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The NYU Stern School of Business today announced that Professor of Economics Paul Romer has been selected by the World Bank to become its next Chief Economist. Romer is currently the Director of the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, University Professor, and the Founding Director of the NYU Stern Urbanization Project.

Excerpt from The Christian Science Monitor -- "'It's typical for someone to be arrested and held in jail for an indefinite period of time but then quietly released. That hasn't happened in this case which I think is a good sign that there continues to be energy around accountability for the factory collapse,' Sarah Labowitz, a co-director of New York University's Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, tells The Christian Science Monitor. 'But we haven't seen resolution yet and many of those who are indicted are living abroad or have escaped Bangladesh, so will there ever be accountability for those people?'"

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "In one experiment led by psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, participants were asked to rate their abilities and offered a monetary reward if they were able to assess themselves accurately. In spite of that motivator, though, people still overestimated their skill level considerably. Try as we might, it appears many of us assume we're more competent than we are simply because we aren't aware of what we don't know. Even unintentionally, our own ignorance compounds."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "As AI advances and more machines start making unsupervised decisions, companies will face tough questions about exactly when humans do or don’t need to be involved in decisionmaking. 'The consequences of mistakes at the moment are just unknown,' NYU’s Mr. Dhar said. The recent crash of an Autopilot-equipped Tesla shows the challenges of coordinating the behavior of humans and machines."
 

Excerpt from The Economist -- "In [Romer's] 'endogenous growth' theory, new ideas materialise as firms invest in physical capital or research and development, creating knowledge that spills over to the rest of the economy. That suggests that open economies, with institutions that encourage investment in physical and human capital, ought to do best."

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Excerpt from Investor's Business Daily -- "'When you have an application of your own and you also control the distribution through the Apple App Store (of rival apps), that can easily raise anti-competitive concerns,' Nicholas Economides, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, told IBD."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "The Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 dramatically increased the information that companies and stock dealers had to provide to investors. This reduced the risk premium accorded to stocks, and it allowed advocates like William Greenough of TIAA to make the case that equities belonged in long-term portfolios, given that investors could make informed decisions about which stocks to buy, Sylla argues. Further, the shift to earnings reports meant that investors could view earnings growth, rather than simple dividend growth, as a key component of future returns. This meant earnings were increasingly reinvested in the businesses rather than doled out as dividends, Sylla wrote in an email to CNBC."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "...as the N.Y.U. social psychologist Jonathan Haidt points out in an outstanding essay in The American Interest, over the past several decades a different mind-set has emerged. People with this mind-set value the emancipated individual above the cohesive community. They value, or at least try to value, self-expression, social freedom and diversity. Their morality is not based on loyalty to people close to them; it’s based on a universal equality for all humans everywhere."

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "The excitement around Tesla, its brand, and its enigmatic, Tony Stark-like leader create more than just intangibles and billionaires talking their book, says Scott Galloway, founder and chairman at L2 Inc., a leading intelligence firm that benchmarks overall brand performance. 'You could argue that Tesla has access to the cheapest capital in the history of the automobile industry … it makes sense from a capital allocation standpoint' to take on expensive endeavors like the gigafactory. Galloway points to Tesla's price-sales ratio, which is 7.8, and notes that General Motors Co.'s (GM) P/S is a mere 0.3, making secondary offerings a less attractive way to raise money."

NYU Stern School of Business and L2, a digital benchmarking firm founded by the School’s Professor of Marketing, Scott Galloway, held the first annual Digital Leadership Academy at Stern from July 13-14. The two-day event, featuring speakers from Stern, other leading business schools and L2, hosted C-level executives from some of the world’s most iconic consumer brands.

Excerpt from Niskansen Center blog -- "Each year, American universities educate hundreds of thousands of foreign students, many of them pursuing degrees in science, math, engineering, and technology—fields that are central to innovation and economic growth. Doing more to retain the exceptional foreign graduates who wish to stay in the United States—particularly those with a demonstrated ability to start new companies and create jobs—would be an unambiguous economic good."

Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "One of Adolf Hitler’s many blunders was to kick smart people out of his country. His hatred of Jews led him to expel a large number of Germany's most accomplished scientists, many of whom went to the U.S. What was a bane to Hitler’s reich was a boon to the U.S. Economists Petra Moser, Alessandra Voena, and Fabian Waldinger estimate that patenting increased by an average of 31 percent in scientific fields dominated by Jewish refugees. And of course everyone knows the story of how Jewish scientists were crucial to the U.S. atomic-bomb program."

Excerpt from The New York Post -- "There’s a chance these huge rentals will decrease density in their immediate vicinity — if they’re higher-income folks with smaller households or younger people without families, says Patrick Lamson-Hall, a research scholar at NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. Still, he adds that nearby resources, like public transportation, could feel increased pressure from masses of residents."

Excerpt from mbaMission -- "As one first year we interviewed said of his experience at Stern, 'So far, the most impressive class has been "Marketing" with Jeff Carr,' adding, 'He's super engaging and makes you think more about the consequences of your actions in marketing than simply teaching you the tools. The class structure is very informal, but all of the students are learning a ton.'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "The allure of Tesla and the danger of Tesla is Elon Musk. Elon Musk has made the company what it is today ... but I think he is the biggest weakness of the company. I think he's a great storyteller, but if you look at Tesla's lifetime, it always had trouble on execution. And I think the reality is Elon Musk is not as interested in execution as he is in telling you the big story."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Others caution the world of entertainment has changed dramatically, threatening the perceived safety of movie attendance. With the advent of digital streaming sites such as YouTube and Netflix, 'there are simply more options for people these days', said Sam Craig, a professor at NYU Stern."

The L2/NYU Stern Digital Leadership Academy, led by HBS, Tuck, Kellogg, McGill and NYU faculty and L2 researchers, is a two-day conference rooted in business fundamentals coupled with tactical sessions on digital topics.

Excerpt from CFA Institute -- "Lev and Gu seek, above all, to improve on GAAP’s measurement of value creation by focusing the proposed report on cash flows. In their system, companies would not only capitalize R&D but would also provide a breakdown separating research (i.e., the systematic pursuit of new knowledge) and development (i.e., the use of research to develop new products or processes). Additionally, a charge for the cost of equity capital would be deducted from cash flows. Where feasible, changes in values of major strategic assets, such as the present value of cash flows from proven oil and gas reserves, would be taken into account. "

Excerpt from Radiate with Betty Liu -- "The bottom line is, the key to being an entrepreneur is you are more risk aggressive than anybody else. You are willing to sign the front of a check to go to work, not the back."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "ComScore’s requirement that the average stock price exceed the target over a 30-day period is a tougher standard than at many companies where stock is granted based on a single day’s price, according to David L. Yermack, a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business who studies executive compensation."

Excerpt from China Radio International -- "I think there are a lot of potential benefits from encouraging private hospitals to enter the market and provide care. One of them is about bringing in leading medical technology, which is, you want the best technology available and private hospitals may be one mechanism for bringing that into the country and spreading those technologies around the country."

Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "'We are in the early stages of a pretty profound shift in how we organize economic activity and a byproduct of that is going to be a radical change in what it means to have a job,' said Sundararajan, the author of the book The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism, published this May by MIT Press."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "Williams says that while the key things all entrepreneurs need are mentorship and access to financing, both of which 10,000 Small Businesses provides, he adds that if entrepreneurship programs really want to create job growth, they need to focus on helping so-called disruptive, young businesses that tend to add jobs more quickly. The Goldman program, he says, focuses more on creating incremental growth. The median age of its business is 12 years old, which puts them a good distance away from startup territory."

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