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Excerpt from Fast Company -- "Wiesenfeld, who studies how people adapt to challenges in organizational life, explains that recognizing your true overarching goal gives your actions meaning, and 'people who are thinking in terms of meaning are more cognitively flexible and adapt better.'"

Excerpt from Kathimerini -- (Translated from Greek using Google Translate) "Forty-five Greek scientists born from 1974 onwards have published papers with an influence on the top 0.1% of world science. Can we learn something if we look at where they are, where they are trained, what they are doing? Thirty-seven were born and/or grew up in Greece. Six have become members of the faculty here.... Out of the 40 who are abroad, 19 are in the US, seven in Great Britain. Most executives are top universities or research institutes."

Excerpt from Sustainable Brands -- "As Engle pointed out, 'People living by the sea are worried about sea level rise, but the rest of us aren’t; people in California worried about wildfires, but the rest of us aren’t. What does it take to get everyone on the same page?'"

Excerpt from Forbes -- "'On Uber and Lyft, it is widely known that anything less than 5 stars is considered "bad" feedback,' declared an academic paper released earlier this year by New York University's Stern School of Business. '…Nearly 90% of UberX Chicago trips in early 2017 had a perfect 5-star rating.'"

On September 29, the NYU Stern PhD program welcomed back alumni to campus to celebrate its history, scholarship and future.

Excerpt from Recode -- "'Snap needs something,' he said. 'I believe this company is going out of business ... Snap will not be an independent company by the end of 2019.'"

Excerpt from Fox Business -- "'I do expect a sharp economic slowdown and the likelihood of a recession by 2020,' said Roubini during an interview with FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo. Because of an impending decrease in fiscal stimulus, this financial drag will get 'bigger and bigger' by 2025, he warned."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Says Pugel: 'If U.S. buyers are desperate to get a Chinese product, the price in the U.S. is going to go up.'"

Excerpt from Quartz India -- "'(It) has to go up against Jin Jiang, the world’s fifth largest hospitality company,' said Anindya Ghose, the Heinz Riehl professor of business at New York University’s Stern school of business. 'There is also Airbnb and their big rival, Tujia.'"

Excerpt from SAPO Cabo Verde -- "For [Cabral], it is important that governments, businesses and the general population are prepared for the ongoing digital revolution, which, he said, will have a 'far greater' impact than computers and the Internet, but also in artificial intelligence. 'It is fundamental to invest in the infrastructure...' he added, adding the importance of investing in education so that people are prepared for the new phenomena and technologies."

The NYU Stern Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences will host a seminar by Professor John (Iannis) Mourmouras, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece, on September 28, 2018

Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "I call it the smart, semi-bold person’s guide for diversity and inclusion. It’s an approach to thinking about diversity and inclusion that really begins with thinking about yourself and the ways in which you may inadvertently be holding some unconscious biases or benefiting from systemic bias."

Excerpt from ThinkAdvisor -- "'The Bitcoin Boom: Asset, Currency, Commodity or Collectible?' by Aswath Damodaran, finance professor, NYU Stern School of Business: 'Bitcoin is not an asset class. You don’t invest in Bitcoin; you trade it. Bitcoin is a young currency.'"

Excerpt from ThinkAdvisor -- "'The Bitcoin Boom: Asset, Currency, Commodity or Collectible' by Aswath Damodaran, finance professor, NYU Stern School of Business: 'Bitcoin is not an asset class. You don’t invest in Bitcoin; you trade it. Bitcoin is a young currency.'"

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Three basic misconceptions underpin this hypochondriacal outlook, Mr Haidt and Mr Lukianoff write. First, that a person’s feelings, such as over whether a remark is racist, are always right. Second, that humankind can be split into good and bad people, whereas, as Solzhenitsyn put it, 'the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being'. Finally, that risk is best avoided, or 'What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker'."

Excerpt from Yahoo -- (Translated from Italian using Google Translate) "Professor Lev, before receiving the Ethics Award from the hands of Massimo Pomilio, managing director of Pomilio Blumm, said: 'Intangible assets are not just patents and licenses, but also innovations in the organizational model, like WalMart, which sends updates on the supply of a given asset directly to the supplier.'"

NYU Stern, UNA-USA and Business Council for the UN convened a solutions-focused lunch focusing on the implementation of SDG 17, “Partnerships for the Goals” on Thursday, September 27, 2018.

This program provides the foundation for managers to think strategically about creating and capturing value within their organization.

This program provides the foundation for managers to think strategically about creating and capturing value within their organization. 

Excerpt from The Christian Science Monitor -- "'In cities like New York and Boston, given the high cost of residential housing, there is little or no evidence that you can actually take a unit off the longer term market, run it as an Airbnb, and make money,' says Arun Sundararajan, a professor of business at New York University and author of 'The Sharing Economy,' a book that explores how on-demand platforms will change society."
 

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "It was the 'worst business decision of 2018,' said Scott Galloway, a founder of the business research firm Gartner L2 and a professor of marketing at New York University Stern School of Business. 'It feels like the tide has turned substantially,' Mr. Galloway said. 'They’ve sort of poked the bear.'"

Excerpt from Quartz -- "We assume that the way money works now—fiat currency controlled by central banks—is a law of nature. It isn’t. It is a particular set of man-made, transient institutional arrangements. The former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King says in his recent book The End of Alchemy that central banks’ 'extinction cannot be ruled out altogether.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- (:10) "China is struggling with the American tariffs, they're trying to find a way through this. The United States, I think by general agreement, has the capacity to hurt them in the short run..."

On September 25, the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and SustainAbility co-hosted a panel discussion entitled, "Innovating Investments for Climate Resilience."

On September 25, NYU Stern's "In Conversation with Lord Mervyn King" series hosted Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, op-ed columnist at The New York Times and distinguished professor of economics at The Graduate Center, CUNY.