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Morgan Alexander Jones, MBA ’15, COO of US-China Strong by Giorgi Tsintsadze ’17 In a subtle but powerful way, Morgan Jones was exposed to Chinese culture even before he went to school. He was enthralled by “Journey to the West,” a popular Chinese TV show that aired on American television. The series was subtitled, but ran […]

Morgan Alexander Jones, MBA ’15, COO of US-China Strong In a subtle but powerful way, Morgan Jones was exposed to Chinese culture even before he went to school. He was enthralled by “Journey to the West,” a popular Chinese TV show that aired on American television. The series was subtitled, but ran completely in Mandarin, […]

Speaker: Eswar Prasad Eswar Prasad is Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the Cornell College of Business (CCB). Prasad holds the New Century Chair in International Economics at the Brookings Institution and is Research […]

Speaker: Jie Bai Jie Bai is an Assistant Professor in Public Policy at Harvard University. Jie’s research focuses on microeconomic issues of firms in developing countries and emerging markets, particularly to understand the role of private enterprise in economic development, the challenges and barriers firms face, and how government policies can interact with various market frictions […]

Brazilian innovation policies reflect the very notion of innovation itself: they are uncertain, cumulative , and collective. Innovation policy is, thus, risky by nature because results are hard to predict. by Nathalia Foditsch and Evodio Kaltenecker Introduction Economic growth has been the name of the game for many countries since the 2008 economic crisis hit […]

  by Kaiwen Zhong, BA ’15 Chinese companies’ acquisitive streak in the US is often called a buying “spree” and is frequently compared to Japan’s heightened real estate purchase activities in the United States in the 1980s. As the number of large deals from China to the US increased consistently over the last five years, media […]

Speaker: Mary Lovely Mary Lovely is a Professor of Economics at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she combines interests in international economics and public economics.  She was a co-editor of the China Economic Review from 2011-2015.  Her current research projects investigate the pollution content of Chinese exports, market access and cross-city wage variation, the […]

Combining Passions in Pursuit of a Dream by Ana Kalugina, MBA ’17, MPS ’17, Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow Every great journey begins with a step, and with enough of them, you can run a marathon. My hope is that the past two years will lead to an ever-fulfilling finish. In deciding between graduate […]

Tanzania´s New VAT tax on Tourism could Potentially Slowdown an Otherwise Thriving East African Country by German Peralta On July 2016, President John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania imposed an 18% VAT tax on tourism activities, a sector that was previously tax exempt and was one of the primary drivers of the country´s accelerated GDP growth. […]