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Excerpt from Forbes -- "This means that brand names that are short and easy to pronounce will have a built-in advantage over brands with long, difficult names. Indeed, in his new book Drunk Tank Pink, Princeton psychologist Adam Alter describes his research project that showed companies with fluent names generated higher returns in the stock market in short-term trading."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "I'm quite concerned about the US economy. Certainly, people underestimated how much the increase in taxes, payroll and income and now the sequester would affect the economy. My view was the debt would imply a fiscal drag of at least 1.6-1.7% this year and therefore the economy this year is not going to grow much more than 1.6% given the significant fiscal drag."

Excerpt from the Council on Foreign Relations -- "The reason why I called the book 'Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth' is because if we take kind of a unifying message across...the last three decades, going back to roughly the late 1970s until now, how is it that countries that were formally called third world countries...became emerging markets? And I think the central point to take away is they did that through what I would call discipline."

NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program Area and the Evolution Institute co-hosted a workshop to assess the possible applications of evolutionary thinking – including gene-culture co-evolution, multi-level selection and the multiple paths by which humans became ultrasocial creatures – for business and business ethics.

A team of NYU Stern MBA students comprising Nazly Havez, Zeev Krieger, Amy Nelson and Matthew Seden took the top spot in the 2013 Aspen Business & Society International MBA Case Competition.

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- “'It doesn’t hurt for men to see ads with David Beckham, Mario Lopez and Tim Tebow,' Morwtiz says."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'I'm not convinced there's a big problem because these REITs are holding relatively liquid securities and represent a modest part of the mortgage market,' said Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, director of New York University's Stern Center for real estate finance research."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- “'Right now, Apple is being priced as though it has no future growth,' he said."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'The U.S. right now is doing the opposite of the optimal, because we have no medium-term plan for fiscal consolidation' due to political gridlock, 'and we don’t have actual short-term stimulus,' Roubini said."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "In fact volatility supremo and NYU Stern professor Robert Engle, who led the development of the SRISK system, expressed scepticism about this when we asked him about it at a conference in Sydney late last year."

Excerpt from MIT Technology Review -- "For example, Anindya Ghose, codirector of New York University’s Center for Business Analytics, cites a startup called C3metrics that is perfecting ways to track not only people across multiple devices, but also to track their “engagement” with mobile ads by determining whether they scrolled down far enough to even see it, or whether they hovered their mouse over the ad on a webpage."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "If there’s one big winner in the demise of finance, it is consulting, probably the only industry in which salaries match or exceed those in financial services. For example, 22 percent of 2012 MBA graduates from New York University’s Stern School of Business took jobs in investment banking, down from 31 percent in 2010. Over the same period, the proportion snagging jobs in consulting rose from 15 percent in 2010 to 22 percent in 2012. In 2012, salaries for Stern grads in investment banking jobs averaged $103,254; consulting salaries averaged $126,696."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants for Execs -- "Chan plans to finish her MBA in 2.5 years. Like Xi, she finds the work-school-home travel triangle highly doable, and feels participation in Stern’s MBA clubs is vital. She belongs to the Part-Time Leadership Forum."

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, addressed students from the NYU Stern School of Business and NYU Wagner School of Public Service during a special lecture and Q&A session.

Some 50 academics, practitioners and policymakers gathered at NYU Stern on April 15 for a roundtable discussion on “The Inside Scoop on Securities Litigation for 2013.” Industry experts discussed new litigation trends and anticipated the SEC’s main areas of focus this year.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'There are hundreds of benchmarks with different features, but a common issue with some of the indices not based on actual transactions is the potential conflict of interest by the administrator who represents the market players and submitters themselves,' said Rosa Abrantes-Metz, an economist with New York-based consulting firm Global Economics Group Inc. and a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The world’s developed economies, of which the United States is by far the largest and systemically most important, face a range of difficult political and social choices. President Barack Obama’s proposed US budget acknowledges and addresses those choices and tradeoffs directly and fully for the first time in the post-crisis period."

Excerpt from PR Week -- "Aral demonstrated how social influence – defined as the extent to which one's peers change the likelihood that one engages in a particular behavior – is the primary driver of influence today through social conversations that have usurped the traditional influence power of organizations."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Whether rising rates lead to rising stock prices also will depend on why rates increase, notes Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business who has looked at the relationship between Treasurys and stocks. If interest rates rise because the economy is improving, stock prices might indeed go up. But if it's because inflation fears are rising, stocks could fall, he says. 'Interest rates don't rise for no reason,' he says."

Excerpt from GigaOm -- "NYU Stern School of Business professor Arun Sundararajan nicely summed up the risks of ignoring user intent leading up to Facebook’s IPO last year. He compared annoying — and possibly offending — users with ads at every possible turn with playing the stock market and only thinking about making money."

Excerpt from Business Day -- "Information flows both ways: executives can learn from investors, too. Stock price movements around earnings announcements reveal a lot about investors’ growth expectations and their perceptions of management’s credibility."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "While a downturn in the economy and a return to simplicity may be fueling the trend and the apps that support it, Sundararajan believes demand will continue, even if the economy bounces back strongly. 'In many ways, it's just as much about getting access to greater variety and quality,' he said."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "It’s supposed to go 'Ready, aim, fire.' But in Silicon Valley, there can be a rush to get out new technology. Luke Williams, who teaches innovation at NYU’s Stern School of Business, says that can cause problems. 'So what they’re really doing is just the firing and the aiming,' he says. 'And they’re forgetting about the ready part.'"

Excerpt from WNYC -- "Adam Alter, assistant professor in marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business and the author of Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave, explains some of the unconscious workings of our brain that explain why pictures of light bulbs make us more creative and pink paint on the wall is calming."

On Wednesday, April 10, MBA students celebrated the final weeks before graduation at the 2013 Bowling Night with President John Sexton and Dean Peter Henry.