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SEC: How to Decide Earnings Report Timing - By Richard Berner, Kim Schoenholtz & Lawrence White
The Securities and Exchange Commission has set a March 21 deadline for public comments on possible changes to its current financial reporting requirements for U.S. publicly traded companies.
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- Biography: Professor Richard Berner, Professor Kim Schoenholtz, Professor Lawrence White
- Department: Economics
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On Climate, the Kids Are All Wrong - By Paul H. Tice
In the summer of 1212, thousands of divinely inspired young people from across Catholic France and Germany took off to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims. None made it to the Holy Land. Many died along the way or were sold into slavery. As military campaigns go, the Children’s Crusade was a disaster. Yet environmental activists and politicians are adopting the same “a child shall lead them” strategy to push their climate change agenda and its latest incarnation, the Green New Deal.
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- Biography: Professor Paul H. Tice
- Department: Finance
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Tackling Domestic Disinformation - By Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

A new report from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights examines domestically generated disinformation in the US and urges social media platforms to take a harder line in addressing the problem.
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— Research Highlights
Why it's so Important to Close the Female Leadership Gap - By Michael Posner
International Women’s Day offers an opportunity to take stock of areas where women have made progress in the struggle for equality but also to examine the gaps that remain. In the United States, women have made notable gains politically, but far too many continue to struggle to gain economic equality, including at the highest levels of American business.
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- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
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A Money Manager’s Past Performance Matters More Than Ever - By Vasant Dhar
A common disclaimer in the investment business is that “past performance is not indicative of future results.” This is consistent with the Theory of Finance which argues that obvious advantages disappear quickly in a competitive market. Historical evidence largely supports this position: Manager performance is mostly unpredictable from month to month.
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- Biography: Professor Vasant Dhar
- Department: IOMS
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The Big Nine - By Amy Webb
In her new book, Professor Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI – the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself – is broken.
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- Biography: Amy Webb
- Department: Marketing
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Strategy Needs Creativity - By Adam Brandenburger
I've noticed that business school students often feel frustrated when they’re taught strategy. There’s a gap between what they learn and what they’d like to learn. Strategy professors (including me) typically teach students to think about strategy problems by introducing them to rigorous analytical tools—assessing the five forces, drawing a value net, plotting competitive positions. The students know that the tools are essential, and they dutifully learn how to use them. But they also realize that the tools are better suited to understanding an existing business context than to dreaming up ways to reshape it.
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- Biography: Professor Adam Brandenburger
- Department: Management and Organizations
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The Next Wave of Improbable Innovation - By Tensie Whelan
The past 20 years have been characterized by innovation that democratizes access to information, entertainment, products and services through platform companies such as Spotify, Amazon and Facebook, as well as technologies such as blockchain. While technological and business innovation continues, there is growing backlash against some of its unintended consequences, such as growth becoming dependent on monetizing consumer data.
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- Biography: Professor Tensie Whelan
- Department: Center for Sustainable Business
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Stock Buybacks Are the Wrong Target - By A. Michael Spence
The surge in stock buybacks in the United States has sparked a high-stakes debate about what corporations can and should do with surpluses they have generated. It is a topic that raises fundamental questions about the role of the public and private sectors in securing inclusive growth patterns.
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- Biography: Professor A. Michael Spence
- Department: Economics
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How to Mitigate AI’s Exacerbation of Income Inequality - By Haran Segram
President Trump’s announcement of the American AI Initiative has established investment and leadership in AI as national priorities for the United States. It is forecasted that approximately one-sixth of the total labor force will be made redundant over the next decade through some form of automation; this number will be likely be higher in developed economies, including the United States. To keep the American Dream alive, policymakers must address AI’s exacerbation of income inequality.
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- Biography: Professor Haran Segram
- Department: Finance
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Public Pensions and Infrastructure: A Match Made in Heaven - By Ingo Walter and Clive Lipshitz
During the State of the Union address, President Trump issued a renewed call for an infrastructure bill. Two days later, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held its first hearing of the new Congress to address the state of U.S. infrastructure. Confronting the nation’s infrastructure gap is one of the rare bipartisan issues in Washington today.
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- Biography: Professor Ingo Walter
- Department: Finance
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NYC Driving Out Amazon is a Self-Inflicted Wound - By Ari Ginsberg
After New York State and New York City officials publicized details about the economic costs and benefits of Amazon’s plan to open a new 25,000-employee office in Queens, many New Yorkers and local politicians vocalized objections to the online retail giant’s planned entry into Long Island City (LIC).
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- Biography: Professor Ari Ginsberg
- Department: Management and Organizations
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Common Ownership in America: 1980-2017 - By Christopher Conlon
NYU Stern Professor Christopher Conlon, in a new working paper, proposes a consistent and scalable approach to measuring common ownership, identifies firm characteristics that correlate with the phenomenon, and traces the theoretical impact of the trend on shareholder structures.
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- Biography: Professor Christopher Conlon
- Department: Economics
— Research Highlights
Globalization in Troubled Times - By Pankaj Ghemawat, Steven Altman and Phillip Bastian
In 2016, the United Kingdom voted for Brexit and the United States elected Donald Trump, spelling, for many analysts, a major setback to globalization. However, the latest DHL Global Connectedness Index -- the first comprehensive globalization study to contain data from 2017 -- is quick to put this idea to rest. Looking at global connectedness on a worldwide level, by region, and for 169 countries with historical coverage back to 2001, the data show that globalization actually increased to a record high in 2017.
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- Biography: Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, Senior Research Scholar Steve Altman, Associate Research Scholar Phillip Bastian
- Department: Center for the Globalization of Education and Management
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Trump's AI Initiative Missed Opportunity to Address Immigration and Data - By Robert Seamans
On Monday, President Trump signed an Executive Order launching the “American AI Initiative.” The goal of the initiative is to promote American artificial intelligence (AI) to “increase our Nation’s prosperity, enhance our national and economic security, and improve quality of life for the American people.”
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- Biography: Professor Robert Seamans
- Department: Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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How Globalized is the World Today? – By Steven Altman
Steven Altman, executive director of NYU Stern's Center for the Globalization of Education & Management, shares findings from DHL's 2018 Global Connectedness Index.

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- Biography: Senior Research Scholar Steve Altman
- Center: Center for the Globalization of Education and Management
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'High Flying Bird' Will Entertain You and Leave You Thinking - By Dolly Chugh
This weekend, Netflix dropped a buzzy new movie called High Flying Bird. A cross between Jerry Maguire, Ocean's 11, and Nine to Five, the film is about “when an NBA lockout sidelines his big rookie client [and] an agent hatches a bold plan to save their careers – and disrupt the league’s power structure”. Directed by Steven Soderbergh (director of the Ocean's 11 franchise, Erin Brockovich, and Sex, Lies, and Videotape), it is being described as a “slam dunk” as well as an “exhilarating … caper.” I, too, found the movie highly entertaining as it followed a rogue sports agent played by Moonlight star André Holland through his negotiations with star players, hardball lawyers, and quick-thinking assistants. He does the business equivalent of a fake crossover dribble, determined to win the game.
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- Biography: Professor Dolly Chugh
- Department: Management and Organizations
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A Mixed Economic Bag in 2019 - By Nouriel Roubini
After the synchronized global economic expansion of 2017 came the asynchronous growth of 2018, when most countries other than the United States started to experience slowdowns. Worries about US inflation, the US Federal Reserve’s policy trajectory, ongoing trade wars, Italian budget and debt woes, China’s slowdown, and emerging-market fragilities led to a sharp fall in global equity markets toward the end of the year.
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- Biography: Professor Nouriel Roubini
- Department: Economics
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What the Next President of the World Bank Should Do - By Paul Romer
As the World Bank’s board considers nominations for the institution’s next president (Donald Trump is expected to nominate David Malpass, the US Treasury department’s top official on international affairs), there are two critical ways he or she can make the bank more effective.
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- Biography: Professor Paul Romer
- Department: Economics
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The State of Globalization in 2019 and What It Means for Strategists - By Pankaj Ghemawat & Steven Altman
Globalization, since the Brexit and Trump shocks of 2016, has been shaped by a tug of war between economic fundamentals and policy threats. But predictions that globalization would collapse under a wave of economic nationalism have proven no more accurate than proclamations of a flat world that dominated the global business discourse a decade ago. The new DHL Global Connectedness Index (which we co-authored with Phillip Bastian) demonstrates that the world ended 2017 more globalized than ever before.
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- Biography: Professor Pankaj Ghemawat & Senior Research Scholar Steve Altman
- Department: Center for the Globalization of Education and Management
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Scaling up Analogical Innovation with Crowds and AI - By Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
Investment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scientific breakthroughs isn’t setting any records. To resolve this quandary, scientists are turning to artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing for help in identifying a key inspiration for innovation — the perfect analogy.
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- Biography: Professor Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
- Department: Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences
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Super Bowl 2019 Advertising Predictions: Will Brands Bring Their A-Game? - By Priya Raghubir
What ads really work in the Super Bowl? Humor? Kids? Animals? Sex? The surprise “unveiling?” If history is any indication, any and all combinations of these elements multiply a brand’s chances of producing a winning ad campaign.
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- Biography: Professor Priya Raghubir
- Department: Marketing
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Making Way (hopefully) for 5G - By Lawrence White
To the applause of economists — not to mention stakeholders in the vast wireless communications industry — the FCC has driven the transformation of America’s deeply inefficient system from one that regularly assigned spectrum use by government fiat to one based on market allocation. A substantial portion of the “airwaves” is now flexibly licensed under a structure in which the government retains formal ownership, but licensees have considerable latitude to use or transfer their “rights” to others.
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- Biography: Professor Lawrence White
- Department: Economics
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Intersectional Escape: Older Women Elude Agentic Prescriptions More Than Older Men - By Michael S. North
New research by NYU Stern Professor Michael S. North focuses on the generational tension over resources that inevitably arises when people are living longer, and the implications for a world that has not caught up to the fact of increasing longevity.
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- Biography: Professor Michael S. North
- Department: Management and Organizatons
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Cultures of Nonprofit Trusteeship: What Lies Beneath? - By Jeffrey S. Simonoff
Nonprofits tend to think about boards in a way that assumes that they are nonporous entities—a kind of standardized form with few variations. But the opposite is true: nonprofit boards of directors are deeply influenced by any number of “silent” factors beyond whether they happen to adhere to commonly agreed-upon standards of governance. Our research indicates that they are influenced by their geographic regions, the fields in which they practice, the social era (and theories of change) from which that field emerged, and the regulatory and funder-driven standards of that field, to name a few.
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- Biography: Professor Jeffrey Simonoff
- Department: IOMS
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A Candid Advantage? The Social Benefits of Candid Photos - By Alixandra Barasch
Candid photos elicit more favorable responses in the context of friendship and dating because they seem more genuine, according to joint research from Professor Alixandra Barasch.
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- Biography: Professor Alixandra Barasch
- Department: Marketing
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By Mollycoddling Our Children, We're Fuelling Mental Illness in Teenagers - By Jonathan Haidt
We talk incessantly about how to make children more “resilient”, but whatever we’re doing, it’s not working. Rates of anxiety disorders and depression are rising rapidly among teenagers, and in the US universities can’t hire therapists fast enough to keep up with the demand. What are we doing wrong?
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- Biography: Professor Jonathan Haidt
- Department: Business & Society Program
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The True Cost of Public Debt - By Thomas Philippon
Public debt in developed countries soared during the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011-2012 Eurozone crisis. The debt-to-GDP ratio is around 87% on average in the euro area, but it is close to 100% in France and Spain, and over 130% in Italy. For ten years, these countries have made considerable efforts to reduce their deficits and reduce their debts.
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- Biography: Professor Thomas Philippon
- Department: Finance
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The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control - By Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
Today, managers recognize that innovation requires a high level of work autonomy for their employees. This encourages curiosity, enables independent thinking, and provides an environment in which employees can experiment and test new problem-solving approaches with minimal fear of failure. At the same time, top-level management and shareholders expect managers to innovate at an increasingly demanding pace, putting top-down pressure on employees to channel this autonomy into productivity. The challenge for managers becomes figuring out how to balance autonomy and control in order to achieve organizational goals without jeopardizing innovation.
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- Biography: Professor Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
- Department: Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences
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How Helping Refugees Helps Brands - By Tülin Erdem, Vishal Singh and Qianyun Zhang

Report from the Tent Partnership for Refugees and NYU Stern demonstrates that when brands support refugees, American consumers – particularly millennials – are more likely to purchase their products.
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Helping Refugees in the U.S. Turns Out To Be Good For Business - By Tülin Erdem & Selcuk Sirin
Refugees are at the center of a political debate that heated up during the 2016 elections and has only increased in intensity since the 2018 midterms and the arrival of a refugee caravan at the US-Mexico border. Despite the polarized rhetoric in these discussions, businesses have been taking a stand in support of refugees. In the past two years, more than 100 companies have publicly joined the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a non-profit with a mission to develop and implement concrete business commitments to refugees.
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- Biography: Professor Tülin Erdem
- Department: Marketing
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FinTech in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Has Worked Well, and What Hasn’t - By David Yermack
Growth in the Fintech sector in sub-Saharan Africa has been uneven, with some countries far outpacing others. NYU Stern Professor David Yermack investigates possible causes in a new working paper, “FinTech in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Has Worked Well, and What Hasn’t.”
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- Biography: Professor David Yermack
- Department: Finance
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May’s Brexit Deal Is a Betrayal of Britain - By Mervyn King
When Tony Blair and Boris Johnson unite in their condemnation of the “deal” under which Theresa May proposes that the U.K. should leave the EU, you know something has gone badly wrong. The withdrawal agreementis less a carefully crafted diplomatic compromise and more the result of incompetence of a high order. I have friends who are passionate Remainers and others who are passionate Leavers. None of them believe this deal makes any sense. It is time to think again, and the first step is to reject a deal that is the worst of all worlds.
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- Biography: Lord Mervyn King
- Department: Economics
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Financing the Response to Climate Change - By Jeffrey Wurgler
In “Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of U.S. Green Bonds,” Professor Wurgler, with co-authors Malcolm Baker and George Serafeim of Harvard Business School and Daniel Bergstresser of Brandeis University, analyzed pricing and ownership patterns of green bonds. They hypothesized and confirmed that they are priced at a premium compared to ordinary bonds, with higher prices at issue and therefore lower returns to bondholders.
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- Biography: Professor Jeffrey Wurgler
- Department: Finance
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What Lawmakers Need to Do to Police Online Content - By Vasant Dhar
Platforms with laudable mission statements of making the world a better place and doing no evil now find themselves dealing with the dark side of human nature associated with the connected world they have created. Their content can be malicious, aimed at covert manipulation or stirring up dark emotions that trigger violence. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter realize this danger and are scrambling to keep bad content off their platforms. They have employed armies of humans, roughly 20,000 in Facebook’s case, to police platform content.
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- Biography: Professor Vasant Dhar
- Department: IOMS
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The Climate Won’t Crash the Economy - By Steven Koonin
Headlines warned of economic doom after the U.S. government released its fourth National Climate Assessment last week. Yet a close reading of the report shows that the overall economic impact of human-caused climate change is expected to be quite small.
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- Biography: Professor Steven Koonin
- Department: Information, Operations & Management Sciences
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A Primer on Concentration and Growth - By Thomas Philippon
In “A Primer on Concentration, Investment and Growth,” a study prepared for the 2018 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, Professor Philippon reviews the facts and controversies regarding the measurement and implications of rising concentration, including the importance of technological changes and foreign competition. He argues that weak investment cannot be explained by low expected productivity growth, low expected demand, higher costs of capital, or technological changes related to the rise of intangibles – but it is explained by declining competition.
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- Biography: Professor Thomas Philippon
- Department: Finance
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What A Difference 20 Years Make: Now You Get To Be A Smart Investor - By Baruch Lev and Chenqi Zhu
On Sunday, May 3, 1998, a front-page article in The New York Times reported on a breakthrough in cancer research by EntreMed, a biotech company developing cancer drugs. Investors’ reaction was swift and decisive: On Monday, May 4, EntreMed’s share price surged from $12.1 close on Friday, to $85.0 on Monday’s opening, and closed near $52.0. The price hovered around $30.0 during the three following weeks. And not just EntreMed; the Nasdaq Biotechnology Combined Index also rose 7.5% on that Monday.
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- Biography: Professor Baruch Lev
- Department: Accounting
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Data Visualization Made Simple - By Kristen Sosulski
Data Visualization Made Simple is a practical guide to the fundamentals, strategies and real-world cases for data visualization, an essential skill required in today’s information-rich world. With foundations rooted in statistics, psychology and computer science, data visualization offers practitioners in almost every field a coherent way to share findings from original research, big data, learning analytics and more.
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- Biography: Professor Kristen Sosulski
  Department: Information, Operations and Management Sciences
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The Coddling of the American Mind - By Jonathan Haidt
Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen?
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- Biography: Professor Jonathan Haidt
  Department: Business & Society Program
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The Person You Mean to Be - By Dolly Chugh
An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, on how to confront difficult issues including sexism, racism, inequality, and injustice so that you can make the world (and yourself) better.
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- Biography: Professor Dolly Chugh
  Department: Management and Organizations
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The Antitrust Revolution - By Lawrence J. White
The Antitrust Revolution, Seventh Edition, examines the critical and ever-changing role of economics in the antitrust process in the US. The book consists of 22 case studies of the most significant antitrust cases of recent years, building on previous editions that have chronicled the growing role of economics in antitrust since 1989. This edition includes 17 entirely new cases that demonstrate the novel economic issues that continue to arise and the new roles for economics in the process.
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- Biography: Professor Lawrence J. White
  Department: Economics
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Dismantling Knowledge Boundaries at NASA – By Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
In “Dismantling Knowledge Boundaries at NASA: The Critical Role of Professional Identity in Open Innovation,” an in-depth, three-year study at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NYU Stern Professor Hila Lifshitz-Assaf evaluated a number of experiments for which open-innovation methods produced groundbreaking discoveries, finding that their success simultaneously required a shift in thinking about the role of R&D professionals.
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- Biography: Professor Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
- Department: IOMS
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What Blockchain Could Mean for Marketing - By Anindya Ghose
Companies are collecting more data than ever before, and are making significant business decisions based on it. Of the 4 Vs of Big Data (Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity), we have now seen ample evidence of the impact and importance of the first three.
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- Biography: Professor Anindya Ghose
- Department: IOMS
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Walmart Opens a New Front in Global Battle Against Amazon - By Aswath Damodaran
Walmart’s acquisition of a controlling stake in Flipkart has raised several questions on the future of India’s largest online retailer. To answer these questions, let’s start with the bare basics on Flipkart. For fiscal year 2016-17, Flipkart reported a 29% increase in revenue to Rs 19,854 crore, but the report had two red flags.
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- Biography: Professor Aswath Damodaran
- Department: Finance
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Proactive Customer Service Helps Ride-Share Startup Gain an Edge in a Brutal Market - By Maxime Cohen
New research by NYU Stern Professor Maxime Cohen finds that a proactive data-driven customer service strategy can help companies gain an advantage in the fiercely competitive sharing economy.
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- Biography: Professor Maxime Cohen
- Department: IOMS
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The Top 4 Reasons Most Acquisitions Fail - By Melissa Schilling
Dozens of studies have shown that most mergers and acquisitions fail to create value, and many of them destroy value. In fact, finance guru Aswath Damodaran has noted, "More value is destroyed by acquisitions than any other single action taken by companies.
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- Biography: Professor Melissa Schilling
- Department: Management and Organizations
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An Empirical Study of Craigslist's Impact on Prostitution Trends - By Anindya Ghose
New research from NYU Stern Professor Anindya Ghose and co-authors, Jason Chan and Probal Mojumder of University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, demonstrates as Craigslist expanded across the United States, the free classifieds website also bolstered the sex industry.
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- Biography: Professor Anindya Ghose
- Department: IOMS
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The New Global Road Map - By Pankaj Ghemawat
In The New Global Road Map, Pankaj Ghemawat separates fact from fiction by giving readers a better understanding of the key trends affecting global business. He also explains how globalization levels around the world are changing, and where they are likely to go in the future.
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- Biography: Professor Pankaj Ghemawat
  Department: Center for the Globalization of Education and Management
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Strategic Communication at Work: The Impact Paradigm - By Diane Lennard
Strategic Communication at Work provides the reader with a practical approach to engaging in all types of communication―one-on-one, small group, and large group―to achieve intended results. The framework presented enables readers to make informed decisions that increase the effectiveness of their communication and enhance their credibility.
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- Biography: Professor Diane Lennard
  Department: Management Communication Program Area
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Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt - By Richard Sylla
While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging state governments to charter a number of commercial banks and other business corporations. Yet despite a recent surge of interest in Hamilton, U.S. financial modernization has not been fully recognized as one of his greatest achievements.

“Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt” by Professor Richard Sylla and co-author traces the development of Hamilton's financial thinking, policies, and actions through a selection of his writings. The authors provide commentary that demonstrates the impact Hamilton had on the modern economic system, guiding readers through Hamilton's distinguished career. The book showcases Hamilton’s thoughts on the nation's founding, the need for a strong central government, confronting problems such as a depreciating paper currency and weak public credit, and the architecture of the financial system.
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- Biography: Richard Sylla
- Department: Economics
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Data Visualization - By Kristen Sosulski
Data visualization has gained immense popularity over the last five years and is continuing to evolve. Many forces have contributed to the torrent of data graphics that we see all around us.
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- Biography: Professor Kristen Sosulski
- Department: Information, Operations and Management Sciences
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Quirky - By Melissa Schilling
Professor Melissa Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, invites us into the lives of eight people--Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs--to identify the traits and experiences that drove them to make spectacular breakthroughs, over and over again.
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- Biography: Professor Melissa Schilling
- Department: Management and Organizations
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Creative Trailblazer - By Richard Sylla
Professor Richard Sylla shares his insights on business leaders throughout history in "Creative Trailblazer," presented by Biography and A&E Network. Subjects include Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Walt Disney and Andrew Carnegie.
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- Biography: Richard Sylla
- Department: Economics
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Understanding Indian Consumers - By Durairaj Maheswaran
Marketing to India’s diverse and rapidly changing consumers requires constant refreshment of knowledge and skills. To the keen MBA student specializing in marketing as well as its ardent practitioner, Understanding Indian Consumers blends practical insights with theoretical frameworks.
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- Biography: Durairaj Maheswaran
- Department: Marketing
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Quirky - By Melissa Schilling
Melissa Schilling’s penetrating and original analysis of the commonalities of creative genius, QUIRKY: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World, delves deeply into the lives of eight creative geniuses to identify the traits and experiences that led them to become breakthrough innovators.
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- Biography: Professor Melissa Schilling
- Department: Management and Organizations
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Empowering Patients Using Smart Mobile Health Platforms - By Anindya Ghose
New research from NYU Stern Professor Anindya Ghose and co-authors, Beibei Li of Carnegie Mellon University and Xitong Guo of the Harbin Institute of Technology, explores how emerging mobile health (mHealth) technologies can persuade chronic-disease patients to modify their behaviors, better manage their care, and achieve improved health outcomes, including reductions in hospital visits and medical expenses over time.
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- Biography: Professor Anindya Ghose
- Department: IOMS
— Research Highlights
Shift Ahead - By Allen Adamson and Joel Steckel
In a world that's changing faster and more furiously than ever, the ability to shift focus is critical. Why is it that some organizations can continually evolve to meet the times and the marketplace, and others can't? How do some businesses recognize the right moment to shift, and others, ruefully, only after it's too late? Packed with insightful interviews, Shift Ahead by Professors Allen Adamson and Joel Steckel offers a smart, calculated approach to knowing when to change course and how to pull it off.
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- Biography: Professors Allen Adamson and Joel Steckel
- Department: Marketing
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The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google - By Scott Galloway
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that’s been written about The Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Professor Scott Galloway.
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- Biography: Professor Scott Galloway
- Department: Marketing
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Innovation Equity: Assessing and Managing the Monetary Value of New Products and Services - By Eitan Muller
In Innovation Equity, Professor Eitan Muller and co-authors analyze how a vast array of past innovations performed in the marketplace—from their launch to the moment they became everyday products to the phase where consumers moved on to the “next big thing.”
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- Biography: Eitan Muller
- Department: Marketing
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Valuing Stakeholder Governance - By Sinziana Dorobantu
Professor Sinziana Dorobantu and Kate Odziemkowska examine the value of governance mechanism—community benefits agreements (CBAs) signed by firms and local communities—intended to minimize social conflict that disrupts access to valuable resources.
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- Biography: Professor Sinziana Dorobantu
- Department: Management and Organizations
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Online Labor Blog - By John Horton

In his Online Labor Blog, Professor John Horton shares thoughts on the intersection of labor economics, market design and information technology.
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Can We Avoid Financial Crises in the Future? - By Robert Engle
Throughout Robert Engle's 48-year career he’s developed successful models to measure and predict economic events like financial crises. Though his masterpiece, the ARCH-Model, was developed in the 1980s, it’s still used today as a kind of early financial warning system.
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- Biography: Professor Robert Engle
  Department: Finance
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Tap: Unlocking the Mobile Economy - By Anindya Ghose
Consumers create a data trail by tapping their phones; businesses can tap into this trail to harness the power of the more than three trillion dollar mobile economy. According to Professor Anindya Ghose, this two-way exchange can benefit both customers and businesses. In Tap: Unlocking the Mobile Economy, Professor Ghose welcomes us to the mobile economy of smartphones, smarter companies and value-seeking consumers.
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- Biography: Professor Anindya Ghose
- Department: Marketing & IOMS
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Cliffhangers - By Adam Alter
Professor Adam Alter discusses why cliffhangers are so effective in driving people to consume more content, from his new book, "Irresistible."
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- Biography: Professor A dam Alter
- Department: Mar keting
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Regulating Wall Street: CHOICE Act vs. Dodd-Frank - By NYU Stern & NYU Law Faculty

The NYU Stern School of Business presents a new book, Regulating Wall Street: CHOICE Act vs. Dodd-Frank, authored by more than a dozen faculty members from NYU Stern and the NYU School of Law. With the change in power in Washington D.C., both Congress and the Administration seek to repeal parts of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, streamline regulation and reduce compliance costs. In their analysis, the authors address the prominent issues of financial regulation and examine the benefits and drawbacks of the CHOICE Act—the prominent proposal to reform financial regulation—while comparing it to Dodd-Frank.
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology & the Business of Keeping Us Hooked - By Adam Alter
In his latest book, Professor Adam Alter tracks the rise of behavioral addiction, and explains why so many of today's products are irresistible. By reverse engineering behavioral addiction, Professor Alter explains how we can harness addictive products for the good ... and how we can mitigate their most damaging effects on our well-being, and the health and happiness of our children.
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- Biography: Professor Adam Alter
- Department: Marketing
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Dear Rival - You Change My Game! - By Gavin Kilduff
Professor Gavin Kilduff has spent the last 10 years studying the psychological aspects of rivalry. His conclusion is that your biggest rival is also your best friend. Why? They make you better!
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The Infrastructure Finance Challenge - By NYU Stern Faculty

A faculty team from the NYU Stern School of Business has recently published an eBook, The Infrastructure Finance Challenge, an analysis of the drivers, challenges and actionable choices for the future of infrastructure finance.
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The Economics, Regulation, and Systemic Risk of Insurance Markets - By Ralph Koijen
Despite the importance of insurance in enabling individual and collective social, economic, and financial activities, discussions about the macro-economic role and risks of insurance markets are surprisingly limited.
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- Department: Finance
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The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream - By Amy Webb
In The Signals Are Talking, Professor Amy Webb presents a methodology for how to predict future trends in technology and society. This book helps readers hear which signals are talking sense, and which are simply nonsense, so that they might know today what developments—especially those seemingly random ideas at the fringe as they converge and begin to move toward the mainstream—have long-term consequence for tomorrow.
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- Biography: Professor Amy Webb
- Department: Marketing
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Alexander Hamilton: The Illustrated Biography - By Richard Sylla
From soldier to smash hit, Professor Richard Sylla details the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton in a new biography.
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- Department: Economics
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The DHL Global Connectedness Index vs Others - By Pankaj Ghemawat
Professor Pankaj Ghemawat discusses the advantages of the DHL Global Connectedness Index vs other index measures of globalization over time.
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  Department: Center for the Globalization of Education and Management
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Derivatives - By Rangarajan Sundaram
It has been the authors' experience that the overwhelming majority of students in MBA derivatives courses go on to careers where a deep conceptual, rather than solely mathematical, understanding of products and models is required. The first edition of Derivatives looks to create precisely such a blended approach, one that is formal and rigorous, yet intuitive and accessible.
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- Biography: Dean Rangarajan K. Sundaram
- Department: Finance
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The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications - By Pankaj Ghemawat
The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications, by Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, provides a data-driven discussion of globalization at the world, country, industry and firm levels. It is aimed at academics, students and practitioners in business and public policy.
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- Biography: Professor Pankaj Ghemawat
- Department: Center for the Globalization of Education and Management
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Employment in the Sharing Economy - By Arun Sundararajan & Scott Galloway
Professors Arun Sundararajan and Scott Galloway discuss how the rise of the sharing economy has changed the nature of employment.
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- Biography: Professor Arun Sundararajan & Professor Scott Galloway
- Department: IOMS & Marketing
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"The End of Accounting" Blog - By Baruch Lev

This blog tracks the media appearances and writings of Professor Baruch Lev, most recently the coauthor (with Professor Feng Gu) of The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers (Wiley, 2016).
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The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy - By Lord Mervyn King
In The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy, Lord Mervyn King offers his perspective on the history and future of money and banking – the keys to modern finance.
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- Department: Economics
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The End of Accounting – By Baruch Lev
In The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers, Professor Baruch Lev and co-author Feng Gu show how ubiquitous financial reports have become useless in capital market decisions and lay out an actionable alternative.
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- Biography: Professor Baruch Lev
- Department: Accounting
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The Sharing Economy - By Arun Sundararajan
In The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism, Professor Arun Sundararajan explains the transition to what he describes as "crowd-based capitalism" -- a new way of organizing economic activity that may supplant the traditional corporate-centered model.
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- Biography: Professor Arun Sundararajan
- Department: Information, Operations and Management Sciences
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Business and Human Rights: From Principles to Practice - By Dorothée Baumann-Pauly
Business and Human Rights: From Principles to Practice is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary textbook that aims to ignite a much larger conversation about transforming business education to encompass business and human rights. Stern's Center for Business and Human Rights Research Director Dorothee Baumann-Pauly and Visiting Scholar Justine Nolan examine the regulatory framework that grounds the business and human rights debate and highlights the business and legal challenges faced by companies and stakeholders in improving respect for human rights.
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- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
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A First Course in Optimization Theory - By Rangarajan K. Sundaram
A First Course in Optimization Thoery introduces students to optimization theory and its use in economics and allied disciplines.
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- Biography: Dean Rangarajan K. Sundaram
- Department: Finance
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Global Vision: How Companies Can Overcome the Pitfalls of Globalization - By Rob Salomon
In Global Vision: How Companies Can Overcome the Pitfalls of Globalization, Professor Robert Salomon addresses the business challenges that globalization poses. The book aims to help managers improve their global acumen by developing a better understanding of the cultural, political and economic risks they face as they expand globally.
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- Biography: Professor Robert Salomon
- Department: Management and Organizations
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Finding Creativity: How - By Kim Corfman
Professor Kim Corfman shares tips on how to encourage divergent thinking.
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- Biography: Professor Kim Corfman
- Department: Mar keting
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Essentials of Online Course Design - By Kristen Sosulski
In spite of the proliferation of online learning, creating online courses can still evoke a good deal of frustration, negativity, and wariness in those who need to create them. The second edition of Essentials of Online Course Design takes a fresh, thoughtfully designed, step-by-step approach to online course development.
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- Biography: Professor Kristen Sosulski
- Department: Information, Operations and Management Sciences
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Should You Trust Your Money to a Robot? - By Vasant Dhar & Scott Galloway
Professors Vasant Dhar and Scott Galloway discuss whether humans should entrust their money to machines.
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- Biography: Professors V asant Dhar & Scott Galloway
- Department: I OMS & Marketing
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The Storytelling Imperative - By Naomi Diamant
Professor Naomi Diamant dicusses how storytelling is an impulse for engagement.
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- Biography: Profesor Naomi Diamant
- Department: Management and Organizations
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The Line Between Disrupt and Exploit - By Sonia Marciano
Professor Sonia Marciano reminds us to take a step back to Porter's Five Forces to examine the concepts of industries, competition, and substitutes.
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- Biography: Professor Sonia Marciano
- Department: Management and Organizations
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Blog by Paul Romer

Economist and policy entrepreneur Paul Romer shares his thoughts on topics including macro-economics, mathematical theory and urbanization.
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Cryptocurrency 101 - By David Yermack
Professor David Yermack sheds light on some of the most fundamental questions around digital currency.
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- Biography: Professor David Yermack
- Department: Finance
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The Importance of Names - By Adam Alter & Scott Galloway
People identify with their names more than anything else, which has implications for marketing and charities. Professor Adam Alter says more organizations should use that to their advantage.
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- Biography: Professors Adam Alter and Scott Galloway
- Department: Marketing
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The Future of Regulation - By Arun Sundararajan
Professor Arun Sundararajan implores consumers to think carefully about the implications of regulation moving away from the government, rather than allowing it simply as a byproduct of advances in digital technology.
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- Biography: Professor Arun Sundararajan
- Department: IOMS
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The Effects of Power - By Elizabeth Morrison
Professor Elizabeth Morrison encourages both bosses and employees to examine their own roles and relationships with the awareness that power is a potent force.
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- Biography: Professor Elizabeth Morrison
- Department: Management and Organizations
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Social Media Valuations - By Aswath Damodaran & Scott Galloway
Professor Aswath Damodaran shares his perspective on social media companies with Professor Scott Galloway.
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- Biography: Professors Aswath Damodaran & Scott Galloway
- Department: Finance & Marketing
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Does the Fed Set Interest Rates - By Aswath Damodaran
Does the Fed set interest rates? Prof. Aswath Damodaran sets the record straight.
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- Biography: Professor Aswath Damodaran
- Department: Finance
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How Data Enlighten Our Understanding of Racial Bias - By Dolly Chugh
Professor Dolly Chugh, along with her colleagues Katherine Milkman and Modupe Akinola, explores how race affects casual, informal interactions such as email correspondence.
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- Biography: Professor Dolly Chugh
- Department: Management and Organizations
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The Internet of Things - By Anindya Ghose
Professor Anindya Ghose provides an introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT) and what you need to know about it to prepare for a more connected reality.
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- Biography: Professor Anindya Ghose
- Department: IOMS
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Digital Disruption of the Consulting Industry - By Natalia Levina
Professor Natalia Levina sheds light on the potential disruption of perhaps one of the more unexpected industries: consulting.
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- Biography: Natalia Levina
- Department: IOMS
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Telling a Story With Data - By Kristen Sosulski
Professor Kristen Sosulski talks through the components of telling a story using data, from exploration, to analysis, to communication.
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- Biography: Profesor Kristen Sosulski
- Department: IOMS
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Genealogy of American Finance - By Richard Sylla
In Genealogy of American Finance, Professor Richard Sylla and his co-author, Robert E. Wright of Augustana College, outline the history of the 50 largest banks in the United States.
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- Department: Economics
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Why You Should Care About Luxury - By Scott Galloway
Professor Scott Galloway explains how luxury crosses time, geography and socioeconomics.
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- Biography: Professor Scott Galloway
- Department: Mar keting
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Cultivating Intellectual Flexibility - By Nouriel Roubini
Professor Nouriel Roubini explains what you need to know in order to prepare for an interdependent, more connected world.
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- Department: Economics
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"European Economic Snapshot" Blog - By Thomas Cooley and UCSB Prof. Peter Rupert

European Economic Snapshot, written by Professor Thomas Cooley and co-authors Peter Rupert, Zachary Bethune and Valerie Bostwick, presents the authors' views on the current European economic environment, based on releases from Eurostat and other organizations. The data is presented in a way that the authors find useful for assessing where we are in the business cycle and tracking the economic recovery of several large European countries.
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"Musings on Markets" Blog - By Aswath Damodaran

In Musings on Markets, Professor Aswath Damodaran explains his company valuations and shares his thoughts on current corporate finance news.

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City as Startup - By Paul Romer
Professor Paul Romer discusses the concept of city as startup, explaining how reform zones can be used as valuable tools in assessing effectiveness of policies for a country.
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- Biography: Paul Romer
- Department: Urbanization Project
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"Money & Banking" Blog - By Kim Schoenholtz & Brandeis Prof. Stephen Cecchetti

Money and Banking, written by Professor Kim Schoenholtz and co-author Stephen Cecchetti of Brandeis International Business School, focuses on current issues in finance and economics. The authors approach the evolution of the financial system with the motto “understand the principles, understand the future.”
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"Banks and Markets" Blog - By Roy Smith & Ingo Walter

Banks and Markets, written by Professors Roy Smith and Ingo Walter, offers seasoned perspectives on money, markets and institutions.

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"NYU Stern Economics" Blog - By The Economics Department

NYU Stern Economics, written by faculty in the Economics Department, offers thoughts about economic and business issues by and for the NYU Stern community and others with similar interests.
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"U.S. Economic Snapshot" Blog - By Thomas Cooley and UCSB Prof. Peter Rupert

US Economic Snapshot, written by Professor Thomas Cooley and co-authors Peter Rupert and Zachary Bethune, presents the latest version of the economic snapshot, based on releases from the BEA, BLS, and other organizations. The data is presented in a way that the authors find useful for assessing where we are in the business cycle and tracking the US economic recovery.
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Disruptive Innovation - By Luke Williams
Professor Luke Williams explains and defines disruptive innovation.
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- Biography: Luke Williams
- Department: W.R. Berkley Innovation Lab
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Modernizing Insurance Regulation - By John Biggs and Matthew Richardson
With insurance premiums constituting a growing portion of the annual US GDP and provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act specifically calling for the modernization of insurance regulations, the insurance industry is facing a number of changes. In Modernizing Insurance Regulation, Professors John Biggs and Matthew Richardson, editors, address these issues against a backdrop of the political and industry discussions that surround insurance, regulation and systemic risk.
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- Biography: Professors John Biggs and Matthew Richardson
- Department: Finance
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Money, Banking, and Financial Markets - By Kim Schoenholtz
In the fourth edition of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Professor Kim Schoenholtz and co-author Stephen Cecchetti use five core principles as the basis for understanding concepts to enable students to learn the rationale for financial rules and institutional structure.
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- Biography: Professor Kim Schoenholtz
- Department: Center for Global Economy and Business
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Innovation, Marketing and Brand-Building - by Michelle Greenwald

A regular contributor to Forbes, Professor Greenwald shares her viewpoints on innovation, marketing and brand-building.

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Luxury Marketing & Brand Strategy - By Thomai Serdari

As a luxury retail expert, Prof. Thomai Serdari regularly discusses luxury marketing, designing and brand strategy.
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The Talent Equation - By Prasanna Tambe
In his new book, Professor Prasanna Tambe explores the potential for big data to transform human resources and investigates some of the most important issues affecting the labor market and workforce management today.
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- Biography: Professor Prasanna Tambe
- Department: IOMS
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Global Asset Management - By Mike Pinedo & Ingo Walter
Global Asset Management: Strategies, Risks, Processes and Technologies, edited by Professors Michael Pinedo and Ingo Walter, focuses on all major aspects of the asset management industry including regulations, strategies, processes, applied technologies and risks.
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- Biography: Professor Mike Pinedo & Professor Ingo Walter
- Department: IOMS & Finance
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Data Science for Business - By Foster Provost
In their new book, Professor Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett present a set of fundamental principles for extracting useful knowledge from data.
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- Biography: Professor Foster Provost
- Department: Information, Operations & Management Sciences
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The Savvy Student's Guide to Online Learning - By Kristen Sosulski
In their new book, Kristen Sosulski, Clinical Assistant Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences and Director of Stern’s Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, and co-author Ted Bongiovanni introduce the information and skills required of successful online students.
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- Biography: Professor Kristen Sosulski
- Department: Information, Operations and Management Sciences
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Drunk Tank Pink - By Adam Alter
In his new book, Assistant Professor of Marketing Adam Alter explores how our environment shapes what we think, how we feel and the ways in which we behave.
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- Biography: Professor Adam Alter
- Department: Marketing
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TURNAROUND: Third World Lessons for First World Growth - By Peter Blair Henry
Thirty years ago China seemed hopelessly mired in poverty, Mexico had triggered the Third World Debt Crisis, and Brazil suffered under hyperinflation. But in recent decades, these and other developing countries have turned themselves around, while First World nations, battered by economic and fiscal crises, struggle to stay afloat. With the global economy teetering on the brink, America’s prosperity now depends on our ability to learn from these prior foreign struggles—and successes—with economic reform. The stakes are higher than ever and Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth, by Peter Blair Henry, reveals the three things we need for a more prosperous future.
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- Department: Economics
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Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence - By William Silber
Noted scholar and finance expert Silber draws on hours of candid personal interviews and complete access to Volcker's personal papers to render dramatic behind-the-scenes accounts from Volcker's career at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve.
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- Biography: Professor William Silber
- Department: Finance
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The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't – By William Baumol
In his new book, William J. Baumol, Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and academic director of NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, identifies the "cost disease" as a major source of rapidly rising costs in service sectors of the economy. Once we understand that disease, he explains, effective responses become apparent.
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- Biography: Professor William Baumol
- Department: Economics
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SABOTAGE: How the Republican Party Crippled America's Economic Recovery - By Daniel Altman
In his new e-book, Professor Daniel Altman asserts that the Republican Party sabotaged America's recovery in the aftermath of its worst downturn in decades.
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- Biography: Professor Daniel Altman
- Department: Economics
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Regulating Wall Street - By NYU Stern Faculty
Forty NYU Stern faculty, including editors Viral V. Acharya, Thomas F. Cooley, Matthew P. Richardson, and Ingo Walter, provide a definitive analysis of The Dodd-Frank Act, in a new book.
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- Biography: Professor Viral Acharya, Professor Thomas Cooley, Professor Matthew Richardson, Professor Ingo Walter
- Department: Economics, Finance
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Guaranteed to Fail - By NYU Stern Faculty
NYU Stern economists Viral Acharya, Matthew Richardson, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Lawrence J. White provides a rational analysis of how Fannie and Freddie collapsed and why housing finance in general is broken in their new book.
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- Biography: Professor Viral Acharya, Professor Matthew Richardson, Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Professor Lawrence White
- Department: Economics, Finance
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Restoring Financial Stability - By NYU Stern Faculty
Introducing an independent view of the financial crisis, this book features executive summaries of 18 targeted and definitive White Papers authored by 33 NYU Stern academics that offer financial policy alternatives—and specific courses of action—to restore the global financial system.
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The Righteous Mind - By Jonathan Haidt
In "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" (Pantheon, March 13, 2012), Professor Jonathan Haidt walks through the world of morality and politics. He explores why our political leaders cannot seem to work together and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
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- Department: Business and Society Program Area
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Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business — By Luke Williams
In a business world of nonstop change, there's only one way to win the game: Transform it entirely. This requires a revolution in thinking – a steady stream of disruptive strategies and unexpected solutions. In Disrupt, Luke Williams, executive director of NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and clinical associate professor of marketing and innovation, shows exactly how to generate those strategies and deliver those solutions.
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- Department: Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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