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Excerpt from The Washington Times -- "Experts have warned recently that Facebook remains vulnerable ahead of 2020, however, and Instagram maybe more than ever. A report published last month by the New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights warned that Instagram’s focus on images rather than words makes it an 'ideal venue' for spreading easy-to-digest disinformation, weeks after Facebook’s former head of security raised similar concerns."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- Data from the Securities Enforcement Empirical Database (SEED) on SEC settlements with public companies, jointly created by the NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business, is featured.
 

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'We are seeing again that the aim of the Russians is not exclusively to favor one candidate over another but to create divisiveness within the electorate overall,' said Paul M. Barrett, deputy director of New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. 'The reason that networks of phony accounts are drawn to Instagram is because disinformation is increasingly visual in nature, and that’s what Instagram specializes in.'”

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "When Tensie Whelan, the former president of the Rainforest Alliance, joined New York University’s Stern School of Business, it was on condition that it establish a centre to support serious research into sustainability. Now she is running Stern’s Centre for Sustainable Business, she says: 'I’m looking at designing research that will help us best understand how to best design the next stage of capitalism.'”

Excerpt from Inside Philanthropy -- "New York University’s Stern School of Business announced that it received a $5 million gift from alumna Elizabeth Elting (MBA ’92), the single largest gift from a self-made woman in the school’s history. With her gift, Elting aims to champion the next generation of talented and entrepreneurial women affiliated with her alma mater."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'The leaders from the business schools of Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Duke and New York University and others want the Trump administration to remove the limits on visas granted to individual countries, reform the H-1B visa program to increase the chances that top skilled talent gains entry to the U.S., and even create a so-called “heartland visa” to encourage the flow of such skilled workers to parts of the U.S. 'that could most use the vitality of these talented individuals.'”

Excerpt from The Hill -- “'The policies they’ve announced are an explicit invitation to politicians to spread falsehoods,' Paul Barrett, the deputy director of the New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, told The Hill. 'And that is not something that we ought to applaud.'”
 

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Things have looked pretty solid on the internship front for Stern MBA students over the last three summers. In that span, more than half of MBAs (50.6%) secured their interviews through school-facilitated interviews, while just under a quarter — 23.3% — got their summer gigs through on-campus postings. For the Class of 2019, 100% of students seeking internships secured them. In the Class of 2020, more than 86% found their summer internship directly through a Stern-supported activity."

Excerpt from Find MBA -- "'Generationally, there seems to be more concern for these types of issues,' says NYU Stern School of Business professor Anthony Marciano, who is faculty advisor of the Michael Price Student Investment Fund (MPSIF). Indeed, 86 percent of millennials (20-somethings) say that sustainability is a priority for them in their investments, according to research by JPMorgan Private Bank."
 

Excerpt from The Verge -- "In a new filing, a group of seven economists and antitrust experts say the court should reject the DOJ’s proposed solution, calling it 'doom[ed] ... to failure' and 'a remedy that does not meet the standard of restoring the competition currently provided by Sprint.'”

"'The difficulty is these threats are morphing and proliferating,' Barrett tells Fortune. 'My impression is that the tech companies are trying in good faith to protect their users, but the new threats are challenging even for someone with Facebook’s technological prowess.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "...a few highly ranked schools have launched high-profile new programs to respond to the demand — among them, NYU’s Stern School of Business and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business."

Excerpt from Insider -- "Adams then made her way back to the business school building to complete her second lab session. Not far away, in the same building, Adams had her first class of the day called "Patterns of Entrepreneurship" where she pitched a new business opportunity in front of her class. Stern is consistently ranked among the nation's best."

Excerpt from Philanthropy News Digest -- "The largest gift from a woman entrepreneur in the school's history will support, over ten years, Elizabeth Elting Women's Leadership Fellowships for a total of forty female MBA students who demonstrate academic merit and, in association with the school's Endless Frontier Labs program, provide seed capital to twenty women-led businesses through the Elizabeth Elting Venture Fund."

Excerpt from The Chronicle of Philanthropy -- "Elizabeth Elting donated $5 million through her eponymous foundation to establish the Elizabeth Elting Women’s Leadership Fellowship, which will support 40 female MBA students; and to back an additional 20 women-led businesses through the Elizabeth Elting Venture Fund."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "It is one of a few cases across the country where B-schools are tackling what many in business and graduate management education consider the most important issue of our time; NYU Stern‘s Climate Science: Realities & Risks of a Changing Climate, taught by Steve Koonin, is another."

Excerpt from Elle -- (Translated from Italian using Google Translate) "The GCFA North Star Award: NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion, two organizations that have combined global research with sustainability issues."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "There are 'risks of tailwinds and costs to monetary policy being too accommodative,' Mr. Rosengren said in the text of a speech to be delivered Friday at an event at New York University. 'Additional accommodation is not needed for an economy where labor markets are already tight—and risks further inflating the prices of riskier assets, and encouraging households and firms to take on what may be too much leverage.'"
 

Excerpt from MSNBC -- "[Sources of disinformation] range from individuals on peripheral sites like 4Chan and 8Chan -- there's a lot of explicit racist activity... all the way up to the President of the United States, who uses Twitter, on many occasions, to make pronouncements that turn out to be completely false."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "When asked, 'Why the Stern School of Business?' students of the incoming NYU Stern Class of 2021 applauded the customizable curriculum and the school’s New York City location as highest on their list of reasons. Candidates can choose up to 3 specializations from over 20 options and can take up to one quarter of their classes for the degree with NYU Stern’s international partner institutions. In regards to location, Lisa Rios, executive director of MBA admissions at Stern, said, 'We make the student experience all about transformation, and we leverage our home in NYC and our deep connection to industry to make that happen.'"

Excerpt from Cheddar -- "'I think there's every reason to worry that the purveyors of disinformation have learned from what the Russians did in 2016 and will be back with new, different, and more challenging forms of untruth,' Paul Barrett, the deputy director of NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, told Cheddar."

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Facebook and Twitter received the lion’s share of attention in connection with Russia’s election interference in 2016. But Instagram was more important as a vehicle for disinformation than is commonly understood, and it could become a crucial Russian instrument again next year."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- "Largely showcasing thought-provoking research pieces from NYU Stern professors, this account is the place to go if you’re looking for interesting thought pieces on politics, popular culture, and technology. Recent articles include an investigation into Donald Trump’s body language and investigating the market consequences of Tesla’s solar-powered roof tiles—all varied stuff."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In 2019, however, only one school — Stanford Graduate School of Business, with 24 — hired more than 20 new professors, with NYU’s Stern School of Business and USC’s Marshall School of Business following at 16 apiece, and Chicago Booth notching 13. In all, just eight schools in the top 25 hired 10 or more new faculty."

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "New York University’s Stern School of Business doubled down on its commitment to social impact with the launch of a brand new Center for Sustainable Business in 2016. ... There is a strong contingent of Sternies who come in deeply passionate about social impact and look to get involved in many ways. Some choose a specialization in Sustainable Business and Innovation, taking courses on topics ranging from impact investing and microfinance to energy and the environment and global poverty alleviation. Others take part in numerous clubs on campus related to sustainability and the environment or social impact."