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Excerpt from The Economist -- "The thought that you are going to change someone's mind on a moral issue by giving them logical arguments and reasoning is an error. If somebody doesn't care about the conclusion - if they think that it's faster to get to the airport by subway than by car and you know otherwise - you can give them reasons, you can change their mind. But moral beliefs are very different. They bind us to other people, they bind us into a team, they give us a sense of meaning and purpose in life, and so you can't wedge people -- you can't move them -- just by giving them logical arguments."

Expert from PBS NewsHour -- "...General Electric in the '80s was on top, Microsoft in the 1990s, and now it's Apple. And just think about it. Microsoft was a huge company and everybody thought Apple was going to fold because they just couldn't compete with Microsoft. And now, as was pointed out earlier, Apple has two-and-a-half times the market cap of Microsoft. I believe that there are people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates working right now, as we talk, trying to come up with some better product that three or five or 10 years from now will threaten and perhaps even topple Apple from its perch."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "During the first half of August 1978, the dollar sank to new lows against the German mark, a fresh vote of no confidence in America. On Aug. 15, 1978, Volcker told the FOMC, 'I think it’s important particularly in view of the international situation that we correct the misapprehensions about our lack of concern over inflation.'"

Excerpt from Ilsussidiario -- "The EU leaders do not quite understand that they live in a world of financial markets and they are not the absolute monarchs of the past. Their behavior shows they are not in synch with reality."

Excerpt from NBCNews.com -- "Sundararajan explained that the company is still in a state of evolution; it may have become a public company -- exposing itself to the demands of Wall Street and quarterly earnings targets -- too quickly, he said. It’s critical for investors to give Facebook time, he continued. Facebook is potentially a hugely valuable company that 'might need more gestation.'"

Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "According to Anindya Ghose, a professor of information, operations and management sciences at New York University’s Stern School of Business, the move 'would make Google a huge player in the online travel business, primarily because of the trustworthy reviews from Frommer’s.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'It is one of those iconic companies,' says Richard Sylla, professor of financial history at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'When I think about these companies, their products were used by all kinds of people and their leaders were considered geniuses.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Silber persuasively argues that the foundation of Volcker’s successful strategy in combating inflation was the insight that good monetary policy was only possible with sound fiscal policy."

Excerpt from FundFire (A Financial Times Service) -- "A way that financial advisors can build trust is by focusing their social media efforts on 'allowing people to get to know them,' according to Anindya Ghose..."

Excerpt from The New York Times Dealbook -- "'As with most other young growth stocks, no one really knows Facebook’s value,' said Aswath Damodaran, a professor of finance at the New York University Stern School of Business. 'That means people can overreact in both directions.'"

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "For some time, investors have been waiting to see decisive actions being taken by the government. As soon as such actions are taken, I think a lot of entrepreneurs will see Greece as being the right place to invest."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "With the exception of Germany, none of Europe’s biggest economies have returned to the level of economic output they had at the beginning of 2008, before the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States spread across the Atlantic, according to calculations by two U.S. economists, Peter Rupert and Thomas F. Cooley."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "Whether the eurozone is viable or not remains an open question. But what if a breakup can only be postponed, not avoided? If so, delaying the inevitable would merely make the endgame worse – much worse."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The negative effects of these problems are now interacting, feeding back on themselves, and spreading to the rest of the global economy. And yet, despite a palpable sense of concern that something is very wrong, the prognosis for significant change is bleak – and deteriorating. What accounts for the apparent lack of effective policy action across a broad range of countries and regions?"

Excerpt from The Vancouver Sun -- "Lady Gaga may hold the record for Twitter followers – 28 million and counting – but that doesn’t make her social media’s top tastemaker, according to a groundbreaking study that turns everything we know about Internet contagion on its head."

Excerpt from The Globalist -- "As a result of all these moves (before the crisis, during the crisis and afterwards), a very high proportion of U.S. financial assets are now held by a mere handful of conglomerates. And they are the ones deemed "too big to fail." Smaller firms operate ever more on the margins and hold only a declining share of financial assets."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "While open to a certain level of interpretation, the guidance on 'unfair' and 'deceptive' practices should be clear enough for the insititutions."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Hal E. Hershfield, an assistant professor of marketing at the Stern School of Business at New York University, said the campaign would be more effective if it offered more than 14 videos..."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "The board’s new leadership team will, most importantly, have to decide the future course of the bank – to stick with Diamond’s strategy, or pull back to a less risky, less prominent role."

Excerpt from SmartMoney -- "The good news, says Anindya Ghose, co-director of the Center for Digital Economy Research at the NYU Stern School of Business, is that savvy citizens are already using the digital era's overwhelming supply of data to their benefit -- finding better deals, unearthing smarter investments and holding companies accountable."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "The underlying economic forces are partially independent of policy choices. I don’t think that if [John] McCain had been elected, the economy would be any better than it is today."

More than 100 scholars from around the world gathered at NYU Stern for the 2012 International Society for Utilitarian Studies (ISUS) conference themed, “Utilitarianism: Exploring the Past, Looking to the Future.” Sponsored by NYU Stern, with generous support from the Citi Foundation and Daniel & Nancy Paduano, the ISUS conference featured discussions and research on utilitarianism and its historical development, as well as its present-day relevance in such fields as ethics, politics, law, economics and public policy.

Does focusing managers on the power they wield give rise to bad management? According to new research from professors at NYU Stern and Cornell, managers who have a heightened sense of their power treat others less fairly compared to individuals who see themselves as less powerful. But when it comes to self-perceptions of status, the roles reverse.

Excerpt from The New York Times Dealbook -- "'Fewer players in the mortgage origination business means higher profit margins for the remaining ones,' said Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, director of the Center for Real Estate Finance Research at New York University."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "William Silber’s forthcoming biography of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker sits alongside Walter Isaacson’s life of the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs."