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NYU Stern’s Center for Measurable Marketing Proves that Social Media Drives More Retail Store Traffic than Traditional Media

Excerpt from Forbes -- "We should divide 'technological advance' into two sections, as William Baumol (the goto economist on these matters) does. In his definitions, there is invention, which is the creation of spiffy new things. There is also innovation, which is using either these spiffy new things to do interesting things"

Excerpt from Bloombrg TV -- "Credibility means you decide, and then you speak. Today in the eurozone it's the opposite - everybody is talking, there's a cacophony of voices, and no decision is being taken."  Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Post, The Australian, Business Spectator, Dario Economico, five Bloomberg pieces, three Bloomberg Businessweek pieces, TIME, CNBC and The Wall Street Journal.

Excerpt from Middle East Events -- "Brown will answer questions from the Dean of the Stern School of Business at NYU, Peter Henry, a leading economist and financial observer, before taking questions from the audience."

Excerpt from NYConvergence -- "Ultra Light Startups is partnering with the New York Angels to give young entrepreneurs access to NYs angels."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Unemployed job applicants would find it harder to get hired under an anti-discrimination provision in President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, according to Home Depot Inc. (HD) co-founder Kenneth Langone."  Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg, Bloomberg Businessweek, iStockAnalyst, San Francisco Chronicle, BangorDailyNews.com, Cincinnati.com and Tampa Bay Online.

Excerpt from Vimeo -- "We study what are the determinants of information aggregation in social networks, establishing what properties of the network topology, the agents’ information structure and the agents’ preferences drive (or preclude) learning in large networks."

Excerpt from ContentLead -- “There has been evidence from survey and experimental research for more than 50 years to demonstrate the power of word-of-mouth communication."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Frank has got it wrong. After a while dumping money into the economy doesn't bring recovery, it just widens the potential for inflation."

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- “At this rate, in a few years, every single Downtown school will have a waitlist — even the incubator Peck Slip school"  Additional coverage appeared in Our Town Downtown, Tribeca Trib and DNAinfo.

Excerpt from a CIO blog -- "It's called Baumol's Cost Disease because Baumol realized something more -- that competition in the labor marketplace isn't limited to neatly confined distinct positions within which individual candidates compete for work. It's broader than that."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Small businesses, entrepreneurs are the corporate equivalent of dolphins. Everybody likes dolphins ... It's a good group to associate with." Additional coverage appeared on Canada.com.

Excerpt from AdAge.com -- "Social media is the corporate equivalent of skinny jeans, making you look hip, Mr. Galloway added."  Additional coverage appeared in Folio Magazine and AdAge.

Excerpt from New York Post -- "[I]n the next 10 to 20 years, I don’t think [Facebook] will be in the top 100' most valuable companies." Additional coverage appeared on Forbes.com and Innovation Excellence.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'I love learning, but I’m biased,' said Kenneth Langone. 'I’m chairman of the NYU Langone Medical Center,' of which the [NYU Cancer] institute is a part within the larger domain of New York University."

Excerpt from MBA Social -- "Global Goods Partners is a non-profit, social venture that creates economic opportunity for women artisans in some of the world’s poorest communities by providing access to the US market for their fair trade, handmade products."

Excerpt from Livemint -- "Will the September PMI result in RBI pausing? The central bank’s stance was most recently spelt out by governor D. Subbarao in a speech at the Stern School of Business at New York on 26 September." Additional coverage appeared in The Hindu Business Line.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “Week two is when people decide if they’re going to stick with a new show."

Excerpt from The Telegraph -- "The thought at that time was that, if governments felt they had public money to use in supporting the banking sector, it would be far better to use that money to establish a new 'good' bank than waste it keeping alive 'bad' broke banks."

Excerpt from Washington Square News -- "'New York City has two first-rate schools directly in the city and Yale and Princeton nearby,' Tuzhilin said. ... Anindya Ghose ... said firms like Twitter, Meetup, Foursquare and Tumblr have set up offices in the city to tap into the abundance of resources that are readily available."

Excerpt from NPR -- "Perry's remarks on Bernanke are criminal."

Excerpt from States News Service -- "More than 450 top-level magazine executives, editors and other notable media heavyweights have gathered at the Grand Hyatt New York to attend the 2011 AMC - The Magazine Media Conference, which runs October 4 through 5."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "The solution is a new Fed law that narrows the Fed's mandate to keeping money stable. Then the critics won't need to vilify the Fed head, whether it's Ben Bernanke, or someone else."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The U.S. and most of the euro region are already in recession, Nouriel Roubini, the economist who predicted the U.S. housing bubble that started the last slump, told the Bloomberg Dealmakers Summit in New York on Sept. 27."  Additional coverage appeared in Forbes, Reuters, The Huffington Post, CNBC, Bloomberg and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Average long-term government interest rates hit a monthly low of 1.85% in 1941, according to an interest-rate history co-written by Mr. Sylla."  Additional coverage appeared in Dunwoody Crier.