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Feb 3, 2021

The Secret to Global Mutual Understanding: Ping Pong Diplomacy, K-Pop, and China’s New Challenge

In 1971, in the midst of the Cold War, American Ping Pong Player Glenn Cowan arrived late to the U.S. team’s bus while practicing for the World’s 31st World Table Tennis Championship held in Nagoya, Japan. So, Cowan temporarily started practicing with a Chinese player in the Chinese team. When…

Cultural Export

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The Secret to Global Mutual Understanding: Ping Pong Diplomacy, K-Pop, and China’s New Challenge
The Secret to Global Mutual Understanding: Ping Pong Diplomacy, K-Pop, and China’s New Challenge
Cultural Export

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Nov 8, 2020

As Our Nation Grows Divided… The Good News is We are Voting More.

How does the 2020 election turnout compare to that in past elections? The 2020 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is on track to enter the history books with the highest voter turnout to date. …

Political Polarization

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As Our Nation Grows Divided… The Good News is We are Voting More.
As Our Nation Grows Divided… The Good News is We are Voting More.
Political Polarization

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Jul 13, 2020

For Four Days, I Tried to Become TikTok Famous

An Analysis of Virality, Ads and the Media of the Future. I didn’t succeed… I wasn’t even close…. But these four days did change my worldview on what advertising, discovery algorithms and media will be like in the future. It was a stark warning The reason I became interested in…

Tiktok App

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For Four Days, I Tried to Become Tik Tok Famous
For Four Days, I Tried to Become Tik Tok Famous
Tiktok App

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Mar 15, 2020

Globalization in the face of a Disaster: Familiarity Bias and Media

When faced with a common enemy, is the world a united front? In issues such as ending terrorism, fighting climate change and preventing pandemics, the world clearly has a common, unified goal. But the actions of each individual member in this global community vary greatly. This is not to say…

Coronavirus

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Globalization in the face of a Disaster: Familiarity Bias and Media
Globalization in the face of a Disaster: Familiarity Bias and Media
Coronavirus

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Sep 14, 2019

China U.S Trade War Basics (1/4)

A Summary of the China-U.S. Trade War and the Impact to China’s Manufacturing, Technology and Service Industry (1/4) On May 10th, 2019, Trump announced that once again, the highly anticipated China- US trade deal fell through. Ten days later, a group of undergraduate students from the Wharton School flew to…

Trade

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China U.S Trade War Basics (1/4)
China U.S Trade War Basics (1/4)
Trade

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Sep 14, 2019

China’s Manufacturing Industry Amid the China-U.S. Trade Conflict (2/4)

A Summary of the China-U.S. Trade War and the Impact to China’s Manufacturing, Technology and Service Industry (2/4) First let’s talk about manufacturing. China’s manufacturing industry can be generalized into a split between three stages, first of learning, second of excelling, and third of innovating. In December 1978, Deng began…

China

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China’s Manufacturing Industry Amid the China-U.S. Trade Conflict (2/4)
China’s Manufacturing Industry Amid the China-U.S. Trade Conflict (2/4)
China

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Sep 14, 2019

China’s Technology Industry Amid the China-U.S. Trade Conflict (3/4)

A Summary of the China-U.S. Trade War and the Impact to China’s Manufacturing, Technology and Service Industry (3/4) The first stage that almost all successful tech companies in China goes through is: Copying. All of the tech companies we have visited this time in China, had in some way took…

China

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China’s Technology Industry Amid the China-U.S. Trade Conflict (3/4)
China’s Technology Industry Amid the China-U.S. Trade Conflict (3/4)
China

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Sep 14, 2019

China’s Service Industry and Summary of the Effects of China-U.S. Trade War (4/4)

A Summary of the China-U.S. Trade War and the Impact to China’s Manufacturing, Technology and Service Industry (4/4) China started off with nearly no service industry. I personally lived in the Beijing Friendship Hotel which was one of the earliest State Owned hotels. No employee had the incentive to serve…

China

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China’s Service Industry and Summary of the Effects of China-U.S. Trade War (4/4)
China’s Service Industry and Summary of the Effects of China-U.S. Trade War (4/4)
China

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Aug 22, 2019

Are Media Conglomerates Skewing the Frequency of Polls and Negatively Impacting Candidates like Tulsi Gabbard? (Explained Through Data)

Summary: Media agencies are skewing the democratic primary election to favor more well known, established candidates, by making fewer “qualifying” polls available after the second debate. …

Politics

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Are Media Conglomerates Skewing the Frequency of Polls and Negatively Impacting Candidates such as…
Are Media Conglomerates Skewing the Frequency of Polls and Negatively Impacting Candidates such as…
Politics

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Jul 18, 2019

Evaluating a Relationship — A Rubric Discussed by Two Business School Students

“So I know one of the criteria’s you had when we began this romantic relationship was you wanted a relationship where 1 + 1 = 3 …. In which you meant that we would both be better as a pair than as us individually. So after 3 months in this…

Relationships

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Evaluating a Relationship — A Rubric Discussed by Two Business School Students
Evaluating a Relationship — A Rubric Discussed by Two Business School Students
Relationships

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