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Prof. Edward Altman on Europe's sovereign debt crisis

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "You can't sustain an Italy rescue if constantly we're getting negative news about GDP growth, about company profitability, about unemployment, etc. They've got to change that and change the perception that it's going to be changed."
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Prof. Thomas Philippon discusses "the future of the euro zone"

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Excerpt from Council on Foreign Relations -- "The metaphor is: suppose you live next to a nuclear power plant and there is a leak. Well, you know, you could try to fix the power plant -- that's fixing Italy; otherwise, putting duct tape on your window, which is like putting capital in your banks, is not going to help you very much." Additional coverage appeared in the Associated Press Planner.
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An op-ed by Prof. Amity Shlaes on Harvard students walking out of an economics class

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Look closely at the Harvard protest and you find a problem opposite to the one alleged. Ec 10, though still Keynes-flavored, does feature intellectual variety relative to the rest of Harvard’s curriculum." Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Livemint, and The New American.
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Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent on advising the Hutchin Hill Hedge Fund

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "For me, this is essentially academic work. What I do is I go down to their offices, they ask me some questions, and I go to the blackboard. It’s almost like a seminar. We talk about what makes the macroeconomy tick."
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An op-ed by Prof. Joel Rubinson on the marketing concept "recency planning"

Excerpt from RetailWire -- "If you could find advertising vehicles that were "recency-tilted" by their nature, that is, more likely to deliver impressions closer to the purchase, you will get greater ad response — practically guaranteed." Additional coverage appeared in RetailWire.
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Prof. Lawrence Lenihan's course on entrepreneurship is highlighted

Excerpt from Columbia Spectator -- "One of the most popular classes at the school is called Ready, FIRE! Aim, taught by Lawrence Lenihan, a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and founder of Pequot Ventures and FirstMark Capital."
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An interview with Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence on globalization & unemployment

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Excerpt from Foreign Affairs -- "Foreign Affairs Managing Editor Jonathan Tepperman interviews Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence on current trends in unemployment, government spending and policy, the speed of globalization, and Obama's options for a troubled economy." Additional coverage appeared in ipolitics360.com.
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Prof. Nouriel Roubini's book, "Crisis Economics," is reviewed

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Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "In "Crisis Economics," Roubini teams with professor Stephen Mihm to discuss the ongoing financial crisis, providing context and assessing the risks and opportunities that policymakers now face." Additional coverage appeared in FirstPost.
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Research by Prof. Panos Ipeirotis shows humans help computers work smarter, and vice versa

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- “Computers couldn’t ID humans in the photo ... but humans couldn’t know the context.”
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An op-ed by Prof. Nouriel Roubini on Italy's place in the euro zone

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "...Italy may, like other periphery countries, need to exit the monetary union and go back to a national currency, thus triggering an effective break-up of the euro zone."
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Prof. Lawrence White participated in a Keynes vs. Hayek debate on 11/9

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Excerpt from The New Yorker -- "Up steps Lawrence White, of N.Y.U. ... White gives a good account of himself, getting in jabs at Steve for bucking the market and me for failing to read all of 'Prices and Production,' Hayek’s 1931 tract." Additional coverage appeared in Reuters blog and The Daily Beast.
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Prof. Jeffrey Wurgler's research on market financing decisions is featured

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Excerpt from Barron's -- "Given the results of Profs. Baker and Wurgler's research, this strongly suggests that corporate managers view their debt as being overvalued and their equity undervalued."
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Prof. Edward Altman on the Greek economy

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Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "Fashion, technology, energy and a very wealthy private and corporate sector -- which Greece does not have, and there's no chance for a country to survive over the long run without some sort of competitive advantages."
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Prof. Aswath Damodaran on micro-managing stock market data

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Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- “Once you start micro-managing the data looking for patterns, you will find them simply because there is so much data that there have to be patterns."
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In an op-ed Profs David Backus & Thomas Cooley look at 2011 Nobel Laureate Prof. Thomas Sargent

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Excerpt from VoxEU.org -- "Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims gave us a coherent framework with which to think about and discuss these critical policy issues. And they fully anticipated the difficult dilemmas we now face as a consequence of recent fiscal policy."  Additional coverage appeared on Wall Street Pit.
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An op-ed by Prof. Robert Frank on building bridges between liberals and conservatives

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Excerpt from USA Today -- "Visionary politics from both the left and right has caused deadlock in our legislative system. And, given eminent domain, public goods and free rider issues, plus the American love of a bureaucratic planning wrangle, we couldn't get politics out of infrastructure even if Ron Paul were king." Additional coverage appeared in The Daily Beast.
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An op-ed by Prof. Eric Schoenberg on taxes

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "I think that the claim that anybody who favors higher taxes is morally obliged to pay more than they legally owe shows a fundamental misconception about the basis for the social compact we call government." Additional coverage appeared in AllVoices, Reuters, CNNMoney, ABC News, The Huffington Post, CommonDreams.org, enewspf.com, Accounting Today, Afro.com and ThirdAge.
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Prof. Anthony Marciano on the AT&T-T-Mobile merger debate

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Excerpt from International Business Times -- "Marciano pointed out that in this economy, it may be politically toxic to approve of a merger that would lead to significant job cuts."
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Prof. Anat Lechner on the rapper Baba Brinkman

Excerpt from MacCleans -- “He’s a walking example of innovation, differentiation, value-adding and the bizarre. ... These are exactly the things we teach business students to do.”
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Prof. Eric Greenleaf on downtown Manhattan's school overcrowding

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- "When Peck Slip opens in 2015, the neighborhood’s overall school capacity will be four years behind its demand, according to Eric Greenleaf, a professor of New York University’s Stern School of Business and an active member of NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force."
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Prof. Daniel Altman on investing in public health

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Excerpt from Foreign Affairs -- "As development economist Daniel Altman recently explained, in a global economy, 'these people are your consumers, your workers, your investors.'"
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A new paper by Prof. Nouriel Roubini on the European fiscal crisis is featured

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The fundamental difficulty throughout has been the failure to understand the nature of the crisis. Nouriel Roubini of New York University’s Stern School of Business makes the relevant points in a recent paper."
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Prof. Tulin Erdem on P&G's marketing revamp for Ivory soap

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Tulin Erdem, a professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, said the campaign tried to keep up 'with the times without sounding too trendy,' while 'mocking lightheartedly the soap industry.'"

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