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Excerpt from Journal of Robotics & Machine Learning -- "We consider the problem of cooperatively minimizing the sum of convex functions, where the functions represent local objective functions of the agents."

NYU Stern and Centre for Economic Policy Research Publish E-Book of Conference Proceedings, "Dodd-Frank: One Year On"

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "The move away from the stand-alone business school is also apparent at NYU Stern. Dean Peter Blair Henry says he joined the school in January 2010 because of the university president’s vision to develop a global university with the business school playing a part alongside the other departments."

Xavier Serbia Gabriela Frias and Luis Cabral interview, IESE Business School of Spain.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "In Smith’s view, the power of Dodd-Frank can already be seen in moves like Citigroup Inc. (C)’s decision to sell off lines of business such as its consumer-lending unit. New regulations governing different lines of business, in addition to the substantial increase in the amount of liquid capital banks must hold, are making it too expensive for financial institutions to stay at their current size, Smith said."

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "Though she's a history major at the University of Pennsylvania, rising junior Jesse Reich, who completed New York University's Stern Foundations: Business Essentials for Non-Business Students program this month, claims that the business professors understood how to frame the difficult concepts in ways that she could understand."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "When 25-year-old North Carolina native Katie Kapler met Nihal Parthasarathi, she knew they'd start a company together. During NYU undergrad, they gave it a shot. But like many founders, their first attempt resulted in utter failure. Now they've re-entered the startup scene with CourseHorse, a company that launched in April."  Additional coverage appeared on NYConvergence.com.

Excerpt from Investment Weekly News -- "With the launch of the Group, Credit Suisse's Asset Management division is forming a Systematic Trading Advisory Board. The Board will initially consist of Robert Engle, Nobel Prize in Economics 2003."

Excerpt from The Himalayan Times -- "Enamoured by my passionate celebration of the Annapurna at New York University (NYU), Rachel along with Alison had requested me to host their visit to Nepal. In the plush NYU Stern School classrooms I had described Annapurna as place of ‘cosmic silence’ and ‘soul of the Gods’."

Excerpt from Computer Weekly News -- "More than 6,500 businesses worldwide have accelerated their business performance with Socialtext, including Egon Zehnder, Getty Images, Symantec, Meredith Corporation, NYU Stern, OSIsoft, and Epitaph Records."

Excerpt from Politics & Government Week -- "Plumper and Troeger (2007) propose a three-step procedure for the estimation of a fixed effects (FE) model that, it is claimed, 'provides the most reliable estimates under a wide variety of specifications common to real world data.'"

Excerpt from Politics & Government Week -- "We study the policy choices of an incumbent politician when voters imperfectly observe aggregate spending and the incumbent's ability."

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Drops in solar cell prices and surging interest in developing nations led to a 32% increase in investments in renewable energy globally in 2010, a United Nations report finds."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Scott Galloway, founder of L2 Think Tank and a professor at New York University, talks about Facebook Inc.'s plan to offer free video calls over its site through a partnership with Skype Technologies SA, and Facebook's competition with Google Inc.'s social networking site Google+."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "My prediction for the perfect storm is not this year or next year but 2013, because everybody is kicking the can down the road," he said in a live interview. "We now have a problem in the US after the election if we don't resolve our fiscal problems. China is overheating...eventually it's going to have a hard landing."

Excerpt from Information Technology Newsweekly -- "In this paper we show that selecting mutual funds using alpha computed from a fund's holdings and security betas produces better future alphas than selecting funds using alpha computed from a time-series regression on fund returns."

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "Aral's viral strategies are up to 10 times more effective than banner ads in converting users and around twice as effective as email advertising. He also writes that "notifications and invites also vastly outperform the ad campaign used in our recruitment phase on Facebook," meaning that, for this particular product, there was little need for a traditional banner ad campaign to generate an existing base of users."

MBA student leaders in Stern’s 40 student clubs host events on topical business issues that bring leaders of business from across industries to campus. Explore Stern’s MBA clubs to learn more.

Press releases, research alerts, event coverage and other articles from 2008 to 2011.

NYU Stern, LSE and HEC Paris Mark 10-Year Anniversary of TRIUM Global Executive MBA with Announcement to Expand Enrollment

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “The people they’re hiring from central banks tend to have valuable understandings of monetary policies, currencies, what’s going on with regulation and have access to all sorts of important people,” said Roy Smith, a finance professor at New York University and former Goldman Sachs partner. “Goldman Sachs has taken a bashing in the crisis. It’s bound to be near the bottom or recovering now, as there’s nothing of substance to follow the charges. Governments recognize that to be the case.”

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "More competition is almost always a good thing," said Lawrence White, an economics professor at New York University. "What worries me is…this is going to be a politically driven entity."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Trium, the three-centre Executive MBA programmes, is to add a second cohort in 2012. The programme is taught by New York University’s Stern school, HEC Paris and the London School of Economics (LSE)."

In June, NYU Stern generated more than 900 media hits. Stern faculty were featured for their research and perspectives on a variety of subjects including the debt ceiling debate, cross-cultural marketing theory and online social sharing in prominent outlets such as the Associated Press, Bloomberg, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. Additionally, in 45 op-eds, Stern faculty discussed the risk of a double-dip recession, the potential break-up of the Eurozone and the Fed’s policy of quantitative easing.

On June 15, 2011, Research Professor Ralph Gomory testified before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s hearing on “China’s Five-Year Plan, Indigenous Innovation and Technology Transfers, and Outsourcing.”