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Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "Ironically, Harry Winston’s Web site design is aligned with the retailer’s loss of direction. The cleanliness of the site is inconsistent with the allure expected from Harry Winston."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'The economic contraction used to be in the periphery of the euro zone,' Roubini said in a speech in Mainz, Germany, today. 'It is spreading now to the core of the euro zone. For example, it is quite clear that France is entering a recession.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "There are three elements of a fiscal cliff that are coming up to debate: one is what to do about the budget for 2013, that's the fiscal cliff debate, then there will be a separate debate about the debt ceiling for the United States, and then the two parties, Democrats and Republicans, they have to reach an agreement also over the medium term fiscal consolidation to reduce the deficit over the next 5-10 years so there are three separate situations in which the two parties are going to be fighting about this budget."

Excerpt from YourStory -- “My advice to them would be care about analytics. In a world where top level strategy doesn’t matter so much any more, what is going to matter is given the data sets that are being generated, invest in resources within your company to mine that data using tools to identify trends and usage patterns.”

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "Joe Magee, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, notes that history skips over most corporate leaders, with the rare exception of company founders and business icons."

Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- "'You might, for example, compare different moderators' work against each other,' says Ipeirotis. 'So, if you're worried about cultural biases, you can take five moderators from different regions and get blended input on an image.'"

Prasanna ("Sonny") Tambe, Assistant Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, was awarded a $401,624 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The three-year grant is to provide funding for research on the “Economics of Information Technology Labor Markets Using Administrative Datasets.”

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "I think most Americans, including most Republicans, would reject the Trojan Horse gift if they knew what was inside it."

Excerpt from Techonomy -- "... you may not be connected to the peer economy, but because it is disrupting industries that are heavily regulated, it is something that you should pay attention to. Because the case law that will be the precedent for future answers to the question, 'is a digital intermediary liable for actions that are taken on its platform,' is probably going to happen in the next decade with these peer economy platforms."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "Capital market banks face three especially tough issues that will shape their future during the next presidential term."

Excerpt from the Wall Street Journal -- "Count New York University economist Paul Romer among the rebalancing skeptics. 'I don’t buy into the consensus,' says Mr. Romer, who is among the U.S.’s most influential economists. 'I don’t think it’s clear that [domestic consumption] is the way to go in China. The degree of certainty with which people advocate this idea obscures the debate.'”

Excerpt from Psychology Today -- "When experiencing nostalgia, you may feel happiness thinking about what once was, but also a slight twinge of sadness when you recognize that certain aspects of your life, or life in general, are no longer present."

Excerpt from The Times -- "Musings on Markets, by Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at New York University, is written in a way that makes finance easily accessible to non-finance students."

Excerpt from Gizmodo -- "It's an uphill battle for Nokia despite lower prices," says Prof. Ghose. "There are always takers for lower price goods, but in the smartphone market [Nokia] has too much of a late-mover disadvantage compared to Apple and Samsung."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "To read William L. Silber’s engaging biography of Paul Volcker in the fall of 2012 is to be reminded of a time, not so long ago, when a cadre of public servants, respected for their knowledge, integrity and practical experience, were allowed to guide government policy even as presidents, partisans and ideological fashions swept in and out of Washington."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "Indeed, in the United States, lessons from the Katrina experience appear to have strengthened response capacity, as shown by the rapid and effective intervention following Hurricane Sandy. But investments designed to control the extent of damage seem to be persistently neglected. Redressing this imbalance requires a focus on key infrastructure."

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Just after the election, Republicans are hurting -- but they'll calm down just as Kerry supporters did when Bush was elected to a second term in 2004. The question, then, is why we're treated to this spike in melodrama every four years. And the answer comes down to a simple psychological truth: that people have no idea how much pain they'll feel when they experience a dreaded outcome."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "In other words, America faces many serious threats, but each side sees some and denies others. Morality binds and blinds."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The absolute best thing that we can do for Europe is to engineer our own economic recovery as fast as we can."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "The case could have broad implications for similar litigation around the world. 'It’s a surprise,' says Lawrence White, an economics professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'It may well be that we will see more of these types of things.'”

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "To Savov, garbage is valuable not only for its own worth, but because, in a mathematical sense, it represents many of the things that people and corporations treasure most. Maybe, just maybe, he implies, the rises and falls in garbage production reliably and fairly accurately measure what a society is worth."

Excerpt from Policy Options Magazine -- "Renowned American economist William Baumol was among the first to identify the condition in which industries dependent on personal services — education, the performing arts and health care — prove resistant to productivity gains."

Excerpt from the Journal of Portfolio Management -- "Given their value and relative scarcity, it is no surprise that identifying alpha hunters is not an easy task. While all marketing disclaimers state that past performance is not an indication of future performance, past alpha generators are a good place to start when looking for investment stars."

Excerpt from India Tribune -- "The keynote speaker was Dr. Geeta Menon, Dean, Undergraduate College and Abraham Krasnoff, Professor of Global Business, Stern School of Business, New York University. Dr. Menon was honored for her achievement in the field of education."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "In an analysis of the extent to which stock and bond prices forecast a company’s future profit, Jennie Bai of the New York Fed and Thomas Philippon and Alexi Savov of New York University’s Stern School of Business said what they called financial market informativeness hasn’t increased in the past half century. Earnings surprises have grown relative to total uncertainty, they said."