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Excerpt from China Daily -- "Michael Spence, professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a Nobel Prize winner for economics, said there would have to be substantial input from China if the system was to be reformed. 'If it happens, China will have to play a major role. If China is left out, it won’t work — just like if the US or Europe were not there,' he said."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "Edward Altman of nyu Stern Business School reckons that about 8% of all firms whose debt is rated speculative grade (about 1,900 in all) will default in the next 12 months. This figure could reach 20% over two years. He expects at least 165 large firms, those with more than $100m in liabilities, to go bankrupt by the end of 2020."

Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "The problem, according to those who study it, is that misinformation on Instagram often takes the form of memes and other images that are harder for the company’s systems to detect and can be more difficult for the company’s human reviewers to parse. And while Instagram is building out new systems to address this, images can be a much more effective conduit for bad actors, says Paul Barrett, the deputy director of NYU's Stern Center for Business and Human Rights."

Excerpt from Pix11 -- “'I think you can look at Amazon as an indication of the future,' said Allen Adamson, NYU Stern School of Business. 'They were selling books online and book sellers didn’t taken the seriously… People looked at Peloton as a niche and it’s going to become far more mainstream preeminently after this event.'”

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "The first of these two estimates is from a working paper by Arpit Gupta and Joshua Coven of New York University, who used smartphone location data to measure disparities and mobility patterns among New York City residents from March 2 to March 27."

Excerpt from Newsday -- “'Producers and productions crews are used to trouble shooting so I think they’re going to come up with various workarounds which is kind of how they’re wired,' said New York University professor Paul Hardart, director of the entertainment, media and technology program at the university’s Stern business school."

Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "Other people, now facing an increased reliance on technology, such as virtual meetings and online shopping, could be looking for something that feels real, said Tom Meyvis, professor of marketing at New York University."

Excerpt from Abacus -- "Nouriel Roubini, a professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business, said the main problem, however, with the potential success of central bank digital currencies would be that they could disrupt the current system of traditional banking business of taking deposits to use the funds to extend loans."

Excerpt from InvestorPlace -- "Stern Business School management professor Melissa A. Schilling points out: 'As a professional manager, Mr Pichai will inevitably strike a more cautious stance than Google’s founders … We’re likely to see more risk aversion, and a move to make the company more ordinary.'”

Excerpt from Pix11 -- "However, smaller companies that just do home cleaning in a given neighborhood do not have the option to simply move around their workforces. NYU Stern School of Business Economist Joseph Foudy is not so sure the commercial business will make up for loss of home cleaning revenue, especially with all the offices and schools closed during the lockdown."

Excerpt from CNBC -- “'Science shows there is an arc to happiness. Specifically, it looks like a smile,' Galloway previously told CNBC Make It. 'So, your younger years, your childhood, your teens, your college years [and] young adulthood are the stuff of college football games, time with friends, sexual exploration, experimentation — a lot of great stuff. And, you’re taught that the world is yours for the taking and you believe it,' he said."

Excerpt from The Hill -- "But the rise of delivery services doesn’t need to be at the expense of restaurants, said Arun Sundararajan, professor at New York University Stern School of Business. 'A number of restaurants are going out of business. If you think about things through that lens, the restaurants that survive are likely to be the ones who were either doing a lot of deliveries through these platforms or turned to this channel and used it well,' he said."

Excerpt from CMS Wire -- "Last week during the MIT Sloan Disruption 2020 event, Amy Webb shared her view into the new normal and how it will disrupt business going forward. Webb was candid: 'Would I have known that a coronavirus at this point in time would have caused this amount of disruption — the answer is no. There is no way to build that kind of a model. However, should pandemics have been in someone’s strategic plan? The answer is yes.'"

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "The huge Chinese market is just 'so alluring' to investors that they can’t turn down a chance to get a piece of it, even with the obvious high risks, said Paul Zarowin, a professor of accounting at the Stern School of Business at New York University. 'It’s an enormous market, [and] everybody wants a piece.'”

Excerpt from Marketing Dive -- "'We've seen that you can stop pollution on a dime, you can clear up the skies overnight,' Tensie Whelan, director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, told Marketing Dive in a phone interview. 'You can actually pour an enormous amount of money at a problem in ways that everybody's told us we can't.'"

Excerpt from Pix11 -- "Paul Hardart with NYU’s Stern School of Business said smaller institutions without big endowments or fundraising bases will be particularly hard hit. 'When the revenue stops, the cost does not stop,' he said. 'There’s mortgages and taxes and upkeep. The challenge is the cost has remained and the revenue has disappeared.'"

Excerpt from The Hour News -- “'Until we come out of this economic decline, there’s going to be less need for investment banking,' said Lawrence J. White, an economics professor at New York University. 'I think the net effect is going to be adverse to UBS here in in the United States.'”

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Former Bank of England governor Mervyn King said he also supported an extension of the scheme. 'I hope that (Sunak) will extend these support schemes today to give businesses some comfort, needed comfort, over the next few months,' King told BBC radio."

Excerpt from Pix11 -- "Unfortunately for Tanriverdi, economists like Nicholas Economides of NYU’s Stern School of Business, say personal service providers might be some of the last businesses that’ll open back up. 'The rational thing is to open factories where people can be far apart,' Economides said. 'Then go to industries with closer contact.'”

Excerpt from Pix11 -- "'At least over the next six to 12 months I would not be surprised to see 50% of workforce cut,' said NYU Stern’s School of Business Arun Sundararajan. In recent years, New York City welcomed about 65 million visitors for business and tourism each year. Sundararajan said people will likely make different choices in the years ahead."

Excerpt from City Journal -- "NYU economist Thomas Philippon’s 2019 book, The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets, was motivated by his observation that European economies have advanced past the U.S. in—as his primary example—'home Internet access.' Citing a survey indicating that U.S. households paid about $66 a month for residential broadband while German households paid just $36, he asks, 'How did the U.S. . . . become such a laggard?'”

Excerpt from The New York Times -- “'The quality of care declines after the private equity buyout, which seems to reflect staffing cuts,' said one of the report’s authors, Sabrina T. Howell, assistant professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Pix11 -- "PIX11 News asked NYU Stern School of Business’s Hans Taparia if working through these conditions would give them more leverage moving forward. 'I think the social justice efforts will pick up steam,” Taparia said. “But the corporation is getting more powerful… and with large unemployment the leverage shifts to the corporation.'”

Excerpt from Medium -- "According to Prof. Henry Assael of NYU, most consumer purchase decisions can be summarised as complex buying decisions, dissonance buying decisions, variety seeking decisions or habitual buying decisions."

Excerpt from Adweek -- "The Times, like other publishers, has seen an uptick in traffic to its coronavirus coverage. Also like other publishers, the Times has made a substantial amount of that coverage (including a live blog) available for free. It’s a way for the media organization to put its journalism front and center for a potentially new audience, said Paul Hardart, clinical professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business."