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Professor Baruch Lev's views on the decreasing relevance of traditional financial reporting are featured, from his co-authored book, "The End of Accounting"

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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'Every aspect of the financial report is adversely affected by this dated, industrial-age treatment of intangible capital,' Prof. Lev argued in his 2016 book, 'The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers,' co-written with Feng Gu, a professor of accounting and law at the University at Buffalo"
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Professor Vasant Dhar is quoted in a feature story on AI-powered hedge funds

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Excerpt from Bloomberg Quint -- "'Just because you have special tech and AI doesn’t mean you’re off to the races,' said Vasant Dhar, a professor at New York University who has run an AI-powered hedge fund for about a decade. 'This tech is interesting but fraught with all kinds of risks.'"
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Professor Nouriel Roubini is interviewed about the rise of populism in Italy at the “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy” forum

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'This new government promised the moon, but when the spread rose to about 300 they panicked,' Nouriel Roubini, chief economist at Roubini Global Economics, said at the conference in Cernobbio. 'On the one side they promised a lot and have to deliver, on the other there is the deficit constraint.'"
 
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Professor Lawrence White shares insights on the labor market, unemployment and wages

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Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "...The issue of the puzzle that wages weren't increasing even though the economy was strong, unemployment rate was low, we weren't seeing wages increasing was a continuing puzzle. [It's] still not clear why that was so six months ago, a year ago, two years ago, but it is clear now that the ... labor market is having some consequence for wages. However, it's important to remember that inflation is kicking up a little bit as well..."
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Professor Scott Galloway's views on the impact of Nike's "Just Do It" campaign are referenced

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Excerpt from Fast Company -- "After an initial drop, Nike’s stock is on working its way back up. The emotional, knee-jerk reactions of many will subside, and overall the brand will be stronger for being on the right side of history. Besides, as NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway tweeted yesterday, the American market is less than half of the company’s overall revenues."
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Senior Research Scholar Shlomo Angel's work on urban expansion is referenced

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Excerpt from The Economist -- "The Atlas of Urban Expansion, a project run by Shlomo Angel of New York University, has good data on Cairo, Dhaka, Lagos, Manila and São Paulo. All are at least twice as densely populated as Paris. Dhaka, with an overall density of 552 people per hectare in its built-up area, is ten times as crowded as Paris."
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Professor Harry Chernoff highlights key factors prospective homebuyers should consider

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Excerpt from WalletHub -- "I advise potential homeowners (including private houses, condos, and coops) to follow three rules. Buying now is a good idea if: 1. You will love living there, 2. You can afford it, 3.You have no short-term (<5 years) constraints that would force you to move and sell."
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Professor Anindya Ghose explains the power Amazon’s brand provides for entrepreneurs accepted into the Delivery Service Partners program

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "'Associating yourself with the Amazon brand, even if you are one of several hundred delivery companies, is extremely powerful,' Ghose explains. If you start your own low-cost small business on your own, 'then, it's just your brand. And it's going to take forever for anybody to establish their own brand. I think that, for me, is the biggest difference.'"
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Professor Nicholas Economides comments on competition and service in the telecommunications industry

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Excerpt from AZCentral -- "'In most parts of the country, there are only one or two providers,' Economides, the NYU economist, said. 'That's very little competition actually, and that's one of the reasons why prices are high. If you only have two companies, and you're dissatisfied with one, you have to go to the other. You might be dissatisfied with both.'"
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Professor Adam Alter explains why data from fitness trackers is valuable to marketers

Excerpt from Popular Science -- "In his own research, for example, Alter has shown we’re more likely to run a marathon when our age ends in a nine—29, 39, 49—because the dawn of a new decade prompts people to seek meaning. 'With that knowledge you might advise running shoe companies to advertise to people who are approaching a new decade, or people, more broadly, who might be experiencing life transitions,' Alter writes."
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Scott Galloway discusses regulation and the future of tech companies

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "...From a shareholder perspective I think they continue to do well, from a citizenry or welding of the commonwealth, I think they continue to do substantial damage..."
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Professor Allen Adamson comments on Nike's decision to feature Colin Kaepernick in its new "Just Do It" campaign

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Excerpt from Digiday -- "Allen Adamson, assistant professor of brand strategy at New York University and co-founder of consultancy Metaforce.co, said Nike knows it cannot appeal to everybody. Otherwise, it would come off as inauthentic or unclear of its direction, a common problem with companies when they try to pursue purpose-driven marketing. 'The marketplace is so fractured and polarized today that if you try to keep everyone happy all the time, you will become invisible,' he said."
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Professor Lawrence White weighs in on the impact new interest rate legislation will have on fintech firms

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Excerpt from InsideSources -- "'This is a larger issue in at least two dimensions: first, the fintech companies have been trying now for at least two or three years to get charters from the controller of the currency,' Lawrence White, professor of economics at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, told InsideSources. 'The fintech companies have wanted a similar kind of national charter because they are obviously going to be headquartered someplace, but especially for fintech companies nowadays, scale is everything.'"
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Professor Dolly Chugh's new book, "The Person You Mean to Be," is featured as one of six books to help you succeed at work

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Excerpt from CNBC -- "Finally: a lively, evidence-based book about how to battle biases, champion diversity and inclusion, and advocate for those who lack power and privilege. An unusually thoughtful psychologist makes a convincing case that being an ally isn’t about being a good person—it’s about constantly striving to be a better person."
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Professor Aswath Damodaran discusses the implications of Amazon's brand equity in light of the company's recent $1 trillion valuation

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Excerpt from USA Today -- "Nobody’s ever complained that Amazon’s giving them too good a deal, said Aswath Damodaran, a professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'If you were a candidate and you said you were going to force Amazon to stop offering Prime below cost, you’d lose the election,' he said."
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Professor Arun Sundararajan's book, "The Sharing Economy," is referenced

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Excerpt from the Economic Times -- "As highlighted by Arun Sundararajan of New York University Stern School of Business in his book, Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism, such sharing platforms have created 'invisible infrastructure' and are shaping the urban infrastructures of the future."
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Professor Sabrina Howell's co-authored research on the effect of private equity on for-profit higher education is featured

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Excerpt from Institutional Investor -- "A new study finds that private equity buyouts in the education industry lead to higher enrollment and profits, but not better outcomes for students."
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In an in-depth interview, Professor Jonathan Haidt discusses his views on trigger warnings and free speech in academia, from his new co-authored book, "The Coddling of the American Mind"

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Excerpt from NPR -- "So the first great untruth that we talk about is what doesn't kill you makes you weaker. So obviously, everybody knows the, you know, the great truth is what doesn't kill you makes you stronger because people are anti-fragile. We actually need challenges. We need to sometimes even be afraid in order to overcome our fears. And if we try to protect kids from that, we actually are damaging them."
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Professor Anindya Ghose is interviewed about the battle for small e-investors

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "'In a market that’s so competitive and so saturated with so many options for customers, it just doesn’t make sense to have a service that charges, you know, three times, four times what everybody else is charging,' he said."
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Professor Dolly Chugh’s advice on how to foster equality, diversity and inclusion, from her new book, "The Person You Mean to Be," is featured

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Excerpt from Boston.com -- "'Most of us avoid saying names that we don’t know how to pronounce,' Chugh said. 'Another thing I noticed I do, and I think others do as well, is we avoid that person, we avoid interacting with them and saying their name because we are afraid we can’t say their name properly.'"
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Professor Amy Webb is interviewed about how the creators of the film "Demolition Man" envisioned the year 2032

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "I think that in broad strokes, the societal issues that were raised in 'Demolition Man,' but also in movies like 'Blade Runner' and a lot of the science fiction that was written in the '50s and '60s, they all touch upon the same points. What happens if we preserve the status quo and we wind up with polarized political views?"
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Professor Adam Alter shares tips for parents to help children establish a balanced relationship with technology, from his book, "Irresistible"

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "You can liken it to aiming for a healthy diet, Dr. Alter explains: 'Older kids understand the concept of balance intuitively -- they know that it’s important to eat healthy foods alongside candy and dessert, and the same is true of the "empty calories" that come from spending too much time passively gazing at screens. There’s a time for screens, but not at the expense of time for physical activity and connecting with real people in real time.'"
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Professor Pankaj Ghemawat's book, "The New Global Road Map," is reviewed

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Excerpt from Foreign Affairs -- "Ghemawat bases his recommendations, in part, on the distance between the country in question and the company’s home—measured not only in geographic terms but also in terms of language and culture. Executives, he warns, should consider each potential new market carefully and critically. Ghemawat aims his advice at businesspeople (and business students), but his work will also enlighten readers outside the business world who want to understand international trade and investment."
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Professor Lawrence White discusses how tariffs on appliances are impacting the laundry business

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Excerpt from TRT World -- "The imported steel, the imported aluminum that is setting the price, and if a tariff means that price goes up, then the domestic price is going to go up."'
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Professor Arun Sundararajan explains why ridesharing companies and governments should work together to increase rider safety

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Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "'I think the real opportunity is in coming up with government oversight that pushes the platforms to creatively use technology to increase safety,' he said. 'It puts the onus on the platforms who are far better equipped than anyone else to use data and machine learning in ways that could make things safer.'"

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