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Professor Thomas Philippon's research on the financial services industry is referenced

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "Philippon argues that if savers are to benefit from the next wave of innovation, such as blockchain banking, it will be because regulation stops existing banks from co-opting it and keeping all of the benefits of efficiencies to themselves."
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Summer@Stern, a pre-college program for high school students, is featured; Rohit Deo, Vice Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Strategic Planning is quoted

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "'After taking Summer@Stern, students have a better idea of what it would be like to study business in college and whether it is something they want to pursue,' [Deo] says. 'Whether they choose to pursue business studies or not, they gain valuable knowledge of the fundamentals of business and personal finance, which can be applied to so many different disciplines, as well as daily life.'"
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Five ventures co-founded by Stern MBAs are named to the Poets & Quants "Top MBA Startups of 2017" list

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Except from Poets & Quants -- "Linio — founded by a team of MBAs from New York University’s Stern School of Business, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and HBS — claimed second with $230.5 million, up from seventh last year."
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Professor Scott Galloway shares his views on the New York City retail landscape

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Excerpt from Crain's New York -- “Luxury brands will hold their own—you still can’t buy Hermès on Amazon. There will be some artisanal guys that will manage to hang on because they’re so exceptional. You’ll see Starbucks, Chipotle, more Warby Parker stores. And everyone else will get crushed.”
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Professor Lawrence White identifies several industries set for growth under the Trump administration

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Excerpt from OZY -- "'We’re going to see more development of natural energy resources,' says White. He is less bullish on the prospects for the coal industry that Trump has promised to revive, citing market pressures that already make coal a less attractive alternative to fracked oil and gas, regardless of regulation."
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Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on self-assessment is featured

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Excerpt from Psychology Today -- "Dunning and Kruger documented this effect in a number of quantitative contexts. Its first publication, in 1999, bore the memorable title, 'Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.' The authors observed that you need skill and knowledge to judge how skilled and knowledgeable you are. A tone-deaf singer may be unable to distinguish her talent from that of the greatest stars. Why then shouldn't she believe she's their equal?"
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In an op-ed, Research Scholar Robert Frank outlines how state governments are responding to shifts in federal policy

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Consider that blue states send much more money to Washington than they receive, while the reverse is true for red states, which tend to favor Republicans. Blue states also enjoy significantly higher per capita income than red states and are home to a disproportionate share of the nation’s highest earners. The upshot is that if the Trump administration cuts taxes on top earners as expected, the federal tax burden on blue states will fall especially sharply. Those states will thus have new fiscal flexibility, should they choose to offset other aspects of the Trump agenda."
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NYU Global Research Professor Ian Bremmer comments on uncertainty in China at the World Economic Forum in Davos

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Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "Ian Bremmer, president of risk consultancy Eurasia Group, said the uncertain geopolitical environment, coupled with the potential for conflict with the U.S. and domestic political concerns, will leave Beijing in a worried state. 'These are things that really unnerve the Chinese,' Bremmer said."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan shares his views on how the Trump administration's policies will impact the sharing economy

Excerpt from CNET -- "'The upside is an administration that is more friendly to bringing down regulatory barriers,' said Arun Sundararajan, New York University professor and author of 'The Sharing Economy.' 'The potential downside is an administration that may start to put in place policies that slow the pace of job displacement through automation, which could thwart Uber's, and eventually Lyft's, long-term plans,' he said."
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Professor Vasant Dhar is interviewed about the future of artificial intelligence in the military

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Vasant Dhar, a professor of information systems at NYU, studies computer decision making. He says it'll be up to the 'seasoned decision makers' in the military to decide whether or not new machine technology... is worth the cost of its mistakes."
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Professor Priya Raghubir illustrates how both airlines and consumers benefit from mileage programs

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Excerpt from WalletHub -- "Consumers benefit from rewards programs in multiple ways - to start with, they have the intrinsic benefit of 'miles' that they can exchange for tickets, hotel rooms, and increasingly products (including gift cards). Thus, this is another form of currency that they accrue. Additionally, they benefit by climbing up the rewards program hierarchy."
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Professor Vasant Dhar is interviewed about fintech startup OpenInvest

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Excerpt from OZY -- "The jury is still out regarding the long-term performance of social investing, notes Vasant Dhar, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. It remains to be seen whether OpenInvest’s pitch will convince retail clients to invest with their hearts. Murray cites Morgan Stanley research that shows 84 percent of millennials would like to invest according to sustainable principles, and indeed young people also are more willing to trust machines with their finances, says Dhar."
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Professor Viral Acharya's appointment to the Reserve Bank of India is highlighted; Dean Peter Henry is quoted

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'India is at an exciting but challenging time,' Acharya said in a statement last week released on the NYU Stern’s website. 'As one of the world’s fastest growing economies, India has the massive potential to become an economic powerhouse.'"
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Professor Priya Raghubir explains why some retailers may try to use the presidential inauguration as a sales opportunity

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "Regardless of the tense political climate, presidential inaugurations aren’t typically seen as a shopping opportunity, said Priya Raghubir, the chairwoman of New York University’s Stern Business School’s marketing department. That said, since retailers are experiencing a post-holiday slump, some will likely try to capitalize and sell inauguration memorabilia, she added."
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Professor Steven Blader's joint research on power and inclusiveness is featured

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Excerpt from Scientific American -- "Professor Steven Blader at New York University with Ya-Ru Chen found similar effects for greater power contributing to less inclusiveness towards others in the form of reduced fairness in their paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. But they found that the way that individuals reduce the dark side of power was highly dependent on their dispositions; namely, the degree to which they were other-oriented."
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Professor Xi Chen is interviewed about how machine learning will impact finance

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Excerpt from eFinancialCareers -- "Machine learning technology will make many jobs obsolete – some will be replaced by machines in the future. Examples include driverless cars, automated trading systems, and robots as waiters and cleaning people, to name just a few. I think one way [to approach the problem of unemployment] is to provide people with a better education so that the next generation will be trained to perform jobs that machines are not competent in."
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Professor Aswath Damodaran is interviewed about Tata Sons

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Excerpt from Livemint -- "The biggest lesson is that as an investor, invest in simple companies rather than these complex holding companies. Because any time you invest in a complex holding company, this is one of the prices you pay—you have very little control over process because of the holding structure."
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Professor Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory is referenced

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Haidt outlines six moral foundations the 'elephant' part of us uses to determine whether we agree with an action or idea. These foundations are inextricable from their opposites. They include: Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation and Liberty/Oppression."
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Professor Yannis Bakos's research on comparison shopping is referenced

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Excerpt from the National Law Review -- "[Bakos] found that people will still shop at an eStore they trust without checking all the prices readily available on the internet. Much like the days before online shopping, a person would walk into a store, see the price posted for an item, and decide if it was worth it."
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Professor Nicholas Economides explains how changing US policy on net neutrality may impact innovation

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Excerpt from IEEE Spectrum -- "'The greatest threat to innovation is if new companies, innovative companies, have to pay a lot to be on the same playing field as everybody else,' Economides says. Net neutrality supporters worry there might be secondary effects from limiting the free flow of ideas and information online."
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Professor Nouriel Roubini is interviewed about the potential ramifications of Donald Trump's policies on the economy at the World Economic Forum in Davos

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Paradoxically, supply-side trickle-down, instead of helping the white working class that voted him in, is going to force [Trump] to become very protectionist and even more so against trade globalization and migration, so you have an inconsistency between trickle-down on one side and protectionists on the other side."
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Professor Amy Webb underscores the importance of preparing for the future in a leadership role

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "If you are in any position of leadership—whether you’re the CEO, a mid-level manager, an investor, or an entrepreneur with a great idea—you will be confronted by new technology for the rest of your life. Failing to strategically monitor these trends and plan for the future will put your organization and future earnings at risk. People and organizations who use the tools of futurists —Nintendo, IBM, Amazon —succeeded even in the face of disruption; while those that didn’t—Blackberry, Zenith, Kodak––met their demise."
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Professor Thomaï Serdari is named to the Luxury Daily "Luxury Women to Watch 2017" list

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Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "In luxury, business and brand strategy are entangled. The brand cannot be articulated after the specifics of the business strategy have been set — the two must evolve in tandem."
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The Stern Urbanization Project's work on the Atlas of Urban Expansion is highlighted

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Excerpt from Planetizen -- "This project by New York University, UN-Habitat the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and numerous collaborators is a comprehensive, ongoing research program to monitor quantitative and qualitative aspects of global urban expansion. The project used medium-resolution Landsat satellite imagery and census data to analyze how these cities grew between 1990 and 2014."
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Professor Xi Chen is profiled

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Excerpt from The Native Society -- "Xi Chen joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences in September 2014. Professor Chen studies machine learning and optimization, high-dimensional statistics and operations research."

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