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Excerpt from Quartz -- "The thing [Jet.com] has going against it is simple: Amazon. What are they doing that Amazon can't replicate if and when this becomes a competitive threat to the Seattle-based behemoth?"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Cities worldwide have grappled with how to regulate sharing-economy companies that operate outside existing rules, which didn’t anticipate these new business models, said Arun Sundararajan, a business professor at New York University. San Francisco is 'certainly not alone in recognizing that coming up with the right set of regulations, and coming up with the right division of responsibility between the government and the platform, is challenging,' he said."

Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "'Video is paramount in promoting brand stories as much as it is in showcasing product. M2M content, 'the new face of fashion storytelling,' is thoughtfully designed around the customer’s wish to learn more about favorite brands, designers and fashion icons as well as to be immersed in experiences,' Ms. Serdari said. 'While we know that there has been substantial progress in technology that supports shoppable video, at the moment, M2M is more about contextualizing the work of designers as well as interpreting the identity of brands.'"

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "It is 25 years since Paul Romer published a seminal paper on the role of ideas and knowledge in the sustained growth in living standards. The core insight was that because ideas are 'non-rival' — one person’s use of an idea doesn’t leave any less over for others to use — discovery and innovation enables economies to achieve increasing returns to scale: producing more than one-for-one with the amount of inputs that go into the production process. That, in turn, is what makes it possible for material living standards — the amount we produce per capita — to grow continuously."

Excerpt from JoeGeni.com -- "What's amazing to me is that 14% of global employment is in manufacturing, and with the expansion of the global economy, jobs in these supply chains are incredibly important, particularly in poor places where investment from global companies has been transformative. I've done all this work on Bangladesh and the garment sector there. It's the second biggest garment sector in the world. It's incredibly important to Bangladesh's growth."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "'There’s nothing that one can think about Bernie Sanders that is going to be interpreted as a good thing from the perspective of the firms that are in or around the financial sector,' [White] says."

Excerpt from New York Magazine -- "Schweitzer and Galinsky point to a study by New York University psychologist Gavin Kilduff, who found that people tend to perform better when their rivals are present, as compared to their performance against random strangers."

Excerpt from New York Magazine -- "The theory, pioneered by NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt... argues that humans respond to five different sets of moral concerns."

Excerpt from RT.com -- "Here's where we have to separate the company from the investment. I like Tesla as a company. It think it's a company that's disrupting a business that needs to be disrupted. The automobile business is an awful business. It's badly managed, badly run across the board. So I think Tesla is disrupting the right business. I even like Elon Musk. I mean, I think he's a little over the top. But he's exactly the kind of CEO that a company like that needs: a PR machine, which is everything he does creates publicity. But Tesla, it has been, in a sense, been selling investors in what I call 'the big story,' which is 'we're going to be a big company. We're going to succeed.'"

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "Stock market crashes are inevitable, and we’re kidding ourselves if we think otherwise. That, at least, is the stark conclusion to emerge from research conducted several years ago into the frequency of crashes: 'Institutional Investors and Stock Market Volatility,' by Xavier Gabaix, a finance professor at New York University, and three scientists at Boston University’s Center for Polymer Studies: H. Eugene Stanley, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan and Vasiliki Plerou."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I just think [Yahoo] has been a soap opera that's gone on two or three seasons too long. It should be sold. It is a great asset. It's the most trafficked website in the world."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "Existential events are not often fatal, but few companies escape the years of lacklustre performance that follow the thumping that the events engender. Boards of big business companies need to wake up and recognise that they can lower the probability of such events in the future by reshaping the cultures and middle management cadres that have enabled them."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Stereotypes in general—negative and positive—are entrenched in part because they help us take cognitive shortcuts. By offering a way to 'automatically categorize people into social groups,' they allow us to 'free up mental energy to' live our daily lives, says Michael North, an assistant professor of management and organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Voice of America -- "TPP opponents say the deal means disputes between businesses and governments can be resolved by arbitrators, a process they contend gives too much power to unelected officials. That provision drew the ire of New York University professor and former IBM official Ralph Gomory. Gomory told Voice of America this provision of a three-person panel to decide any controversy that might arise 'is not a democratic process.' He says 'it’s a process of a few people who are appointed and make a judgment.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "But, Damodaran said Uber's challenge is going to be showing how profitable it really is, especially with increasing competition. 'Investors are willing to wait a really long time and Uber may very well be able to convince investors, but I think the biggest challenge they face is, unlike a year ago when the competition was small and splintered, they are now playing against the big boys in their own game.'"

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "...long before the latest Guidelines were being contemplated, large food companies began witnessing the rapid evacuation of their consumers. Lobbying against the Dietary Guidelines will not change that, and with the microscope so sharply focused on them, it is likely to further damage consumer trust and backfire."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "Online talent platforms apply a similar approach to the world of work – with a similar impact. By creating regional, national, and even global job markets, they allow employers to tap into broader talent pools and connect job seekers with a wider universe of opportunities. In this way, they have transformed the typical job search, and are now approaching the critical mass needed to move employment numbers."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "The economy is this system that absorbs shocks, and either prices move when a shock hits the economy or quantities move when a shock hits the economy. What are these quantities I’m talking about? These are like the numbers of firms or the numbers of workers. So if we don’t make little adjustments in prices that help the economy adjust to these shocks, instead what we'll see is firms going bankrupt and people losing their jobs."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "In a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a group of researchers looked at 8.5 million credit card accounts. They found that for every 1 percentage point reduction in what it costs banks to borrow, banks extended $127 in credit to families with credit scores below 660. Those families spent 58¢ for every new dollar in credit. Under the same conditions, families with credit scores above 740 got $2,203 in extra credit. But they didn’t spend a penny of it. Says Johannes Stroebel of the NYU Stern School of Business, one of the authors: 'The targeting of these credit expansions is potentially to the wrong people, to the people that don’t want to borrow more.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "We should not let populist opinion drive regulation: it doesn't make sense to kill high frequency traders and the associated liquidity they provide just because they make money through intelligent machines. However, if the data quickly reveal patterns of behavior that destabilize markets, we should take focused action on the basis of such evidence."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "The costs of financial intermediation—including banking, investment management and legal, accounting and custodial support—has generally been rising since 1970, and today is equivalent to about 7% of U.S. gross domestic product, despite cost-obliterating new technologies and market deregulation, according to Thomas Philippon, a finance professor at New York University."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'We are in an era now where transparency is the watchword. It raises the issue of: Who is going to have the information? Is it just insiders?' said C. Samuel Craig, professor of marketing and international business at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from mbaMission -- "... Jeffrey Carr joined Stern’s full-time faculty in 2007 and is now a clinical professor of marketing and entrepreneurship. ... As one first year we interviewed said of his experience at Stern, 'So far, the most impressive class has been Marketing with Jeff Carr,' adding, 'He’s super engaging and makes you think more about the consequences of your actions in marketing than simply teaching you the tools. The class structure is very informal, but all of the students are learning a ton.'"

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'Is it just a matter of time, or are social media firms trying to force an unnatural act?' wonders Scott Galloway, a professor who teaches marketing and branding at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Galloway said it seems that perhaps people view social networks as more of the digital equivalent of a hanging out at a bar — a place where it feels right to socialize, but would seem awfully weird to buy a sweater or a plane ticket."

Excerpt from National Post -- "In his seminal 1990 article 'Endogenous Technical Change,' Paul Romer identified a couple of crucial features about new ideas. Firstly, they are what economists call non-rival goods: more than one person can share a new idea without affecting its usefulness to other people. In the absence of at least some IP protection, it would be almost impossible for firms or researchers to cover the costs of R&D. IP devices such as patents give their holders a temporary monopoly in the use of a certain technology, and those monopoly profits can be used to cover the costs of R&D."