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A team of MBA students from the NYU Stern School of Business took top place in The Aspen Institute’s 2018 Business & Society International MBA Case Competition. The Stern team, including Christopher Blackett (MBA/MPA ’19), Yen Chiang (MBA ’19), Rebecca Haverson (MBA ’19) and Sophia Valner (MBA/MPA ’20), placed first out of a total of five finalist teams.

At the conclusion of an eight-month competition, NYU’s most promising innovators received a combined $300,000 in startup cash and valued services at the annual $300K Entrepreneurs Challenge, held by NYU Stern’s W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs. The four winning teams were chosen after pitching their ideas and enduring Q&A by judges from venture capital, technology and design, and social enterprise sectors.

Excerpt from PsychCentral -- "'I don’t say photo taking is bad or good because it depends on your goal,' says Barasch. 'If your goal is to focus on the visual, photography does a lot to draw you in. But if you are taking photos for other goals, you may be missing out on cues in your environment.'"

Excerpt from Dallas News -- "There are two persistent themes repeated on NRA TV that are classic marketing tactics — fear and patriotism, Winer said. Those are powerful signals to people who are already disposed to watching NRA TV. 'Obviously, not everybody feels, even among gun owners, that if you take away, say, AR-15s, there's going to be a slippery slope to killing the Second Amendment,' Winer said. 'But if you hammer it home relentlessly, you might have an impact on that group.'"

Excerpt from WIRED -- "New York University Stern School of Business professor Arun Sundararajan says the gig economy will survive, but prices will be higher, at least in California, and push companies to adopt more automation. 'It doesn't threaten the long-term viability of businesses as a whole, but I think it will shrink their market in the short term because it will decrease sales,' Sundararajan says."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "This is an incredible brand. It's a luxury brand that pulled the ultimate gangster move that created more shareholder value than any other business move. And that was the crazy irrational decision to reallocate money out of advertising and open stores."

As Craigslist expanded across the United States, the free classifieds website also bolstered the sex industry, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and the New York University Stern School of Business.

On May 1, NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business will host fireside chat featuring Bryan Garcia (MBA ’04), President and CEO of Connecticut Green Bank, and Professor Tensie Whelan.

On Tuesday, May 1, NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program (BSP) and Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) co-hosted the 2018 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-In-Residence Lecture, delivered by Alan Murray, Chief Content Officer of Time Inc. and President of Fortune.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "We teach truth and we teach facts, we teach logic and right now, the key things we are talking to our students about in economics is number one, the world has gotten a lot better economically in the last thirty years because of free trade. So we got to continue to have open borders, we have to think about the fact that the U.S. economy is now roughly 25 percent of global GDP but only 5 percent of global population, that doesn't happen without free trade."

Excerpt from The Chronicle of Higher Education -- "Jonathan Haidt and Sean Stevens wrote in a pair of posts on the site in mid-March that concern is warranted and that attention should be paid to the younger generation of college students because of their changing attitude toward free speech on campuses. Haidt, who is a professor in the school of business at New York University, told The Chronicle on Monday that those who deny there has been a major shift in students’ attitudes have made a good contribution to the debate."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I think the market got it right, that the deal is unlikely to be done. The deal is very likely to increase prices for all consumers and it's very likely that the Department of Justice is going to try to intervene and stop the deal. It's very hard to go from four companies to three companies without prices increasing."

Today, NYU Stern posted its preliminary inaugural class profiles for its new one-year MBA programs: The Andre Koo Technology & Entrepreneurship MBA and the Fashion & Luxury MBA. 

Excerpt from McKinsey Global Institute -- "The other piece that I don’t think gets talked about enough is that the business side of this is really important. You can’t do this effectively—this is my judgment—if business thinks labor is just another input where the goal is to minimize costs, and you get rid of it when you can. That’s not the way it works in the societies and the economies that seem to be succeeding most with this."

Excerpt from the Economic Times -- "'To anyone who was looking for a pure Indian ecommerce success story, this deal will be seen as a disappointment,' says Anindya Ghose, a professor at New York University. 'It indicates yet another failure of a primarily homegrown Indian firm (Flipkart, for all its foreign investors, is an Indian firm) to take on an MNC Amazon) and compete credibly without having to partner with another MNC (Walmart).'"

Excerpt from the New Zealand Herald -- "Gu and Lev write: 'we assert that a shift of focus for security analysis and valuation is called for — from the prediction of earnings or related accounting measures to a comprehensive evaluation of an enterprise's competitive advantage through a careful consideration of its operating strategic assets and their deployment'."

Excerpt from Mansion Global -- "By teaming up with developers, fashion companies find an opportunity to expand beyond their own volatile industry, according to Ms. Serdari. 'All fashion companies have exactly the same problem—it is hard to keep up as culture changes,' she said. 'Fashion brands need to find a way to get out of that predicament.'"

Excerpt from PCMag -- "Let's say you're wondering whether a quest is more engaging if you're trying to save someone versus trying to find an artifact. So you run an A/B test releasing version A to five million people and version B to five million people. You measure different metrics, like how many people return to the mission more than once and how long they spend. If you discover version A works better, you go with the red code and put aside the yellow. And you keep doing that until you have the tenth, twentieth, or thirtieth generation of a game."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "When consumers write reviews directly from their phones, they tend to be more emotional, as well as more negative. Part of this is because mobile reviews are more likely to be written during or soon after the experience, when consumers are still feeling strongly about it – for example, an angry consumer will write more harshly about a bad restaurant experience from their cell phone right after the meal ends, than they will later from their desktop, once they’ve had some time to calm down."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Building environments where creativity can be nurtured is key to sparking your child's imagination, Schilling notes. 'That means instead of scheduling the heck out of your kids, you want to make sure they have downtime — and make sure it's not in front of a screen,' she says. 'That way, they can create their own cognitive paths of association in their minds that are unconstrained by what other people think.'"

Excerpt from Entrepreneur -- "Traditional power used to be largely restricted to companies with extensive funding or scale. Now it’s possible to harness the same power collectively through a distributed network of consumers, says Arun Sundararajan, professor of business at New York University and author of The Sharing Economy."
 

On April 27, NYU Stern’s Volatility Institute will host its 10th annual conference entitled, “A Financial Approach to Climate Risk”. 

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "These workers may have struggled through the Great Recession and now want to be less dependent on a corporation, and finally have the means to go into business independently, said Ari Ginsberg, a professor of entrepreneurship and management at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "For the most part, people understand they are giving up their privacy in exchange for access to a social network. But most of us don’t realize the number of different ways in which our information gets used, traded, and combined once we give it up."

Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "Online grocery typically attracts the most profitable customers: dual-income households, customers who prioritize convenience over price, and customers with high lifetime value. These are the kinds of customers e-commerce retailers should care about."