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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'The market is getting more aggressive as it often does towards the top of the cycle,' said Gustavo Schwed, a former partner at private equity firm Providence Equity Partners who is now a professor at New York University Stern School of Business. 'That’s when people get creative.'"
 

Excerpt from MSNBC -- "[Sources of disinformation] range from individuals on peripheral sites like 4Chan and 8Chan -- there's a lot of explicit racist activity... all the way up to the President of the United States, who uses Twitter, on many occasions, to make pronouncements that turn out to be completely false."

Excerpt from Livemint -- “'The difference between voting and non-voting shares should go to zero if there is no chance of changing management/control,' says corporate finance expert, Aswath Damodaran of New York University, in a paper titled The Value of Control."

The NYU Stern Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions will co-host an event entitled, "Where Are We in the Credit Cycle? Outlook for Credit Markets," on Friday, September 20.

Excerpt from Raw Data Podcast -- "Google knows your intent... They have all of these data points on you that they've gathered from your daily interaction with the world via the internet...So they see it all. And they're able to paint a very rich picture of you."

Excerpt from Morning Consult -- "Hardart said this may be a competitive strategy to lure subscribers. As companies pursue recognizable intellectual property — citing Amazon Prime Video’s work developing a 'Lord of the Rings' television series as an example — the networks and streaming services are 'finding things that are brands themselves that will bring their people in to get the service,' he said."

Excerpt from In the Black -- "In his book The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers, Lev suggests that financial reports have largely become an exercise in compliance, as opposed to an information-sharing activity that reflects strengths such as a great brand or unique business processes such as Amazon’s and Netflix’s customer recommendation algorithms."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Among the most striking current examples of coopetition, says Brandenburger, is that between Apple and Samsung. While Samsung’s Galaxy and Apple’s iPhone are competing products, Samsung at the same time continues to be one of Apple’s main suppliers (the company supplies screens to Apple)."

NYU students and alumni convened at NYU Stern for an evening with NYU alumnus Scott Harrison (CAS '98), founder and CEO of charity: water, New York Times bestselling author and NYU’s 2018 Alumni Changemaker of the Year.  The special lecture was jointly organized by the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, NYU Stern Business and Society Program, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, NYU College of Arts & Science Department of Environmental Studies and NYU Stern Undergraduate College.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Companies do not rely primarily on loans to pay for new factories and equipment. Between 1980 and 2017, 80% of the cash for corporate capital expenditure in the United States came from retained profit, according to economists Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'For a decade, [Netflix has] spent more and more money on content to get users and increase market capitalisation, and it worked,' Aswath Damodaran says. 'But the question is: how do you get off this treadmill? At some point spending 75 per cent of every dollar on content won’t be sustainable. The next year is going to be the big challenge.'"
 

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "When asked, 'Why the Stern School of Business?' students of the incoming NYU Stern Class of 2021 applauded the customizable curriculum and the school’s New York City location as highest on their list of reasons. Candidates can choose up to 3 specializations from over 20 options and can take up to one quarter of their classes for the degree with NYU Stern’s international partner institutions. In regards to location, Lisa Rios, executive director of MBA admissions at Stern, said, 'We make the student experience all about transformation, and we leverage our home in NYC and our deep connection to industry to make that happen.'"

Jihoon Rim, Executive Advisor & Former CEO of Kakao, joins Stern as an Executive-In-Residence. Rim will work directly with Stern’s Fubon Center for Business, Technology, and Innovation; he also serves as an adjunct professor in the Technology, Operations, and Statistics Department and is involved with the Andre Koo Technology and Entrepreneurship MBA Program.

Kicking off another year of the $300K Entrepreneurs Challenge at NYU Stern, the School’s  W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs hosted its annual Kick-Off & Info Session.

Excerpt from The Real Deal -- "'Gee, how do you establish rules that apply to Missoula, Montana, to Center City, Philadelphia, to Tampa, Florida, let alone Queens and Brooklyn?' he said. 'We have great difficulty administering a rent control program in New York City. I can’t imagine doing it on a nationwide basis. It’s just chaos.'"

Excerpt from Politico -- "The lawmakers cited a National Bureau of Economic Research study from last year that found 'private equity buyouts lead to expanded enrollment and increased profits, but also to higher tuition, lower education inputs, lower graduation rates, higher student borrowing, lower repayment rates, and lower wage earnings.'"

Excerpt from Ensia -- "'A lot of regulations, when businesses really get down to it, they find it helps them become better managed,' says Tensie Whelan, director of the New York University Stern School of Business’s Center for Sustainable Business. 'You not only reduce pollution, but you also reduce your cost.'"

Excerpt from Education Dive -- "'To keep the attention of all these students from such diverse backgrounds is a challenge for sure,' Yermack said. 'It forces you as a professor to really think about, "How am I going to explain this and make it seem universal enough that people from both a philosophy background and an engineering background should care about it?"'"

Today, New York University’s Stern School of Business announced that it received a $5 million gift from alumna Elizabeth Elting (MBA ’92), the single largest gift from a self-made woman in the School’s history.  With this support, Elting aims to champion the next generation of talented and entrepreneurial women affiliated with her alma mater, an intention that aligns with the mission of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation she now runs after a successful business career leading the multi-million dollar global translation business she founded in an NYU dorm room in 1992.

On September 17, humorist, former writer of the New York Times Magazine weekly column “The Ethicist,” and four-time Emmy Award-winner Randy Cohen will host a live taping of his podcast Person Place Thing featuring Professor Tensie Whelan, director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business.

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "My feeling is that US policymakers need to stop blaming China and start focusing on the fact that our supposedly free market liberal democracy is no longer that. I’d suggest they read economist Thomas Philippon’s new book, The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up On Free Markets. Fascinating comparisons with Europe, which is actually much more competitive in many ways that the US."
 

Excerpt from Cheddar -- "'I think there's every reason to worry that the purveyors of disinformation have learned from what the Russians did in 2016 and will be back with new, different, and more challenging forms of untruth,' Paul Barrett, the deputy director of NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, told Cheddar."

Excerpt from Thought Catalog -- "According to researchers at New York University’s Stern School of Business and University of California’s Anderson School of Management, turning 30 often compels people to 'audit the meaningfulness of their lives.' The authors posit that 'the approach of a new decade represents a salient boundary between life stages… [and] functions as a marker of progress through the life span.'"

Excerpt from Agenda Week -- "For Karen Brenner, executive director of law and business initiatives in NYU’s Stern School of Business, the explanation may relate to directors’ circumstances. For one, new directors might not feel they have the experience to 'challenge' the CEO, she says. Or there may 'just be a temporary issue or problem at the moment of the survey ... But that’s not a circumstance that’s healthy to persist.'

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "New research by Baruch Lev of New York University’s Stern School of Business and Anup Srivastava of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business found that since 2007 value companies had the weakest profitability since 1970, while what they call “glamour” stocks had their best profitability."