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How Tariffs Are Impacting Retail Prices

Price increases, which were moderating before the US government began imposing tariffs, are now climbing. An analysis by Alberto Cavallo, PhD '10, shows how levies are reaching consumers.

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Chart showing that, when factoring slowing price increases before March, the 4% jump on imported goods since then would climb to 5.4%. Prices on domestic goods would rise to 2.6% from 2%.
When factoring slowing price increases before March 2025, the 4% jump on imported goods since then would climb to 5.4%. Prices on domestic goods would rise to 2.6% from 2%.
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Source: "Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs," HBS Working Paper. • Data from 01/01/24 to 09/08/25.
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Martin Named Stanford GSB Pioneer

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Joanne Martin, PhD '77, was recognized by the school as one who "blazed trails and broke barriers on campus and beyond."

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Stanford Professor Joanne Martin
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Clear as a Bell: Clarity and Metaphor

Recently I have been thinking about one common rhetorical device, metaphor, and how it can either bring language to life with sizzling clarity or bury it in the mud of opacity.

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Winslow Homer painting of a sailboat in foggy air
Winslow Homer, Sailboat and Fourth of July Fireworks, Harvard Art Museum online collection
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Composing for the Spaces In-Between

Michele Cheng is a second-year PhD student in music at Harvard Griffin GSAS. An interdisciplinary composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, and puppeteer, Cheng explores storytelling through sound, performance, and object theater.

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Live performance of Meoark, an intermedia duo consisting of Michele Cheng and Hassan Estakhrian
Live performance of Meoark, an intermedia duo consisting of Michele Cheng (left) and Hassan Estakhrian. Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, 2024.
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