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Showing posts with label International trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label International trade. Show all posts

Friday, February 8, 2013

REPORT!!

Shale Gas: From Poland to Pennsylvania from the Calkins Media and the Pulitzer Center
"POLAND HAS SIGNIFICANT DEPOSITS OF SHALE GAS. Like Pennsylvania, it has embraced the promises and risks of extraction in an attempt to spur economic growth and achieve energy independence.  In the last few years, no other energy topic has managed to garner so much global attention and generate so much controversy."

Monday, November 5, 2012

How UPMC's Overseas Operations Blossomed in 14 Years from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Missed this gem from earlier this year.
""You wouldn't know it from the 1,300 employees running 14 operations in six foreign countries and the nearly $100 million in annual revenue from records management, cancer centers, general hospitals, biomedical research and a transplant center, but UPMC did not have any grand strategy when it started its international efforts nearly 14 years ago. "It was sort of by chance," said Charles Bogosta, president of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's International and Commercial Services Division."