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Shanghai has always prospered as China's gateway to the world. While Beijing may boast millenniums of history, Shanghai owes its prominence to having served as a key trading port for colonial powers. As China accelerated market reforms in the 1990s, the country's first stock exchange was established in...
The recent market turmoil has directly affected the career paths of Harvard undergraduates who spent their summers interning at many of the global financial firms whose balance sheets have deteriorated in the last few weeks. A number of these students, who interned at investment banks such as Lehman Brothers, have...
Though Harvard’s endowment has posted strong returns amid the global financial crisis, the University’s finances may still be affected by the frozen credit markets. Harvard had issued more than $1.5 billion in variable-rate bonds as of the end of the 2007 fiscal year...
Climate change has finally gained prominence on the international stage—the U.N. debate on climate begins this week—but Tong views this shift as too little, too late for island countries that will be affected regardless of “whatever we do.?...
“While we of small low lying islands face the most disastrous consequences of climate change, no country, big or small, high or low lying, will be untouched,” Tong said. “Whatever we do now, countries like us will be affected. But it...