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Excerpt from CFA Institute blog -- "Damodaran points to the increasing correlation between international markets as evidence that country risk cannot be diversified away entirely. He considers three measures for estimating the country risk premium: the default spread on a country’s sovereign debt, a premium based on equity market volatility relative to the U.S., and a hybrid approach."

Excerpt from St. Petersburg Times -- "The U.S.'s ranking 'is a far cry from 'most difficult,' wrote Lawrence J. White of New York University in an e-mail, pointing to the World Bank ratings."

Excerpt from Business Info Guide -- "'The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking…Because People Do Business With People They Like' is a book that encourages people to reconsider the way they build relationships." Additional coverage appeared in ABA Banking Journal.

Excerpt from Harvard Law blog -- "To summarize, skewness and volatility related patterns observed in stock returns are consistent with the dynamics of disclosures by firms and the incentives of managers who have discretion over disclosure timing."

Excerpt from NYU Entrepreneur -- “Nobody’s ever ready [to become an entrepreneur] – you just have to dive in.”

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "... reliance on the 18 to 49 demographic is hazardous to all media and marketers... There is no link, none, between the age of the specified demographic delivery of the campaign and the sales generated by that campaign."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "Taken together, the moves brought confidence back to the banking system and enabled cross-border transfers to recommence, according to William Silber of New York University, saving the American monetary union."

During an interview, Professor Anindya Ghose discussed Walmart's entry into commerce using social media.

Excerpt from Daily Targum -- "RMCA competed against eight teams from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, Harvard University, Yale University and New York University Stern School of Business, said Karan Chadha, RMCA co-head of Strategic Development."

Excerpt from Reuters Video -- "Across a couple of research studies we've found that people put about twice as much money into a hypothetical retirement account when they're exposed images of their future selves compared to when they're not." Additional coverage appeared on Bankrate.com and Investment Weekly News.

Excerpt from MSN -- "Given the feelings out there about banks, and particularly banks that took taxpayer money, it was not a well considered decision. ... It's one of those things that pares back reputation."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “Regulators started telling their financial institutions, starting with the banks, you must pay attention to only these handful of entities. ... That gives the NRSROs a lock.” Additional coverage appeared in NCPA, Bloomberg Businessweek and San Francisco Chronicle.

Excerpt from Los Angeles Times blog -- "The group says it has about 200 members in all, including more than a dozen current and former Google employees, actress Edie Falco and economist Nouriel Roubini."

Excerpt from NewsMax -- "Every few years, the idea of imposing a 'sin tax' on Wall Street makes a comeback, and the idea is back again in the wake of the financial crisis."

Excerpt from Harvard Program on Negotiation -- "Division heads may attempt to overclaim credit when scarce resources are being negotiated within an organization. What may appear to be selfish behavior may actually be ordinary unethical behavior that lies outside the negotiator’s conscious awareness."

Excerpt from Xinhua News Agency -- "The very labor-intensive process of manufacturing export will eventually die off. They will be replaced."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- “Economies are big things, governments have trouble changing things, and state governments, in particular, have limits."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "This time banks need to be especially careful. They could be facing a business bonanza without enough staff to do the work."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "[Innovation] can make a major contribution - I guess I wouldn't go up 200%, I think we'll be left with some distributional problems and employment challenges for the middle-income group, but it would be a big help."

Excerpt from Reuters blog -- "Whether it is Europe or the US, the welfare of citizens – indeed, the well-being of the global economy – requires much better pragmatic and adaptive policymaking." Additional coverage appeared in The Huffington Post.

Excerpt from CNN -- "Though the economy is healing, some long-standing bears are still bracing for Armageddon. Yet each has a different take on how to prepare for the fallout."

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "Bank of America has continued to place #1 on NYU Stern's systemic risk rankings. I have to hand it to them. It's a tough race, but someone's got to win it and they've been in first place since I can remember."

Excerpt from India Post -- "The weekend culminated with Grammy-nominated world music artist, Chandrika Tandon, performing a stunning sold-out benefit concert at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “It is easier for a seller to predict how a consumer will value a collection of goods than it is to value any good individually." Additional coverage appeared in The Vancouver Sun.