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Excerpt from Inc. -- "At least one academic report suggests chief executives tend to make significant stock gifts following a run up in share prices. And given the current frothy environment around tech stocks, where Facebook's own stock is at a near historic high of $107 a share as of Wednesday afternoon, the timing makes sense. 'The gift date itself on average represents a turning point in the stock's trajectory, with company prices moving lower in the months after a gift is made,' David Yermack, a professor of finance at the NYU Stern School of Business, wrote in a 2008 article in the Journal of Financial Economics."

Excerpt from Commercial Observer -- "Since the market rebound, EB-5 capital has become the most attractive source for many real estate developers to fill the gap in the capital stack for their projects. The EB-5 program provides a path to permanent residency for foreign citizens who invest at least $500,000 (pending reform legislation would raise this amount to at least $800,000) in a project that creates at least 10 jobs for U.S. workers."

Excerpt from World Financial Review -- "The disappearance of so many US banks, mostly by being absorbed into larger institutions, prompted us to write Genealogy of American Finance (2015). The book contains short, illustrated histories of the 50 largest financial holding companies recently operating in the United States, along with their 'family trees', that is, charts showing all the predecessor institutions that were acquired or merged together to form the current behemoths."

Excerpt from Digiday -- "Greg Coleman, BuzzFeed president and former president of ad tech firm Criteo, has been teaching a class at NYU’s Stern School of Business called 'digital media innovation.' Every week, Coleman invites his “friends,” including Rent the Runway founder Jennifer Hyman or BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti to guest lecture, and 75 percent of students’ grades are decided based on a final media project judged by VCs."

Excerpt from The New York Observer -- "'Businesses often use words like "limited", "rare", and "only one left" in order to create panic in the brain,' says NYU Stern Business School professor of consumer behavior Dr. Jacob Jacoby, who spoke to the Observer by phone. 'They trigger a reaction called "Loss Aversion"; when you’re more concerned with losing something than gaining something.'"

Excerpt from Harvard Business Review -- "Jonathan Haidt at New York University’s Stern School of Business shows in his research that when leaders are not just fair but self-sacrificing, their employees are actually moved and inspired to become more loyal and committed themselves. As a consequence, they are more likely to go out of their way to be helpful and friendly to other employees, thus creating a self-reinforcing cycle."

Excerpt from Risk Management Magazine -- "'Sentiment analysis has become a form of risk management and is emerging as a useful risk control tool for a variety of businesses,' said Vasant Dhar..."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Even quality audits and a relationship with the factory only get you so far,' says Sarah Labowitz, co-director of New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. 'You have to tie compliance to business incentives. If a supplier improves working conditions, they get bigger and longer-term orders.'"

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Colette has been ahead of its time since its inception, trailblazing collaborations, new ways of merchandizing, fun combinations of product categories, and the embrace of constant change. As long as this mother daughter duo continues their complementary partnership, it will continue to be the one to watch. Other retailers can observe, learn, and be inspired to do their own experimenting."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "...there is light at the end of the tunnel for the eurozone. A cyclical recovery is underway, supported by monetary easing for years to come and increasingly flexible fiscal rules. More risk sharing will start in the banking sector (with EU-wide deposit insurance up next), and eventually more ambitious proposals for a fiscal union will be adopted. Structural reforms – however slowly – will continue and gradually increase potential and actual growth."

Excerpt from Nikkei -- "Ginsberg posits that it is difficult if not impossible for powerful new ventures to take root in a country that does not welcome challenges to the status quo. Japan appears to fit that description, and, sure enough, the country has no unicorns -- yet."

In a new study, Professor Claudine Gartenberg of the NYU Stern School of Business and Professor Lamar Pierce of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis find that integrated banks – firms that both originate and then securitize a mortgage – with poor corporate governance are twice as likely to issue loans that will default compared to similar firms with strong governance.

NYU Stern welcomes David Nenke, WW Director of Product and Marketing at Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon.com, who joins first-year MBAs for a special Block Time discussion on Monday, November 30.

Excerpt from HQ Asia -- "The extent of a country’s globalisation can be quantified, says Ghemawat, using four central pillars or indicators: trade, capital, information and people. The higher a country’s score in each pillar, the greater its integration into the globalised system. He argues that the impact of ‘globaloney’ on how leaders think can be witnessed in the ASEAN region, which is less integrated and interconnected than one might assume."

Excerpt from Chain Store Age -- "Given mobile is the primary access point to online retail, brands must position mobile as a higher priority than desktop. Mobile users’ native experiences fit smaller screens, therefore graphics and navigation tools become more important. Mobile experience also requires frequent refreshing, since online customers have come to expect novelty and change."

Excerpt from China Business News -- "...Robert Engle believes that there are presently ideal economic conditions for ‘mixed operations’ in China. Though there hasn’t been an expansion of development, the right time has come. Engle ... imparts that the biggest challenge for 2016 is the threat of economic slowdown and that China should avoid systematic financial risks."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "The bottom line is that this looks like a bad deal for the wrong company, at the wrong time and at the wrong price -- the wrong company because Allergan’s accounting statements are a mine field due to acquisition accounting, the wrong time because we may actually be on the verge of a major change in US corporate tax code and at the wrong price because of the premium on an already large market capitalization."

Excerpt from Gizmodo -- "The original Dunning-Kruger effect ... showed up when participants were asked to rate their performance after a task had been completed. It relies on the fact that the lack of knowledge exhibited by those scoring in the bottom percentile would render them ill-equipped to accurately evaluate their own performance."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "For most global industries, the shared responsibility model would be a bold step forward. In Bangladesh, it should start locally with the government and local manufacturers convening all the main stakeholders to develop a common plan of action."

Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "If the global economy remains on its current trajectory, a period of intense volatility could destabilize a number of emerging economies, while undermining development efforts worldwide. That’s why policymakers must act now."

Excerpt from WIRED -- "'I think it’s based on associations rather than physiology,' says NYU psychologist Adam Alter, who wrote a book, Drunk Tank Pink, that examines this phenomenon. 'I’m open to being convinced otherwise, I just haven’t been yet.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "But Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s business school, said Lyft’s increase in trips this year showed 'impressive growth,' a sign it could continue to increase its market share despite an uphill battle against Uber. 'Don’t count Lyft out,' he said."

Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- “While we are not used to storytelling around the processes of perfume production, the documentaries capture the attention of the consumer with powerful visuals, pertinent context, and enriching background sounds as to prepare the senses for the olfactory experience that each perfume promises."

Excerpt from Institutional Investor -- "'For any long period of time, private equity has dramatically outperformed public markets,' Schwed says. 'But not in the years after the 2008 financial crisis.'"

On November 20, 2015, at NYU Shanghai’s campus in Pudong, the Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai (VINS) held its First Annual Conference. The conference was prepared in cooperation with the Economics School at Fudan University as well as Pudong Institute of Finance, and was centered on the theme of “Liberalizations in Emerging Markets.”