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Excerpt from Accounting Today -- "The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has expanded the membership of its Standing Advisory Group to 42, and increased its members' terms from two years to three years."

Excerpt from Christian Science Monitor -- "In a salute to Paul Romer and other growth thinkers, we believe that new ideas can and will arrive that will save the day so that we do not starve and do not suffer in a changing world."

Excerpt from eYugoslavia -- "Speakers at each event are well-known leaders of finance and include the CFOs of major corporations as well as thought leaders in management, strategy, and innovation. Upcoming speakers include ... Baruch Lev, Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance, NYU-Stern ... "

Excerpt from Motley Fool -- "For a company to be truly undervalued, Damodaran says in his book 'Investment Fables,' 'You need to get a mismatch: a low price-to-earnings ratio without the stigma of high risk or poor growth.'" Additional coverage appeared in another Motley Fool piece.

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Information asymmetry is a difficult problem to solve in financial markets, and George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Joseph E. Stiglitz won the Nobel prize for Economics in 2001 for their work on the phenomenon through exploring economic inefficencies arising from differing, imperfect information levels between buyers and sellers of goods and services in the marketplace."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "If you take a big chunk like Europe and turn it down, it would probably bring everybody else down, including us."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- “'If you want to be a leading university, you have to offer distinguishing programs,' says Sam Craig, director of Stern’s entertainment media and technology program. 'We are among the few universities that can do this, and that is one reason why we offer it.'"

Excerpt from Forward.com -- "Leader, 57, who is a father of three, loves a challenge and has some serious plans up his sleeve to open another, bigger bakery. He was only 29 when he founded Bread Alone in 1983 so there is synchronicity in the fact that his oldest son, who graduates NYU Stern School of Business next year, will be 29 when he joins the company."

Excerpt from BigThink -- "According to economist and author Daniel Altman, culture-bridging experts will thrive economically well into the foreseeable future. As companies set up operations in new countries, they need bicultural middlemen – lawyers, fixers, and accountants among them – to smooth things over with the locals."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "Corporate cash has become a potential source of flight capital in the marketplace, taking account of the failure of the super-committee to strike a deal on reducing the country’s debt."

Excerpt from Donga.com -- "Professor Daniel Altman at New York University Stern School of Business put the revival of the U.S. as the first of 12 trends that will reshape the global economy, based on the American people’s consumption power."

Excerpt from Technology Digital -- "These incidents are putting retailers 'in the black' -- as the companies compete for customers in a weak economy, said Jacob Jacoby, an expert on consumer behavior at New York University." Additional coverage appeared in Care2.com and Gamer.blorge.com.

Excerpt from Bankrate.com -- "A recent study regarding low-volatility stocks, by Malcolm Baker of Harvard University and Jeffrey Wurgler of New York University in the Financial Analysts Journal, shows low-volatility stocks are less risky and have a higher return than the overall market." Additional coverage appeared on Fox Business and OurBusinessNews.com.

Excerpt from Benzinga.com -- "The economists George Akerlof and Paul Romer wrote an article about accounting control fraud entitled 'Looting: the Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit.' They concluded the article with this passage about the criminogenic environment produced by S&L deregulation in the 1980s."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Slowly but steadily, consumers are exploring more normal ways of returning to a more normal pattern when it comes to borrowing habits."

Excerpt from Holyrood.com -- “It’s no wonder that voters’ outrage over exorbitant executive pay is mounting. After all, the government just had to bail out financial firms that paid big bonuses last year to many of the same executives who helped precipitate the current financial crisis."

Excerpt from CNN -- "Hundreds of millions of people in the developing world have entered the global labor force which is in an - an increasingly a great global economy." Additional coverage appeared in Orlando Sentinel, The Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times.

Excerpt from Associated Press -- "There's the notion of scarcity — when something's scarce it's more valued. And a resource that can be very scarce is time: If you don't get there in time, it's going to be gone." Additional Coverage appeared in The Wall Street Journal, TwinCities.com, PressHerald.com, The Washington Post, USA Today, Hawaii Tribune, CBC.ca, AZCentral.com, Politico.com, NBC New York, Yahoo! News, Freep.com, among other outlets.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “Banks don’t give lines of credit to corporations for free ... Why should all these government guarantees and liquidity facilities be for free?”

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "This is a classic example of one bank acquiring another bank and coming up with some old records as a result."

Excerpt from Newsday -- "The bigger the line and the earlier the line forms implies that there's a good deal, said Tom Meyvis, associate professor of marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business." Additional coverage appeared in AM New York.

Excerpt from Barron's -- "New York University finance professor Baruch Lev admits to being thankful for 'our divided government and do-nothing Congress.' Lev adds, 'With a unified Congress, we would have stringent climate-change laws, higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires, and public-employee pension-fund bailouts.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Acronyms may be catchy, says Richard Bernstein, chief executive of Richard Bernstein Advisors, 'but anytime you hear one, you have to wonder what part of the story hasn't been told.'"

Excerpt from Associated Press -- "Authors as varied as the economist Robert H. Frank (1999's 'Luxury Fever') and the political theorist Benjamin R. Barber (2007's 'Consumed') have ganged up on what they see as the particularly unequal and excessive American spending habits." Additional coverage appeared in The Wall Street Journal.