Word: tang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tang applied to the London School of Economics and was accepted by their under-graduate program. The biggest problem confronting him now was to finance his education...
...remembers walking along a London street one day and passing the offices of the Jardine Mathewson Company, renowned Scottish traders who do business in the Far East. Tang recalled that his aunt had worked for their Shanghai office before foreign firms fled in the early '50s and decided to ask if they could help...
...asked if Jardine Mathewson would sponsor his education, and the company agreed, on the condition that he do some translating and research work for them. Tang struck up similar arrangements with British Petroleum and Barclay's International Bank, and in 1979 he received an economics degree...
...London his dream of coming to Harvard was fueled further. One of the marketing courses he ask used cases compiled at Harvard. That method of learning attracted Tang...
When asked if he thinks his American education would be inappropriate to his work in his homeland, Tang replies. "People are the same everywhere, and I've successfully used many of my Chinese concepts here...