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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'There is a lot of tension and a lot of resistance within organizations,' says Hila Lifshitz-Assaf at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, who studies how traditional R&D centers adapt to new practices."

On Tuesday, December 6, NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business welcomed Jerome L. Dodson, founder and president of Parnassus Investments for a talk entitled, “Market-Beating Performance.”

Excerpt from Crain's New York -- "'Rocketrip has come up with an innovative solution to the problem of corporate travel spending that is, for now, unique,' said Ari Ginsberg, professor of entrepreneurship and management at NYU's Stern School of Business. 'The key will be whether or not they can sustain their competitive advantage as others are drawn into the same space.'"

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "Beth Bechky, who teaches courses in managing high-performance teams at New York University’s Stern School of Business, told Fast Company in a previous interview that when someone’s role is elevated, it’s easy for the team to assume nothing has actually changed. She recommends that leaders in transition acknowledge the changes and clearly communicate how expectations may be shifting."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "The former Rainforest Alliance President and current Director of the Center for Sustainable Business at NYU Stern, Tensie Whelan, reminded the audience concerned with the potential impact of the new administration on climate initiatives, that, of the US latest GDP of close to US$ 18 trillion, US$ 15.6 trillion came from business in the US. Business is not waiting for the Federal Government to tell it what to do, and today less than ever."

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "A New York University study found that EB-5 investment was largely financing luxury developments, including a Chinese-style casino in Las Vegas, a Waldorf Astoria hotel in Beverly Hills and the redevelopment of the Hudson rail yards in Manhattan."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Multi-disciplinary designer teams, solve problems and find solutions often in collaboration with insightful individuals from outside the firm. Snøhetta’s staff includes architects, interior architects, landscape architects, and graphic designers, that work collaboratively. At times other perspectives are brought in, such as anthropologists, subject specialists and individuals working in different forms of the arts."

Excerpt from The New York Post -- "'This probably seals the deal for a rate hike by the Fed,' said New York University economics professor Joe Foudy. 'The election is over; the job market is solid, if unspectacular; and there really is no more reason to wait.'"

Excerpt from Fortune -- "In 2010, when Peter Blair Henry came to New York University’s Stern School of Business, a top institution famous for its close Wall Street ties, the Street itself was in a shambles. Henry’s goal: expand Stern’s focus beyond New York banking and toward the larger world of business. 'The world needs finance more than ever, but it needs the 21st-century version of finance,' Henry says."    

Excerpt from the China Financial Herald -- "'Volatility is the market's response to new information,' Engle said. The new information in the Chinese market in the 1990s was significant, so during that period the Chinese mainland stock market volatility was much greater than that of the United States or Hong Kong."

Excerpt from Worth -- "The Center helps companies implement sustainability measures by creating strategic goals and setting up internal accounting metrics to assess the financial impact of those decisions. ... Says Whelan, 'We need to focus on demonstrating the business case, financially, for integrating sustainability into corporate strategy.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Proving actual manipulation is a difficult task, which is why so very few such cases have been proven to date,' said Rosa M. Abrantes-Metz, an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and an expert on market manipulation. 'It can be difficult to distinguish between someone who affects prices in a legitimate way simply because they are a large trader, versus someone who purposely moves prices away from market fundamentals while fooling the rest of the market.'"

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "The growth of healthy convenience foods such as meal kits and freshly prepared meals, both from grocery stores and delivery services, is mostly a positive thing for health and sustainability, says Hans Taparia, an assistant professor at the New York University Stern School of Business and co-founder of an organic food business."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'Power reduces the ability to understand how other people are feeling. We literally don't see as clearly,' said Dolly Chugh, associate professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "'Amazon does pose a major threat,' said Anindya Ghose, Professor of Marketing at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'It is incredibly difficult for a firm like Flipkart or Snapdeal to find a sustainable unique selling point in e-commerce retailing that will help differentiate them from the 800 pound gorilla in the room.'"

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "'Work is most people’s primary social network and an important source of identity,' says NYU professor and sharing economy expert Arun Sundararajan. 'As more and more people do not have this institutional affiliation, and are working more independently, cities will need to work to develop new community infrastructures, to be community creators for their freelance workforces.'"

Excerpt from CBC Radio -- "There is a potential for this to be a bit of a slippery slope here...Trump can't go company by company offering deals for states where he's not even sure if the governor of the state would be willing to go along with those."

On December 1, NYU Stern welcomed David Nenke, director of marketing and product for Cloud Drive and Amazon.com, for a special discussion with MBA students. Nenke shared his insights and information on the advanced technology of voice recognition software and the innovation behind Amazon Echo. 

On December 1, NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business hosted a panel discussion, entitled “Sustainability Leadership: How Companies Are Realizing the Value of Sustainability in Their Business Strategies”. 

Excerpt from OZY -- "NYU Stern professor Vasant Dhar points out that 'gamification is a positive thing; it leads to more engagement and more people playing games.'"

Excerpt from TIME -- "Under Henry, Stern has also increasingly come to see diversity in the business world as an imperative of 21st century finance, as companies change their leadership ranks to reflect the growing percentages of minorities in the U.S. population (and the growing purchasing power of other countries), in order to understand their consumers. Over the past year, the school has boosted the number of scholarships it offers, including the number of full rides for undergrads, from zero to 35; many go to first-generation minority students."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "We've got these two sort of dichotomous situations, right? Tech company versus transportation company. And clearly Uber is something in between. But we've got regulations that are pretty onerous that apply to transportation companies, and so from Uber's point of view, it's better to categorize themselves as a tech company. What we really should be doing is recognizing... that we've got a new category of business models here."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "So how can executives prevent this fear from affecting their behaviour—and hampering opportunities for high-potentials of all genders, races, and ethnicities to succeed? Professor Stehlik observes, 'Most often, the reason people avoid these conversations is you don’t have a real, authentic relationship with that person. You make incorrect assumptions about others, about their abilities and motivations, if you don’t enter into an open conversation with the people who aren’t like you.'"

Excerpt from Fox 5 -- "Machines have become much better at dealing with input directly from the real world...that really changes the role they can play. They can deal with more unstructured data and do more and more of what humans used to take for granted."

Excerpt from ProPublica -- "The potential for Trump’s decisions as president to impact his business holdings loom large. 'What happens if there are federal activities in the proximity of these golf courses or hotels that positively or negatively impact their value,' said Lawrence White, a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former federal antitrust regulator. 'He’s got a zillion things going on and I don’t see how he can effectively disengage.'"