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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."

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."

Excerpt from Insider -- "Adams then made her way back to the business school building to complete her second lab session. Not far away, in the same building, Adams had her first class of the day called "Patterns of Entrepreneurship" where she pitched a new business opportunity in front of her class. Stern is consistently ranked among the nation's best."

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.'"
 

Excerpt from Philanthropy News Digest -- "The largest gift from a woman entrepreneur in the school's history will support, over ten years, Elizabeth Elting Women's Leadership Fellowships for a total of forty female MBA students who demonstrate academic merit and, in association with the school's Endless Frontier Labs program, provide seed capital to twenty women-led businesses through the Elizabeth Elting Venture Fund."

Excerpt from The Chronicle of Philanthropy -- "Elizabeth Elting donated $5 million through her eponymous foundation to establish the Elizabeth Elting Women’s Leadership Fellowship, which will support 40 female MBA students; and to back an additional 20 women-led businesses through the Elizabeth Elting Venture Fund."

New study from faculty at NYU Stern, University of Bolzano and Bocconi University shows that earnings reports are more reliable from private vs. public consolidated firms in Europe 

This program equips executives with a general understanding of accounting and financial principles as they relate to organizations' operations and decision-making processes. It also prepares financial analysts and investors with a general understanding of the valuation content and limitations of financial statement information.

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "It is one of a few cases across the country where B-schools are tackling what many in business and graduate management education consider the most important issue of our time; NYU Stern‘s Climate Science: Realities & Risks of a Changing Climate, taught by Steve Koonin, is another."

Excerpt from Elle -- (Translated from Italian using Google Translate) "The GCFA North Star Award: NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion, two organizations that have combined global research with sustainability issues."

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.'"

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..."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "There are 'risks of tailwinds and costs to monetary policy being too accommodative,' Mr. Rosengren said in the text of a speech to be delivered Friday at an event at New York University. 'Additional accommodation is not needed for an economy where labor markets are already tight—and risks further inflating the prices of riskier assets, and encouraging households and firms to take on what may be too much leverage.'"
 

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?'"

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.'"
 

Excerpt from MSNBC -- "[Sources of disinformation] range from individuals on peripheral sites like 4Chan and 8Chan -- there's a lot of explicit racist activity... all the way up to the President of the United States, who uses Twitter, on many occasions, to make pronouncements that turn out to be completely false."

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."

The NYU Stern Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions will co-host an event entitled, "Where Are We in the Credit Cycle? Outlook for Credit Markets," on Friday, September 20.

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."

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."

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."

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)."

NYU students and alumni convened at NYU Stern for an evening with NYU alumnus Scott Harrison (CAS '98), founder and CEO of charity: water, New York Times bestselling author and NYU’s 2018 Alumni Changemaker of the Year.  The special lecture was jointly organized by the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, NYU Stern Business and Society Program, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, NYU College of Arts & Science Department of Environmental Studies and NYU Stern Undergraduate College.

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."

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.'"