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Excerpt from InformationWeek -- "I see it as a move where Google is reducing its own risk. But I'd like to see them be more forthright in spelling out what they will and won't do with customer data."

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Health care and government alone accounted for 40 percent of that growth, according to economist Michael Spence."

Excerpt from IR Update -- "Over the years, listening to corporate executives and observing what they do, I have concluded that many are captive to a web of misperceptions about the workings of capital markets."

Excerpt from SmartMoney -- "'A high-end restaurant will charge $32 for a steak because it makes it seem more luxurious than a steak for $31.99,' [Morwitz] says."

Excerpt from NPR -- "In 'The Righteous Mind,' Jonathan Haidt ... a moral perspective, he argues, is a feature of our evolutionary design. Morality has made it possible for human beings — unlike any other creatures — to forge large, cohesive, cooperative groups."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'Those numbers are just cash bonuses, but you don’t have the full compensation,' said Xavier Gabaix ... 'The comptroller should absolutely report deferred compensation. Otherwise, it’s hard to interpret the results.'"

Excerpt from Reuters blog -- "Thomas Philippon, a professor at New York University, has shown that the share of U.S. national income dedicated to finance has fallen only slightly since the crisis, when it was at its highest since records began in 1865."

Excerpt from NBC -- "Even if there is no price promotion on items on an end-of-aisle display, many consumers assume there is."

Excerpt from WIRED -- "The secret, it turns out, is the presence of particular meta-ideas, which support the spread of other ideas. First proposed by economist Paul Romer, meta-ideas include concepts like the patent system, public libraries, and universal education."

Excerpt from BBC blog -- "Nouriel Roubini thinks the oil price spike out of the Arab revolts could push the world economy into stagflation. There is also the risk that currency war breaks out into open trade war."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "By sharing information with the market, companies reduce investor uncertainty and prevent stock prices from swinging wildly upon unexpected bad news."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- " ... evidence of managerial bias is provided by a recent comparison of the investment behavior of otherwise similar public and private companies between 2001 and 2007 by the economists John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "In a paper with Xavier Gabaix and Tomasz Sadzik of New York University and Yuliy Sannikov of Princeton, we show that optimal compensation packages involve long vesting periods."

Excerpt from Advertising Age -- "Internet-specific evidence on the importance of personalized messages was observed by New York University Professor Sinan Aral, in a rare experimental study of Facebook-app adoption."

Excerpt from The Boston Globe -- "When runners raced against one or more rivals, [Kilduff] found, they sped up — increasing their average speed by five seconds per kilometer. They got a clear performance benefit."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "'Stock splits are empty gestures,' says Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He says lowering stock prices can enlarge the pool of potential investors; with more investors bidding for a stock, the price can go up."

Excerpt from Inc. Magazine -- "All businesses, whether big or small, should go to the trouble of learning those little things that customers value above and beyond the basic product or service."

Excerpt from WIRED -- "'When we can process a piece of information more easily, when it’s easier to comprehend, we come to like it more,' said psychologist Adam Alter of New York University."

Excerpt from MSNBC -- “Right now you have a situation at Facebook where there’s a benevolent dictatorship, but my concern is they tend to become malevolent dictatorships, and that can hurt you when it comes to the pinch."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "NYU’s Sinan Aral will close the day with a discussion about social network analysis and what it reveals about how we really work. Yes, Twitter and Facebook are changing the way you turn up at your desk."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think there are still big dangers lurking in the euro system and European economies. Making progress on the Greece restructuring is definitely a good thing, but the progress has been very slow."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "So making the recommended 36-month [credit card] payment wouldn’t get the customer out of debt in three years, even if the customer makes no new purchases, [Gartenberg] said. In fact, it’s likely to take much longer."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "'The numbers must be taken with a grain of salt.' That’s because there are a host of issues that can make any GDP comparisons misleading, including how the quality of goods varies from country to country, he explains."

Excerpt from BBC -- "HP is one of those iconic American companies. It still has a really strong brand, it's one of those quintessential Silicon Valley startups from a garage. It's been around for over 70 years, so there's a lot of history there."