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Stern's Ross Roundtable, "Recent Trends in Non-GAAP Reporting," is featured

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "It was apparent from the panel discussion on 'Recent trends in non-GAAP reporting' last week, which was hosted by New York University’s Stern School of Business and included MarketWatch’s Transparency Reporter Francine McKenna and SEC Associate Director Kyle Moffatt, that regulators are starting to turn the screws."
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Professor Richard Sylla shares lessons from past elections and their impact on financial markets

Excerpt from WealthTrack -- "[Theodore Roosevelt] was very independent and a lot of the republican leadership didn't trust him. The republicans were the business party. Teddy Roosevelt was a trust buster and so he kind of alienated some of his own party by pursuing large corporations and breaking them up. They thought a good republican president should be pro-business... so he was somebody who bucked the center of his party."
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Professor Anindya Ghose discusses the future of mobile marketing, from his book, "Tap: Unlocking the Mobile Economy"

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Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "Mobile marketing is a powerful approach. Other forms of advertising... can't really come close to matching. But the reality is, in the digital world, a lot of folks find advertising on mobile devices annoying or intrusive and they strongly dislike these ads that ruin their browsing or consumption experience. But the reason this happens is twofold. One is: brands don't have enough information about consumer preferences, so they're showing them a bunch of ads, like throwing darts in the air, hoping one will stick. But in return, what happens is people get overwhelmed and annoyed by those offers and they tune out. So the solution here is figuring out an optimal balance where the number of offers should be less frequent than what it is right now and should be more relevant and targeted. And that's where I ... talk about this two-way communication between consumers and brands. If consumers are able to share more information about themselves, then brands are going to be able to use mobile as a concierge and as a butler, but not as a stalker."
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Global Research Professor Ian Bremmer underscores the role of social media in the presidential election

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'Through this new technology, people are now empowered to express their grievances and to follow people they see as echoing their grievances,' Mr. Bremmer said. 'If it wasn’t for social media, I don’t see Trump winning.'"
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Professor Kim Schoenholtz's joint op-ed on reforming mutual funds is referenced

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Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "What this means is that, so long as liquidity in the underlying assets backing the ETF is sufficient, the APs will execute an arbitrage that keeps the market price of the ETF close to the net-asset value of the underlying portfolio. But, during periods of market stress, should it become difficult to trade underlying assets, investors wanting to sell their shares may have to settle for prices below the NAV. That is, those who want to sell may have to do it at a discount. Put another way, when markets are liquid, ETFs operate like open-end mutual funds; but should markets become illiquid, ETFs then operate like closed-end funds. As a consequence, ETFs face no run risk."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on Uber's growth strategy

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Excerpt from Inc. -- "Sundararajan adds that Uber should also be concerned about investors pressuring the company to go after profit prematurely, say, by filing for an initial public offering. It's still in the company's best interest to remain private for a while longer, he says. That way, the NYU professor insists, it can make a greater leap into autonomous vehicular transportation. 'Investors have to realize that [Uber is] really going after a bigger pie here. They have to lose money to gain market share,' he says."
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Professor Kim Schoenholtz's co-authored blog post on mutual funds and systemic risk is featured

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Excerpt from VoxEU -- "...we propose studying the implications of converting a rapidly growing class of open-end mutual funds into ETFs. If the SEC is to undertake a ‘root-and-branch review’ of the ETF industry (Financial Times 2016), it ought to consider it in the context of the mutual fund industry as a whole, allowing for the serious possibility that – relative to mutual funds holding illiquid assets – ETFs could reduce systemic risk."
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Professor Pankaj Ghemawat is interviewed about his work on the DHL Global Connectedness Index with Senior Research Scholar Steven Altman

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Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "Ghemawat is dubious of this digital-takeover angle. 'If you looked back to the 1930s, information flows probably kept rising then, too,' he told me when I visited his NYU office last month. His overall take was that on the whole, while things had slowed down since the 1990s and early 2000s, global integration was still fitfully increasing. 'We're neither inevitably headed for a great reversal or a renaissance,' he said."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan explains why he believes Airbnb rentals do not have an impact the longer-term rental market

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Excerpt from SFGate -- "'The story that is being told is that people take units off the long-term rental market to rent them on Airbnb,' Sundararajan said. 'It’s a story that resonates with a lot of people. But if you look at the data ... it is very clear that if there is any effect that Airbnb is having on the availability of long-term rentals, it is very small compared to the effects of rent stabilization and population growth.'"
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In an in-depth Q&A, Professor Jonathan Haidt shares his views on bridging divides after the presidential election

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Excerpt from Vox -- "So what do we do now about our multiethnic democracy? Do we try to assimilate and emphasize our similarities, or do we celebrate differences and endorse multiculturalism? This is exactly what we need to debate and discuss as a country, and my vote is firmly for emphasizing assimilation, similarity, and unity — this, I think, is the best way to have a multiethnic democracy."
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Professor Jeanne Calderon and Scholar-in-Residence Gary Friedland's joint research on EB-5's impact on foreign investment is featured

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "The program was intended to reward people for putting money into the United States. Projects that raised more than $1 billion were practically nonexistent in the program before 2010, Prof. Jeanne Calderon of New York University’s Stern School of Business wrote in a March report on the program. But when banks turned off the credit spigot around the 2008 financial crisis, developers started getting more creative in finding alternative financing."
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Increase in SEC Actions against Public Company–Related Defendants Outpaces Growth in Overall Enforcement Actions

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) actions against public companies or their subsidiaries (public company–related defendants) outpaced the overall growth in enforcements over the last four fiscal years. SEC actions targeting these defendants in FY 2016 increased 130 percent from FY 2013, compared to a 61 percent increase in all independent or stand-alone enforcement actions.
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Lorenzo Fertitta (MBA '93) and Frank J. Fertitta III endowment gift to establish Stern's Fertitta Veterans Program is featured

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Excerpt from The Chronicle of Philanthropy -- "Brothers Lorenzo Fertitta and Frank Fertitta III donated $15 million to endow a new program for active-duty U.S. military members and veterans entering the business school’s MBA program next year. Lorenzo Fertitta earned an MBA from the Stern School in 1993 and runs Zuffa, a sports-promotion firm that specializes in mixed martial arts. Frank Fertitta is chief executive of Station Casinos. The brothers own both companies."
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Professor Scott Galloway explains why pure-play web retailing is not sustainable

Excerpt from MIT Technology Review -- "'Pure-play Web retailing is not sustainable,' New York University marketing professor Scott Galloway told me. He points out that the deep discounting and high delivery costs that characterize Web sales have made it hard for Amazon to turn a profit. If Amazon were to remain an online-only merchant, he says, its future success would be in jeopardy. He believes the company will end up opening 'hundreds and then thousands of stores.'"
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Professor Lawrence White provides insight into Donald Trump's plan to renegotiate international trade deals

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Excerpt from amNewYork -- "'He thinks it's a one-way street that "oh we'll just cut back on what we'll buy and that won't affect what we sell," but sorry the world doesn't work that way,' White said. 'For one thing there will be retaliation. Even in the absence of retaliation, if we buy less from abroad there are going to be adjustments in the exchange rate, which will then make it harder for us to sell abroad.' While White said it won't devastate the city's 'very robust economy,' it also won't be very beneficial."
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Dean Peter Henry is this week's guest curator of news stories for "The Big Idea" on the CNN MoneyStream app

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Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "Henry has raised more money than any dean in the school's history, and focuses on creating greater access to higher education."
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Jonathan Haidt shares his perspective on viewpoint diversity

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Excerpt from Dartmouth Review -- "As the academy began to lean more and more to the left, and as the culture got more and more intense I began to notice some weak reasoning among social scientists. I started getting concerned that the lack of viewpoint diversity was harming our science, our research and our scholarship. I first began talking about that in 2011 and since then its gotten worse and worse and I’ve gotten more and more passionate about it. So that’s the story about how I’ve become active in the movement for viewpoint diversity."
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Professor Robert Whitelaw's research on China's stock market is referenced

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Similar work has also begun to appear in academic journals, including a recent paper by Professor Robert Whitelaw from the New York University’s Stern School of Business: 'The real value of China’s stock market.'"
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Professor David Yermack discusses Stern's strength in FinTech

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Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "The wider fintech curriculum — which includes peer-to-peer lending, financial data analytics and entrepreneurship — will have to be taught at every business school, argues Professor David Yermack, chair of NYU Stern's finance department, because employers will demand it."
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Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh's joint research on income and housing prices is referenced

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Excerpt from The Economist -- "A paper published in 2010 by Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, of New York University, and Pierre-Olivier Weill, of the University of California, Los Angeles, found that the association between incomes and house prices had strengthened. Between 1975 and 2007 house prices became ten times more sensitive to wages. As productivity and wage gaps across metro areas widened, house prices also diverged. This trend has continued."
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Professor Paul Wachtel discusses the implications of Donald Trump's presidency for global financial markets

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Excerpt from Xinhua -- "It is conceivable that the Trump administration could throw the global economy into recession. Not necessarily. I'm not even predicting it myself. But it is a possibility."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan is interviewed about the potential impact of the Trump administration's tax and health insurance policies on the sharing economy

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Excerpt from WIRED -- "Sundararajan, whose work focuses on the on-demand economy, expects to see tax policies friendly to small businesses, including people who set themselves up as 'businesses of one.' On the other hand, Trump’s pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be hugely damaging to gig economy workers. As independent contractors, they don’t get paid time off, workers’ compensation, or health insurance through the companies they gig for, such as Uber. If the ACA is dismantled, they may need to seek full-time jobs that offer health benefits, which could hurt the companies that rely on their labor."
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Professor David Yermack is interviewed about Melania Trump's future influence on the fashion industry as First Lady

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Excerpt from The Hollywood Reporter -- "'It seems obvious that as a former fashion model, Mrs. Trump may have a large impact on the apparel industry,' said David Yermack, professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business, who studied Michelle Obama’s impact on the fashion industry and found that for 189 public appearances the first lady made between November 2008 and December 2009, she generated about $2.7 billion in value for the brands she wore, including U.S. labels J. Crew and Liz Claiborne, and European labels, too."
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New Venture competition winner Marc Albanese (MBA '08) is interviewed

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Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "NYU Stern was a great launch-pad. We partook in and won a business plan competition which gave us a crash-course in starting up the company. And there’s a startup incubator at the school, where we were super-focused on figuring out our first target market."
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Aswath Damodaran discusses the potential impact of Donald Trump's presidency on the financial markets

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "I think the one box where the Trump effect could be significant is what he said about trade. Because to the extent that he stands behind his words, and that's always with a caveat that all politicians say things when they are getting elected that they might not carry through, he's signaled the intent to not just not sign new trade contracts and trade agreements but also revisit old ones. And this is like game theory, which is if you go back and decide that you're not going to do something in the trade arena, there are going to be people 'oh you put up tariffs against certain countries, there are going to be others,' you could potentially set off a trade war. And that is not good news for anybody involved."

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