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16 Dec 2016
News

Reality of a Trade War to Sink In for Trump

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

apprenticeships, internships, or work-based learning. That figure pales in comparison to other OECD countries like Germany or Switzerland, where 40-70 percent of students split their time between traditional school settings View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

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Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Exploring Trade Links in the Interior After the Second Opium War (1856-1860), the opening of new ports and riverways sparked tremendous growth in trade. Westerners now ventured from the treaty ports into the... View Details

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

the authors of Channels of Influence, by Harvard Business School Associate Professors Lauren H. Cohen and Christopher J. Malloy, and Umit G. Gurun, an associate professor at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits The China house was ultimately a go-between, an economic mediator spanning both geographic and cultural distance. — Stephen Lockwood, Augustine Heard and Company , 1858-1862... View Details

07 Aug 2014
News

Summer School? Teens Trade Classes for Factory Jobs

September 2014
Article

Colonial Institutions, Trade Stocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889–1930

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Martina Viarengo

We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state export tax revenues, product of commodity booms, explains improvements in... View Details

Keywords: Institutions; Economic History; Education; Development Economics; Policy; Brazil

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09 Jul 2021
News

West Virginia is Trading Trump for Tech Workers

10 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Evolving Basis for Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: Dispute Settlement and the Rebalancing of Global Interests

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich

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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Steamships While the profits to be realized in the China trade were magnificent, the four- to five-month voyage from the Eastern ports in the United States to China posed innumerable threats—disease, typhoons, View Details

05 Dec 2019
News

How Disputes Over Big Tech Are Disrupting Global Trade

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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

lived together so many years, and I had seen so much of his noble traits, that I had the highest admiration for him.” 39 During this time the brothers experienced transformations in the firm and the China... View Details

26 Feb 2018
News

Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

overwhelmed by the market complexities of what's happening with different crop prices, what they should be selling, who they should be selling to, how and when they should sell. Those are all things that we can help with tremendously. “I... View Details

14 Jun 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

Keywords: by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux; Education

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

administered over its trade began to diminish. After the end of the First Opium War in 1842 and subsequent Treaty of Nanking, additional ports were open including the newly formed British colony of hong... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

dealmaker but something of a kingmaker as well. "When I graduated from college with an engineering degree, I knew nothing about politics and less about investment banking," the tall, trim Brody recalls with a chuckle. "My best friend, an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Bibliography - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844 . Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1997. Fairbank, John King, Ernest R. May, and Alfred D. Chandler. America’s China Trade in Historical Perspective: The... View Details

September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
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IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Partnerships; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry

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16 Nov 2015
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Harvard professor calls trade deal watershed, says economy lags

December 2018
Case

Soybean Production in Argentina: The Duhau Group

By: José B. Alvarez and Mariana Cal

Crop-planning was affected by macroeconomic factors including international disputes, commodity prices, local tax, and agricultural policies, etc. Enrique and Alejandro Duhau, co-owners of the Duhau Group, analyzed these factors, as well as technical and financial... View Details