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Professor Amy Webb offers insights on fake news

Excerpt from Mother Jones -- “There’s probably a strong case to be made that we are chemically addicted to fake news,” says Amy Webb, an author and futurist who founded the Future Today Institute. “When you’re seeing your angers and fears and anxieties being validated externally, you get a shot of dopamine.”
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Professor Susan Stehlik discusses how companies can prevent sexual harassment

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Excerpt from The Bridge -- "Train employees to speak up in the moment: 'Many employees are intimidated by power and will be unwilling to give feedback to someone who has offended them,' says Stehlik. However, 'if you can stop these behaviors at the first step, you will be much better off.'"
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NYU 2017 Conference on Digital, Mobile Marketing, and Social Media Analytics

On December 8-9, NYU Stern will host the NYU 2017 Conference on Digital, Mobile Marketing, and Social Media Analytics. 
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Professor Vasant Dhar explains why he believes AI is not currently capable of trading cryptocurrencies

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Excerpt from the International Business Times -- "'At the moment there’s a buying frenzy because people expect it to go up,' Dhar told IBT. 'When the futures are on track and professionals start trading it, several years after that maybe we’ll have enough data to come up with machine-learning based strategies...right now all we’ve seen is one little period where it’s moonshot. There’s no real basis for building a strategy.'"
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Professors Kathleen DeRose and David Yermack are interviewed ​in a roundup of the best b-schools for FinTech that features Stern

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Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "'FinTech is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. Five financial functions are being disrupted—payments, how money is transferred, markets, insurance and capital allocation,' NYU Stern clinical associate professor of finance Kathleen DeRose explains. ... 'Jobs started to change at the big banks, which became increasingly interested in people graduating with skills in big data,' [Yermack] explains. 'AI and machine learning are changing the profile of finance jobs and the nature of work, [which] will increasingly focus on programming these machines and pointing them to the right data, and working on hardware and software updates.'"
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Professor Thomaï Serdari shares how today's luxury brands can evolve and stay competitive

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Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "The best way to remain ahead of the curve is to look outside one's industry. For example, a fashion company should be studying what is happening in product design or architecture. This will impact not just the form of the new collection but possibly its structure and perhaps even its production process. Innovation stems from interdisciplinary thinking, not from a singular one."
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In an op-ed, Professor Michelle Greenwald examines how technology and changing consumer behavior will impact the way companies advertise

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Driverless cities and increased e-commerce will include more delivery trucks, pedestrian walkways, bicycles, amphibious planes, helicopter taxis, drones, more time for mobile usage in autos, and potentially more time socializing in more shared, carpool vehicles."
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Professor Anindya Ghose offers insights on how India can improve its education system

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Excerpt from Entrepreneur -- "Talking about the immediate reforms needed in the system, Ghose said, 'We need to encourage skills in design thinking, creative thinking, unstructured project management, and the ability to adapt and drive in changing environments.'"
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NYU Stern's "In Conversation with Mervyn King" Series Presents Fareed Zakaria

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On December 7, NYU Stern’s “In Conversation with Lord Mervyn King” Series welcomed Fareed Zakaria, host, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, and columnist, Washington Post.
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Executive Education Short Course: Great Leadership: Developing Practical Leadership Skills

This program is designed for those who wish to better understand and further develop their skills and propensity to lead others. Therefore it is appropriate for individuals who are managing other people or teams or individuals with significant leadership responsibilities.
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Professor Baruch Lev's joint research on the importance of intangible business assets is featured

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Excerpt from ValueWalk -- "In a new article in Financial Analysts Journal, Lev and co-author Feng Gu continue to advance the findings on intangibles. The article, 'Time to Change Your Investment Model,' identifies that earnings prediction has lost 'much of its relevance in recent years.' As a form of predicting corporate results, 'earnings no longer reliably reflect changes in corporate value and are thus an inadequate driver of investment analysis.'"
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Professor Aswath Damodaran shares his views on the WNBA as an investment

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Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'The same forces that are making it more pricey as a business are the same forces that will make more people get interested,' Damodaran said."
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Stern's new Fubon Center for Technology, Business, and Innovation at Stern, made possible through an $8 million endowed gift from alumnus Richard Ming-Hsing Tsai (MBA ’81), is featured

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Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "The Fubon Center will support and facilitate collaboration in areas such as fintech, business analytics, technology, and entrepreneurship. It will also serve as a new nexus for continuous innovation at NYU Stern by strengthening industry ties and promoting cutting-edge research. Additionally, the Fubon Center will help to shape future coursework and encourage academic collaboration between NYU Stern and National Taiwan University, Tsai’s undergraduate alma mater."
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Professor Thomas Philippon is interviewed about industry consolidation and consumer choice in the US

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Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "'Almost every industry in the United States has become more concentrated over time. That's for sure,' said Thomas Philippon, professor of finance at New York University. 'All this consolidation has led to less competition, and higher costs for consumers.'"
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Center for Business and Human Rights Deputy Director Paul Barrett discusses how tech companies are working to block offensive content

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Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'Child abuse is one topic where they feel very comfortable acting aggressively to police their terrain in a focused way,' Barrett said. 'My sense is that they going to have to get just as focused on Russia as they are on child abuse. If they don’t, we will see a repeat in 2018 of what took place in 2016.'"
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Professor Ari Ginsberg is interviewed about where Amazon might open its second headquarters

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Excerpt from Inc. -- "'The move to build a new headquarters [has] significant implications for the local economy of whatever city it winds up picking,' explains Ari Ginsberg, a professor of entrepreneurship and management at New York University's Stern School of Business, who researches business expansion."
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Professor Amy Webb shares her outlook on the impact of computer-generated video on media consumption

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Excerpt from Quartz -- "Once viewers learn that videos can be computer generated, this technology could essentially undermine the credibility of all audio and video recordings. This may lead viewers to conclude that anything they read, hear, or see online could be fake. Ultimately, this lack of trust in facts could further erode democracy. 'It’s hard not to see a dystopian future,' says Webb. 'We all need to slow down for five minutes and think this through.'"
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Professor Tensie Whelan shares insights on how businesses can adopt sustainable practices

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Excerpt from the Harvard Business Review -- "We’ve seen a sea change in the last 10 years around company and NGO engagement — it’s far more cooperative. I think the elements of a successful partnership are: first, that both parties have aligned goals, expectations, and parameters; second, they design a way to have a common language that respects their different perspectives; and third, the company invests the time and resources required to make the relationship productive, including a dedicated and empowered corporate point person for the NGO. The result will be innovation."
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The establishment of The Fubon Center for Technology, Business, and Innovation at Stern, made possible through an $8 million endowed gift from alumnus Richard Ming-Hsing Tsai (MBA ’81), is spotlighted

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Excerpt from Crowdfund Insider -- "According to the school, The Fubon Center will serve as the School’s hub to support, facilitate and enhance cross-disciplinary collaboration among its existing areas of excellence in technological innovation, such as Fintech, Business Analytics, Technology, and Entrepreneurship."
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Professor Vasant Dhar discusses how AI is impacting investing

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Machines will be doing more of the grunt work of discovering opportunities,' said Vasant Dhar, who 20 years ago founded one of the first machine-learning hedge funds, the $350 million Adaptive Quant Trading program at SCT Capital Management. 'They can generate hypotheses, test them, and then tell humans, "This is interesting, go dig deeper." As machines add more value, it changes the nature of work humans do.'"
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C-Suite Speaker Series: A Conversation with Bob Greifeld

On Tuesday, Dec. 5, NYU Stern will welcome Bob Greifeld (MBA ’87), Co-founder of North Island Ventures and Chairman of Virtu Financial, Inc., to campus as part of Stern’s “C-Suite Speaker Series.”
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Professor Robert Salomon explains the implications of the CVS-Aetna merger for consumers

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Excerpt from the Associated Press -- "My sense is that consumers won't benefit all that much from this deal and if anything there will be less choice in the market for consumers looking to purchase both medical coverage and pharmaceutical coverage because once you have both, as CVS will have now, there may be the ability for them to exert power over those corporations with which they are negotiating both pharmacy and medical packages."
 
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Professor Scott Galloway is interviewed about his book, "The Four," which is highlighted as a book of the year

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "We now have an Amazon singularity in the markets where all consumer stocks are moving corresponding to what Amazon is or isn't doing. I think one of the components of robust markets is that no one company has too much control..."
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Professor Robert Lamb comments on CVS Health's acquisition of Aetna

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Excerpt from CT Post -- "'The patient is sort of caught in this vice,' said Robert Lamb, a professor of finance and management at the Stern School of Business at New York University, who studies mergers. 'The specific arrangement that the two organizations have with each other means that you don’t have, one, freedom of choice but two, they’ve already made an agreement that there will not be outsiders, there cannot be outsiders. … That’s the problem.'"
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Research Scholar Patrick Lamson-Hall comments on a new housing project in Ethiopia

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Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Financed entirely by public resources and without the support of foreign donors, the condominium programme has, however, won its fair share of plaudits. 'It represents a commitment to social housing that is rarely seen in Africa,' says Patrick Lamson-Hall of New York University."

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