrantes-Metz, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, wrote in a draft research paper, which was reported by Bloomberg News in February."

At the conclusion of an eight-month competition, NYU’s most promising innovators received a combined $200,000 in start-up cash at the annual $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge, held by NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

At the conclusion of an eight-month competition, NYU’s most promising innovators received a combined $200,000 in start-up cash at the annual $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge, held by NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Returning for its fifth edition, this provocative awards program, co-sponsored by Accenture and AT&T at NYU Skirball, celebrates the new frontiers of disruptive innovation in collaboration with Harvard professor Clayton Christensen.

The Sixth Annual NYU Stern Volatility Institute Conference convened academics, practitioners and regulators to discuss the latest research and ideas on this year’s theme, “Market Liquidity and Funding Liquidity: Implications for Economic Risk.” 

Excerpt from Sydney Morning Herald -- "Another cue is the use of sound. Consumers are more willing to part with their hard-earned cash when they're in a shop playing fast-tempo, upbeat music. 'If you're thinking faster, and you're on that tempo, you're likely to respond by spending more quickly,' [Alter] says."

Excerpt from Forbes -- “'It enriches their perspective,' says Anat Lechner, Professor of Management and Organizations at NYU Stern School of Business, who is not bringing her children to work today, but has had them observe her classes and lectures in the past. 'It gives the kids a perspective on their parents and the question of work, and has them see their parents in a very different capacity.'”

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Berkshire Hathaway has beaten the market over the long run by investing in relatively low-risk stocks the market was underpricing, according to 'Buffett’s Alpha', a study by three economists, Andrea Frazzini, David Kabiller and Lasse Pedersen. The study found that when it comes to outperforming the market on a sustained basis (see chart), Berkshire Hathaway is arguably without equal."

Excerpt from Entrepreneur -- “'One strategy is adding features that mimic the old-world experience to enhance familiarity,' says Sundararajan. 'They can integrate what people might miss from the old experiences they are trying to disrupt, and create that bridge.' For instance, Airbnb launched its own concierge service, so that travelers could still feel pampered as if they were at a traditional hotel."

Excerpt from USA Today -- "One of the take-away messages of the survey is that employers are expecting more of their employees in entry-level jobs, says Prasanna Tambe, an assistant professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, and one of the authors of The Talent Equation. Those first jobs are more complex than they used to be, requiring more industry acumen and technical skills, he says. In fact, for many jobs today, it's important to have a blend of interpersonal and technical skills, Tambe says. It's hard to get all that from classes in college. A lot comes from hands-on work experience."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "'We have young people losing their lives sewing clothes,' she said at a forum at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where she presented her report, co-authored with the center’s research director Dorothée Baumann-Pauly. Since last July, Labowitz and her colleagues have interviewed more than 100 people about business practices in the supply chain, including factory owners, buyers, agents, workers, trade unionists, journalists, bankers and finance professionals and academics in Bangladesh and in the U.S."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "You basically have a hardware company that looks like, if you look at the balance sheet and the income statement, it looks like a software company. Or maybe not a software company, but a services firm, much less a hardware firm. So ... this really does quiet a lot of naysayers around Tim Cook's abilities and his leadership and the numbers. They delivered today in spades."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'It doesn’t seem to be in the best interest of society to place the same regulatory burden on someone who does something occasionally and someone who does something frequently,' Sundararajan says."

In new research that analyzes data from China’s stock market from 1995 to 2012, NYU Stern Professors Jennifer Carpenter and Robert Whitelaw, along with undergraduate student Fangzhou Lu, find that despite its reputation as a “casino,” China’s stock market has functioned well by several measures.

On April 23, NYU Stern’s Center for Real Estate Finance Research hosted their third annual Spring Symposium.