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Professor Alixandra Barasch’s research on the connection between taking photos and visual memory is featured in a story about experiencing the solar eclipse

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Dr. Barasch said she too initially suspected that casual photography was removing people from the moment. 'But as we collected more and more data over the course of five or six years, we kept finding that photo taking was actually immersing people more in experiences,' she said."
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Professor Scott Galloway shares insights on why business leaders have distanced themselves from President Trump

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "'Companies tend to think of their consumers and shareholders first. They say, "I don’t want a Twitter riot" and then "I don’t want analysts to worry that it’s going to impact my short-term sales and take my stock down",' said Mr Galloway."
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Professor Ari Ginsberg discusses the potential impact of NAFTA's renegotiation for entrepreneurs and small business owners

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Excerpt from Inc. -- "'Updating NAFTA and creating stronger balances between countries rights and needs, that's all in the right direction,' says Ari Ginsberg, a professor of entrepreneurship with a focus on international business at NYU's Stern School of Business. He's particularly heartened that the U.S. has called for the establishment of a special committee to ensure that the needs of small- to medium-size businesses are considered in the broader agreement. 'The signals are much more positive than before for small businesses,' Ginsberg says."
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Professor Alixandra Barasch's research on the impact of taking photos on visual memory is spotlighted

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Excerpt from the Daily Mail -- "'These findings suggest that having a camera changes how people approach an experience in a fundamental way,' the authors said, according to Science Daily. 'Even when people don't take a photo of a particular object, like a sculpture, but have a camera with them and the intention to take photos, they remember that sculpture better than people who did not have a camera with them.'"
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Professor Irving Schenkler shares insights on whether businesses should comment on political issues

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Excerpt from Footwear News -- "'I would not agree that all companies need or should "take a stand,"' Schenkler said. '[It] depends on the issue: Is it a core value for the company? What is the perspective of principal stakeholders on it? How does it affect corporate reputation? How is it tied to corporate identity and image?'"
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Professor Roy Smith comments on Goldman Sachs' bridge loans to Discovery Communications and Amazon

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Excerpt from Bloomberg Quint -- "If you get it right, 'it’s very likely that you can hang onto three pieces of financing in one deal,' said Roy Smith, a former Goldman Sachs partner who’s now a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'It’s a natural business and a natural place for them to be.' If you get it wrong, though, 'bridge loans can hand your head to you,' Smith said."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan shares insights on achieving inclusive economic growth

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Excerpt from the Morgan Stanley Ideas Podcast -- "The most important guideline for achieving inclusive growth is simply to make it an important objective. I think that the more a country decides that they want its growth to be broad-based, that they want it to measure inequality and changes in inequality as a success metric rather than simply measuring the totals, the more likely it is the country will achieve that. I think a mindset where you realize that business can be a really critical agent of social change and that progress in economy is often driven by business and so the costing of business as the force of change as opposed to the accumulator of capital is also an important part of shaping the dialogue."
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Professor Tensie Whelan comments on the resignation of several business leaders from President Trump's advisory councils

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Excerpt from Mic -- "'Increasingly citizens are holding businesses accountable,' added Tensie Whelan, a professor of business and society at the New York University Stern School of Business. 'It isn’t really an option to say nothing, you have to stand up and be counted.'"
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Professor Arun Sundararajan is interviewed about China’s ride sharing industry

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Excerpt from CGTN -- "'I think that we need to look beyond the rent-a-car from a station model and towards the peer-to-peer models. So if you take the analogy of the United States, look beyond the Car2go model or the Drive Now model and towards the models of Getaround and Turo, where an individual can rent a car from another individual rather than picking it up off a station on the street.'"
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Professor Scott Galloway discusses the departure of several CEOs from President Trump's advisory councils

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'The risk calculus has changed dramatically,' said Scott Galloway, a professor at New York University Business School, who sits on several corporate boards. 'Yes, you may risk a tweet from Trump. But his tweets are increasingly flaccid.'"
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Professor Richard Sylla discusses why business leaders are leaving President Donald Trump's manufacturing advisory councils

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Excerpt from NBC News -- "So while there are disagreements, 'Usually it's over business issues,' said Richard Sylla, a professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business. But here, 'the business leaders are taking a moral stance on fundamental American issues.'"
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Professor Aswath Damodaran's thoughts on Tesla's market valuation are featured

Excerpt from NASDAQ -- "Despite the bullish Tesla takes on Monday, a New York University finance professor said on Friday that he thinks one of the company's recent moves is very strange. Aswath Damodaran, who is regarded as a company valuation expert said he doesn't understand why a company that is losing cash, like Tesla, chose to raise its debt total and not sell stock."
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Professor Alixandra Barasch's research on photo taking and memory is featured

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Excerpt from WIRED -- "'People feel very strongly that when they take photos it’s taking them out of the moment,' says Alixandra Barasch, a researcher at NYU who studies the effects of taking photos. 'Yet after years of running studies, we kept on finding over and over again that there were all of these positive aspects of photo-taking, as well.'"
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Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh's work on European Safe Bonds is referenced

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "European safe bonds were first proposed by a group of European economists in 2011. In May this year a European Commission paper advocated the creation of a market for the debt, which could generate bonds with varying levels of risk."
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Professor Alixandra Barasch's research on photo taking and visual memory and Professor Tom Meyvis' research on the impact of physical memorabilia are featured

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Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "In a study entitled, 'Forgetting to Remember Our Experiences: People Overestimate How Much They Will Retrospect About Personal Events,” Mevvis and Tully investigated “how people’s expectations of how often they would recall an experience compared to how often they actually did recall it.' ... Barasch and her co-authors Kristin Diehl, Jackie Silverman, and Gal Zauberman, conducted an experiment framed around participants use of cameras. Their work, similar to Meyvis and Tully, found that those who did not take photos had 'more enhanced visual memory' than those that did take photos."
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Professor Lawrence White comments on the impact of tensions with North Korea on financial markets

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Excerpt from NBC News -- "'I think a lot of people do believe this is just huffing and puffing — and when push comes to shove, there’s not going to be any pushing,' Lawrence White, professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business, told NBC News."
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Professor Scott Galloway shares insights on advertising, Amazon and technology

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "We are effectively entering an era where I call 'the death of the advertising industrial complex.' I think advertising has become a tax that the poor and the digitally illiterate pay. If you're wealthy you get to opt out of advertising and brands are still depending on it."
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Professor Jeffrey Wurgler's research on index-linked investing is mentioned

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Excerpt from Fund Strategy -- "The average country reclassified to a more-benchmarked index gains 23.2 per cent between the announcement and the reshuffle, but loses 12.4 per cent in the year that follows its inclusion in the new index, research out of NYU’s Stern School of Business, Chapman University and Acadian Asset Management shows."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the impact of Benchmark's lawsuit against Uber on the company

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'It puts the company in limbo and prevents them from moving forward,' said Arun Sundararajan, a New York University professor and author of The Sharing Economy. 'This kind of fight is going to hurt Uber significantly in the short term.'"
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Professor Anat Lechner's comments on MBA change management courses are featured

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Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "Change management courses help MBA students understand the psychology of change, including both the motivation of a company's visionaries and the resistance of people who are frightened of a company's transformation, says Anat Lechner, clinical associate professor of management and organizations with New York University's Stern School of Business."
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Professor Lawrence White shares his views on Bitcoin

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Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "For Bitcoin to gain traction, it has to achieve at least a semblance of steady value. 'We are reluctant to transact in something where the day-to-day value for our transactions’ purposes could vary substantially,' White said."
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Professors Kim Corfman and Thomaï Serdari share insights on luxury marketing education

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Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "'[From a school perspective,] partners keep us relevant,’ said Kim Corfman, professor of marketing and academic director of the Fashion & Luxury one-year MBA at NYU Stern School of Business, New York. 'They ensure that we are educating students to solve problems that matter and that the solutions they create are of value. At a more practical level, partners provide us with live cases and projects to which students can apply what they have learned.' ... 'Luxury brands need people who understand both the retail environment and the challenges a business faces in the industry,' said Thomaï Serdari, founder of PIQLuxury, co-editor of Luxury: History Culture Consumption and adjunct professor of luxury marketing at New York University, New York."
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Professor Aswath Damodaran's work on equity risk premiums is referenced

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Excerpt from The Economist -- "The equity-risk premium, or the annual excess return that investors demand to hold shares rather than bonds, is 5.03 points, against a pre-crisis average of 3.45 points, notes Aswath Damodaran of the Stern School of Business at NYU."
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Professor Michael Spence's research on the labor market and cost of goods is featured

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Between 1990 and 2008, 98 percent of new jobs came from so-called 'nontradable' industries that aren't sensitive to international trade, according to the economist Michael Spence."
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Professor Anindya Ghose shares his outlook on Amazon's future growth

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "According to Anindya Ghose, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, the e-commerce giant could be the first company to break through the $1 trillion barrier for market capitalization. The company is currently worth about $476.07 billion, which means it would need a 110.1% increase in its stock price to reach that level. But Ghose thinks Amazon's rise will come at the expense of lots of retail jobs. 'In many ways, it might actually be a blessing in disguise because it's also simultaneously going to cost lots of jobs in the economy,' Ghose told Business Insider."

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