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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "The alternative is to change the growth model in order to lighten the impact of higher levels of economic activity on natural resources and the environment."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "As the Nobel-winning economist A. Michael Spence has put it, America has gone from 'one propertied man, one vote; to one man, one vote; to one person, one vote; trending to one dollar, one vote.'"

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "At least four downside risks are likely to materialize this year, undermining global growth and eventually negatively affecting investor confidence and market valuations of risky assets."

Excerpt from PBS Nightly Business Report -- "It's clearly not a very high productivity use of your resources. And so it's a wasting asset."

As Arianna Huffington took the stage to address the more than 300 women in attendance at Stern Women in Business 20th Anniversary Conference on the afternoon of February 3, the excitement among the crowd was tangible. She did not disappoint, candidly sharing with the audience her personal recipes for successful leadership while frequently drawing laughter from the sell-out crowd...

Excerpt from Opalesque -- "When we control for the affordability of due diligence, we find that funds that can afford to do the due diligence do better than funds that cannot afford to do the due diligence. And it accounts for most of the gains that we have seen to scale in funds of funds."

Excerpt from BBC -- "Dr. Roubini made an important observation about the state of the Mexican economy. Compared to many major economies around the world - particularly its powerful neighbour to the north - Mexico is performing well."

Excerpt from WA Today -- "Suppose all the world's stock of structures and equipment remained, Romer mused, but our knowledge of how to create them was wiped out. Then imagine a scenario B, in which all our structures and equipment were wiped out, yet our knowledge of how to build them remained. In the long term, which scenario would leave us better off?"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "We teach our students to think about how to transform challenges and opportunities to create value. And that perspective, I think, is a perspective that companies are particularly liking at the moment."

Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "The Altman Z-Score measures several aspects of a company's financial health to forecast the probability of it going bankrupt in the coming year."

Excerpt from OnLineOpinion.com -- "After conducting international survey research on morality Haidt has found that conservatives tend to use five moral registers to think through problems whereas liberals (or progressives) tend to use only two."

Excerpt from PRWeb -- "To fully address unemployment and income-distribution issues, the U.S. needs more effective investment in skills, education, infrastructure and technology."

Excerpt from Business Standard -- "Ljungqvist of Stern Business School, Tim Jenkinson of Oxford University and Willliam Wilhelm of University of Virginia have worked extensively on IPO pricing, investor sentiment and IPO allocation. ... they analyse the data from 65 countries between 1992 and 1999 to show, among other things, that book-built issues contrary to expectations do not necessarily lower underpricing in all countries."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- " ... a reporter watched Keler Gjika listlessly take a class on Advanced Finance through practice questions from Damodaran online, a popular Web site maintained by Aswath Damodaran, a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Monti did not bring news, but his visit played an important role. We can now say: 'Look, things have changed. We now have competent and serious people leading our country.'"

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "In a series of studies conducted with colleagues, Hershfield explored that connection between future selves and savings, and found that the more connected we feel to our future selves, the more likely we are to save."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'Social media is better for deals and promotions,' said ... professor Michelle Greenwald, who earlier in her career was an executive at PepsiCo and Disney. TV is the best bet for a brand that is in a hurry to remake itself, she added."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Risky assets do not work on the downside of a credit bubble. That's what we're seeing right now, but longer-term, I don't think that's going to work." Additional coverage also appeared in another CNBC piece.

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- " ... economist Nouriel Roubini thinks the stock market is in for more gains, following a 23 percent run-up in the S&P 500 since last October." Additional coverage appeared in CNBC.

As a former senior finance official in Spain and a distinguished academic economist, Dr. Jose Manuel Campa has a unique vantage point from which to view the European economy. On January 26, Dr. Campa discussed the challenges in the euro area with an audience of faculty, students and New York-based finance professionals at an event jointly sponsored by NYU Stern’s Center for Global Economy and Business and Salomon Center.

Excerpt from HollywoodNews.com -- " ... with today’s technology offering far more sophisticated and meaningful data crunching capabilities. (David Poltrack, Chief Research Officer of CBS Corp. has long been trying to educate people about this.)"

Excerpt from New York Post -- "'It’s better to fly in an airplane with your seat belt on, even when you have a drink and a smooth ride,' he adds, noting that big-bank stocks are twice as volatile as the broader stock market."

Excerpt from Toronto Star -- "NYU Stern and MIT Sloan are using playwrights to teach leadership techniques. As a result, many MBA grads can now boast as much knowledge of how Julius Caesar or Henry V overcame obstacles as how Steve Jobs or Bill Gates built their empires."

Excerpt from MSN Health & Fitness -- "The name bias probably extends to other professions as well, according to study co-leader Adam Alter, from the Stern School of Business. 'People simply aren't aware of the subtle impact that names can have on their judgments.'" Additional coverage appeared in The Wall Street Journal, WTOP.com, Drugs.com, Medical News Today, Colorado Springs Business Journal and Crikey.com.