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Kicking off the fall semester, ProMotion Pictures is announcing this year’s competition sponsor: The Innocence Project, which is dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals in the US criminal justice system. At this year’s kick-off event, MBA students will have a chance to meet prospective teammates from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and to learn about leadership opportunities within the program.

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "Soon after Romer visited Tegucigalpa at the start of the year, the Honduran congress approved an enabling bill for the creation of economic development zones. Lobo has reportedly taken fact-finding delegations to Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai to look at possible models."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Clearly we have to do what we can to accelerate the deleveraging process and go back to something reasonably normal in the economy, but that won't be sufficient. It may generate growth, but it won't solve the employment problem."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "More than any other company, Facebook is positioned to radically expand digital marketing, moving us from today’s narrow, intent-based approach to a broader and more familiar persuasion-based model. For that to happen, it needs to step out of Google Inc.’s shadow and embrace a strategy that plays to its strengths and unique position at the center of today’s Internet. It must reinvent rather than replicate."

Excerpt from Yahoo! News -- "A safe, easier to pronounce name may in fact prompt a child to excel in life, according to Dr Laham's study with Dr Adam Alter from New York University."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I'm afraid by now the ratings in Europe are almost collective, so even the countries that are in good shape now and have a triple A rating will have a problem as the crisis escalates. If Mario Draghi is successful in buying the bonds of Italy and Spain and the the crisis is contained, then I think we are looking at a much brighter future for the euro-zone."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "The report, I think, confirmed a lot of what we've known, in academic circles, at least, for about a decade - which is that American households have some serious issues with financial literacy."

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Managers can get a heightened sense of their own power when they're pushed to zero in on bottom-line issues such as headcount, budget control and worker bonuses, according to a recent experiment from New York University's Stern School of Business and Cornell University's Johnson School of Management. 'As resources become more finite, then there is a pecking order of who gets more. That gets everyone more focused on power,' says Steven Blader, associate professor of management and organizations at NYU."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Alan Greenspan may be the most famous central banker of the modern era, but Paul Volcker has been the most influential. He played a crucial diplomatic role during the death of the Bretton Woods financial system in the early 1970s, which severed the link between money and gold and ushered in floating exchange rates. . . . This long record of public service earns the admiration of William Silber, his new biographer."

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Gavin Kilduff, professor of management at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, has researched the causes and consequences of rivalry and competition by focusing on the NCAA and other sports teams. He has found three factors that influence the formation of rivalries: similarity, repeated competition and evenly-matched past competition."

Excerpt from NBCNews.com -- "According to Priya Raghubir, a research professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and lead author on a new report on the subject, many international travelers suffer from a “money illusion” that causes them to overspend even when they understand exchange rates and currency conversions."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Using data gleaned from Engle’s model, which compares the equity value of a bank to its liabilities, NYU Stern’s Volatility Laboratory publishes a weekly update showing which bank is contributing most to systemic risk."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Groupon Inc. (GRPN) has yet to become a bargain stock even after 12 straight days without a gain, according to a valuation by Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Banks were reluctant to cut their staffs even more than they did after the 2008 crisis because they counted on the economy improving more than it has, said Roy Smith, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former Goldman Sachs partner."

Excerpt from The New York Times Economix blog -- "In 'The Evolving Structure of the American Economy and the Employment Challenge,' the Nobel-winning economist Michael Spence looked at job growth from 1990 to 2008 in sectors of the United States economy. He found almost no net job growth in sectors, like manufacturing, in which global trade played a large role."

Excerpt from The Economic Times -- "In our assessment at NYU Stern, we have suggested less government backing for housing so as not to encourage overconsumption of housing, contain US fiscal risks, etc, but the biggest resistance we get is from the private financial sector, besides the households themselves."

Excerpt from CBS News -- "New York University finance professor Aswath Damodaran examined the period 1960-2011 and found that if past returns were higher than average, future returns were more likely to be lower, and vice versa. However, Damodaran did find that forward-looking metrics like the earnings-to-price ratio (the inverse of the price-to-earnings ratio) actually had predictive value."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Some red flags include using little-known accounting firms, relying on internal models to value assets and trading through in-house brokerages, says Stephen Brown, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Fox Business -- "Well, first of all there will be a run on the banks in the transition of Greece to a new drachma - that's problem number one. Problem two is that there is going to be very high inflation as the new drachma gets heavily divided against the euro."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "My estimate of value for Facebook is $24. About $3 less than I estimated the value to be four months ago, at the time of the IPO. I did lower my revenue growth estimates… I did bring down my margins but I still think what made the company an attractive company six months ago, it's incredible potential and capacity to monetize that potential, is still there."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "... Jonathan Haidt roiled his colleagues at the 2011 gathering of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Addressing an audience of more than 1,000, the bestselling author of The Righteous Mind asked all those who considered themselves politically conservative to raise their hands. Three hands went up. He then described two other attempts he had recently made to locate conservative social psychologists."

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "'The opportunity is to create a number of cities,' [Romer] told the audience, 'startups like Shenzhen.' These startups, which he calls charter cities, are new enclaves granted their own laws, immigrants and investors. They’re laboratories for testing competing forms of governance, erected on what in theory are clean urban slates."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "The thought that you are going to change someone's mind on a moral issue by giving them logical arguments and reasoning is an error. If somebody doesn't care about the conclusion - if they think that it's faster to get to the airport by subway than by car and you know otherwise - you can give them reasons, you can change their mind. But moral beliefs are very different. They bind us to other people, they bind us into a team, they give us a sense of meaning and purpose in life, and so you can't wedge people -- you can't move them -- just by giving them logical arguments."

Expert from PBS NewsHour -- "...General Electric in the '80s was on top, Microsoft in the 1990s, and now it's Apple. And just think about it. Microsoft was a huge company and everybody thought Apple was going to fold because they just couldn't compete with Microsoft. And now, as was pointed out earlier, Apple has two-and-a-half times the market cap of Microsoft. I believe that there are people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates working right now, as we talk, trying to come up with some better product that three or five or 10 years from now will threaten and perhaps even topple Apple from its perch."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "During the first half of August 1978, the dollar sank to new lows against the German mark, a fresh vote of no confidence in America. On Aug. 15, 1978, Volcker told the FOMC, 'I think it’s important particularly in view of the international situation that we correct the misapprehensions about our lack of concern over inflation.'"