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On September 14, 2018, NYU Stern's Executive MBA Program and NYU Washington DC hosted the first Stern EMBA Speaker Series event at NYU’s downtown DC location featuring Fannie Mae's Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, Brian Brooks.

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'Bitcoin happened to be launched in 2009, but it was the culmination of decades of attempts to create a digital currency on a peer-to-peer basis,' said David Yermack, a professor of finance and business transformation at New York University. ... 'They stumbled upon something — an experiment, you could say,' said Roubini, a professor of economics often identified as 'Dr. Doom.' 'They pretend to be libertarian, but they are a new generation of self-serving gold bugs. They only care about their money, not the protocol or the technology.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- (4:05) "They didn't have to save the Lehman equity holders, but they needed to make it less of a crisis because if I don't know whether you had Lehman exposure, am I going to lend you money? No. And it was that uncertainty that caused everybody to pull in. They pulled in their financing and it led to the crisis."

Excerpt from BBC -- "Stehlik says from a human perspective, managers need to show compassion: 'You have to honour how people put love in their life,' she says. 'The day a manager doesn’t show compassion, then the worker turns around and says, ‘this is a hostile work environment."'
 

Excerpt from TechRepublic -- "'Python is very popular because of its set of robust libraries that make it such a dynamic and a fast programming language,' said Kristen Sosulski, clinical associate professor of information, operations, and management sciences in the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, and author of Data Visualization Made Simple. 'It's object-oriented, and it really allows for everything from creating a website, to app development, to creating different types of data models.'"

The W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs hosted the $300K Entrepreneurs Challenge Kick-Off & Info Session on Wednesday, September 12, 2018.

Excerpt from MoneyControl -- "Moreover, financial markets were also central to rising inequality, as initially shown by researchers such as Thomas Philippon and Simon Johnson."

Excerpt from NPR -- (1:42:48) "We have lots of evidence in my field of psychology that we don't always hit the mark of who we see ourselves as...as psychologists what we can tell you is we have unconscious bias, we have blind spots, we have all sorts of ways in which outside of our own awareness we are swayed by situational forces around us..."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "'There's been a tremendous amount of consolidation during the last four decades,' Sylla said. 'The American banking system went from about 13 or 14,000 commercial banks four decades ago down to closer to 5,000 now.'"

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'(Zhang) is one of the sharpest analytical thinkers today in China,' said Anindya Ghose, the Heinz Riehl professor of business at New York University’s Stern School."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "We launched the new Focused MBA program in Technology & Entrepreneurship in May 2018 (Andre Koo Tech MBA), and Technology has become the #3 employer of Stern MBA graduates (behind Finance and Consulting), with Amazon as #1 for the Class of 2017. This means more courses (across all programs) in technology, fintech, analytics, and entrepreneurship, and more technology companies on campus for projects and recruiting. Whatever your career aspirations, technology and exposure to technology are central to everyone’s success."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "As well as Mrs Hughes, Aston also named former InterContinental Hotels chief executive Richard Solomons, and former Sainsbury’s executive Imelda Walsh to its board, along with former Deutsche Bank and Deloitte director Peter Espenhahn, director of the Arab British Chambers of Commerce Lord Matthew Carrington, and Professor Tensie Whelan from the New York University Stern Center for Sustainable Business."

Excerpt from CNN -- (1:21) "What began happening in 2014, 2015, is that professors and students who would say something, somebody would react to one word and there would be protests and there would be demands that the person be punished or fired and it took everyone by surprise. It seemed very strange. That's what we are seeing now, the new generation of students -- these are not millennials, these are the kids born after 1995. They have been raised in a very protected way, they are very sensitive to the power of words but there is this huge clash on campus now that is making it very difficult for example, to teach a class. You speak for an hour and if one person is offended by one word, they can report you."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "When you study these serial breakthrough innovators, you'll discover that a lot of them are what in management we would call 'low self-monitors,' meaning they don't monitor their persona or the way they present themselves very carefully. This is actually relevant to their ability to generate unusual ideas and to persist in the face of criticism. A person who cares a lot what people think of them is a person that’s going to make concessions when people disagree with their ideas."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'Private equity-owned schools are better at capturing government aid and that is coming at the expense of student outcomes, said Sabrina Howell, a finance professor at NYU Stern and one of the authors of the study."

Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times -- "'We’re encouraging people to adopt very risky financial behavior — to acquire an illiquid, undiversified asset and to borrow heavily against it,' [Schoenholtz] said."

Excerpt from CBS -- "We know that we pay a lot of attention to our names. There's an effect known as the cocktail party effect. And it's this idea that if you're at a cocktail party, there could be 100 people in a room. You could be at one corner of the room. There's a lot of noise. But if someone at the other corner of the room says your first name, you will hear it."
 

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'Every aspect of the financial report is adversely affected by this dated, industrial-age treatment of intangible capital,' Prof. Lev argued in his 2016 book, 'The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers,' co-written with Feng Gu, a professor of accounting and law at the University at Buffalo"

Excerpt from Bloomberg Quint -- "'Just because you have special tech and AI doesn’t mean you’re off to the races,' said Vasant Dhar, a professor at New York University who has run an AI-powered hedge fund for about a decade. 'This tech is interesting but fraught with all kinds of risks.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'This new government promised the moon, but when the spread rose to about 300 they panicked,' Nouriel Roubini, chief economist at Roubini Global Economics, said at the conference in Cernobbio. 'On the one side they promised a lot and have to deliver, on the other there is the deficit constraint.'"
 

Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "...The issue of the puzzle that wages weren't increasing even though the economy was strong, unemployment rate was low, we weren't seeing wages increasing was a continuing puzzle. [It's] still not clear why that was so six months ago, a year ago, two years ago, but it is clear now that the ... labor market is having some consequence for wages. However, it's important to remember that inflation is kicking up a little bit as well..."

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "After an initial drop, Nike’s stock is on working its way back up. The emotional, knee-jerk reactions of many will subside, and overall the brand will be stronger for being on the right side of history. Besides, as NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway tweeted yesterday, the American market is less than half of the company’s overall revenues."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "The Atlas of Urban Expansion, a project run by Shlomo Angel of New York University, has good data on Cairo, Dhaka, Lagos, Manila and São Paulo. All are at least twice as densely populated as Paris. Dhaka, with an overall density of 552 people per hectare in its built-up area, is ten times as crowded as Paris."

Excerpt from NBC News -- "'To a much greater degree than outside Silicon Valley, the employees of these companies have a sense of purpose and idealism,' said Paul Barrett, deputy director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University."

Excerpt from WalletHub -- "I advise potential homeowners (including private houses, condos, and coops) to follow three rules. Buying now is a good idea if: 1. You will love living there, 2. You can afford it, 3.You have no short-term (<5 years) constraints that would force you to move and sell."