# Professor Irving Schenkler weighs in on Volkswagen's emission crisis

1 Faculty News February 26, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/business/international/vws-crisis-strategy-forward-reverse-u-turn.html?_r=0) -- "[Irving Schenkler](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/irving-schenkler), a professor and crisis management expert at New York University, said there have been few parallels in history. 'It’s unprecedented in terms of the cross-national scope of it, the degree of the problems,' he said. 'There are so many different fronts.'"

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