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NYU Stern's Alumni department will host the next installment of the "Author Lecture Series" featuring Roger Martin, former dean of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, and Malcolm Gladwell, author, journalist and speaker. 

On Tuesday, Sept. 19, the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and the NYU Stern MBA Energy and Infrastructure Club will co-host a panel discussion entitled, “Powering the Future: Energy Transformation in the US”.

On Tuesday, Sept. 19, NYU Stern’s Leadership Development will welcome Tony Alvarez, Co-Founder and CEO of Alvarez & Marsal, for a talk entitled “Managing Chaos.”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "When teaching Microeconomics to 300 Stern undergraduates, Bowmaker is known to takes the time to learn every single student’s name so that he can get everyone’s contributions during class. When researching economics, he’s not merely fascinated by the application of it, he’s equally passionate about the working lives of other professionals in the field. This is evidenced by two of his published books, The Heart of Teaching Economics: Lessons from Leading Minds and The Art and Practice of Economics Research: Lessons from Leading Minds, which feature one-to-one interviews with some of the top economists in Europe and in the United States."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Hundreds of companies throughout history have filed for bankruptcy twice, according to New York University finance professor Edward Altman, who tracks repeat filers and helped coin the phrase 'Chapter 22' in 1993."

Excerpt from WalletHub -- "If someone is agnostic about where to travel -- say she simply wants to visit Italy, broadly defined -- I think a good piece of advice is to travel to "second" cities that are less crowded and more reasonably priced. For example, rather than visiting Rome or Florence, go to Parma or Bologna. If someone must see Rome or Florence, and has a tight budget, I would plan on traveling off-season, right before or after the core tourist season, and look for travel, lodging, and entertainment coupons and deals."

Excerpt from Fit Small Business -- "Cryptocurrency is treated as property for tax purposes. If you don’t convert it immediately to cash, you may have a capital gain or loss in the future when you eventually sell the currency. There is also the need to convert crypto into real currency for accounting and financial reporting purposes. For example, to report revenue, the crypto is required to be in your base currency, which is different from a company that has revenue in both dollars and euros but simply reports everything in dollars."

On September 18, 2017, the NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted the inaugural David K. Backus Memorial Lecture featuring Professor and Nobel Laureate Thomas J. Sargent for a discussion entitled, “Risk Aversion or Mistaken Beliefs?”

Excerpt from The Daily Beast -- "David Yermack, the chair of New York University’s finance department who teaches courses on cryptocurrency, said buyers of any cryptocurrency should read the fine print to understand what they’re purchasing. 'You have to encourage people to do their homework on what they’re buying,' Yermack told The Daily Beast. 'You see people thinking they’re going to make a profit and flip this to someone more gullible next week. It’s what we in finance call the greater fool theory.'"

Excerpt from Xinhua -- "'We're awaiting the Trump administration's tax policy proposals, if what we hear is correct, we anticipate that they will propose to reduce the corporate tax down to about 20 or 25 percent,' Robert Salomon, associate professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University, told Xinhua in a recent interview. 'They will also attempt to reduce the individual income tax rates down to about the highest rate of 35 percent more or less,' he said."

Excerpt from Xinhua -- "'There are probably a number of big reasons for this,' [Eggers] explained. Pop-up stores have been attractive because of lower cost of renting real estate, lack of demand for other types of stores, and entrepreneurs who want to try out their concept and get a chance to see how the public reacts to it in different ways."

Excerpt from NBC News -- "'Modern economies depend on the provision of credit and the ability to quickly obtain household credit risk,' key efficiencies that the agencies provide. 'When there are public goods involved, the public sector should be involved to make sure there are protections for this data,' [Schoenholtz] said."

Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "...NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran suggests that unless Bitcoin becomes widely used to conduct transactions, it's just 'a lucrative, but dangerous, pricing game with no good ending.'"

Excerpt from the Associated Press -- "In a 2014 paper, two economists — Alexander Ljungqvist of New York University and Michael Smolyansky of the Federal Reserve — concluded that state corporate tax cuts did little to strengthen economic activity unless the cuts were made during a recession."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "Nordstrom Local, the latest of the upscale retailer’s initiatives as it experiments with new delivery formats, promises an in-store bar with wine, beer, coffee, and juices; eight fitting rooms; alterations; convenient merchandise pick-ups and returns; manicures; and expert image consulting advice from its knowledgeable personal stylists. Instead of a point of sale, the Local aspires to become a physical manifestation of the Nordstrom brand, creating indulgent customer experiences that can be completed with purchases through any of the retailer's other channels."

Excerpt from Engadget -- "'There are some parallels with Japan's protectionism of its auto industry, which runs very deep in its political and economic system,' said Anindya Ghose, a China business expert at NYU's Stern School of Business. ... 'The fact that Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube are all blocked in China has no doubt benefited the tech titans of China, such as Baidu, Weibo and Tencent,' said Ghose."

Excerpt from CityLab -- "Public charging stations in the U.S., by comparison, clock in at just 16,000. Still, 'I don’t think there are more than a couple dozen publicly available charging stations in any city,' Sabrina Howell, a New York University finance expert who focuses on China, tells CityLab in an email."

Excerpt from Sourcing Journal -- "In an interview with Sourcing Journal, Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, the research director and author of the new brief, said, 'There’s mounting evidence now that this universe of factories in Bangladesh is currently larger than any stakeholder is willing to acknowledge. If you now assume a universe of factories that’s larger than 8,000, that just shows that a lot of workers are still unprotected and fall outside of the scope of these programs.'"

Excerpt from Find MBA -- "In the EMBA program, classes will meet one weekend a month, which means that students from the surrounding area would be able to travel in for classes. The program takes just under two years to complete. Two specialty tracks will be available as part of the EMBA: Finance & Analytics and Strategy & Leadership. The program will also include a Global Study Tour, which is a week-long residency in a country outside of the US."

Excerpt from Talent Economy -- "'... very often, they might be too narrowly focused in their capabilities,' said Ari Ginsberg, professor of entrepreneurship and management at the NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'For the company to meet its high-growth potential, that requires a different kind of talent.'"

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- “The Internet under net neutrality has been an engine of growth for the tech sector and more broadly for the US economy. Killing it will have a devastating effect on entrepreneurs and new small businesses."

Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "I think a big part of the competition for the next digital device is going to be those connections they make to physical, real-world retail, getting the stuff that you want. And while Apple is a leader in digital commerce -- they've got the music, they've got iTunes -- they're still lagging behind in preparing for a reality where these mobile devices, they're not just the thing you show off to your friend or the thing you use to manage your digital life, they are the things that we use to interact with the physical world."

On September 13, NYU Stern's W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs welcomed hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs to learn more about the $300K Entrepreneurs Challenge, one of the largest venture competitions and accelerator programs in the world.

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business will host a panel discussion entitled "Environmental, Social, and Governance Factors in Portfolio Management" on September 13, 2017.

Excerpt from CNBC -- "...their ability to do what American Express did with the black card and cement its position as the premier product with the iPhone X, I think it's just going to be interesting to see how cool and sexy and aspirational it is as they move towards quadruple digits for a phone and trying to cement their position as the luxury brand in tech."