Late last year, a group of my colleagues and I--at New York University's Stern School of Business--convened a discussion about how to address the crisis.

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West dean of the NYU-Stern School of Business, is a weekly columnist for Forbes.com.

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Recent research by Michael Spence and Sandile Hlatshwayo of New York University's Stern School of Business found that 98% of employment growth between 1990 and 2008 occurred in non-tradable industries.

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Sundararajan (associate professor of Information, Operations and Management Services at the NYU Stern School of Business) and two colleagues surveyed 23 CIOs and high-level IT managers at U.S. and Canadian companies that use or have evaluated use of cloud services.

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Stern School of Business, was curious about these sorts of scenarios, so she put together an in-depth study of the extent to which people in power take advice from knowledgeable colleagues.

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Cooley, the Paganelli-Bull professor of economics and former dean of the NYU Stern School of Business, writes a weekly column for Forbes.

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