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American Universities Abroad
By Jason Littman
Did you know that our very ownWhartonSchoolhas been setting up a branch in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)? A number of top American universities, including NYU, MIT, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon, and Northwestern, and already set up or in the process of setting up branches ... [Read More]
Hungry for a Story: the Hunger Games
By Kateryna Bretzistka
The release of the first movie in the Hunger Games trilogy made a huge splash on the big screens. After its first weekend, Hunger Games had the third best opening of all time only behind Harry Potter: the Deathly Hallows Part II and The Dark Knight. The film adaptation stars ... [Read More]
Hard Drives in Hard Times
By Michael Baresich
Have you shopped for a hard drive recently? If you have, then you might have noticed that prices are suspiciously high. For a long time, the price per gigabyte of storage has been dropping steadily. At one point, a terabyte hard drive, which had been joked about only a few y ... [Read More]
Hacktivism: Pushing the Boundaries of Internet Expression
By Jason Kong
You return to your computer after a long day’s work, ready to check the heaven knows how many Facebook notifications you managed to garner after a week of Internet abstinence. You quickly type in your password – incorrect. Confused, you try again, no go. Bewildered, you ... [Read More]
Bootleg Your Copy of SOPA, Today!
By Angela Huang
Imagine having been assigned an insanely obscure paper in a history course: Research the whereabouts of ex-President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and his relationship to sociologist Edwin Chadwick; trace their family lineages. How do they relate to the current economy in America? ... [Read More]
Assembling the Future: The Rise of Smart Manufacturing
By Michael Baresich
A landmark ruling by the World Trade Organization recently has recently found China to be guilty of protectionism. China’s export quotas on nine raw materials, such as zinc and bauxite, gave its domestic manufacturers an unfair advantage. China has frequently been criticiz ... [Read More]
Cyberwarfare: Pushing the Boundaries of Human Conflict
By Henry Chang
23 years ago, the Berlin Wall came crumbling down and a curtain was drawn upon the end of an era. 23 years ago, the first commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs) were founded and the Internet was poised to explode. But that was then. Now, we live in an age where the vic ... [Read More]
World Wars: The Attack of the Drones
By Jason Littman
Remember watching movies like Terminator and iRobot, and imagining what the world would be like in 100 years? Did you think that autonomous, self-learning robots or some Austrian bodybuilder would take over the world someday? Did you think giant lasers, artificially intellig ... [Read More]
Petro-patronage: How the Middle East is Buying Its Way to the Top
By Michael Luo
Class has just ended at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Several students stroll out of their lecture hall, chatting in Arabic. They walk down a block of gleaming, white, futuristic buildings and meet up with friends who go to Cornell, University Coll ... [Read More]
Asia’s Quest for Arms
By Akshay Subramanian
From the Arabian Sea to the Pacific Ocean, countries are beefing up their arsenal at a scale not seen since the arms buildup by the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. A military hardware-buying binge has engulfed the Asia-Pacific and South Asia as the world’s mi ... [Read More]
iFactory: An Ethical Perspective
By Karl Sjulsen
Apple turned over $13 billion in profit last quarter, just short of the quarter record of $14.8 billion set by Exxon in 2008, thanks largely to the success of iPhone and iPad sales. And the success of iPhone and iPad sales is directly driven by the sheer productive capacity ... [Read More]

Money Money Money in (English) Football

By Henry Chang - April 4, 2012 - No Comments

With the business end of the various European domestic seasons coming up, the summer transfer window lies in wait just around the corner. From the impending implementation of UEFA’s financial fair play regulation to the new crop of billionaires backing clubs all around the continent, this transfer window is shaping up to be one of the most ridiculous ever. While Manchester United and Manchester City battle through what United manager Alex Ferguson has deemed “squeaky bum time”, the chairman of the top English clubs are preparing their own kind of financial assault on the European theatre.… Read More

American Universities Abroad

By Jason Littman - April 3, 2012 - No Comments

Did you know that our very ownWhartonSchoolhas been setting up a branch in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)? A number of top American universities, including NYU, MIT, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon, and Northwestern, and already set up or in the process of setting up branches in either the UAE orQatar. Why would these universities set up branches abroad? I can think of three reasons: money, prestige, and student interest.
According to the New York Times, NYU received a $50 million Emirati donation and then planned its establishment of a branch in the UAE.… Read More

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Money Money Money in (English) FootballBy Henry Chang - April 4, 2012
Kofi Annan, Syria, and the WorldBy Daniel Benny - April 3, 2012
Ready, Aim, Fire?By Wing Cheung - March 30, 2012
Hungry for a Story: the Hunger GamesBy Kateryna Bretzistka - March 27, 2012
Occupy WallsTweetBy Michael Baresich - March 27, 2012
UEFA Champions League Quarterfinal PreviewBy Michael Luo - March 27, 2012
Censored China crumbling?By Wing Cheung - March 24, 2012
US Elections: An International’s perspectiveBy Henry Chang - March 19, 2012

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