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The MBA Media & Entertainment Conference, jointly hosted by NYU Stern’s Entertainment, Media and Technology Association (EMTA) and Columbia Business School, is focused on providing an educational and informative forum for discussions on the present state and future of media and entertainment.

The NYU Social Innovation Symposium is a collaboration between the Social Enterprise Association at Stern, Bridge at Wagner and LSEA at the Law School. Charles Best, founder of DonorsChoose.org, and Jacquelline Fuller, Director of Google Giving at Google.org, will be keynote speakers.

The Center for Global Economy and Business will host President and CEO James Bullard of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. President Bullard will speak to faculty, students, market professionals and central bankers based in NY.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'Without an end date, the committee may have to alter the pace of purchases as news arrives concerning U.S. macroeconomic performance,' Bullard said today to the Center for Global Economy and Business at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, a voting member of the Fed's monetary policy committee this year, said the currently low inflation readings may give the Fed some leeway to continue its quantitative easing program longer than it would otherwise."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Over the years, I’ve read some great ventures plans as part of this competition. Some have gone on to win and/or contribute significant social benefit. I’m looking forward to reading the next round of plans, and sharing more observations about what makes successful – and less-than-successful – venture plans."

Excerpt from Yahoo! Finance -- "Economist Nouriel Roubini of NYU’s Stern School of Business tells The Daily Ticker that it’s not only monetary stimulus by the Fed that’s been driving stocks higher but also “more unconventional monetary policy” from the ECB, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank."

Excerpt from NYT Magazine -- "There’s shareholder value, and there’s stakeholder value. The banking industry is worried about shareholder value, and NGOs are primarily interested in stakeholder value. But things that drive up shareholder value can actually be very good for society at large. We have to have a different way of thinking about the role of business in society."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "For the first time, we are hearing some people on the Federal Open Market Committee worry about lower yields, yields that are too low for too long. Institutions are reaching for assets, junk bonds, and one of the members gave a speech two weeks ago, Jeremy Stein, who is a former professor at Harvard, with great intellectual fire power warning about that."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Instead, there is a better way. Eliminate the government’s regulatory reliance on ratings. Since the 1930s, financial regulators have required many financial institutions to heed the ratings of a handful of raters. The goals of the regulators were good: making sure those institutions’ portfolios held safe bonds. But mandating reliance on the Big Three enhanced their importance and made it harder for other rating firms to compete with them."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "For developed countries, increasing resilience and flexibility over time by building public assets should be a long-term priority. Periodic systemic risk affects entire economies and public finances, not only financial markets, and governments should be able to respond during periods of rapid structural change."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "It's hard to think of another Republican with the fortitude to push back against the outlays, to make government smaller, to lower taxes. And to show that such moves can yield prosperity."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "For instance, in his recent book, 'The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,' Jonathan Haidt argues that, far from being a way of holding our moral beliefs up to critical scrutiny, moral reasoning is generally something we use merely to convince others of long-held beliefs that we are unwilling to abandon."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Is love for sale? Maybe not quite as directly as sex is, but economists believe that the quest for a romantic partner obeys essentially the same cost-benefit logic that governs every other market."

Excerpt from Washington City Paper -- "Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who traces the rise of the sharing economy from the early days of music and file sharing in the 1990s, says it’s time for regulators to adapt: 'Historically, when technology makes things more efficient, it always leads in the short term to disruptions and [regulatory] trouble.'”

Excerpt from Nightly Business Report -- "The one thing they have going for them is, they’ve run other companies very well in Brazil for a long time and these are people with a long history in consumer products."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think it's generally recognized when the bond issuers ask and are paying for the rating, there's a potential conflict. No question. But that conflict was present not only in the mortgage bonds but it's been present for over 40 years in plain vanilla corporate bonds, muni bonds, sovereign government bonds, and it didn't blow up there."

Excerpt from Institutional Investor -- "Observers predict that the FSB will impose minimums. If they’re too high, 'the market will, in boom times, find other ways to increase leverage,' says Bruce Tuckman, clinical professor of finance at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. One solution is instruments that can mimic repos, like total return swaps. As so often happens, the market may remain one step ahead of regulators."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "But the dollars simply can't achieve the objective, said David Backus, an economist at NYU's Stern School of Business. 'Fifty billion dollars is basically an immaterial number for the U.S. economy,' Backus said. 'We have a 14-trillion dollar economy. Will there be an employment effect? Maybe. But it'll be swamped by anything else that goes on.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "A trio of business professors studied six years of supermarket purchases in counties covering nearly half the U.S. population and found that, when it comes to groceries, conservatives like established national brands—and are significantly less likely to try new items."

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, former Bogotá Mayor Enrique Peñalosa spoke with Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project and Professor of Economics, in a public presentation on February 12.

Excerpt from The Atlantic Wire -- "Our inclinations in the polling booth may influence our choices in the supermarket, according to a new study led by Vishal Singh of New York University's Stern School of Business."

Psychological research has shown that conservatives and liberals differ on basic personality traits such as conscientiousness, tolerance for uncertainty and openness to new experiences. Professor Vishal Singh of the New York University Stern School of Business and colleagues hypothesized that the conservative tendency to prefer tradition and convention would be reflected in conservatives’ purchasing behavior, leading them to choose established name-brand products over generic brands or new products.

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "At the core of Prof Henry’s research is historical analysis of stock market reactions to government reforms in emerging economies. He concludes that decisive and transparent plans to implement market-friendly policies repeatedly inspired market optimism in future growth."

Michael Warren, Principal of Albright Stonebridge Group, engaged with more than 100 MBA students at NYU Stern’s Block Lunch, hosted by Dean Peter Henry.