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Excerpt from City Journal -- "Originating as a provocative Atlantic article, the book is no screed but rather a work of cultural criticism and social science, managing to do what few books on the culture wars achieve—persuade without alienating."

Excerpt from NBC News -- "If you just say natural without any explanation, it may mean so many different things. It's not... a meaningful concept."

The Luxury & Retail Club will host its 12th annual conference, themed "It’s Not an Apocalypse, It’s an Evolution" on October 5, 2018.

Excerpt from PR Week -- "'You wouldn’t buy a million-dollar house without doing some research,' he said. 'You have to do your due diligence and see if there are any skeletons in closet, whether it’s alcohol, drug abuse, or perhaps domestic violence. These are things you want to look into.'"

Excerpt from India.com -- "'At a time when Maker Village is showing competence on par with successful international startups across the globe, an effective marketing strategy can take it to another level of proficiency,' said Prof Ruth P Stevens, Adjunct professor with Columbia University, NYU Stern University and IIM Bangalore."

Excerpt from Livemint -- "Another model proposed to prevent rating shopping came from White’s colleagues Viral Acharya and Matthew Richardson. In their book soon after the 2008 financial crisis, Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System, they suggested regulators create a centralized clearing platform for rating agencies."

Excerpt from BBC Capital -- "Susan Stehlik is a professor of management communication at New York University. She likens office polygraphs to a ‘stress test’ for young applicants she observed as an independent consultant for a major hedge fund. 'They’d say to a student, with four or five senior people in the room, give me the square root of 563,000,' she says. She says their rationale was: 'Well, if you’re going to be a trader, you need to know numbers.'"

Excerpt from Forbes -- "For those brands that have not already jumped in, it might be worth a try. The content needs to add value to consumers' lives or it won't be worth their time to listen. If the content does add value and engage the target, a branded podcast can be a real win."
 

Last fall, NYU Stern School of Business announced the establishment of the first Creative Destruction Lab in the United States—CDL-NYC—to support the commercialization of early-stage science and deep technology startups. CDL-NYC received a landslide of applications for its inaugural 2018-19 cohort from founders associated with some of the top research institutes and academic institutions worldwide. CDL-NYC accepted 27 ventures with an admission rate of less than nine percent, becoming the most selective program in the CDL network.

Excerpt from Adweek -- "'Today, the quickest way to establish your brand is often by sharing content, by producing stand-alone content in the form of blog posts and images that are curated to showcase your brand, so it appeals to the consumers you’re targeting,' Alter said. A successful brand magazine, he said, could bring in advertising dollars and attract new subscribers to mailing lists. Once a company has that email, it could be used for promotional purposes and notifications about new product launches."

Excerpt from Coinspeaker -- "'I came across Arun Sundararajan’s brilliant book called 'The Sharing Economy' discussing the end of traditional employment and the rise of crowd-based capitalism. It introduced how blockchain can open up new possibilities for reshaping the way we think about transparency, security, and ownership.'"
 

Excerpt from Metro MBA -- "Stern’s banking curriculum spans topics such as bankruptcy management, microfinance, governmental policy and global banking, and more. A Stern MBA can offer a competitive edge in M&A, public finance, sales and trading, asset management and equity/fixed income research."

Excerpt from CoinDesk -- "New York University was one of the first schools to offer a blockchain related course. Since 2014, professors David Yermack and Geoffrey Miller have offered the 'Digital Currency, Blockchains and the Future of Financial Services' course, which focuses on 'the emerging role of digital currencies and blockchains in money, banking, and the real economy.' The Stern Business School’s 'Applications in Entrepreneurial Finance: Fintech', taught by Sabrina T. Howell, sheds light on the the financing dynamic of new blockchain ventures."

Excerpt from GuruFocus -- "Damodaran wrote that too many investors think valuing an asset is too complex and complicated to master; as a result, they leave valuation to others, or simply ignore it. Yet, he argues, 'I believe that valuation, at its core, is simple, and anyone who is willing to spend time collecting and analyzing information can do it.'"
 

Excerpt from Vox -- "'My first thought was, "Seriously? In this day and age? A person cannot say vagina without it being a bad word?" I thought we’d gotten over that with the Vagina Monologues, but we clearly haven’t,' Priya Raghubir, a professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, says of the Momwasher controversy."

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."