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Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Mr Eggers recommends Oryx & Crake, a lesser known work by Margaret Atwood, whose novel The Handmaid’s Tale has been adapted for television. 'It is wonderfully written, with compelling characters and story,' he says. 'But it also raises dozens of corporate ethical issues around control, innovation and corporate culture.'"

Excerpt from Los Angeles Times -- "A bankruptcy specialist is skeptical as well. Edward Altman, professor emeritus at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said, 'This is a pretty serious thing they’re doing. It’s definitely a signal, a very bad signal, as to their financial condition. It seems like a desperation play.'"

Excerpt from Pensions & Investments -- "David Yermack, professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, said whether an ICO qualifies as a security has a lot to do with the motivation of the purchaser. Many ICOs are 'utility tokens' that are meant to provide access to a particular online platform or service, he said."

Excerpt from BBN Times -- “To avoid further increases in the income and wealth inequality that stem from the sustained concentration of capital over the past 50 years, we must aim for a future of crowd-based capitalism in which most of the workforce shifts from a full-time job as a talent or labor provider to running a business of one—in effect a microentrepreneur who owns a tiny slice of society’s capital."

Excerpt from Innovation & Technology -- "If you were to study both Dean Kamen and Steve Jobs, you would say, 'These are both pretty weird guys.' They’re also people who very strongly decided, 'The rules all the rest of you are playing by don’t apply to me.'"

Excerpt from Medium -- "I see mentorship as a key ingredient to professional and personal development. I would have benefited from exposure to near-peer females who were working in technology. Also, I needed a coach to help me through the everyday challenges of working in a majority-male environment. Having a mentor early on could have helped me build stronger leadership amongst my male peers, and select professional development opportunities to facilitate my professional growth."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Sharing IRCTC data as part of a disinvestment deal, he said, would mean that data given to the railways as a custodian would be passed on to unknown third parties. 'Companies should monetise data,' Dhar said. 'You should expect something very different from the government.'"
 

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'The main flaw of this decision is that it’s so many years late. It has allowed Google to use an illegal practice to become dominant,' said Nicholas Economides, an economics professor at New York University Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The most egregious valuation mistake that I see investment professionals make is mistaking pricing for valuation. Most investment professionals don’t do valuation, they do pricing. What I mean by that is that you price a number to a stock based on what other people are paying for similar stocks. Any time you use a multiple comparable you’re not valuing the company, you’re pricing a company."

Excerpt from Consumer Reports -- "'Many people don’t pay close attention when selecting the fund, and they find it easier to round off to zero rather than five,' says study co-author Xiao Liu, an assistant professor of marketing at NYU who focuses on consumer decision-making."

Excerpt from Refinery29 -- “Walmart was once famous for doing things like putting like Band-Aids next to fishing hooks and things like that. Something you don’t naturally associate, but once you see them there, it makes sense. So when people come in for something in one category, you can cross-sell, you can sell them something that compliments in the next product category by making sure they’re right next to each other.”

Excerpt from Brookings Institute blog -- "In a paper to be presented at the 2018 Municipal Finance Conference at Brookings, Malcolm Baker and George Serafeim of Harvard Business School, Daniel Bergstresser of Brandeis International Business School, and Jeffrey Wurgler of the NYU Stern School of Business find that yields at issue for green municipal bonds are on average 0.06 percentage points below yields paid on otherwise equivalent bonds."

Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- "New research by economists at New York University’s Stern School of Business suggests that the Trump administration’s mix of import tariffs and tax breaks skewed to wealthier Americans will produce the worst of all outcomes for U.S. workers. 'The worst policy mix is a regressive tax system with a high tariff,' economists Spencer Lyon and Michael Waugh conclude in a working paper for the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research."

Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "'Consumers are creatures of habit,' said Allen Adamson, co-founder of growth strategy firm Metaforce and adjunct professor at NYU's Stern business school. 'Any change is often difficult for them.'"

Excerpt from the Economic Times -- "'The fact that Asian investors are backing or plan to invest in India is a clear sign that have reached a point where they can compete head-to-head with western VCs searching for the next Amazon or Uber in emerging markets,' argues Anindya Ghose, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Despite its popularity, two major challenges in crowdsourcing practice are: how to wisely use the limited querying budget and how to identify reliable workers. This research aims at addressing these challenges by developing a dynamic learning algorithm for crowdsourcing under budget constraints with online detection of workers’ quality and tasks’ difficulty and proposing new bandit learning algorithms for worker quality control that utilize rich contextual information of workers."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I did expect the government to appeal. The government might not be able to reverse the decision -- that is, to not allow the merger at all -- but maybe will be able to impose various conditions. The way that the previous district court decision came, it came without any conditions whatsoever, and there is some evidence that, AT&T, post-merger, has increased the prices of cable distribution. So the government might have a good chance in imposing some conditions."

Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "'The liquidity faucet gets turned off pretty quickly in a recession,' says finance professor Edward Altman of New York University’s Stern School of Business, an expert on corporate bankruptcy. 'The default rate is going to go up, and go up a lot. It could get very ugly.'"

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "In fact, recent studies by Petra Moser and Heidi Williams, among others, find little evidence that patents boost innovation. On the contrary, because they lock in incumbents’ advantages and drive up the costs of new technology, such protections are associated with less new or follow-on innovation, weaker diffusion, and increased market concentration."

Excerpt from Big Think -- "People who are against vaccination are a vocal if small group that doesn’t agree with the general scientific consensus that vaccines are safe and do not cause autism. It doesn’t matter to many in that camp more than a dozen studies failed to find a link between the two. How can this be? How can people flatly deny scientific consensus? Enter the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a cognitive bias that a new study uses to explain anti-vaccine policy attitudes."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "Roubini, the famously bearish NYU economist, who earned the nickname ‘Dr Doom’ for predicting the financial crisis, said: 'For bitcoin to be a currency it has to be a unit of account, a means of payment, and a stable store of value. It is none of these. Bitcoin is not even accepted at Bitcoin conferences, and how can something that falls 20% one day and then rises 20% the next be a stable store of value.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'Some organizations already suffer from innovation fatigue. They are sick of being told they have to replace everything they are doing with something new,' said Luke Williams, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and author of the book Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business, during the 2017 Deloitte Analytics Symposium."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'There is no doubt to me that there are talks going on behind the scenes, because they are always searching for diplomatic solutions to these trade issues. Nobody want these trade wars. But do I think they are easy to win? No. Do I think the Trump administration is becoming more and more entrenched? Yes.'"

Excerpt from Directors & Boards -- "'I think they just tried to bury whatever it is he did,' he continues, 'and not have it be part of the public discussion about Barnes & Noble. But that doesn’t mean they can bury it forever.' Smith acknowledges it is unusual for a board not to disclose the reasons for a top executive’s termination, but he sees Barnes & Noble’s board as an outlier overall given the number of CEOs that the firm has gone through in recent years."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "For instance, to cite just one of many, a magisterial study by Germán Gutiérrez and Thomas Philippon entitled 'Investment-less Growth: An Empirical Investigation' (NBER, 2016) shows that public corporations invest about half of the operating returns that they used to. The study shows that 'the ratio of net investment to net operating surplus for the non-financial business sector… between 1959 and 2001 is 20%. The average of the ratio from 2002 to 2015 is only 10%.'"