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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "There's a demographic of people who tend to — even if they don't own this — they know about it. It's a good conversation piece. It's well understood that shops that accept bitcoin are really trying to segment the market and get a more affluent tech savvy crowd just to come in and shop but they really don't want to spend bitcoin, they just want those people to enter the premises.”

Excerpt from TechRepublic -- "'The power of a master's or another degree in business analytics is you're setting pathways for yourself to be a leader in that field,' Sosulski said. 'That's very powerful for someone returning to school looking to make a clear change.'"

Excerpt from How to Make Everything -- (17:15) "When people capture an experience for themselves—when they're taking photos, for example, for their own personal memories—this can actually be very rewarding. So, contrary to a lot of people's lay beliefs that photos are destroying society or ruining our experiences, we've actually found that taking photos draws you into an experience... and this shift in attention can actually increase enjoyment in certain types of experiences. But, that being said, there's obviously a trade off, because while you might be focused more on the visual details of your experience... that comes with a cost, because you have limited attentional resources... you can't focus on everything at once."

Excerpt from Recode -- "'A lot of local governments are likely to be watching how the New York minimum wage experiment plays out,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor of business at NYU who studies the gig economy. Sundararajan also cautioned that the 'devil is in the details' with rolling out these kinds of regulations."

Excerpt from CNBCTV18 -- "'If we have a recession, then there would be tremendous impact on defaults and the size of companies that default would be more than we thought because of the incredible build up in global debt in last nine years,' Altman said."

Excerpt from Marginal Revolution -- "She had no idea whether any of this data work would pay off, but it did pay off, with a now-famous paper in the AER. This is a good lesson for students... Greatness requires ingenuity and perseverance and Petra Moser exemplifies both of these characteristics."

Excerpt from The Hill -- "This is a deep-rooted and complex financial predicament with potentially calamitous economic, social and political ramifications. For all stakeholders, the cure may be worse than the malady in that all potential solutions will involve some degree of prolonged financial sacrifice and suffering, especially for those least prepared."

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business will host the Economic Outlook Forum on February 6, 2019.

Excerpt from Bloomberg Law -- "'Any of these frauds or scandals end up damaging the trust in the audit role whether it’s KPMG or their competitors,' Shehata said. 'There ends up being this lingering blemish on the integrity of the audit, the feasibility of the audit—does it really work, is it possible to conduct an independent audit?'"

Excerpt from Quartz India -- "'The new regulations are semi-protectionist and will directly benefit local players such as (India’s richest person) Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail. Who all have been pulling the strings within the government to make this happen is anybody’s guess,' Anindya Ghose, the Heinz Riehl professor of business at New York University (NYU), told Quartz."

Excerpt from ZDNet -- "The report describes a process for utilizing remote workers and AI in concert to identify analogies. The possible upshot is a machine learning toolkit that could accelerate innovation and lift us past what some describe as an innovation plateau."

Excerpt from the Epoch Times -- (translated from German using Google Translate) "Charlie Eaton, Sabrina Howell and Constantine Yannelis state: After the takeover by private equity investors, the profits of the college triples on average. Suppliers achieve this by increasing tuition, taking in more students, and reducing staffing. That this does not do the quality is obvious."

Excerpt from Chicago Booth Review -- "Yale’s Stefano Giglio, Harvard’s Matteo Maggiori, and New York University’s Johannes Stroebel studied discount rates independently of climate change—by studying the housing markets in the United Kingdom and Singapore, where homes can be purchased outright or leased for contracts lasting 50 to 999 years—and conclude that over very long time periods (a century or more), the rates are extremely low, lower than implied by most economic theory."

Excerpt from Vox -- "There are empirical studies pointing to a causal connection to heavy social media use, and there are studies indicating no connection. I predict that a consensus will emerge by the end of 2019, and that it will be that heavy use of social media damages many young teenage girls, reducing their odds of success in life."

Excerpt from WWD -- "While research has not yet determined how technology affects your brain, Soren cited such studies as one by 'Irresistible' author Adam Alter that deduced 40 to 50 percent of young people would rather have a bone in their hand broken than have their phone broken."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "In Finance v Wal-Mart: Why are Financial Services so Expensive?, Mr. Philippon crunches the numbers on costs for consumers. The results aren’t pretty, with increased intermediation just one of the smoking guns. According to Mr. Philippon: 'The cost of intermediation per dollar of assets created has increased over the past 130 years.'"

AI, crowdsourcing can identify insights that lead to breakthroughs.

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Of course, tail risk isn’t just about bad things. There is also a slim chance of huge returns on some stocks. But we know that investors pay too much for this. New York University’s Robert Whitelaw has shown that US investors pay too much for lottery-type stocks."

Excerpt from InTheBlack-- "With a subscription model, you can accurately track who the customers are. You can see who the repeat customers are and what they like to purchase. This is an incredibly important management tool, Lev argues. 'If you look at the number of repeat customers, this is the best indicator of customer satisfaction. If repeat business is decreasing over several quarters, you know you’ve got a problem.'"

Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times -- "Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, a New York University assistant professor who specializes in technological innovation, says that crowdsourcing is part of an ongoing trend of the last decade. One advantage, she says, is democratizing creativity and eliminating social barriers to creative fields. 'It’s much less about connections and who you know,' Lifshitz-Assaf said."

On February 1, 2019, NYU Stern's Executive MBA Program and NYU Washington DC hosted a Stern EMBA Speaker Series event at NYU’s downtown DC location featuring EMBA alumnus Tom Monahan (MBA ‘95), Founder & Managing Partner, Norton Street Capital.

Excerpt from Clear Admit -- "Prior to the trip, I didn’t necessarily think how similar the luxury car and clothing industries were to each other. We spent the morning at the Lamborghini Museum, where we saw how each car is produced. Watching the whole supply chain was truly an eye-opening experience; from seeing the seamstress hand stitch pieces of leather for the seats to watching the engineers assemble the engine, each Lamborghini station was filled with superb craftsmanship and precision."

Excerpt from INQUIRER.net -- "In 1968, a professor from New York University by the name of Edward Altman developed a handy financial model that can predict the likelihood of a company’s bankruptcy within two years. Known as the Altman Z-score, the model generates a number by taking the sum of five weighted financial ratios of a stock. The lower the resulting score, the larger the probability that the company will fail."

Excerpt from Broadly -- "'Sleep is nothing exceptional —we all do it and do it all the time—but anything that improves sleep can definitely have a massive impact on our lives,' Meyvis said in an email. 'In the past, this may have been a harder sell (as it's such a boring, mundane, non-special category), but the current focus on improving/luxurizing everyday life probably makes people more receptive to this.'"

Exceprt from the Harvard Law blog -- "We conclude that implementation of Dodd-Frank has contributed significantly to the reduction of systemic risk in the United States. It is important to maintain that progress. At the same time, however, Dodd-Frank addressed these risks only incompletely and, in some cases, introduced burdensome rules that have little to do with systemic risk."