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For the record, School of Economics and Management (SEM) of Tsinghua University has always been having high caliber business leaders, Nobel Laureate, central ba

by devy 7y ago

For the record, School of Economics and Management (SEM) of Tsinghua University has always been having high caliber business leaders, Nobel Laureate, central bank governor and government officials on their board.[1] e.g. In fact, I doubt any school has a better advisory board than that of SEM of Tsinghua's, anywhere in the world. Even Hardvard / MIT / Yale's school dean/provost are on Tsinghua's board. If as an CEO, you aren't invited to the board and you want to be global, you are doing it wrong. Here is a partial list: - Lord Browne of Madingley, Chairman of Huawei UK - Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. - H. Lee Scott, Jr., Former President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. - WANG Qishan, Vice-President, People’s Republic of China - Jim Breyer, Founder and CEO, Breyer Capital - Mary T. Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company - Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman of the Board, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. - Carlos Brito, CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev - CHEN Jining, Mayor, Beijing Municipal Government - Elon Musk - Mark Zuckerberg - Michael L. Corbat, CEO, Citigroup Inc. - Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies - Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock, Inc. - Geoffrey Garrett, Dean, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania - Nobuyuki Idei, Former Chairman and Group CEO, Sony Corporation - Muhtar Kent, Chairman, The Coca-Cola Company - Henry R. Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, KKR - Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG - Ramon Laguarta, CEO, PepsiCo - LIU He, yes the chief U.S.-Sino trade deal negotiator, Vice-Premier, State Council, People’s Republic of China - Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group - Pony Ma, Core Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Tencent - Doug McMillon, President and CEO, Walmart Inc. - Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft - Nitin Nohria, George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean, Harvard Business School - Richard C. Levin Senior Adviser and Former CEO, Coursera President Emeritus, Yale University - Brian L. Roberts Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation - Ginni Rometty Chairman, President and CEO, IBM - David M. Rubenstein Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group - David C. Schmittlein John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management - Stephen A. Schwarzman Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Blackstone - Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman, Nokia Corporation Chairman and Founder, F-Secure Corporation - Kevin Sneader Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company - Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp. - A. Michael Spence, Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics - YI Gang, Governor, People’s Bank of China [1]: http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/aboutsem/advMem.html http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/aboutsem/advMem.html

siruncledrew 7y ago
That's what the headline did not elucidate well. People should at least read about Tsinghua University first before automatically judging it for being Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University
- xurias 7y ago
  I mean, the problem isn't the university or the students or the people on the board. It's how the CCP uses its relationships to push its agenda and (incompatible-with-ours) values in an oppressive way on non-Chinese entities. This is just another example of how deep the rot is. (Yes, yes, the US does the "same thing", and I'll care when the US turns into a dictatorship that arbitrarily takes your job, livelihood and family for speaking out against it with zero recourse, transparency or accountability)
ksec 7y ago
>If as an CEO, you aren't invited to the board and you want to be global, you are doing it wrong. Or to be precise, you want to be in China. Google is very much a Global company by most standards.
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seanmcdirmid 7y ago
Big names are important in China just like elsewhere. Does this board actually do anything or is it just a Guangxi play?
- hos234 7y ago
  Network Theory 101. You want access to a network connect to the most important Hub. That is the quickest way to shorten the path to all other nodes in the network.

by devy 7y ago

siruncledrew 7y ago

That's what the headline did not elucidate well. People should at least read about Tsinghua University first before automatically judging it for being Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University

xurias 7y ago
I mean, the problem isn't the university or the students or the people on the board. It's how the CCP uses its relationships to push its agenda and (incompatible-with-ours) values in an oppressive way on non-Chinese entities. This is just another example of how deep the rot is. (Yes, yes, the US does the "same thing", and I'll care when the US turns into a dictatorship that arbitrarily takes your job, livelihood and family for speaking out against it with zero recourse, transparency or accountability)

ksec 7y ago

>If as an CEO, you aren't invited to the board and you want to be global, you are doing it wrong. Or to be precise, you want to be in China. Google is very much a Global company by most standards.

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seanmcdirmid 7y ago

Big names are important in China just like elsewhere. Does this board actually do anything or is it just a Guangxi play?

hos234 7y ago
Network Theory 101. You want access to a network connect to the most important Hub. That is the quickest way to shorten the path to all other nodes in the network.