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Excerpt from RetailWire -- "Marketing decision making is about taking actions whose consequences live in the unknowable future."

Excerpt from Inc. Magazine -- "The ultimate convergence product in my mind is the Apple iPhone, in large part due to all the apps designed for it and technology embedded in it."

The theme of the 2011 GFA conference is "Navigating Uncertain Waters." The conference will include a keynote address by Eric Varvel, Chief Executive Officer, Investment Bank of Credit Suisse; panel discussions; and a cocktail reception.

Excerpt from WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show -- "Nobel Laureate and NYU Stern professor Michael Spence, author of author of 'The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World,' and The Economist's New York Bureau Chief Matthew Bishop discuss recent trends in the job market, both in the United States and around the world, the rapid growth in developing markets that are catching up with the industrialized West, and what the United States must do to remain competitive."  Additional coverage appeared on BigThink and Foreign Policy.

Excerpt from Vogue -- "Most fashion brands still approach digital as a series of pet projects rather than presenting a coherent multi-platform strategy. Although 94 per cent of brands in the Index have a presence on Facebook, one in five still lacks e-commerce capability." Additional coverage appeared in FashionEtc, Fashionista, Style Clone, The Telegraph and Business of Fashion.

Excerpt from The Huffington Post Canada -- "Along with NYU's Elizabeth Boyle, Shapira co-authored 'The Liability of Leading: Battling Aspiration and Survival Goals in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions,' which appeared last month in the journal 'Organization Science.'"

Excerpt from SmartMoney -- "Some research has found that the best-performing stocks over long periods are in the "sinful" categories like tobacco, says Marcin Kacperczyk, an assistant professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from PRWeb -- “The theme of this conference, ‘From Retail to Me-tail: Delivering to the Connected Consumer,’ unites two strengths of our School – marketing and information systems."

Excerpt from Minnesota Public Radio -- "Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival about his book, 'The Happiness Hypothesis.' It's an examination on how the mind works and the search for happiness and meaning in our lives, using the wisdom of the past as a guide."

Excerpt from Daily Reckoning -- “The more widely held the belief in the persistence of a pattern the less likely it is to continue.”

Excerpt from Forbes -- “The standard-setting process can be used to manipulate the standards to be closer to what one company wants.”

Excerpt from Reuters Daybook -- "Alexander Ljungqvist, finance professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University delivers remarks on "Does the Stock Market Distort Investment Incentives?," at a luncheon discussion held by the National Economists Club."  Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Daybook.

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Benkler is able to focus the bulk of his efforts on a mixture of psychology, experimental economics, and business case-studies to discover the mechanisms by which cooperation occurs. Some of these, such as fairness, group identity, and morality, will be familiar to readers of psychologists such as Jonathan Haidt."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "China’s economy should be $14 trillion in 5 years, equaling us in gross production, said Michael Spence, an NYU economist and Nobel Laureate."

Excerpt from a Financial Times blog -- "In the context of the global economy, you don’t have to move the needle very far in your favour to improve employment. The US must find out where the margin is and where the opportunities they may have missed are."  Additional coverage appeared on a Financial Times Alphaville blog.

Excerpt from Project-Syndicate.org -- "Any economic model that does not properly address inequality will eventually face a crisis of legitimacy." Additional coverage appeared in Today's Zaman, Reuters, Reuters blog, Korea Herald, Aljazeera, Shanghai Daily, BusinessDay, Gulf News, Tageblatt, Wall Street Journal CFO Journal blog and EconoMonitor.

Excerpt from Politics & Government Week -- "SimCorp StrategyLab is a private research institution, headed by Mr. Ingo Walter, Seymour Milstein Professor of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics at Stern School of Business, New York University."

Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- "What is interesting is that the rivalry is often thought of as a motivating force, as benefiting performance, but I also have some research to suggest that it can have a dark side."  Additional coverage appeared on CTV.

Excerpt from The Chosunilbo -- "Daniel Altman, a former journalist and professor of economics at New York University, wrote in his book, 'Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy,' that 'lifestyle hubs' will replace financial hubs."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- “Market-makers are trying to attract order flow by being fast and having the best price. They would have to compete with the NYSE’s price."

Excerpt from PR Newswire -- "Deloitte executives, industry leaders and academics will share insights on how business intelligence and analytics can inform better decisions, improve performance and drive overall value to an organization at "Shift into Action: 2011 Deloitte Analytics Symposium" on Oct. 12-13 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix."

Excerpt from SmartMoney -- "Hirano's job: to spend $300 billion rebuilding the hard-hit region -- and the supply chain as well. The outcome, says Gary Katzenstein, an associate professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, will affect giant companies like Sony and Toyota, as well as factory towns around the world."

Excerpt from Motley Fool -- "For a company to be truly undervalued, Damodaran says in his book Investment Fables, 'You need to get a mismatch: a low price-to-earnings ratio without the stigma of high risk or poor growth.'"

Excerpt from The New American -- "Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, suggested returning to the gold standard 'so that monetary policy is rules-based, not personality-based.'"