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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- “Look at what is happening in China. China has devoted a huge chunk of its sovereign wealth fund to the future of AI, to training people, to building out systems and services ... China has some unbelievably good facial recognition systems and posture recognition systems. These things are so good that financial institutions trust them so that you can pay with your face.”

Excerpt from PCMag -- "We are endlessly fascinated by how other people feel about us. On Facebook and Instagram and Snapchat and Twitter, you're creating content and waiting for feedback. Some of it will be the kind of feedback you're seeking and some of it won't. But the thrill of getting exactly the kind of feedback you want is so appealing that we just keep returning to the experience over and over again."

Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "Being dean of a leading business school in the world's economic capital provided a unique vantage point from which to observe the particular challenges facing corporations, policymakers and civic leaders at this moment in history. This vantage point showed me beyond doubt that we face no more important challenge than increasing the accessibility and affordability of a first-rate education."

Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "Tulin Erdem, a professor of marketing at NYU's Stern business school, said she likes the Facebook ad more than the others. There's 'more of an emotional appeal there,' she said. 'I think it's more effective.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'Students are trying to have relevant skills for the job market,' Yermack said. 'You would take a risk not studying this.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Schilling, who has spent over 17 years researching tech innovation and collaboration strategies, adds that 'the prestige of the schools ensures that they have their pick of applicants, so their students tend to be strong and well-connected even before they arrive on campus.' Lastly, 'the social networks among students, alumni, corporate contacts and investors at these schools are exceptional because of the history,' Schilling says."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The world has become much more data-dense...so we basically, in the data now, see a lot more than we used to before so there is less guesswork involved. That's an important long-term trend. The thing it seems to me that you don't see in the data is the potential for rising systemic risk associated with trade frictions and other things..."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Limits on the SEC’s ability to obtain disgorgement could help explain the decline in its enforcement results—as measured by the penalties that firms pay to settle regulatory investigations. The SEC obtained fines against public companies totaling $65 million during the first half of 2018, the lowest amount since at least 2009, according to Cornerstone Research, an economic consulting firm."

Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "For instance, Hyundai uses 11.38 percent, the country risk premium for Korea as calculated by Bloomberg, which uses inputs such as sell-side analysts’ often-optimistic forecasts for equities. That’s far higher than risk-premium estimates of valuation guru Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University."

Excerpt from NBC News -- "'Those funds are set up to last you know up to, say, 10 years, and those are going to be extremely difficult to divest from and maybe even costly,' said NYU professor of entrepreneurial finance Robert Whitelaw."

Excerpt from ETF.com -- "In addition, Itamar Drechsler and Qingyi Drechsler, authors of the July 2014 study 'The Shorting Premium and Asset Pricing Anomalies,' found that about one-quarter of 'on special' stocks migrate into lower-cost buckets each month. In other words, underperformance tends to be fleeting."

Excerpt from The Bond Buyer -- "In their research, presented at Brooking’s July 2017 Municipal Finance Conference, Cuny and Dube examined the relation between disclosure choice, changes in issuer credit ratings, and adverse local housing conditions. The 'results suggest that disclosure quality can lower the cost of debt by attenuating the impact of negative economic outcomes,' they said."
 

Excerpt from Forbes -- "I was thrilled to recently discover what I consider a gold standard process by the Google Clips Camera development team. Key leaders of the development team Juston Payne, a former superstar MBA student from NYU Stern, who is product manager on the project, and Eva Snee, the UX (user experience) researcher, described what led to the new version, launched this past Friday."
 

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'The closeness [of financial firms] helped information flows—it was very efficient,' said Walter, who is the Seymour Milstein chair of finance and corporate governance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'Even after hours in the bars. Lots of information passed between people.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'Just as big tobacco was never able to make the connection between tobacco and cancer, and the NRA can't make the connection between gun sales and mass shootings, Facebook will never make the connection between the lack of safeguards and the risk to the commonwealth,' Galloway said Friday on CNBC's 'Squawk Alley.'"

Excerpt from the Associated Press -- "'It’s been a huge missed opportunity up until this point,' said Robert Seamans, a White House economist during the Obama administration who now teaches at the NYU Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from ETF.com -- "Over roughly the last decade, researchers have explored investor sentiment’s impact on markets. Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler have even constructed an investor sentiment index based on six metrics: trading volume as measured by NYSE turnover; the dividend premium (the difference between the average market-to-book ratio of dividend-payers and non-payers); the closed-end fund discount; number of IPOs; first-day returns on IPOs; and the equity share in new issues."

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "'You’ll find that only a very small fraction of current Airbnb listings could potentially be units that have been taken off the market,' says Arun Sundararajan, professor at NYU’s Stern Business School and one of the researchers on the study. 'They’re not going to take over large swaths of long-term housing because there’s just not enough demand for that.'"

Excerpt from Eurasia Review -- "Tackling these timely 'nonmarket issues' and more, this book is structured in two parts. Part One maps globalization to explain what is — and what isn’t — changing, with some numbers and maps to illustrate. Part Two offers strategies for managing globalization — including how to compete, where to compete, how to connect and the aforementioned nonmarket issues — i.e., 'anger and its management.'"

Excerpt from BBC -- "'Obama mixes couture with items anyone can buy at a mall - she famously wore J Crew gloves while holding the Lincoln Bible at the Inauguration. Consumers flock to the stores, and even if they don't buy what she wears, they often leave with something else,' [Yermack] wrote."

Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times -- "Nicholas Economides, an economist at New York University, said that for a market to be considered truly competitive, it should have at least 10 players. 'In the case of the wireless market," he said, "we're already talking about an oligopoly. So a merger would just make an even more concentrated oligopoly.' Going from four to three players, Economides said, 'makes it extremely likely prices will be higher.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Nine tech companies, including Alphabet Inc. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. , are largely deciding the direction of artificial-intelligence research and implementation, said Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Institute. 'There’s no switch, and nobody is in charge,' Ms. Webb said."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "The first thing that they get out of this is a cool 7 billion dollars...The ability to reach markets that they otherwise would not be able to distribute to and market in."

Excerpt from Barron's -- "...in the case of companies like WeWork, which is privately held, he thinks the problem isn’t the metrics but the fact that the company is issuing bonds in the first place. 'You should never be buying bonds in a start-up,' Damodaran says."

Excerpt from CBC -- "Engle said much of the world economy is dependent on open access to world markets. 'If we start putting on tariffs, all these business arrangements are going to be disrupted,' he said. 'I think there is a big concern by the financial sector and the real economy that this would be very costly for everybody.'"