Research Center Events

Leading Experts Convene for 2011 Workshop on Information in Networks

Researchers studying information in networks gathered at NYU Stern for the third annual Workshop on Information Networks (WIN) Summit, organized by Sinan Aral, assistant professor of information, operations and management sciences; Arun Sundararjan, associate professor of information, operations and management sciences; and Foster Provost, professor of information, operations and management sciences.
School News

Undergraduate student Stan Rosenberg is featured for his non-profit for needy high schoolers

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "I believe that every student, no matter how rich or poor they are, should have the ability to travel and get a new perspective of the world."
School News

Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao's talk at NYU Stern is highlighted

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "A rate of '4 to 6 percent is the short-term comfort range' for inflation, Subbarao said yesterday in remarks at New York University’s Stern School of Business."  Additional coverage appeared on Bloomberg, Reuters, Livemint, The Telegraph, Economic Times, India Infoline, Domain-B, Indian Government News, two India Banking News pieces, Finet International, Asia Pulse, Financial Express, MyDigitalFC.com and IndianExpress.com.
Press Releases

Third Annual WIN Conference at NYU Stern

Third Annual WIN Conference at NYU Stern Explores Value of Networking Technologies and Data for Medicine, the Military, Marketing and More on September 30-October 1, 2011
Faculty News

Prof. Jeff Bronikowski is the new head of corporate development & strategy for Echo Nest

Excerpt from All Things Digital -- "AOL Music’s most recent boss has left the company after a year. Jeff Bronikowski is now heading up corporate development and strategy for Echo Nest, a Boston-based startup that provides data for streaming music companies."  Additional coverage appeared on CMU Unlimited.
Faculty News

Prof. Jeffrey Carr on the demand for entrepreneurship expertise in foreign countries

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Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "Jeffrey Carr, executive director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at NYU's Stern School of Business, is teaching in Colombia in September and in India in January, and says he has had 'a lot of requests from Chinese universities about setting up entrepreneurship programs there.'"
Faculty News

Prof. Edward Altman on junk bonds

Excerpt from FXStreet.com -- "Another result of the zero interest rate world was the earlier investor rush to junk securities in their zeal for higher yields. That drove the spread between junk bonds and Treasurys from its 20 percentage point peak in December 2008 almost back to the previous low in June 2007, according to our friend, Prof. Ed Altman of NYU."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini is featured for speaking at Bloomberg Dealmakers Summit

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Nouriel Roubini, co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics LLC, speaks at the Bloomberg Dealmakers Summit in New York, on Sept. 27, 2011."  Additional coverage appeared in two Bloomberg pieces and TheStreet.com.
Faculty News

Prof. Nouriel Roubini predicts recession for advanced economies

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Excerpt from New York Post -- “The way I see the global economy, I think we’re entering into a recession again in most advanced economies.”  Additional coverage appeared in three Bloomberg pieces, four Bloomberg Businessweek pieces, an Economist blog, The Huffington Post and Forbes.com.
Business and Policy Leader Events

Bliss President & Alumnus Mike Indursky Shares Lessons Learned with MBA Students

NYU Stern alumnus Mike Indursky (MBA ’90), president of Bliss World Holdings Inc., recently sat down with a group of MBA students through the School’s Leadership Luncheon Series. Indursky shared what he called, “Lessons Learned through a Career of Self-Discovery and Self-Actualization.”
Faculty News

Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on the global economic recovery

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Excerpt from Xinhua -- "We have a fragile recovery in America and difficulty in Japan, but Europe has the danger of really having a major crisis either in the banking system or in general."
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Prof. Lawrence White on the SEC's investigation of S&P

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "White noted that the SEC's investigation of S&P follows steps by Congress in the Dodd-Frank Act to make the agencies more responsible for their judgments."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence's research on US job creation is referenced

Excerpt from The Japan Times -- "Nobel laureate Michael Spence in his recent seminal work has shown that the United States has not created jobs in the tradable sectors of the economy — basically manufacturing — for 20 years and that job creation has come in the less productive sectors."  Additional coverage appeared in Bahamas Tribune.
Faculty News

Prof. Daniel Altman on China's economic growth

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Excerpt from BigThink -- "Chinese incomes are a lot lower than American incomes right now. Even if they were to rise to the level of Korean incomes right now it would still be a pretty close match between the US and China for which was the biggest economy in the world."
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Prof. Gregory Furman will participate in a panel discussion at DC's "All Access" fashion event

Excerpt from Revamp.com -- "A three-day affair designed to allow shoppers to engage with the best of the Fall/Winter 2011/2012 season collections at various stores inside the posh Northern Virginia mall, this year’s festivities began with an engaging panel on Thursday evening featuring Washington Post Fashion Washington Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Barger, Ogilvy Senior Veep Rohit Bhargava, The Luxury Marketing Council founder Gregory Furma ... "
Faculty News

In an op-ed, Prof. Amity Shlaes compares Warren Buffett to Andrew Mellon

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "But a close read of both Buffett and Mellon makes clear that the two men differ in a subtle but key way: Buffett puts fairness of the tax code first. From fairness, he believes, follow other benefits. Mellon puts access to capital for business as the top priority. Call it the Mellon Rule."  Additional coverage appeared on Cincinnati.com and Minyanville.
Faculty News

An interview with Prof. Richard Sylla on the outlook for stocks

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Excerpt from CBS St. Louis -- "Charlie talks with NYU Economics Professor Richard Sylla about the long-term outlook for stocks."
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An op-ed by Prof. Robert Gordon on re-characterizing Roth IRA conversions

Excerpt from InvestmentNews -- "To my mind, if a client's Roth assets have declined, it probably makes sense to re-characterize and re-Roth. The bigger decision is whether to re-Roth this year or wait until early next year."
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Valuation data from Prof. Aswath Damodaran is cited

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "I found historical average EV/EBITDA multiples for firms in this industry (from Aswath Damodaran’s website here. Note, MHK is found in the Furnishings industry, which has a long-term EV/EBITDA multiple of 6.6x, and a range of 3.32x in 2008 to 8.17x in 2010) and used these multiples to derive an estimated enterprise value for the firm using its normalized EBITDA in each scenario."
Faculty News

Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence and Prof. Nouriel Roubini are featured for their outlooks

Excerpt from Investeens.com -- "In fact, [Spence's] optimism relies on the fact that Europe pulls through but its "a close call" to make at this point. Roubini is affirmatively stating that a recession will occur, but he's just not sure how severe it will be."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on restoring confidence in financial markets

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Excerpt from Xinhua -- "There is a general sense of great uncertainty about the willingness of policy makers in both America and Europe to aggressively tackle the issues." Additional coverage appeared on Xinhua.
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Prof. Edward Altman's Z-score for predicting corporate bankruptcies is highlighted

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Devised by the US academic Edward Altman in the 1960s, [the Z-score] seeks out common financial characteristics among firms that have gone bust, and then looks for those characteristics among existing firms."  Additional coverage appeared in Seeking Alpha and TheStreet.com.
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An interview with Prof. Viral Acharya on the Vickers report

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Excerpt from VoxEU.org -- "Viral Acharya talks to Viv Davies about the recent report issued by the UK's Independent Commission on Banking. They discuss capital requirements and the proposal to ringfence bank’s retail versus investment activities."
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Prof. Vicki Morwitz on the shift in consumer spending following the financial crisis

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- “When the crisis hit and people really started to feel a pinch in their pocketbooks, they started to spend less across the board, especially in discretionary kinds of things. ... But it's difficult, I think, for people to do that for a long time, even when they need to.” Additional coverage appeared in Rutland Herald.
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Professor Richard Sylla on the long-term outlook for the stock market and the economy

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Excerpt from FOX Business -- "I think the main thing we need to do in this country is get our economy moving again, growing at normal rates, not 1 or 2 percent, but historically, it's growth at 3-4%. If we get that back, there will be a lot of the problems we're worried about now that will go away..."  Additional coverage appeared on Yahoo! Finance.