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In an op-ed, Prof. Nouriel Roubini discusses a bailout for Spanish banks

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Ideally, a bailout for Spanish banks should come immediately and in the form of direct capital injections from the EU bailout funds."
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Prof. Paul Romer is featured for implementing his charter cities theory in Honduras

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Excerpt from The New York Times Magazine -- "Romer, who is expected to be chairman, is hoping to build a city that can accommodate 10 million people, which is 2 million more than the current population of Honduras. His charter city will have extremely open immigration policies to attract foreign workers from all over."
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Prof. Scott Galloway on Michigan's governor, Rick Snyder

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Excerpt from Reuters India -- "'This is a guy who got along with the board, who got along with employees and who got along with Ted Waitt as the stock went from $80 to a buck,' said Scott Galloway, a well-known activist investor and marketing professor at New York University who was on Gateway's board at the time."
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Prof. Melissa Schilling is featured for her research on cognitive insight

Excerpt from IEDP blog -- "What brings about the ‘aha’ moment, when the strategy puzzle suddenly falls into place? Melissa Schilling of NYU Stern School of Business, has studied this process and discovered that often it happens when an unlikely association of ideas occurs through a random yet purposeful search that then creates a ‘shortcut’ to seeing a new pattern or system."
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Prof. Nicholas Economides on the Greek elections

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Excerpt from Bloomberg Radio -- "I think they need one more party at least to be able have a viable coalition and the most likely candidate is a party called Democratic Left which is against the austerity but maybe not as strong in that respect as the other parties."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent on the derivatives market

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'It’s the paradox of a free market,' Mr. Sargent said. 'Markets are great, they function very well, but nobody has the incentive to create the set of rules.'"
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Prof. Arun Sundararajan on Facebook's valuation

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Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "'The valuation [of Facebook] does seem high relative to their most recent revenues. However, I don't think the optimism is unwarranted,' says Arun Sundararajan, an associate professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at NYU's Stern School of Business."
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Engle is profiled

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Excerpt from Risk Magazine -- "Unlike many in the quantitative finance world, Robert Engle, the Michael Armellino professor of finance at New York University (NYU) is no physicist or mathematician – he is an economist through and through. Before going into finance, he worked in urban economics and econometrics, and even studied the effect of weather on electricity demand ... "
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Prof. Nicholas Economides on political parties opposed to austerity in Greece

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Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "There's a whole bunch of [anti-austerity parties in Greece], both from the left and from the right. ... They don't like the present situation, they want to change it, but they don't have any concrete plans, except possibly some would say Greece would leave the euro."
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini shares his global economic outlook

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Excerpt from CNBC -- 'People who believe that in five years we’re going to be energy-independent are deluding themselves. It’s going to be a 10- to 20-year story,' he said."
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Prof. Samuel Craig on the options for online TV content providers

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "If you sell more ad time you increase the clutter, it becomes less desirable as a watching experience place for consumers. So you're ultimately between a rock and a hard place."
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Executive-in-Residence Sheila Wellington on the role of a CEO's executive assistant

Excerpt from Chief Executive Magazine -- "'Anything that can be delegated so that the executive assistant can focus on the CEO's needs saves the CEO time,' says Sheila W. Wellington, clinical professor of management and organizations at New York University's Stern School of Business."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan's research on India's UID and entrepreneurial activity

Excerpt from Innovation News Daily -- "'There are going to be much more reliable ways of people keeping track of and demonstrating human capital in ways that I haven't seen in any other country,' Sundararajan told InnovationNewsDaily."
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Dean Geeta Menon on an anti-childhood obesity ad campaign

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Geeta Menon, a professor of marketing and dean of the undergraduate college at the Stern School of Business at New York University, said she liked the ads’ suggestion of 'tactical things people can do to be healthier.'"
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Engle suggests higher US inflation rates

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “A little bit of inflation would do a whole lot of good for the U.S. economy, would certainly do a lot of good for the housing market.”
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Robert Engle on bank regulation

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think one of the real dilemmas in bank regulation is that so much of it's based on accounting numbers. And the accounting numbers don't typically reflect market values and the forward-looking views of financial investors."
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Prof. Tulin Erdem observes changes in classic advertising agencies

Excerpt from CRM Magazine -- "'Everything is about the integration across different communication channels, and many classic advertising agencies now offer consulting or creative services in all domains,' Erdem observes."
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Prof. Paul Romer is featured for his idea to create charter cities in developing countries

Excerpt from Development Asia Magazine -- "'Instead of focusing on poor nations and how to change their rules, we should focus on poor people and how they can move somewhere with better rules,' [Romer] wrote in 2009. 'One way to do this is with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of new 'charter cities,' where developed countries frame the rules and hundreds of millions of poor families could become residents.'"
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A course taught by Prof. William Baumol on economic theory is highlighted

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Thanks to Professor Baumol's friendly but demanding tutelage, I gained a quiet confidence that was (is) a gift of incredible value. An impersonal educational setting, or studying with a much less gifted teacher, would not have permitted that kind of learning."
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Prof. Thomas Philippon's Eurobills proposal is featured

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The Eurobills proposal put forward by Christian Hellwig, a professor at Toulouse School of Economics, and Thomas Philippon, an associate professor of finance at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, calls for a European debt management office as the monopoly seller of euro-denominated bills."
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Prof. Jonathan Haidt's book, "The Righteous Mind," is highlighted

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "In 'The Righteous Mind,' [Haidt] draws primarily on his own pioneering work in social psychology to explain how morality “binds and blinds”. His book, which is already creating waves among the political classes on both sides of the Atlantic, employs a striking series of metaphors."
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Prof. Adam Alter's co-authored research on exceptional expenses is referenced

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'The Exception Is the Rule: Underestimating and Overspending on Exceptional Expenses,' Abigail B. Sussman and Adam L. Alter, Journal of Consumer Research (forthcoming)."
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Prof. Panos Ipeirotis on how cloud computing can backfire

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Excerpt from WIRED -- "As the world moves more and more information to cloud services from the likes of Amazon and Google, these services don’t always interact as effectively as they should. Amazon Web Services can save you money, but Ipeirotis’ tale also shows that there are cases where the cloud can backfire."
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Professor Nicholas Economides on the antitrust allegations against Google

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "'The big problem in the high-tech industry is companies can very quickly go from a small market share to high market share, and the culture doesn’t change so quickly,' Economides said. 'They did the same things when they were at 15% market share, and suddenly they’re at 60% and they’re in trouble.'"

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