Harvard Center Shanghai

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Jeffrey Williams is executive director of Harvard Center Shanghai, a foothold designed to assist the University's involvement in China by providing local knowhow, administrative support, and facilities like the facsimile classroom, which also features a booth for simultaneous translation and extra-wide blackboards so translators can duplicate instructors' writings. The 90-seat classroom is used mostly by HBS's Executive Education program, which Williams refers to as the center's anchor tenant. But even though it was constructed with support from HBS and the Harvard China Fund, the center is intended as a University-wide facility, as welcoming to those interested in public health, education, or astronomy as to those interested in business. "We support student activities. We support training, like Harvard Business School's executive training. We host symposia and conferences. We have staff here who support things like business publishing or delivering Law School programs," Williams said. "I like to think of the center as a tool. We're not creating new content ourselves, but we're helping facilitate Harvard content and bringing it to China." Read more in the Harvard Gazette: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/a-taste-of-harvard-in-shanghai/

Published 2013-03-29 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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