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Excerpt from mbaMission -- The W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs serve as the hub of all entrepreneurial activities and events at the school, and in 2008, Stern introduced a Sustainable Business and Innovation (formerly Social Innovation and Impact) specialization, thereby formalizing an academic track for students with this career path in mind. Courses available within the specialization include “Corporate Branding and Sustainability,” “Investing for Environmental and Social Impact,” and “Driving Market Solutions for Clean Energy.”

Excerpt from Milwaukee Independent -- "'The southern governments that issued the bonds were unlikely to want to payback the bonds that were held outside their country, like in Wisconsin,' added Sylla. 'So you walked into a bar in Milwaukee, and you try to buy your beer and the bartender would say, "The banker told us not to accept your money." So if you got paid in that money a few days before, you might have been quite angry.'"

Excerpt from BBC News -- "It's a generational change and companies know that if they don't give their employees a way to fully express their ideas also they will leave very quickly because developing a new venture or startup today is much cheaper and much faster than it used to be."

Excerpt from the Harvard Business Review -- "The book Irresistible by Stern School of Business associate professor Adam Alter will quickly raise your awareness of the addictive designs going into smartphones. They’re like pocket slot machines. So how do you resist the urge to reach for it? Make it less appealing."

Excerpt from Associated Press -- "But if Facebook knows information is wrong, why not remove it? That’s a question posed by Paul Barrett, deputy director at the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. 'Making a distinction between demoting (material) and removing it seems to us to be a curious hesitation,' he said."

Excerpt from Find MBA -- "Specialist MBA programs also go a long way towards addressing concerns that business schools have not effectively responded to new employer demand for more specialist skills, such as digital technology. One striking example of this is the Tech MBA at NYU Stern School of Business in New York City. Launched in 2018, the program was developed with insight from senior tech industry executives from such companies as PayPal, BuzzFeed and Amazon. The syllabus builds broad knowledge in fundamental business skills, such as economics and marketing, while also honing students’ core technology skills such as business analytics and product management."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "'I think democracy is at stake—I’m not joking,' Webb says. 'I think our way of living is at stake and the future of how we do business globally is at stake.'"

Excerpt from HowStuffWorks -- "'The number one reason that case is cited is for Ford supposedly wanting to do right by his workers,' says Marc Hodak, an adjunct professor in New York University's business school. 'The idea that he was actually trying to squeeze out the Dodge brothers is something that's often lost.'"

Excerpt from New York Post -- "'They can say, "We premiered our film on Hollywood Boulevard,"' Adamson said. 'It allows them to legitimatize their content and get into the big leagues. Hollywood movies are the ultimate content.'"

Excerpt from Adweek -- "… These small businesses that people like Senator Warren are concerned about, those are not consumers. They are producers. Those are competitors. And that doesn’t, in my view, fall in the context of antitrust policy."

Excerpt from Nikkei -- "With the world watching, the second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi failed to produce an agreement, implying a mismatch between Trump’s pitch of prosperity via international trade and investment and Kim’s reliance on nuclear weapons for his regime’s survival. But, despite escalating tensions following the summit, there still is potential for progress."

Excerpt from Go Banking Rates -- "According to a study done by David Yermack, a business and finance professor at New York University’s Stern School, Obama’s fashion choices are worth $14 million per appearance to the designers."

Exceprt from the Harvard Law blog -- "In our proposed approach, rather than buying a security that directly pays off in the event of a future climate disaster, we construct portfolios that have short-term returns that hedge news about climate change over the holding period. By hedging, period by period, the innovations in news about long-run climate change, an investor can ultimately hedge her long-run exposure to climate risk."

Excerpt from MetroMBA -- "The program features an accelerated option allowing students to opt for a flexible class schedule, as well as evening and weekend courses to complete their MBA in two years without interrupting their work schedule. Current Langone students, faculty, and alumni have access to the Langone Speaker Series, which '… provides a unique platform to deepen conversations about timely events with the decision-makers that are helping shape today’s industries.'"

Excerpt from Accepted.com -- "[The MSQM program] is for people without business degrees, and combines the business essentials (essentially MBA core courses) with an emphasis on analytics. It is designed to help professionals become more able to use data, which is very important to their professional success – how to ask for data, analyze it, and make decisions from it. It is online and you can attend from anywhere, with two short residential immersions each August, offering the chance to meet the cohort and do interactive face-to-face work. The program is lockstep and fits well with working professionals’ schedules, and can reach people all over the world."

Excerpt from CNET -- "'First, it raises the specter of government censorship,' he said in a statement. 'Second, it shows how the failure of the social media companies to exercise more vigorous self-governance, especially when it comes to disinformation, has created the risk of government overreach.'"

On Monday, April 8, the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights will host an event exploring why and how companies should support civic freedoms and human rights defenders around the world, drawing upon recently launched guidance, “Shared Space Under Pressure: Business Support for Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders”, commissioned by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and International Service for Human Rights. 

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business will host a fireside chat with World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevêdo on April 8, 2019.

Excerpt from Ad Age India -- "So what does this all mean for brands? For one, it means that brands now have options. It is possible for brands to offer brand experiences in ecosystems outside of Google. It also means that now brands can deliver a great user experience without the consumer ever leaving their favorite ecosystem. Instagram is the first social media channel to offer the new checkout feature and users love it."

Excerpt from CBC Radio -- "We don't always know what data they're collecting, who that data is being shared with, and ultimately—down the road—how that information could be used against us in ways that make us uncomfortable, she told Spark host Nora Young."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'We’re in the middle of a global slowdown, and this slowdown is particularly more severe in Europe and the euro zone,' Nouriel Roubini, chief executive officer of Roubini Macro Associates Inc., told Francine Lacqua and Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television. 'Europe is on the verge of a recession.'"

Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- "We need to just say, ‘Look, we’re going to start to put a tax on this.’ And that will mean that the people who were thinking about using carbon-based fuels will ... have an incentive to switch, and others will have an incentive to discover new solutions."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Accounting professors like Bob Kaplan and Tom Johnson long ago provided more detail on why traditional accounting no longer makes sense, and some like Baruch Lev can tell you about alternative methods that properly take intangible assets into account."

Excerpt from The Cut -- "'The issue is that they tip into negative territory when they inspire obsessions,' he explains. 'A streak that gets you to take 10,000 steps every day is good until you have a stress injury, and push through it because you don’t want to abandon the streak.'"

Excerpt from ETF.com -- “Equity risk premiums can change quickly and by large amounts even in mature equity markets. Consequently, I have forsaken my practice of staying with a fixed equity risk premium for mature markets, and I now vary it year to year, and even on an intra-year basis, if conditions warrant.”