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An interview with Prof. Nicholas Economides on the potential impact of a Greek exit from the euro

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Excerpt from Fox Business -- "Well, first of all there will be a run on the banks in the transition of Greece to a new drachma - that's problem number one. Problem two is that there is going to be very high inflation as the new drachma gets heavily divided against the euro."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on Facebook's stock price

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "My estimate of value for Facebook is $24. About $3 less than I estimated the value to be four months ago, at the time of the IPO. I did lower my revenue growth estimates… I did bring down my margins but I still think what made the company an attractive company six months ago, it's incredible potential and capacity to monetize that potential, is still there."
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt highlights the prevalence of liberals in social psychology

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "... Jonathan Haidt roiled his colleagues at the 2011 gathering of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Addressing an audience of more than 1,000, the bestselling author of The Righteous Mind asked all those who considered themselves politically conservative to raise their hands. Three hands went up. He then described two other attempts he had recently made to locate conservative social psychologists."
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Prof. Paul Romer's Charter Cities concept is featured in a three-part series

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Excerpt from Fast Company -- "'The opportunity is to create a number of cities,' [Romer] told the audience, 'startups like Shenzhen.' These startups, which he calls charter cities, are new enclaves granted their own laws, immigrants and investors. They’re laboratories for testing competing forms of governance, erected on what in theory are clean urban slates."
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An interview with Prof. Jonathan Haidt on the divide between conservatives and liberals

Excerpt from The Economist -- "The thought that you are going to change someone's mind on a moral issue by giving them logical arguments and reasoning is an error. If somebody doesn't care about the conclusion - if they think that it's faster to get to the airport by subway than by car and you know otherwise - you can give them reasons, you can change their mind. But moral beliefs are very different. They bind us to other people, they bind us into a team, they give us a sense of meaning and purpose in life, and so you can't wedge people -- you can't move them -- just by giving them logical arguments."
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Prof. Richard Sylla on Apple's dominant marketshare

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Expert from PBS NewsHour -- "...General Electric in the '80s was on top, Microsoft in the 1990s, and now it's Apple. And just think about it. Microsoft was a huge company and everybody thought Apple was going to fold because they just couldn't compete with Microsoft. And now, as was pointed out earlier, Apple has two-and-a-half times the market cap of Microsoft. I believe that there are people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates working right now, as we talk, trying to come up with some better product that three or five or 10 years from now will threaten and perhaps even topple Apple from its perch."
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An op-ed by Prof. William Silber on Paul Volcker’s efforts to reduce inflation

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "During the first half of August 1978, the dollar sank to new lows against the German mark, a fresh vote of no confidence in America. On Aug. 15, 1978, Volcker told the FOMC, 'I think it’s important particularly in view of the international situation that we correct the misapprehensions about our lack of concern over inflation.'"
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Prof. Nicholas Economides on the management of the EU debt crisis

Excerpt from Ilsussidiario -- "The EU leaders do not quite understand that they live in a world of financial markets and they are not the absolute monarchs of the past. Their behavior shows they are not in synch with reality."
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Prof. Sundararajan on NBC News about the need to think long-term about Facebook and its leadership

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Excerpt from NBCNews.com -- "Sundararajan explained that the company is still in a state of evolution; it may have become a public company -- exposing itself to the demands of Wall Street and quarterly earnings targets -- too quickly, he said. It’s critical for investors to give Facebook time, he continued. Facebook is potentially a hugely valuable company that 'might need more gestation.'"
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Prof. Anindya Ghose on Google's acquisition of Frommer's

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Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "According to Anindya Ghose, a professor of information, operations and management sciences at New York University’s Stern School of Business, the move 'would make Google a huge player in the online travel business, primarily because of the trustworthy reviews from Frommer’s.'"
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Prof. Richard Sylla on Apple holding the largest stock value of any US company

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'It is one of those iconic companies,' says Richard Sylla, professor of financial history at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'When I think about these companies, their products were used by all kinds of people and their leaders were considered geniuses.'"
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Prof. William Silber's forthcoming book, "Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence," is highlighted

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Silber persuasively argues that the foundation of Volcker’s successful strategy in combating inflation was the insight that good monetary policy was only possible with sound fiscal policy."
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Prof. Anindya Ghose on financial advisors’ use of social media

Excerpt from FundFire (A Financial Times Service) -- "A way that financial advisors can build trust is by focusing their social media efforts on 'allowing people to get to know them,' according to Anindya Ghose..."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on Facebook's falling stock price

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Excerpt from The New York Times Dealbook -- "'As with most other young growth stocks, no one really knows Facebook’s value,' said Aswath Damodaran, a professor of finance at the New York University Stern School of Business. 'That means people can overreact in both directions.'"
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An interview with Prof. Nicholas Economides on opportunities in the Greek economy

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Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "For some time, investors have been waiting to see decisive actions being taken by the government. As soon as such actions are taken, I think a lot of entrepreneurs will see Greece as being the right place to invest."
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Prof. Thomas Cooley's data on the euro zone countries' economies are featured

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "With the exception of Germany, none of Europe’s biggest economies have returned to the level of economic output they had at the beginning of 2008, before the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States spread across the Atlantic, according to calculations by two U.S. economists, Peter Rupert and Thomas F. Cooley."
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An op-ed by Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the future of the euro zone

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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "Whether the eurozone is viable or not remains an open question. But what if a breakup can only be postponed, not avoided? If so, delaying the inevitable would merely make the endgame worse – much worse."
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An op-ed by Prof. Michael Spence on government paralysis in the face of economic challenges

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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The negative effects of these problems are now interacting, feeding back on themselves, and spreading to the rest of the global economy. And yet, despite a palpable sense of concern that something is very wrong, the prognosis for significant change is bleak – and deteriorating. What accounts for the apparent lack of effective policy action across a broad range of countries and regions?"
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Prof. Sinan Aral & Dylan Walker's new method of measuring influence on social networks is featured

Excerpt from The Vancouver Sun -- "Lady Gaga may hold the record for Twitter followers – 28 million and counting – but that doesn’t make her social media’s top tastemaker, according to a groundbreaking study that turns everything we know about Internet contagion on its head."
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An op-ed by NYU Life Trustee & Chairman Emeritus Overseer Henry Kaufman on financial concentration

Excerpt from The Globalist -- "As a result of all these moves (before the crisis, during the crisis and afterwards), a very high proportion of U.S. financial assets are now held by a mere handful of conglomerates. And they are the ones deemed "too big to fail." Smaller firms operate ever more on the margins and hold only a declining share of financial assets."
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Prof. Vicki Morwitz on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's regulations

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "While open to a certain level of interpretation, the guidance on 'unfair' and 'deceptive' practices should be clear enough for the insititutions."
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Prof. Hal Hershfield on the Ad Council’s campaign to promote dental health among children

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Hal E. Hershfield, an assistant professor of marketing at the Stern School of Business at New York University, said the campaign would be more effective if it offered more than 14 videos..."
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An op-ed by Prof. Roy Smith on Barclays' strategic dilemma

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Excerpt from Financial News -- "The board’s new leadership team will, most importantly, have to decide the future course of the bank – to stick with Diamond’s strategy, or pull back to a less risky, less prominent role."
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Prof. Anindya Ghose on changes consumers face in a digital era

Excerpt from SmartMoney -- "The good news, says Anindya Ghose, co-director of the Center for Digital Economy Research at the NYU Stern School of Business, is that savvy citizens are already using the digital era's overwhelming supply of data to their benefit -- finding better deals, unearthing smarter investments and holding companies accountable."
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An interview with Prof. Nouriel Roubini on threats to the global economy

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "The underlying economic forces are partially independent of policy choices. I don’t think that if [John] McCain had been elected, the economy would be any better than it is today."