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Excerpt from The Washington Post -- “'We don’t need this commission,' said Michael Posner, the State Department’s assistant secretary for DRL from 2009 to 2013. 'What we need is for the U.S. government, the secretary of state and the president to abide by and uphold international human rights standards we already have adopted.'"

Excerpt from Tech Insider -- (4:00) "Had they opened up, had the CEO or another senior executive spoken to this more general sense of concern, indicating that the compnay is doing everything it can as soon as it can to find out more and will report back, that could have at least lessened the sense that the company was being evasive."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- “'The crisis heightened the realization than non-U. S. large financial intuitions like Deutsche were even more fragile, had even less capital than was true of major U.S. banks,' said Larry White, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business. 'Deutsche may well be too big to fail, too big to manage effectively.'”
 

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I think [a tax on tech firms] is going to reinforce the ongoing trade war between the US and the European Union... I don't think it will be focused exclusively on tech."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "And according to Paul Hardart, director of the entertainment, media and technology program at the New York University Stern School of Business, Marvel has such a loyal fanbase that the 'Avengers: Endgame' re-release is probably a great idea, and one that isn’t going to cost very much to promote."

Excerpt from BizEd Magazine -- "'These findings indicate that businesses can view these efforts as more than just philanthropy,' says Tülin Erdem, co-author of the report and chair of NYU Stern’s marketing department. A company’s support of refugees 'impacts brand image and consumer brand purchase behavior positively,' says Erdem. The survey results are consistent with other research that shows an increasing number of consumers prefer socially responsible brands."
 

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "That's according to Deepak Hegde, associate professor of management and organizations at New York University. Hegde also directs Endless Frontier Labs, which helps technology and science startups scale. (One alum is Analytical Flavor Systems, a machine-learning and artificial-intelligence platform that predicts individual taste profiles that's now being leveraged to design boutique bread flavors.)"

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Trump can get on Xi's good side by asking questions instead of proposing a solution without listening. Susan Stehlik, the director of NYU Stern Business School's management communication program, said Western leaders can fall into the trap of presenting a proposal right at the top of the meeting."
 

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Trump can get on Xi's good side by asking questions instead of proposing a solution without listening. Susan Stehlik, the director of NYU Stern Business School's management communication program, said Western leaders can fall into the trap of presenting a proposal right at the top of the meeting."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "Tech companies have not clarified their policies for handling deepfakes or more crudely edited and demonstrably false videos, said Michael Posner, the director of New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights who researches disinformation."

Excerpt from Livemint -- "Psychologist Dolly Chugh of NYU Stern School of Business points out that when it comes to inclusive behaviour, it is important to keep in mind that we are all “a work-in-progress". Irrespective of the generation we belong to, we may have certain “ordinary privileges" that others may not have access to."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "Tech companies have not clarified their policies for handling deepfakes or more crudely edited and demonstrably false videos, said Michael Posner, the director of New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights who researches disinformation."

Excerpt from Crowdfund Insider -- "So very famously, the first block of the Bitcoin blockchain, which was created on January 3, 2009, it has the headline from that morning’s Times of London, that the chancellor’s on the brink of a second bailout for the British banking system. And this is there really to announce to the world that there is a better way and to throw down a challenge to the existing financial system that we are going to put you out of business if you don’t adapt and recognize that there’s a better way to do payments and transfers."

Excerpt from CGTN -- "'Firms are A,B,C – Anywhere But China,' explains Joseph Foudy, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'And so they are just radically reducing their exposure because even if we get an agreement today, who’s to say that it doesn’t break down, and we’re not looking at a new round of tariffs late this year or early next year?'"

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The idea marks a 'long overdue' attack by Big Tech on the payments industry, says David Yermack, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Julia Hur, an assistant professor at New York University, blames performance incentives. 'Crazy reimbursement is a kind of expression of strong desire for more money,' she said, adding that performance incentives make people think about money and as a result, they become obsessed with getting reimbursed."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "According to a recent study by Aswath Damodaran of New York University’s Stern School of Business, on this basis drug firms’ margins are 24%, higher than most other sectors (see chart)."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Webb’s book at times reads like a thriller in which the ending looks bleak. But she affords us a clear, jargon-free view of the power and potential of AI — and how we as citizens should seek to influence its development — before a coming superintelligence shapes human lives in ways we cannot yet imagine."

Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "Direct listing is a luxury, in a sense. You have to have a brand name and enough cash on the balance sheet for you to go direct-listing because you don't have to raise capital right now."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "'[Slack] was not waiting for the money coming from IPO to run their day-to-day operations,' Segram said. 'It is a very selective group can do this direct listing, the major factor being the brand recognition.'"

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "'To feel real in a workplace and not just like a cog in a wheel, I think we have a need to connect when we can,' Lechner explains. 'We may not choose to talk about going through divorce or some big disease we have, so we revert to things that are real, but a little less intimate.'"

Excerpt from TODAY -- "If we think of being a good person as being without blind spots, never making a mistake, we put ourselves in a very tight corner with no window. There's no room to grow there. And what we know from years and years of psychological research is we all have blind spots. There's things we don't notice in our own behavior. Let's give ourselves room to grow: what I call being 'good-ish.'"

 

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "At New York University’s Stern School of Business, Jonathan Haidt, professor of ethical leadership, applies moral psychology to the way ethics is studied and integrated into the business curriculum. He says if students are taught how to integrate social and environmental considerations into decisions, ethics will follow. He argues against 'the shareholder primacy view' and encourages students to think in the long term. 'When you do that, ethics flows naturally,' he says."

Excerpt from NPR -- "Giorcelli and Moser estimate that, overall, Napoleon's introduction of copyright led to a 150 percent increase in the number of operas composed each year."

Excerpt from Bloomberg-- "I think what they've decided is the United States is not a reliable trading partner... I think they're on a trajectory now that they're not going to move off of -- of becoming wholly self-sufficient in tech."