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A new book by NYU Stern Professor Ingo Walter and co-author Clive Lipshitz illustrates the challenges facing America’s public pension system and its public infrastructure and suggests solutions to both, particularly by connecting the two.

Excerpt from The Australian -- "'I am now very pessimistic,' Haidt said. 'I think there is a very good chance American democracy will fail, that in the next 30 years we will have a catastrophic failure of our democracy.'"

On July 19, 2019, NYU Stern's Executive MBA Program and NYU Washington DC hosted a Stern EMBA Speaker Series event at NYU’s downtown DC location featuring Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO of AARP.

Excerpt from IR Magazine -- "Price comes, of course, from the stock market, from this floor, but book value comes from accounting. And it's completely mistaken, particularly because of this expensing of all intangibles. When we correct book values of companies—for the expensing of R&D, for the expensing of other intangibles—meaning we capitalize and amortize, rather than expense them immediately, we get substantially higher income from value investing. I mean, it's almost double."

Excerpt from Marie Claire UK -- "New York University professor Adam Alter, author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked explains that when we get ‘likes’ on social media our brain releases dopamine, known as the pleasure chemical."

Excerpt from CGTN -- "'There are stereotypes that women don’t tend to take risks as much and a large part of entrepreneurship is kind of risk taking. Now just because you’re a risk taker doesn’t mean you’re a better founder, but that can unfortunately end up propagating these biases as well,' said Hegde."

Excerpt from The Wrap -- "Paul Hardart, a former Warner Bros. executive and current head of the Entertainment, Media and Technology Program at NYU, called Netflix’s results 'concerning,' but pointed out 'Q2 has historically been their worst quarter from a reporting standpoint.'"

Excerpt from Politico -- "'We are being outspent. We are being out-researched. We are being outpaced. We are being out-staffed,' said Amy Webb, a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business who specializes in future forecasting. 'We have failed and are continuing to fail to see China as a militaristic, economic, and diplomatic pacing threat when it comes to AI.''

Excerpt from Retail Dive -- "'There is something off-balance on how the various tiers of loyalty membership have been structured,' Serdari​ told Retail Dive in an email. A Member is 'probably an occasional shopper who enjoys the brand association,' and then 'there is a considerable "spend" difference between Insiders and Influencers (from $500/year to $2000/year) that truly differentiates regular beauty shoppers from apparel devotees,' she noted."

Excerpt from BEME News -- "Paul Barrett, deputy director of NYU Stern's Center for Business and Human Rights, told me that YouTube's preference for increasingly extreme content is a feature of the system, not a bug. He told me YouTube is in the advertising business, so they have a financial incentive to keep users engaged."

Excerpt from Livemint -- "In a paper titled Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures Versus Founding Teams Jason Greenberg of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and Ethan R. Mollick of University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School posit that companies started by solo founders survive longer than those started by teams."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'It’s an innovative case,' said Nicholas Economides, an economics professor who looks at competition issues at New York University Stern School of Business. He thinks the EU has a real challenge if it attempts to show that Amazon’s use of the data is anticompetitive. 'Information alone is not going to make the case,” Mr. Economides said."

Excerpt from Reason Foundation -- "The authors analyzed asset allocation and return data for the nation’s 25 largest pension funds over a 10-year period. They found no correlation between allocations to infrastructure (and other alternative investments) and net investment returns. They hypothesize that higher expenses for these exotic investments offset their higher gross returns, but cannot verify this contention due to inadequate and inconsistent expense data reported by the funds."

Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton on SiriusXM -- "'There are many things that have been going wrong in the fashion industry, starting with the fact that this is a male-dominated industry in terms of leadership and in terms of designers,' Serdari said. 'So what has been produced over the years for women has been dictated by men and follows some sort of ideal of an ideal woman that is not reflecting the reality and the actual size of women today.'"

Excerpt from Front Office Sports -- "'Given (PBR’s) core audience, being the one league that embraces the ‘Right’ side of the political spectrum makes a bunch of sense,' Adamson says. 'If you stand for everything, you stand for nothing. Sports is about more than just watching an event. It’s about connecting with people who share the same passion and have the same view on life.'"

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "A 2008 study from New York University professor Priya Raghubir and University of Maryland, College Park professor Joydeep Srivastava tested whether people approached other forms of payment similar to how they used credit cards. Their study found that consumers spent more when they were given scrip, a form of a stored-value certificate, rather than cash."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'If a significant fraction of [the world’s bond market] has negative interest rates, that’s pretty unusual,' said Sylla. Even in recent history, he added, such occurrences are rare. In 1940-1941, he said, rates on short-term U.S. bonds went negative as the economy still grappled with the fallout from the Great Depression."

Excerpt from the Econ Focus -- "'There is definitely some regulatory arbitrage and quite a bit of fraud that has happened,' says Howell. 'But I think ICOs also open the possibility for some exciting new business models.'"

Excerpt from Adweek -- "'All retailers have the same problem in July…people are at the beach and in vacation mode, not shopping mode,' said Allen Adamson, co-founder of marketing services firm Metaforce and adjunct associate professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. 'What has changed is Amazon is a big enough gorilla to create something that can change people’s perception of what they should be doing on a hot July day.'"

New York University Stern School of Business is accepting applications for the 2019-2020 cohort of Endless Frontier Labs (EFL), a program for early-stage science- and technology-based startups. The program is structured to optimize each startup’s chance of scaling into a successful company through a goals-based mentoring process.

Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "NYU Stern’s Executive Education division will host consulting firm SRW & Co for The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) Global Leadership Program from April 13 – 17, 2020."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "'It’s special because it only happens once a year,' Meyvis said. 'There are so many brands and retailers that have promotions all the time — often times you don’t have a sense of urgency.'"

Excerpt from American Banker -- (6:20) "My objection to CECL is that it is technically flawed to such a degree that it would potentially cause institutions to record very large accounting losses, which decrease the regulatory capital, when, in fact, there are zero economic losses."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh: A smart how-to that will help you recognize your privilege and unconscious bias, confront inequality, and stand up for diversity and inclusion at work, home, and in the world."

Excerpt from Vox -- "Alixandra Barasch, an assistant professor of marketing at New York University who studies the social aspects of consumption, has found that taking photos can actually help people engage with their surroundings, as they notice details they otherwise would have missed and make considered decisions about what to capture."