News Highlights from April 14 - 20, 2012
Last week, NYU Stern faculty were featured for their research and views on a variety of topics, including the euro zone debt crisis, office design and the financial health of banks, in prominent outlets such as Bloomberg, The Economist and The New York Times.
To see all of Stern's media coverage, please visit the Faculty News and School News areas of the Experience Stern News & Events page. A preview of media highlights is included below, and additional media coverage of Dean Peter Henry and Professors Thomas Cooley, Aswath Damodaran, Anindya Ghose, Jill Kickul, Al Lieberman, Kim Schoenholtz and David Yermack is featured on the KMC lobby screens.
Excerpt from The Washington Post — “'The entry of Craigslist produces a transformative shift in casual sex-seeking behavior,' Jason Chan and Anindya Ghose write in 'Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Technology Shocks on the Outbreaks of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.'” Read more | |
Excerpt from Bloomberg — "...Dodd-Frank failed to heed a fundamental law of architecture: Form must follow function. For financial regulation to be effective, it should focus on economic function, rather than legal form. If it doesn’t, institutions will quickly find new forms that free them of regulatory constraints. What walks like a duck and quacks like a duck must be regulated as a duck, even if it is legally a goose." Read more | |
Excerpt from Harvard Business Review — "Collaboration now occurs all the time at personal desks and in hallways, or virtually via internet or smart phones, and it's often spontaneous and informal, rather than planned in advance. Unfortunately our legacy work environments — dominated by offices or cubes — rarely match this new reality." Read more | |
Excerpt from VoxEU — "The deadliest aspect of the Eurozone crisis is the tripwire linking the riskiness of banks and governments. This column provides evidence of the link and explains how it arose. It argues that given the near-chaos-like interaction, the zero risk weights on sovereign bonds should be revisited." Read more | |
Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek — "The size and complexity of the problems—and opportunities—facing business today require leaders who understand the linkages between the financial and the real economy, between business and policy, and who can balance the quest for profit with a responsibility to the public good." Read more | |
Excerpt from The Journal News — "Students are looking more and more for programs that can provide the kind of flexibility that 21st-century careers and lifestyles demand, so we’re working hard to do that." Read more | |
Excerpt from Variety — "As with all school programs, the key incentive is the leg-up it gives students. 'It's an important part of their educational experience,' says NYU's Lieberman. 'People come back and say, 'This changed my life.'" Read more | |
