NYU-SCPS adjunct and career coach Michele LoBianco will be answering readers’ questions about career change and job hunting as this week’s featured “Taking Questions” expert on the New York Times’ City Room Blog.
Read and ask your career questions @ “Ask About Changing Careers in New York” (March 22, 2010) at the New York Times’ City Room blog.
Report from Abu Dhabi: Publishing trends in the Middle East
NYU Center for Publishing director Andrea Chambers reports on the latest publishing trends in the Middle East, from her trip to the Abu Dhabi Book Fair in March.
Read “Oasis of Books” @ NYU Pub Posts blog.
Bowne & Co. CEO David Shea is 2010 Prism Awardee
David Shea – chairman and CEO of Bowne & Co., the worldwide marketing and business communications firm headquartered in NYC – is the recipient of this year’s Prism Award from the M.A. in Graphic Communications Management and Technology program.
CGA Adjunct Ann Lee: “Investors Should Control Financial Regulation”
Former investment banker and hedge-fund partner Ann Lee, an adjunct instructor in the Center for Global Affairs, wrote an op-ed piece for The Financial Times. Lee argues that investors from all over the world should be put in charge of financial regulation and have a vote much like they do at shareholders’ meetings. Lee says, “Through close co-operation, the collective pressure from outsiders in the form of an international regulatory board can serve as the checks and balances that were missing in financial regulation in this credit crisis.”
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“Buy, Sell, Hold” Tiger Woods Inc.?
The NYU Tisch Center’s Bob Boland, clinical professor of sports business, comments on the future of Tiger Woods’ endorsement deals in a piece just out in Newsweek. When he is not teaching, Boland is an active attorney and sports agent, with an insider’s perspective on the continuing fallout from the pro-golfer’s off-course, bad behavior.
An excerpt:
Tiger Woods: buy, hold, or sell?
(Bob Boland) He’s a hold right now. He can have tremendous value as a comeback story, if somebody has a long-term deal with him. The people thinking about dumping him versus the people thinking about keeping him break down into two different buckets. Do they have a long-term contract, in which case the price of getting out is probably not worth getting out for? I think that’s one of the reasons that Tag Heuer decided to hang onto him: I’ve heard they had a six-year deal with him. For them, it’s probably advantageous to wait and see what happens. If you had a short-term deal, and I heard the Accenture deal was under one year, then they get brownie points for getting out now.
Read the whole interview “Tiger Woods: Buy, Sell, or Hold?” by Sarah Ball (12/17/09) at Newsweek.com.
McGhee faculty member discusses Bhopal disaster with CNN
Dr. Brian Mooney, clinical associate professor in the Paul McGhee Division at NYU-SCPS, was featured on CNN iReport to comment on the 25th anniversary of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India.
Dr. Mooney is a cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic research focuses generally on activism, law and language in India. Since 1995, he has conducted field research on the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal.
You can watch the segment by going to CNN’s website.
UPDATE: Jane Friedman Video Available
As previously reported, Open Road Media co-founder and CEO Jane Friedman spoke at the NYU-SCPS Center for Publishing this week, to talk about her new company (“we’re open to all business ideas”), its approach to marketing e-books (“it’s all about the authors”), and the future of publishing (the traditional system is “broken” and “chaotic”).
The video of Friedman’s presentation is now up and ready at the Center for Publishing website.
Jane Friedman visits The Center for Publishing and tells students “it’s the beginning of a revolution”
Jane Friedman, the innovative publishing pioneer, visited the Center for Publishing at NYU-SCPS on Tuesday to talk with students and faculty in the Master of Science in Publishing program about the timely topic of e-Books and the future of publishing in general. Friedman, the former CEO of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide and current CEO of Open Road Integrated Media – a new content marketing company that will produce and market e-Books as well as accompanying documentary clips, trailers, and other forms of digital entertainment – said that this was the most exciting time for publishing.
Sam Zell Makes Waves at NYU Real Estate Conference
The Wall Street Journal‘s Developments blog reports on famed real estate entrepreneur Sam Zell’s outlook for commercial real estate, made at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate’s Capital Markets Conference yesterday (11/19/09):
Real estate mogul Sam Zell had choice words Thursday for billionaire Wilbur Ross and all the other wannabe experts on the commercial real estate crisis.
Baseball’s “glass ceiling” cracks, says sports business prof
“Ownership groups are no longer a fraternity defined by myopic attitudes and egregious behaviors regarding women. Instead of bravado and machismo impairing business decisions, owners now actively seek counsel from female executives,” writes Wayne McDonnell, sports business professor at the Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management, on BIZOFBASEBALL.com.
Read McDonnell’s article “Pronounced Cracks in Baseball’s Glass Ceiling,” (11/10/09) at BIZOFBASEBALL.com.
