Our International Trade practice provides analysis, advice, and problem-solving on a wide range of public procurement and international trade issues. Its blog, Perspectives on Trade, provides regular analysis and commentary on timely topics.

Perspectives on Trade

EU Assesses Its International Procurement Instrument
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The European Commission has published its first evaluation of the application of its International Procurement Instrument (IPI), a trade defense tool designed to provide the European Union (EU) with leverage to open foreign procurement markets on a reciprocal basis. The July 30th report summarized the only IPI investigation undertaken to date of China’s government procurement of medical devices that led to the EU’s ban on..

Publications

Book: The International Procurement System

A comprehensive study. The forces that integrated government procurement into the international trading system and the pressures that protect domestic sources. The prospects and challenges facing global procurement. By our Principal for International Trade.

Our Digital Technology practice helps prepare rising leaders to deal with all aspects of the field, including issues of communications and policy.

Publications

Book: When Computers Were Human

We learned the basics of computing from surprising places. We learned it from factories. We learned it from offices. We learned it from rows and rows of workers computing answers with no tool more sophisticated than paper and pencil. The story of fundamental themes of the digital age and the definitive treatment of the Mathematical Tables Project.

Book: Crowdsourcing for Dummies

All about the Crowd. How to put questions to the Crowd. How to listen to answers from the Crowd. How to get the job done. By our Principal for Digital Technology.

Art crosses borders. It links peoples and nations. It lightens our neighborhoods. It touches our hearts. Djaghe has expertise in the international arts, in how they are developed, in how they are managed, and in how they are produced. It also produces shows through the HWMS Audio Theatre.

Arts and Ideas

Industrial Arts
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Small Theatre.  Evening reading.  New plays.  Topical issues.  Post-event discussion.  Positive responses.  A complement that hung in the air…             It was a good evening of theatre.  The authors had worked hard to dramatize a difficult issue – climate change – and express their ideas in ways that an audience could apprehend.  The theatre itself had done a diligent job in guiding the authors.  The directors had presented the work..

HWMS Audio Theatre

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