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 the facility abruptly closed, Cowan then joined the Chinese team on the bus ride back. While most Chinese players treated him with suspicion as a foreigner, another Chinese player Zhuang Zedong decided to strike up a conversation through an interpreter. Finally, at the end of the ride, Zhuang gave a…
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. As compared to 2016, we’ve seen increasing voting percentages across the board from small counties to large cities, for candidates both on the republican ticket and the democratic ticket.
As we see in this graph, as of November 8th, 2020, 62.07% of the Voting Age Population participated in this election. The Voting Age Population, estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau, accounts for U.S. …
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 was because I had been fascinated by its potential for marketing. A few days before I started my challenge, I used Facebook to market a charity interview event I was hosting with a CEO and I cautiously spent 0.34$ to get my advertisement on the Facebook feed of only…
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 we have not progressed tremendously. We have systems in place to pool international relief efforts and, when situations escalate globally, we leverage the brainpower of the world to come up with solutions. Yet, we miss the mark in what a globalized system could potentially achieve as one unit. …
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 China, in part to discover why. Through our ten-day trip, we were able to study in detail the manufacturing, technology and service industry, as well as develop our own framework of understanding what the China-US Trade deals mean to both countries. …
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 the Open Door Policy in China. Deng knew that at the very beginning of China’s opening up process, China’s main goal was just to learn. China had been isolated for too long and to catch back up, they would need to learn from whoever was willing to teach them. Therefore…
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 a similar product in the U.S. and adapted it to China. Sina was built after Yahoo reached a critical mass of users. Sina’s most profitable subsidiary Weibo was built after Twitter had shown signs of success. Baidu was copied after google, Alibaba built after Amazon, etc… Yet interestingly, whenever there…
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 customers because they were paid the same amount no matter if they were serving people well or not serving people at all. The concept of a service industry didn’t really exist. However, as the 1990’s and 2000’s came around, the government allowed for more private enterprises which led to individual…
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. If DNC pushed their “Qualified” media organizations to release more polls, or just as many polls as after the first debate, Tulsi would most certainly qualify.
Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaiian congresswoman is running in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Election. In a crowded field, her main stance has been to end Regime Change Wars and reinvest the trillions of dollars spent on wasteful conflicts and military weapons, to instead provide for infrastructure and healthcare.
“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 relationship, what do you think? Has it added up to a 3?”
“Oh my gosh… can we not?” She remarked.
We had been discussing a range of topics earlier in the day from the inefficiencies of the New York Transportation System, to the mistakes made by Investment Banking firms in…
Christopher Rathbun
Wharton Senior, Interviewer for Wharton Innovators in Business
