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On November 6-7, L2 and NYU Stern hosted the 5th annual Innovation Forum at the TimesCenter in New York City.

NYU Stern’s Tenth Annual Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, organized by the School’s Business & Society Program and the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, convened scholars, practitioners and students from around the world to explore topics in social enterprise, innovation, sustainability and impact.

Excerpt from Forbes -- "I believe T-Mobile represents a significant upside opportunity with a solid margin of safety, primarily as a result of 1. Continued industry consolidation/oligopoly pricing power/improving financial metrics post-MetroPCS deal, 2. German Government (Deutsche Telekom) vested interest in supporting their US subsidiary, 3. Expanding mobile (especially data) use/user demand 4. Increased economies of scale & scope/better operating efficiency as MetroPCS is integrated."

Excerpt from CCTV -- "I think we are at the point in which the Greek budget has been balanced and in fact there is a surplus, so... a primary surplus if you exclude interest, so Greece is in pretty good shape financially at this point. In fact, it doesn't need any money right now from the European Union and this negotiation that is happening right now is unique because it's the first time in years that Greece doesn't need the money right away. So what Greece needs is to do more reforms: open closed professions, allow for more competition in labor markets, allow for things that should have happened even if Greece had not borrowed too much. So the structural reform should be the first priority of the government and not cutting expenditures."

Excerpt from Associated Press -- "Aswath Damodaran, a professor of finance at New York University, says the trend is a global one. Many Indian companies have fared well even as India’s economy has slowed. The French luxury goods company LVMH did only a tenth of its sales in France in 2013. 'It used to be that US companies lived off the US economy and French stocks lived off the French economy,' Damodaran said. 'Now, stock markets are more reflections of the global economy.'"

Excerpt from BBC -- "There are two ways to think about valuation. One is to think about what you're buying, which is a set of cash flows with a lot of risk and growth associated with them, and try to value it, which is the way people have always valued businesses. The other is to price it, which is to look at what other people are paying for something a little bit like what you're buying. Think of buying a house...the realtor tells you it's worth $1 million or $2 million. The way he or she is coming up with that number is by looking at other houses in the neighborhood and what they sold for. So the first thing you have to think about when you think about valuing something like this: are you going to price it or are you going to value it?"

Excerpt from MIT Technology Review -- "Research shows that people weigh these disadvantages [of online shopping] against the benefits of buying online. Along with colleagues Chris Forman and Anindya Ghose, I examined what happened to Amazon’s book sales at 1,497 U.S. locations when a Walmart or Barnes & Noble opened nearby. We found that customers who lived near the newly opened stores bought many fewer best-sellers from Amazon."

Excerpt from WIRED Italy -- (Translated from Italian using Google Translate) "It's a process that starts with what I call disruptive hypothesis. Taking a question that nobody gets in your industry. Innovation is asking the right questions. If you ask an obvious question, you will have an obvious answer. Usually companies seek opportunities and only then formulate hypotheses about how to reach them... They need to reverse the process and start with a hypothesis that is unpredictable and then find the unexpected benefits that can bring. We must not think of solutions as predictable, but rather of unreasonable provocations."

Excerpt from BBC -- "The first step is to 'change all the circumstances that can be changed,' said Aline Wolff, clinical associate professor of management communication at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Begin with small things, such as switching up the venue, shortening the length of time, bringing food and focusing more on the purpose of the meeting. For instance, switching from the board room to someone’s office might be enough to change the dynamic of an anaemic gathering."

NYU Stern Undergraduate College and DoSomething.org, one of the largest organizations for young people and social change in the US, are combining efforts on the “Give a Spit” Challenge to register 5,000 plus potential donors with the national bone marrow registry. Their goal is to find a bone marrow match for Sheldon Mba, a college student who was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a disease that requires a life-saving bone marrow match.

Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, joined Dean Peter Henry and MBA students for NYU Stern’s Block Lunch.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'The presumption is that if JPMorgan should resign the business, then someone else would do it,' said Roy Smith, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former Goldman Sachs partner. 'These people all say we serve our clients, so if our clients get into trouble, we serve them as long as we can.'”

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "There's a group of salespeople calling on advertisers selling them ads on the Amazon platform and the Kindle platform. They also own IMDB and several other sites, so they're like Yahoo or AOL or Facebook. They're selling ads on their platforms."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The Stern School of Business won, and they were represented by Thomas Li, Ador Michael Cristofi, Kapish Haldia and Joshua Cao. The students are involved in NYU Stern’s Investment Analysis Group, and they manage $25,000 that has been donated by Justin Pollack and other alumni. The group has a portfolio management team of 25 students and a club membership of 250 students."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "BCG's analysis has been eviscerated by Ralph Gomory, an iconoclastic economic analyst whose authority is not diminished by the fact that in a previous life he headed IBM's research and development department. As Gomory points out, BCG based its analysis on a crucially false assumption that East Asian economies work on American free-market principles. His conclusion is chastening: 'A real manufacturing renaissance in America - at least one based on reshoring from China - is not something we can expect.'"

Excerpt from PBS -- "I really don’t think globalization is the heart of the matter, it’s just a manifestation … a way in which corporations which are dedicated to profit only make a profit. It happens to be an unusually destructive way. But as long as that’s their dedication … then … that’s a problem."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo argues that the amendment would create jobs, increase school aid and lower property taxes. And, yes, it would do all those things. But it’s still a bad idea. Other strategies would accomplish the same goals more effectively, without the disastrous spillovers that invariably accompany expanded gambling."

The NYU Stern Office of Career Development hosted the first annual Stern Leadership Case Competition, featuring Mike Indursky, president of Bliss, on Friday, November 1.

Excerpt from Harvard Business Review -- "A few finance scholars, most persistently Thomas Philippon, of New York University, have also been looking into whether there’s a point at which the financial sector is simply too big and too rich—when it stops fueling economic growth and starts weighing on it."

The Stern Healthcare Association will host its annual Healthcare Summit on Friday, November 1.

The 2013 Stern Investment Management and Research Conference, themed "Finding Opportunities in Turbulent Times," will be hosted by student organization SIMR on Friday, November 1st.

Prospective doctoral candidates are invited to attend an Open House to learn more about the Stern PhD Program and meet Stern faculty and current PhD students.

Excerpt from Bill Moyers -- "Jonathan Haidt is a pioneer in the psychology of morality and how that feeds into politics, and it really helps with something like this where you have strong emotional passions that are irreconcilable on the left and the right."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'It's like a waterfall: If you think Facebook's worth $110 billion, then Twitter's worth $50 billion, and Snapchat's worth $4 billion,' says Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'If you change your frame of reference, are they paying because they think it's worth $4 billion, or are they paying because they think they can flip it to someone else to $6 billion? As long as I can sell it to someone else for more in six months, who cares what it's really worth?'"

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "Aswath Damodaran, a Professor of Finance at the New York University, may not be a household name, but he's made some of the most accurate share valuations in the recent past - predicting Apple's peak and Facebook's low, to name a couple. And now, after doing his math on Tesla, Damodaran concluded that Tesla is worth $67.12. When he came up with this figure, Tesla was trading at $170.62, and after working out a comparative index, I believe he may be right."