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Professor Irving Schenkler predicts that Chipotle's stock price will rebound

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'They are very lucky to have built up a reservoir of trust over time,' agrees Schenkler, at NYU. 'They have reputational capital, which gives them a well of goodwill. So once media coverage erodes, things will get back to where they were.'"
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Professor Gavin Kilduff's research on using sympathy in negotiations is featured

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Excerpt from Business News Daily -- "Taking a cutthroat approach isn't always the best way to get what you want when negotiating, new research finds. Bringing emotion into negotiations often elicits compassion from the other party, making that person more likely to develop sympathy and, in turn, more willing to compromise and find creative solutions, finds a study set to be published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes."
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Professor Dolly Chugh illustrates the concept of "bounded awareness"

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Excerpt from SarderTV -- "The easiest way to think of bounded awareness, it's that moment we experience when we're looking for the butter in the fridge and we claim there is no butter in the fridge. And we insist that we looked and there really was no butter in the fridge. And then our family member comes and says, 'There's the butter in the fridge!' And we say, 'How did I miss that? How did I not see it right in front of me.'"
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Michael Spence reflects on the weakness of the global economy

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Excerpt from Diario Financiero -- "The collapse of the stock market in China and increased global volatility triggered by the devaluation of the yuan, he said, 'will not lead to a collapse' in the second-largest economy in the world, but it may be pointing to problems the Asian giant will have 'for longer than had been thought.'"
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Professor Melissa Schilling discusses innovation in consumer technologies

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Excerpt from Machine Design -- "'... Sony invested in improving their technology of Super Audio CD at a time when they believed customers cared about every increasing fidelity,' says Schilling. 'Unfortunately, we were already nearly at the limits of human hearing in terms of audio fidelity, so the payoff to increasing fidelity wasn’t very big. While Super Audio CD and HD Audio were competing to be the highest fidelity audio formats, the MP3 format offered customers something they valued more—portability—and wiped Super Audio and HD Audio off the map.'"
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Professor Richard Sylla discusses the evolution of America's banking landscape

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Excerpt from The News Journal -- "'For about 150 years, the United States did not have interstate banking and what those did was help advance the agenda of that movement so that, lo and behold, we got the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking Act of 1994,' [Sylla] said."
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Professor Baruch Lev emphasizes the importance of company conference calls for investors

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Excerpt from NexChange -- "'The accounting system provides very little, very biased information,' says Baruch Lev, professor of accounting and finance at New York University. 'The call is a very, very important venue to provide this information.'"
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Professor Lawrence White discusses Bernie Sanders' claims about Glass-Steagall

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Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'Commercial banks could have [lent money to shadow banks] in the 1960s or earlier, even before the Fed and the OCC [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] and court decisions began to loosen the strictures of Glass-Steagall,' said Lawrence J. White, an expert on financial regulation at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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In an op-ed, NYU Global Research Professor Ian Bremmer explains the importance of learning about other cultures

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Excerpt from LinkedIn -- "In short: learn cultures, not languages. Study other points of view. The more you know about different regions of the world, the better off you are. You’ll need it going forward."
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In an op-ed, Professor Roy Smith shares a positive long-term economic outlook

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Excerpt from Financial News -- "The U.S. has begun to raise interest rates and called off its 'QE' activity, actions that ought to be followed before long in the EU and Japan. In general, governments now are less pressured to help the weak and more worried about all the debt they have taken on. They recognise that economic policies have to be more pragmatic."
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Professor Aaron Tenenbein explains why using birthdays decreases a person's odds of winning the lottery

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Excerpt from CBS -- "NYU statistics professor Aaron Tenenbein did the math and found there’s only a 1 in 300-million chance of winning it all. 'If you’re an average golfer, you have a better chance of getting two successive holes in one,' he told CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez."
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Professor Aaron Tenenbein calculates an individual's chances of winning the Powerball Lottery

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Excerpt from the Associated Press -- "The probability of you winning the lottery if you don't play is zero. The probability of you winning the lottery if you do play is about the same. And the reason for that is the probability of you actually winning on a single ticket is 1 in 292 million, which works out to be 0.00000000342."
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In an op-ed, Professor Nicholas Economides argues that Greece and the New Democracy party will fail without economic reforms

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Excerpt from Kathimerini -- "Without reforms, a reduction of the State sector, reduction in taxation and increase in production, Greece will continue to repeatedly need EU loans, with its misery increasing. Still, prime minister Tsipras is popular because the opposition parties, and especially ND [New Democracy] have not yet presented reforms and policies that would solve the present problems."
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Drawing from his general social survey analysis, Professor Vishal Singh demonstrates bipartisan support for gun control

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "'Although public opinion fluctuates based on political, religious, and other demographics and in response to major mass shootings or presidential politics, there appears to be a majority bipartisan desire to establish certain level of gun control — at least as measured by response to the question in the GSS,' said Vishal Singh, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. Singh has closely studied the general social survey and has constructed an interactive visualization tool based on GSS data."
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Professor Robert Salomon identifies several causes for increased M&A activity over the past year

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "'Interest rates are at historic lows ... companies had lots of capital available to them to borrow to engage in deals,' says Robert Salomon, an associate professor of management at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'The second factor that you can’t ignore is that corporate balance sheets have a lot more cash: The amount of cash on them [is] at an all-time high.'"
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Professor Joseph Foudy shares his takeaways from the December jobs report

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Excerpt from Business Radio on Sirius XM -- "[The jobs report] shows you there's more strength in the US economy than people are thinking. It's not just this report. ADP looked good. I should also say the additional jobless claims are at a multi-year low. We haven't seen jobless claims this low in at least a decade or more."
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Professor Aswath Damodaran identifies myths surrounding activist investing

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Excerpt from ValueWalk -- "To the question of 'Do activists make high returns?' both parties seem to agree that the answer is yes. That conclusion, though, may be based not only upon looking at the most successful, high profile investors in the group but also listening to the hype around them. Bill Ackman, Carl Icahn and Nelson Peltz have all had their share of bad investments, and looking collectively at all activist investors, the returns to activism are modest. In fact, given the cost of being activist, a large proportion of activist investors barely break even."
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In a co-authored op-ed, Professor Kim Schoenholtz discusses how the Federal Reserve is tightening policy

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "... The initial experience confirms that the Fed can raise interest rates even though the banking system is awash in excess reserves. By offering to pay interest on reserves, the Fed is placing a floor on the rate banks are willing to lend to households and firms. And, by offering to accept nonbank financial intermediaries overnight reverse repos in large volume, they are creating a floor under the market federal funds rate. If this pattern persists as policy rates rise, the new policy mechanics will be judged remarkably effective."
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Professor Karen Brenner shares her views on the ideal talent mix for corporate boards

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'It’s most important to have diversity of experiences,' said Karen Brenner, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'You don’t necessarily need duplicative skills.'"
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Professor Scott Galloway comments on the decreased valuation of flash-sale website Gilt

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Excerpt from The New York Post -- "'The majority of these sites are gone or dying,' said Scott Galloway, founder of L2 Inc. and a professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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NYU Global Research Professor Ian Bremmer comments on the United States' stability

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'The United States may not have incredibly robust economic growth and has plenty of problems you can point to,' said Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, a geopolitical consultancy. 'But from a stability perspective, when things are more unstable, the United States in some ways gets stronger' as both people and investment dollars gravitate to the nation’s relative stability."
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In a co-authored op-ed, NYU Global Research Professor Ian Bremmer outlines the implications of the conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "... Both sides have strong reasons to avoid war. The Saudis know the cost of direct conflict with Iran would be devastating at exactly the wrong moment for the Saudi economy, and the near-term benefits of higher oil prices would do little to strengthen its untested Sunni military, particularly because war could make it impossible for the Saudis to export their product. Losing a war with Iran would put the regime's survival at stake."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan argues that our social safety net should be updated in light of the growth of the sharing economy

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Excerpt from TIME -- "'There’s something nice about getting a regular paycheck,' says Arun Sundararajan, a business professor at New York University, 'but we’ve got to get away from thinking that that is the only model.'"
 
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Professor Arun Sundararajan evaluates Facebook's free Internet initiative in India

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "This sounds like a good thing, but the catch is this free internet access is restricted to only a few sites that Facebook will allow these people to access... I think that the fear here is that the Internet is much more about Facebook. And so having a corporate entity controlling what you can and can't do over your Internet connection can be potentially damaging to inclusiveness in a country."
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Professor Scott Galloway discusses the possibility of a proxy fight at Yahoo after activist shareholders' request for management changes

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think it's moved beyond leadership at this point. I think this is, 'this is over, it's time to sell or spin, and if we need new leadership and a new board, fine.'"

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