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In an interview, Professor Ingo Walter discusses the United Nations' "Principles for Responsible Banking" effort

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"What's more, Walter says signing on to the UN principles can be a preemptive exercise by banks 'aiming to ward off regulation.' They are 'making the case that, post-financial-crisis, they have learned some valuable lessons, they understand where they went wrong, and are changing their ways, as encapsulated in the Principles for Responsible Banking.'"
 
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Professor Adam Alter is quoted in an article about email inbox organization

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Excerpt from Family Circle -- "If you have a very clear memory of reading an email, but you've searched and searched and still can't find it in any file...check your texts. 'It happens all the time--a conversation will continue on three or four different forms of communication,' says Adam Alter, associate professor at [the] Stern School of Business at New York University and author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. 'It's the perfect recipe for dropping the ball.'"
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Professor Andres Liberman discusses how balance transfers and personal loans can help borrowers save on interest when consolidating debt

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Excerpt from WalletHub -- "Some people do not correctly anticipate how much more interest they will pay, and as a result end up paying too much. A personal loan typically has a defined schedule of payments. This may be helpful for people who have trouble estimating how much interest they will pay and as a way to organize their repayment."
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Professor Melissa Schilling's co-authored research on how digital platforms manipulate the promotion of the products available in their ecosystems is featured

Excerpt from Recode -- "'The owner of the platform manipulates who succeeds or who fails,' one of the report’s authors, NYU Stern Professor Melissa Schilling, told Recode."
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Professor Scott Galloway comments on the tech industry's use of inspirational language in mission statements

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'Peloton is talking about delivering happiness and connecting people,' Mr. Galloway said. 'No: You sell exercise equipment.'"
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Professor Robert Seamans is quoted in a story on the importance of understanding AI logic in strategic management

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Excerpt from Fortune -- "'It is not about just spitting out a probabilistic outcome,' Seamans says. 'You will need everyone on board with the course of action, and if you can’t explain the rationale, you won’t be able to do that.'"
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In a live interview, Professor Arun Sundararajan shares his outlook on Peloton's IPO and business model

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- (15:35) "This is really a product that is category-defining. It has defined the first realistic middle ground between boring home exercise equipment and going to a studio, going to a fitness class, so I'm bullish about the company, but I think that they have to make a few smart strategic moves in order to justify and grow their valuations."
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Professor Alvin Lieberman's remarks at the Future of Television conference are highlighted

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Excerpt from nScreenMedia "At the Future of Television show in New York this week, Al Lieberman, Executive Director Entertainment, Media, and Technology Program at NYU Stern, opened the event with a short speech. He left the audience with a brief prescient thought: 'Change and risk define where we are in the industry.'"
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Professor Baruch Lev's joint research on value investing is cited

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Excerpt from MIT Sloan Management Review -- "The section on 'investing in our employee' sounds like Henry Ford introducing the $5/day wage plus other services for employees in 1914. But Ford was trying to retain low-skilled workers engaged in repetitive tasks, whereas today's companies are competing for high-skilled people. Overall, the statement reads like an acknowledgment of larger societal shifts and less [as a] changing force itself."
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In a radio interview, Professor Haran Segram discusses WeWork's valuation and corporate governance

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Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "They have to survive a recession and prove [that this] business model can survive, and then they should go public. If they rush it, I think it's going to be a misfire."
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Professor Anindya Ghose explains the impact of frequent online sales on Amazon and Flipkart in India

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Excerpt from Quartz -- "'Deep discounts can have detrimental erosion effect on the value of products and services in the mind of the consumer, especially if it is done frequently and for an extended duration,' Anindya Ghose, the Heinz Riehl professor of business at New York University’s Stern School, told Quartz."
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In a live interview, Professor Thomas Philippon offers insights into the economic differences between France and the United States, from his forthcoming book, "The Great Reversal"

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "One simple way to look at it is, I came to the US 20 years ago and 20 years ago, internet service, cell phone plans, airline tickets -- all of that was much cheaper here than in France. And today, when you fly around the world, you realize it's the opposite."
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Professor Allen Adamson discusses the leadership changes at WeWork

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "'He's not going to accept change easily,' Adamson adds. 'Once your head gets that big, you're not going to take directions from an operations, management bean counter type. But that's what's required to get this back on track. It's going to be painful. Lots of people are going to lose money.'"
 
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Professor Jonathan Haidt's co-authored book, "The Coddling of the American Mind," is highlighted in a roundup of new books in paperback

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Decrying 'safetyism' at elite colleges, the authors link rampant anxiety to overparented students with impossible expectations of protection. Our reviewer, Thomas Chatterton Williams, praised the 'disturbing and comprehensive analysis of recent campus trends.'"
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In a live interview, Professor Michael Spence discusses Federal Reserve monetary policy

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "If you look back over history, we get occasional dislocations, which are basically liquidity crunches in the financial system, and the Fed has demonstrated, yesterday and on other occasions, a capacity to deal with it..."
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Professor Allen Adamson discusses the role of mascots in brand marketing

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Excerpt from Business Insider -- "'Cute doesn't cut it,' Allen Adamson, adjunct professor of marketing at NYU Stern and cofounder of marketing company Metaforce, told Business Insider. 'The challenge is when you create an icon that you burn into someone's head, whether it's the Laughing Cow or the Trix Rabbit, then the trick is, how do you have it do more?'"
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Professor Gustavo Schwed is quoted in a story on recurring revenue loans

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'The market is getting more aggressive as it often does towards the top of the cycle,' said Gustavo Schwed, a former partner at private equity firm Providence Equity Partners who is now a professor at New York University Stern School of Business. 'That’s when people get creative.'"
 
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Research from Professor Aswath Damodaran explaining the difference between voting and non-voting shares is referenced

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Excerpt from Livemint -- “'The difference between voting and non-voting shares should go to zero if there is no chance of changing management/control,' says corporate finance expert, Aswath Damodaran of New York University, in a paper titled The Value of Control."
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In a podcast interview, Professor Vasant Dhar shares insights on search engine marketing, data privacy and search redirection

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Excerpt from Raw Data Podcast -- "Google knows your intent... They have all of these data points on you that they've gathered from your daily interaction with the world via the internet...So they see it all. And they're able to paint a very rich picture of you."
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Professor Paul Hardart is interviewed for a story on viewer brand awareness among streaming services

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Excerpt from Morning Consult -- "Hardart said this may be a competitive strategy to lure subscribers. As companies pursue recognizable intellectual property — citing Amazon Prime Video’s work developing a 'Lord of the Rings' television series as an example — the networks and streaming services are 'finding things that are brands themselves that will bring their people in to get the service,' he said."
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Professor Baruch Lev's book, "The End of Accounting," is cited

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Excerpt from In the Black -- "In his book The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers, Lev suggests that financial reports have largely become an exercise in compliance, as opposed to an information-sharing activity that reflects strengths such as a great brand or unique business processes such as Amazon’s and Netflix’s customer recommendation algorithms."
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Professor Adam Brandenburger discusses partnerships between rival firms, from his co-authored book, "Co-Opetition"

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Among the most striking current examples of coopetition, says Brandenburger, is that between Apple and Samsung. While Samsung’s Galaxy and Apple’s iPhone are competing products, Samsung at the same time continues to be one of Apple’s main suppliers (the company supplies screens to Apple)."
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Professor Kim Schoenholtz's joint research on corporate capital expenditure is referenced

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Excerpt from Reuters -- "Companies do not rely primarily on loans to pay for new factories and equipment. Between 1980 and 2017, 80% of the cash for corporate capital expenditure in the United States came from retained profit, according to economists Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz."
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Professor Aswath Damodaran is interviewed for an article on Netflix's growth

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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'For a decade, [Netflix has] spent more and more money on content to get users and increase market capitalisation, and it worked,' Aswath Damodaran says. 'But the question is: how do you get off this treadmill? At some point spending 75 per cent of every dollar on content won’t be sustainable. The next year is going to be the big challenge.'"
 
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Professor Lawrence White shares his views on Senator Bernie Sanders' proposed housing plan

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Excerpt from The Real Deal -- "'Gee, how do you establish rules that apply to Missoula, Montana, to Center City, Philadelphia, to Tampa, Florida, let alone Queens and Brooklyn?' he said. 'We have great difficulty administering a rent control program in New York City. I can’t imagine doing it on a nationwide basis. It’s just chaos.'"

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