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Professor Anindya Ghose explains the impact of malfunctioning Samsung phones on Apple's bottom line

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Excerpt from The New York Post -- "For Samsung, 'this PR disaster could not have come at a worse time,' says Anindya Ghose, a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. 'It definitely gives a temporary edge to Apple, especially for any consumer who was sitting on the fence,' Ghose added."
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NYU Stern-TCH Gallatin Lecture Series on Banking with Lord Mervyn King

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The NYU Stern Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions and The Clearning House hosted the Gallatin Lecture Series on Banking, on September 13, 2016.
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Professor Roy Smith shares his views on former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg's trial

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'He’s a very prickly guy and a very proud man, prepared to take his last years and much of his fortune to try and prove himself right and the others wrong,' said Roy Smith, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan's joint research on ridesharing is referenced

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Excerpt from Fast Co.Exist -- "Research by N.Y.U. researchers Samuel Fraiberger and Arun Sundararajan last year found that ride-sharing has a 'disproportionately positive effect on lower-income consumers' mostly because poorer groups are more likely to switch from owning to renting."
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Professor Kim Schoenholtz is interviewed about bank regulation

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Excerpt from The New Yorker -- "I spoke with Kermit Schoenholtz, a former chief economist at Citibank and now a professor of banking finance at the N.Y.U. Stern School of Business, and the co-author of an essential banking textbook. He told me that, since the beginning of the Great Depression, our system of bank regulation has relied on bank self-monitoring; it’s long been clear that government banking cops could never match the resources of the banks themselves. Each fine, then, serves two purposes: to punish the wrongdoing and also to warn all banks that they will pay a stiff price if they don’t root out such activity. But he warned me, 'The mechanism isn’t working.'"
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Professor Maria Patterson discusses the role of the Martin Act in the trial of former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Maria Patterson, who teaches business ethics and law at the Stern School of Business at New York University, said the state might be aided in court by the lack of a requirement to prove fraudulent intent, which is generally required in federal fraud cases. The state’s anti-fraud Martin Act, she said, 'is designed to deal with deceit that does not comply with standards of common honesty.'"
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Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the popularity of Roost, a space-rental startup

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Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'For something like parking, there is huge potential in the peer-to-peer model,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'There’s a shortage of it in pretty major every large city, and it typically doesn’t require using space inside someone’s house.'"
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Professor Richard Sylla is interviewed about negative interest rates

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Negative rates? You rub your eyes and search your memory. You can recall no precedent. And if you consult the latest edition of 'A History of Interest Rates' (2005) by Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla, you will find none. A recent check with Mr. Sylla confirms the impression. Today’s negative bond yields, he says, are the first in at least 5,000 years."
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Professor Aswath Damodaran shares his views on Uber's future

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "A question I often ask companies: 'If tomorrow you stopped growing, would you be able to make money on your existing business?' And I think the answer is no for Uber, if tomorrow, the game came to steady state. This is a business where they're giving away rides. What it costs me to go from where I live to Newark airport is $15. What it used to cost me on a cab is $55. There is no way with that $15 that that driver is making enough money to cover the cost of maintaining his car. This is not a sustainable, long-term business. Something has to change."
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Professor Adam Alter weighs in on the removal of text from some companies' logos

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "'Consumers are jaded about advertising in a way they weren’t several decades ago,' says Adam Alter, an associate professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, via email. 'It is harder to appeal to them than it used to be, and they tend to see through overt marketing pitches.' That has in turn led to a new arsenal of branding tactics. 'Companies have had to learn subtlety,' Alter says."
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One Additional Minute of Exposure to Display Advertising Can Boost Traffic to a Website by 10% - By Anindya Ghose

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New research from NYU Stern Professor Anindya Ghose and Emory University Professor Vilma Todri introduces a unique digital attribution framework to measure the effectiveness of display advertising on a consumer’s likelihood to search for a brand or product, and ultimately, make a purchase. 
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Professor Robert Engle identifies financial risks in China

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The risk is really interesting because the banks in China are owned by the government. They're state-owned enterprises. Much of the loans are to state-owned enterprises or to municipal governments. And so, in many ways, all this risk is essentially guaranteed by the government. So you might think there's no risk at all. But really, it's the government that bears that risk, and the government bears risks of trillions of dollars of loans. And unless there is better risk management by the banks and by other institutions, this risk is going to surface and be another negative factor in the Chinese growth puzzle."
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Professor Lawrence White weighs in on the relevance of Donald Trump's tax returns

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Excerpt from PolitiFact -- "'It is true that Trump's businesses have received a lot of attention, but without the release of Trump's tax returns, we don't know a lot about his personal financial situation,' said Lawrence White, an economist at New York University’s Stern School of Business."
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Professor Anindya Ghose discusses Apple's new iPhone 7

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "The release of a seemingly lackluster version could also end up benefitting Apple in at least one way, according to Anindya Ghose, a professor of information technology at NYU’s Stern School of Business. 'It’s a very smart experiment by Apple to test the true extent of their loyal base,' Ghose said. 'Sometimes, in the long scheme of things, these price experimentations are a great way for a company — even as brilliant as Apple — to be able to infer market appetite for future renditions of the same product.'"
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Professor Baruch Lev discusses the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)'s recent update

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Excerpt from CFO -- "'It’s a response to very detailed questions of companies about the classification of certain cash flows in the cash flow statement. The transactions are very specific and infrequent,' he added. In Lev’s view, FASB’s attempt to improve cash-flow accounting by adding rules rather than creating a system that rests on broad general principles 'increases GAAP complexity.'"
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Professor David Yermack discusses blockchain's impact on jobs in the financial services industry

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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- “‘If [blockchain] could be made to work there, it could be copied within a year or two all around the world,’ says David Yermack, professor of finance and business transformation at NYU’s Stern School of Business.”
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Economic Outlook Forum

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The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business will host the Economic Outlook Forum on September 7, 2016.
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Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz discusses her research on the labor conditions in Bangladesh's garment industry

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Excerpt from the National Post -- "'When I was doing research in 2013 and 2014, what I commonly heard is that there were estimates of about 2,000 unregistered factories in Bangladesh,' said Sarah Labowitz, co-author of the report, Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Bangladesh’s Forgotten Apparel Workers."
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Professor Lisa Leslie's research on women in business and trustworthiness is referenced

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Excerpt from USA Today -- "An NYU Stern School of Business study found women in power are consistently seen as less trustworthy than men in the same positions and a 1995 Journal of Social Behavior and Personality study found women’s mistakes tend to be noticed more and remembered longer."
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Professor Jonathan Haidt's work on moral judgment is featured

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "The psychologist Jonathan Haidt and others have shown that our moral stances strongly correlate with the degree of activation of those brain areas that generate a sense of disgust and revulsion. According to Haidt, reason provides an after-the-fact explanation for moral decisions that are preceded by inherently reflexive positive or negative feelings. Think about your stance on pedophilia or denying a kidney transplant to a serial killer. Long before you have a moral position in place, each scenario will have already generated some degree of disgust or empathy."
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Professor Roy Smith discusses declining profits in investment banking

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Boosting returns needed 'out-of-the-box thinking' and perhaps external pressure from activist shareholders, [Smith] said, to force deeper restructuring. 'Lots of stuff has to happen. These companies are essentially adrift at the moment.'"
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In an op-ed, Research Scholar Robert Frank explains why the Democratic party should invest in its races for the House of Representatives

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Some argue that money in politics doesn’t matter. That’s true in the sense that when both sides spend equally, their efforts tend to be mutually offsetting. But that’s why the current opportunity is unique. Democratic donors, who have already been giving generously, have both the means and the inclination to pay for an advertising blitz that Republicans probably cannot match this time around."
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MBA student Keith Riegert is interviewed about his experience at Stern and shares advice for prospective students

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Excerpt from Accepted.com -- "I’ve lived in New York for about five years now and knew that I wanted to pursue my MBA here. There is no place in the country that offers a better business education than New York City—this is the heart of commerce, banking and innovation. At Stern, we’ve got the Fed, Madison Avenue, Wall Street and Silicon Alley all within walking distance of campus."
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Stern is highlighted as a top ten school for marketing majors; Professor Priya Raghubir is quoted

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Excerpt from Universities.com -- "[Our] location within New York City and our Global Network are truly the two factors that differentiate our program from that of other schools. New York City [is] a hub for marketing and advertising, and as such there is ample opportunity for students to find internships or careers."
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Professor Pankaj Ghemawat analyzes the global implications of Brexit

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Excerpt from AIB Insights -- "...the law of semiglobalization seems essential to the possibility of Brexit being consequential. If globalization were so weak that cross-border interactions didn’t matter much, neither would Brexit nor any other international realignment. And if globalization were so strong that the world was close to completely integrated, the adverse consequences of leaving the EU (and snapping back to WTO arrangements as a worst case scenario) would be limited as well."

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