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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.

Excerpt from Adweek -- "There’s a stronger correlation than we anticipated between digital IQ and revenue growth and, ultimately, shareholder value.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "At the end of the day, these platforms offer brands the opportunity to establish direct relationships and the existing ad model is more around renting consumers from a media property..."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- “You need a huge bazooka of at least 2 trillion euros, but you can’t wait three months. You have to do it in the next few weeks.”

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "At minimum, the write-offs violated U.S. tax laws, experts said. 'That's not allowed,' said Eli Bartov ... 'You can only get the deduction if you make the contribution.'"  Additional coverage appeared in ProPublica.

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Co-author Gavin Kilduff of New York University’s Stern School of Business told me that publicity for the game could further stoke up the antagonism. But the study also warns that intense corporate rivalry, as distinct from mere competition, 'opens up the possibility of economically irrational behaviour' including 'an unwillingness to co-operate with rivals even when it is instrumentally beneficial.'"

Excerpt from Forbes.com--NYU Stern continued the theme of long-term, socially responsible thinking with their new integration initiative, Launch 2011. Themed “An Education in Possible,” they began with a three-day intellectual “summit” divided into daily themes of World, Business and City. The intention was to inspire their students to think seriously about the major challenges facing the world (e.g., climate change, fiscal crises, energy, urbanization) and to expand their view of possibilities–what business can do, and what they can achieve, to create value.

Excerpt from NYU Local -- "Thursday 10/6: Choose one of three concurrent workshops: (1) a compressed lesson from Lawrence Lenihan‘s “Ready, Fire! Aim” course on business development ..."

Excerpt from PR Newswire -- "Dr. Yaniv Altshuler presented eToro sponsored research on social trading at WIN (Workshop on Information in Networks) at NYU Stern School of Business September 30 - October 1."  Additional coverage appeared in The Sacramento Bee.

Excerpt from iStockAnalyst.com -- "Banks need to be induced to write down the principals on mortgages and give households debt relief so they can resume spending." Additional coverage appeared on ABC News.

Excerpt from NTN24 -- "Nicholas Economides, an adviser to the Federal Trade Commission USA, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal and the Central Bank of Greece, spoke to NTN24 about the goals of this year and how they will suffer the eurozone (translated from Spanish to Engish)."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'Investors today are looking for ways to maximize returns while managing risk,' said Mr. Bernstein."  Additional coverage appeared on 4-traders.com.

Excerpt from PR Newswire -- "AQR Capital Management, a $40-billion asset management firm with a particular focus on alternatives, today announced a new award for applied academic papers in finance: The AQR Insight Award. This $100,000 annual competition seeks to identify the current academic finance papers that have the most significant practical implication for investors."  Excerpt from PIOnline and Insurance News Net.

Excerpt from a Wall Street Journal blog -- [A]s an industry (both technology and venture), we are like the jilted lover who, after 20 years still stares longingly out to the horizon, waiting for our soulmate to return….The public markets as they exist today are never going to be what they were and we need to recognize this and change accordingly.”

Excerpt from Washington Square News -- "New York is a state with relatively high taxes, high costs and lots of regulation, [and] businesses generally would prefer less of all [these] things."

Excerpt from LiveScience -- "Economics wasn't on the original list of prizes envisioned by Alfred Nobel. In 1968, Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, donated money to the Nobel Foundation to extend a prize to economists. In 1969, the first Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded according to the same criteria used for the original prizes."  Additional coverage appeared on SIgnonSanDiego.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Europe must raise the amount of funds it has earmarked to arrest its fiscal crisis and deploy a 2 trillion-euro ($2.7 trillion) 'bazooka' before time runs out, said Nouriel Roubini." Additional coverage appeared on Bloomberg.

Excerpt from The Denver Post -- "The historical record suggests that a president who is good for business isn't always the same as a president who is a businessman."

Excerpt from The Telegraph -- "Chinese corporate structures remain very rigid, and, according to Daniel Altman, a consultant at Dalberg Global Development Advisors, original ideas 'have to percolate through so many layers of hierarchy that most won’t survive to the top.'"

Excerpt from MetroWest Daily News -- "Sylla’s research shows that markets have risen and fallen in consistent waves for more than 200 years, with the pattern becoming even steadier since World War II."

Excerpt from WHIOTV.com -- "Americans George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph E. Stiglitz win the Nobel Prize in economics for research into how the control of information influences everything from used car sales to the rise and collapse in high-tech stocks."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "This is at the heart of a lot of the work of William Baumol, trying to untangle what it is that makes some societies innovate furiously, others not so much."  Additional coverage appeared in New Statesman.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The least-volatile quintile of the 1,000 biggest stocks in the U.S. returned 10.2% annually from 1968 to 2010, while the most-volatile quintile gained 6.6%, according to Brendan Bradley of Acadian Asset Management in Boston, who earlier this year published a study on the returns of low-volatility stocks with Malcolm Baker of Harvard University and Jeffrey Wurgler of New York University."

Excerpt from BioPharm International -- "We contacted Dr. Sonia Kansal-Kalavar, associate director of Biotherapeutics and Vaccine Outsourcing at Pfizer, who noted that the single most important trend in outsourcing today is the ability for chief officers to cull 'the most qualified vendor to fit the gaps in their drug development.'"

Excerpt from Outlook India -- "I think Italy is not too big to fail if the world is willing to live with a non-Euro-centric union."  Additional coverage appeared in Outlook India.