# Professors Scott Galloway and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh weigh in on Donald Trump's real estate dealings

1 Faculty News June 22, 2016 ![Yahoo Finance logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/yahoofinance.jpg?itok=iQnyXkp_)>

Excerpt from [Yahoo Finance](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-gained-license-print-000000122.html) -- "'Owning a hotel is a terrible business,' says [Scott Galloway](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway), a marketing professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'Licensing your name and taking a portion of the proceeds is a great business.' ... 'What really jumps out at me is how asymmetric the \[Trump Tower Tampa\] contract is,” says [Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/stijn-van-nieuwerburgh), director of the Center for Real Estate Finance Research at the Stern School. 'Trump has very little contractual obligation and a lot of rights.'"

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