November 2007

The Round Table is an entirely student run publication at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Our mission is to promote greater awareness of global affairs within, but not limited to, the field of commerce; to provide a channel of expression for students in an effort to promote understanding and debate within the context of an increasingly globalized world.
	Chinese Diaspora by Cathy Gao Thomas Friedman says that the world is technologically flat, but is it culturally as well? The real test of globalization is the human factor involved.
	Back in the USSR by Gillian R. Kemmerer Though the Soviet monopoly board was cleared over ten years ago, the game continues onward.
	Myanmar: Deaf Cries for Democracy by Julia Carabas The people of Burma continue their peaceful protests on the back of no sizable international support for their struggle.
	An Open Letter to Fidelity Investments: PetroChina & Sudan by Aditya Bothra Investing into Genocide through your personal Fidelity financial advisor
	Ali Baba Goes to China by: Siddhant Goel Shares of Alibaba.com, the Chinese e-commerce company backed by Yahoo and Cisco Systems, rocketed nearly 200 percent Tuesday in their debut on the Honk Kong Stock Exchange.
	Identity in a Global Marketplace by: Adam Van Grover The Role of Identity in a vastly change world
	Fair Trade by Vince Lau Have fair-trade and organic products already become fashion statements? Cultural ornaments?
	Cross-cultural Outsourcing: a Marriage of Strategy and Sensitivity by Richa Tandon Issues that constantly arise when outsourcing are the hurdles of culture, lack of control, language and even the problems associated with dealing with different legal and financial structures.
	Worlds Largest Company (market cap): PetroChina? by: Varun Shah PetroChina became the first company in the world to be valued at more than US$1 trillion after its first day of trading on the Shanghai stock market, where China hungry investors lapped up the stock which nearly tripled the share price.
	The Search for the Elusive British Identity by: Aditya Bothra Since the London bombings of September 2005, many have felt that British way of life and British values are under threat, and therefore, the debate on the subject of multiculturalism and national identity has acquired a new sense of urgency amongst the general public and upper levels of government in the United Kingdom.
	Liquidity of Capital Markets under Universal Accounting Standards by: David Kazakov
	Emergency in Pakistan: by: Shankar Tripathi