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Excerpt from National Review -- "To understand the anger of the tea-party movement, just imagine how you would feel if you learned that government physicists were building a particle accelerator that might, as a side effect of its experiments, nullify the law of gravity." Additional coverage appeared in The Atlantic Wire.

Excerpt from George Washington University Business School blog -- "As part of GWSB’s ongoing Dean’s Distinguished Lecture series, Joe Porac, the George Daly Professor in Business Leadership at NYU Stern School of Business, discusses how perceptions of elite CEOs change with increased recognition."

Excerpt from Wireless News -- "There used to be a time when there was not enough information. Today, there is information overload on the Internet. However, by automatically mining the plethora of unstructured data on the web, we can harness the wisdom of the crowds to work to the consumer's advantage."  Additional coverage appeared in Health & Beauty Close-Up.

Excerpt from Economics Week -- "Joining Mr. Ferik in the panel discussion was Carol O'Rourke, a Certified Financial Planner(R) and executive director of the Coalition for Debtor Education, a nonprofit organization housed at Fordham University Law School, and Lawrence J. White, Ph.D., distinguished economics professor and economics department deputy chair at New York University's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Green Spaces -- "Jill does believe there is a community of new social entrepreneurs in NYC, its just fragmented. There are schools and programs that create community, but you have to be part of that program (apply, be admitted)."

Excerpt from PRWeb -- “Establishing direct relationships with end consumers through e-commerce and social media represents a significant opportunity for European niche fashion brands to grow.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg Radio -- "Michael Spence, Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics and professor of economics at NYU Stern School of Business, discusses Greece, Italy and jobs in the U.S."

Excerpt from American Progress Action Fund -- "According to financial statement research by New York University professor Aswath Damodaran, drug and biotechnology firms paid a small fraction of the statutory rate (effective rates of 4.5 and 5.6 percent, respectively); while heavy construction and trucking firms paid close to 35 percent (33.8 percent and 30.9 percent, respectively)."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Unless relatively low interest rates prevail in France, Italy, Spain, and so on, it will be hard for the euro to be held together."

Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "The benefits that accrue from such access to a company's top management appear to be substantial, including 'significant increases in trade sizes' and 'significant potential trading gains.'"

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "The Mei Moses index, created in 2000 by New York University professors Jianping Mei and Michael Moses, tracks a proprietary database of some 27,000 repeat sales at worldwide auctions of investment-grade art." Additional coverage appeared in ArtNet and ArtVest.com

Excerpt from CFA Institute blog -- "Damodaran points to the increasing correlation between international markets as evidence that country risk cannot be diversified away entirely. He considers three measures for estimating the country risk premium: the default spread on a country’s sovereign debt, a premium based on equity market volatility relative to the U.S., and a hybrid approach."

Excerpt from St. Petersburg Times -- "The U.S.'s ranking 'is a far cry from 'most difficult,' wrote Lawrence J. White of New York University in an e-mail, pointing to the World Bank ratings."

Excerpt from Business Info Guide -- "'The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking…Because People Do Business With People They Like' is a book that encourages people to reconsider the way they build relationships." Additional coverage appeared in ABA Banking Journal.

Excerpt from Harvard Law blog -- "To summarize, skewness and volatility related patterns observed in stock returns are consistent with the dynamics of disclosures by firms and the incentives of managers who have discretion over disclosure timing."

Excerpt from NYU Entrepreneur -- “Nobody’s ever ready [to become an entrepreneur] – you just have to dive in.”

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "... reliance on the 18 to 49 demographic is hazardous to all media and marketers... There is no link, none, between the age of the specified demographic delivery of the campaign and the sales generated by that campaign."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "Taken together, the moves brought confidence back to the banking system and enabled cross-border transfers to recommence, according to William Silber of New York University, saving the American monetary union."

During an interview, Professor Anindya Ghose discussed Walmart's entry into commerce using social media.

Excerpt from Reuters Video -- "Across a couple of research studies we've found that people put about twice as much money into a hypothetical retirement account when they're exposed images of their future selves compared to when they're not." Additional coverage appeared on Bankrate.com and Investment Weekly News.

Excerpt from MSN -- "Given the feelings out there about banks, and particularly banks that took taxpayer money, it was not a well considered decision. ... It's one of those things that pares back reputation."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “Regulators started telling their financial institutions, starting with the banks, you must pay attention to only these handful of entities. ... That gives the NRSROs a lock.” Additional coverage appeared in NCPA, Bloomberg Businessweek and San Francisco Chronicle.

Excerpt from Los Angeles Times blog -- "The group says it has about 200 members in all, including more than a dozen current and former Google employees, actress Edie Falco and economist Nouriel Roubini."

Excerpt from NewsMax -- "Every few years, the idea of imposing a 'sin tax' on Wall Street makes a comeback, and the idea is back again in the wake of the financial crisis."