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Excerpt from CNBC -- "As content has gone digital, Sundararajan said, content creators and publishers have changed the rules, which used to be guided by copyright law. Now they're determined by the endless contracts consumers never read but must assent to before buying a 99-cent tune. 'These contracts are more restrictive—they're really circumventing copyright law, and consumers don't seem to notice.'"

As part of an annual tradition, NYU Stern faculty and guests gathered to celebrate the School’s community of scholars and to recognize excellence in research and scholarship, innovation, teaching and mentorship, and influence in business and policy.

Excerpt from The Week -- "Social labels aren't born dangerous. There's nothing inherently problematic about labeling a person 'right-handed' or 'black' or 'working class,' but those labels are harmful to the extent that they become associated with meaningful character traits."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Mr. Posner said Disney’s move — apparel represents less than a fifth of the nearly $40 billion in annual sales of its licensed products — might encourage other Western brands to leave Bangladesh. 'Now other companies feel they have a green light.'”

Finalists from the New Venture, Social Venture and Technology Venture Competitions will participate in the 2013 Final Pitch-off for up to $200,000 in seed money and in-kind support as part of the NYU Stern Entrepreneurs Challenge, hosted by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Excerpt from Strategy + Business -- "How do firms that are breaking the rules try to cover up their tracks? According to a recent study, companies that are systematically involved in price fixing employ a variety of accounting and governance practices designed to throw off regulators and avoid liability."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Ulukaya gave a presentation earlier this week to a packed audience at New York University's Stern School of Business, sponsored by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. In it, he outlined the story of the company's rapid growth."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "In the hypercompetitive 21st century, where every Apple is only one algorithm away from becoming a BlackBerry, paying the lowest possible taxes is not the exceptional policy of one particularly greedy chief executive — it is what every executive seeks to do to keep his job. That was what Andrew Kassoy, a former private equity investor, explained at a recent panel discussion at the Stern School of Business at New York University (disclosure alert: I was the moderator)."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Ask the workers in those factories, mostly young women, what they want. They will tell you two things. First, they want to keep their jobs, desperately. Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world, and the rapid expansion of the garment sector in recent years has put food on the table for many, lifting families out of extreme poverty. Second, they want to be treated with dignity, which begins with going to work in a safe and secure environment."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- “'Income is increasingly difficult to nail down,' said Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University. 'It is like nailing jelly to the wall. And the problem is only going to get worse rather than better.'”

Excerpt from Yahoo! Voices -- "The book The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt moves into the psychology of political parties and political persuasion. People naturally accuse the other parties of not thinking clearly and following logic. Each views the other as duped! Yet in his work, he points out that since there are strong logical arguments that follow most parties, these rational choices are based on their intuition."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "New York University business professor David Yermack routinely teaches students how executives and major corporations have managed to skirt the law. By exposing students to questionable legal and ethical behavior, he says, the goal is to help them 'formulate their own response when they encounter similar situations.'”

Excerpt from CNBC -- "The exit from the Fed's QE and zero-interest-rate policies will be treacherous: Exiting too fast will crash the real economy, while exiting too slowly will first create a huge bubble and then crash the financial system. If the exit cannot be navigated successfully, a dovish Fed is more likely to blow bubbles."

Read more about NYU Stern's Undergraduate Baccalaureate ceremony and Stern's Graduate Convocation ceremony.

Excerpt from the Harvard Business Review -- "The future of social influence marketing will depend on robust analytics to increase our understanding of what drives behavioral change. Mistaking any of the myriad confounding factors for influence can lead to costly mistakes—in marketing strategy and in public policy."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "But it’s probably Nouriel Roubini who has provided one of the best and most logical explanations. In his opinion every bit of the gold move can be explained by shifting inflation expectations."

Excerpt from MSNBC -- "You have to build their belief in the value that your solution offers because nobody embraces an idea or a new business just because it's new and innovative. Disruption for disruption's sake is just annoying for everyone involved. They have to believe in the value it offers so that is the last part of it."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "I expected the Fed to maintain the status quo, but I did not expect them to say that they could increase or decrease their purchases of bonds."

Excerpt from The Washington Monthly -- "In his new book Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth, Peter Blair Henry, dean of the Stern School of Business at New York University, wants to persuade you of three big ideas about economic success in countries rich and poor."

Excerpt from Minnesota Public Radio -- "Does money matter? Yes, but it depends on what you mean by 'matter.' You may be more satisfied with your life if you have more money, but this doesn't necessarily mean you'll be happier. Happiness and satisfaction are simply different things."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "At the end of the day, consumers win. Consumers don't want advertising so they found technology to skip through that, they want great content, they want to watch it when they want to watch it. I think Netflix's release of House of Cards was kind of the latest real big innovation."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Finally, during lunch with Scott Galloway, an NYU professor with a thinktank called L2 and a giant sideline in tracking the digital luxury space and consulting, he mentioned he thought the showroom was the way of the future: that e-commerce brands needed a physical outlet – well, window on the brand — going forward."

Excerpt from Investment News -- “'The promise is, over the long haul, you're going to get a better risk-adjusted return stream with alternatives, but that doesn't mean you'll always outperform,' said Robert Whitelaw, finance chairman at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "I think investors have policy overload. They've been through the debt ceiling crisis, the supercommittee, the fiscal cliff, and by comparison, sequestration doesn't seem like it's much of a deal at all. It's happening gradually, which means that the politicians aren't busy doing something except maybe tinkering with the air traffic controllers or some other thing and so I think investors are willing to give this a chance and I don't think they really appreciate what sequestration is going to mean."

Jerry L. Cohen (BS ’53, MBA ’59), NYU Stern Board of Overseer, Partner of Tishman Speyer Properties, and the Center for Real Estate Finance Research invite you to a full-day exploration of four current hot topics in real estate finance.