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Research by Professors Steven Blader and Nicholas Hays on generosity and status is featured

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Excerpt from Psychology Today -- "Research suggests that being generous often increases a person’s status within a group. But, does high status make people generous? This question was explored in a paper in the January, 2017 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Nicholas Hays and Steven Blader."
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Professor Eric Greenleaf shares insights on politically-driven shopping boycotts

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Excerpt from Ad Age -- "'As politics become more polarizing, people may be more willing to endure inconveniences to make a point,' said Eric Greenleaf, a professor of marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'And with online shopping, consumers have more alternatives.'"
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Professor Ari Ginsberg discusses the renegotiation of NAFTA

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Excerpt from Inc. -- "'When you negotiate in a global world, what you want to create is a win-win,' explains Ari Ginsberg, a professor of entrepreneurship and management at New York University's Stern School of Business whose specialties include strategy and entering new markets. Otherwise, 'at the end, instead of cooperating, we'll continue competing until we get to the bottom,' Ginsberg says."
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Professor Lawrence White is interviewed about credit card brands

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Excerpt from WalletHub -- "What matters most are the specific terms of any credit card -- which are determined by the bank or credit union or other issuer. Given the general ubiquity of acceptability of Visa and MC by merchants and websites, etc., making distinctions between the 2 is generally not especially interesting."
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In a co-authored op-ed, Professor Nicholas Economides argues against Greece's exit from the eurozone

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Excerpt from Kathimerini -- "The consequences of Grexit would be catastrophic for Greece both in the short and long term. The lack of competitiveness of the Greek economy would result in a quick devaluation of the new drachma vis-a-vis the euro, and the real income of employees and pensioners would shrink dramatically. The national and private debt in euros would became much larger in new drachmas and much more difficult to service. Deposits would be forcibly converted to new drachmas, losing at least half their value."
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Professor Adam Alter's forthcoming book, "Irresistible," is featured

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Excerpt from The Telegraph -- "As Alter illustrates, a mere six ingredients lie behind most truly addictive experiences: goal setting, feedback, progress, escalation, cliffhangers, and social interaction. Think of the things you keep coming back to, for good or ill – running with your FitBit, watching Breaking Bad, browsing Facebook – and you’ll find one or more of these. Combine them all, as in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game like World of Warcraft, and to the right person at the right time they really can become irresistible."
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Professor Robert Engle was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Airlangga (UNAIR) in Indonesia

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Excerpt from Antara News -- "The Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 2003, Professor Robert Fry Engle III, has received an honorary doctorate degree from the Rector of University of Airlangga (Unair), Surabaya, Professor M Nasih, before delivering a guest lecture at the university on Monday."
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Professor Tensie Whelan discusses Nespresso's sustainability efforts

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Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Tensie Whelan, former CEO of the Rainforest Alliance, says: 'The Nespresso AAA Program is one of the most rigorous and comprehensive programs in the coffee industry.'"
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Professor Arun Sundararajan is interviewed about Wego, a healthcare startup

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Excerpt from Fast Company -- "'We have not seen a health company that has defined what a platform model looks like for the delivery of health care services nor the acquisition of talent,' says Arun Sundararajan, professor of information, operations, and management sciences at New York University and author of 'The Sharing Economy.' 'Wego is putting its stake in the ground with the latter.'"
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Professor Aswath Damodaran shares his views on Snap Inc.'s IPO

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Excerpt from Bloomberg Quint -- "Toward the end of 2016, Snap (formerly known as Snapchat) became the latest social media company to enter the public market. With 161 million engaged users but little in terms of current revenues and big operating losses, Snap fits the bill as a company with lots of potential but plenty of peril. In this post, I tell my story for Snap and the value that emerges from it. It is, for the most part, an optimistic story of a young company that has found a niche in the crowded social media space. In my story, Snap will not and should not try to be the next Facebook but I also see it as avoiding becoming Twitter Redux."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan's book, "The Sharing Economy," is featured

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Conscious capitalism still sees the firm as the basic economic unit. New York University business professor Arun Sundararajan, by contrast, focuses on the crowd. Crowd-based capitalism, which he outlines in The Sharing Economy, is the 21st-century version of village life, in which people engage in commercial transactions with peers, bolstered by trust generated by intertwined social networks. Digital platforms expand the village to encompass cities; blockchain technologies create trust at scale; individuals support themselves as small-scale entrepreneurs, like craftspeople and merchants of old."
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Professor Thomas Philippon's research on the financial services industry is referenced

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Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Today’s economic model mirrors the banking model. Bankers view loans as opportunities to earn fees for originating, securitising, trading, settling and clearing. They have shifted the risk of holding the loan to others. They boast that accelerating the speed through which securities circulate reduces costs to consumers and is a measure of their immense contribution to the economy which, they argue, must be preserved post-Brexit, at all costs. But when Thomas Philippon added up the fees paid by the non-financial sector to the financial sector, he found that at 2.0% of finance raised, costs had in recent decades returned to where they were in 1880."
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Professor Jonathan Haidt shares his views on the relationship between liberals and conservatives

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'We are in a trust spiral,' said Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University. 'My fear is that we have reached escape velocity where the actions of each side can produce such strong reactions on the other that things will continue to escalate.'"
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Rohit Deo, Vice Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Strategic Planning, is interviewed about Stern's grading policy for undergraduate students

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "New York University’s Stern School of Business uses a curve, and it’s meant to ensure fairness and clarity of grading, says Rohit Deo, acting dean. The curve creates an environment that challenges students intellectually, Deo says — but it must meet Stern’s academic standards."
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Professor Thomaï Serdari comments on Dior's messaging strategy in introducing its new creative director

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Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "'As the brand pushes forward, it is prudent to prepare the consumers for what is coming,' said Thomaï Serdari, Ph.D., 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 Emeritus William Baumol's "cost disease" theory is referenced

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Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "Baumol’s cost disease is a name for the tendency of costs to rise in slow-growth sectors as fast-growth sectors become more productive. As we learn better ways to make things like iPhones and TVs, the economy becomes wealthier. So we’re willing to pay more for services like back massages, string orchestras and university lectures. But because those services require the same amounts of labor as they did before, their costs rise as rich people pay the same workers more and more for the same old service."
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Professor Richard Sylla's book, “Hamilton: The Illustrated Biography” is mentioned

Excerpt from the Miami Herald -- "Then came the gorgeous gift book 'Hamilton: The Illustrated Biography' by Richard Sylla."
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Dean Peter Henry's accomplishments and legacy at NYU Stern are highlighted

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Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "The record fundraising efforts Henry led also helped to almost triple the number of experiential projects Stern students can take part in, propelled a first-of-its-kind FinTech MBA specialization, established the unique Urbanization Project directed by Stern Professor Paul Romer, and paved the way for new centers like the Center for Business and Human Rights and the Center for Sustainable Business, also both firsts for a leading business school. Henry has also worked to both widen and deepen the school’s relationships with tech companies, venture capital firms and fashion and luxury brands."
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Professor Lawrence White comments on Mayor Bill de Blasio's commitment to job creation in New York City

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'It may well be the mayor will be riding a wave rather than generating a wave,' Lawrence J. White, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'Doing things around the edges to help probably helps, but it’s going to be hard at the end of the day to know, did it really make a difference?'"
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Professor Samuel Craig is interviewed about mobile kitchens that serve New York's TV and film industry

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Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "'It’s episodic, nomadic,' said C. Samuel Craig, director of the entertainment, media and technology initiative at NYU’s Stern School of Business. 'You come together to make the film and then disappear and then reconfigure to make a different show or a TV commercial or a movie.'"
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Professor Arun Sundararajan is interviewed about the impact of the minimum wage increase on New York City's job market and economy

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Excerpt from Fox 5 NY -- "Well, I think we're in the midst of a pretty dramatic shift in how we learn our living. We're moving away from salaried jobs, jobs that pay us wages, and towards micro-ownership of different kinds, running your own business, driving an Uber."
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Professor Nicholas Economides is interviewed about the future of net neutrality

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Excerpt from International Business Times -- "So as a consumer, right now, you're used to seeing everything at once and making your choice. You have all the freedom in the world. All the choice in the world. If we kill network neutrality, that freedom goes away. It's up to the telephone and cable companies to give us whatever they want first, and whatever they don't want, last."
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Professor Lawrence White is interviewed about second chance credit cards

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Excerpt from WalletHub -- "Credit card issuers that offer many different varieties of credit cards - such as Capital One - are most likely to offer second chance cards. Also, there are some companies - e.g., Green Dot - that appear to focus more on secured (prepaid) cards, which make sense as second chance products."
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Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz is interviewed about her decision to resign from Exxon Mobil’s External Citizenship Advisory Panel

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Labowitz, a co-founder and co-director of New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, told The Huffington Post that she has studied many companies facing serious public criticism, often in her field of human rights. For the most part, she said, 'they don’t shoot the messenger ― which is what Exxon is doing.'"

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