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Excerpt from CGTN -- “You’ve got competition from the internet such as Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s … we’ve seen these kinds of trends over many many years hurt other kinds of industries … think hats for example … once upon a time most men wore stylish hats … now its baseball caps”

On Wednesday, September 4, NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business hosted the Fall 2019 Economic Outlook Forum. Kim Schoenholtz, Director of the Center, moderated the discussion, featuring panelists Seth Carpenter, UBS; Joyce Chang, JP Morgan; and Constance Hunter, KPMG.

Excerpt from Forbes -- "For Chain Vayakornvichit, a product marketer from Thailand, it requires a special kind of person – 'focused but open' – to take a leap of faith, invest in themselves, and return to school. “At the same time, they have to wrestle with the uncertainty of where this path will take them,” the New York University MBA candidate adds. 'These two factors are why I think the classmates I have met come in with a particular story, a particular idea of where they want to be at the end of the line, but they remain open to possibilities.'"

Excerpt from BNN Bloomberg -- "These are episodic events, so they don't affect every trader every day, but they are frequent enough that real investors may be worried."

Excerpt from Prospect Magazine -- "For their work in race studies and feminism respectively, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Kate Manne were popular; as was social psychologist Jonathan Haidt..."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Concerns over privacy could be a valid argument against releasing driver names, said New York University business school professor Arun Sundararajan."

Excerpt from Quartz -- "There also are low-cost ways for employers also to help workers combat their fatigue. Chief among them is to simply create more meaningful relationships, says Anat Lechner, an associate professor at New York University Stern School of Business, whose research focuses on innovative organizations."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'We urge the companies to prioritize false content related to democratic institutions, starting with elections,' he said. 'And we suggest that they retain clearly marked copies of removed material in a publicly accessible, searchable archive, where false content can be studied by scholars and others, but not shared or retweeted.'"

Excerpt from The Hill -- "Michael Posner, the director of NYU’s Stern Center, said in a statement that 'taking steps to combat disinformation isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s in the social media companies’ best interests as well.' ... In an interview with The Hill, Paul Barrett, the report’s author and the deputy director of NYU’s Stern Center, said that he 'doesn’t think the Honest Ads Act has much of a chance' of passage due to a lack of Republican support for election security bills in the Senate."

Researchers from New York University and Georgia Tech are conducting foundational research to understand and improve expert work in an age of data-intensive enhanced cognition, especially in healthcare, where new technologies are rapidly being deployed. The National Science Foundation recently awarded the team $2 million for the four-year project, which is expected to transform the future of expert work through a combined redesign of technology, workflow, and interactions.

Excerpt from Delta Sky Magazine -- "Through Stern Solutions experiential learning offerings at New York University's Stern School of Business, graduate students team up with faculty advisers to solve pressing problems facing real businesses... NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business works to connect undergraduate and MBA students with opportunities to do good while learning."

Excerpt from Channel News Asia -- "It's not a hard and fast relationship... it just indicates that the bond markets... are anticipating a weaker economy in the future."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "'We’re lucky to be in New York City, where there’s a networking convention every single night,' says Schwartz."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Having worked in a smaller and more nascent start-up ecosystem in Bangkok, I often did not have the benefit of learning from the experiences of peers who have simply had the opportunity to do it before. I wanted to be put in close quarters with teams that I can get to know and learn from. Stern offers exactly that through experiential learning courses like Tech and the City, but also access to a network of entrepreneurs in the city area."

NYU Stern welcomes new faculty for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Excerpt from Bloomberg-- "People learn not just in school, but on the job. And there are a lot more people in jobs than in school, so... employment is a very important potential source of new skills and new capabilities... We should be aiming to make sure everybody's in some kind of a job and aim for jobs which are good at teaching people to take on new responsibilities."

Excerpt from Accepted.com -- "Stern will be among the first schools to accept the GMAC Executive Assessment as well as the other types of standardized assessment exams, reflecting the school’s well-known attitude of trailblazing new policies in their infancy. Rabia Ahmed, Stern’s Executive Director of MBA Admissions, commented proudly that Stern is 'a school on the move.' She continues, 'We recognize that business is rapidly evolving, and we’ve responded.'"

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "The development we are most excited about this year is that Stern now offers more flexibility and choice than ever with three paths to the full-time MBA: the two-year Full-time MBA and our newly introduced focused one-year MBA programs – the Andre Koo Technology and Entrepreneurship MBA and the Fashion & Luxury MBA. We’ve also introduced more flexibility and choice in our admissions process. Beginning with the current 2019-2020 admissions cycle, we’re excited to announce we will now be accepting GMAC’s Executive Assessment as one of three standardized test options."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "Tensie Whelan, director of the Center for Sustainable Business at the NYU Stern School of Business, told MarketWatch that KRMA’s approach looks solid, but she cautioned that investors should know what they’re buying. Because KRMA is agnostic about sectors, some investors may be surprised that the holdings aren’t the typical 'impacting investing' core holdings — clean energy, for example."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "At the summit, world leaders representing six countries and the European Union gather to discuss issues like climate change, trade, and defense. The summit held in Biarritz, France, was rife with awkward moments, and not only from President Trump. To explain those exchanges, Business Insider spoke with body language expert and director of New York University's Management Communication Program, Susan J. Stehlik, about Trump's behavior."

Excerpt from Quartz -- "By aggregating SRISK across a country’s economy, Robert Engle, a Nobel Prize winner at NYU, and Tianyue Ruan of National University of Singapore, believe they can estimate the relationship between projected capital shortfalls and the likelihood of a financial crisis. Their work shines a spotlight on the interconnected nature of the economy, reminding investors that potential danger is rarely isolated in a single country."

Excerpt from Vox -- "'It’s important that packaging leads the customer journey,' says Anika Sharma, an adjunct assistant professor at NYU Stern and a marketing professional."

Excerpt from Coinbase -- "Uniting the top 10 schools on the list — which in the U.S. include MIT, New York University, Stanford, and the University of California-Berkeley — is a deep commitment to crypto and blockchain at both the student and faculty level."c

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "In both the UT-Dallas North American and global rankings, updated in March, Wharton is trailed by NYU’s Stern School of Business, source of 259 articles in the last four years."

Excerpt from VICE -- "'Going after a greater fraction of the video entertainment market seems like a perfectly natural thing for them to be doing,' Sundararajan said. YouTube Premium, the platform’s paid subscription service, is another move toward slurping up the dollars people spend on 'mainstream home entertainment,” as he terms it."