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Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
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Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
#12That's...weird. Of all the boards Cook could serve on, or not on, he chooses to join a random Chinese business school? It's hard not to think there's a quid pro quo going on because it seems completely unnecessary otherwise. Would be great to see Apple make further progress on manufacturing elsewhere.
> Tim Cook will work closely with Chinese government officials to promote Tsinghua University's economics and management school Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard.
Arguably serving on the board of a very powerful education institution can have way more positive influence on future generations than trade wars and sanctions.
Now whether it will, that's a different story.
A lot of countries rewrite their own history first in school and then elsewhere.
It's hard to deny the influence Harvard has on US foreign and internal policy.
You don't even need to influence many people to have lasting change on the world in the right education institutions. A handful is enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_attended_b...
Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
#13I’m as diehard an Apple fanboy as they come but I might be in the market for a new ecosystem...
Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Tim Cook will work closely with Chinese government officials to promote Tsinghua University's economics and management school Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard.
Arguably serving on the board of a very powerful education institution can have way more positive influence on future generations than trade wars and sanctions. Now whether it will, that's a different story. A lot of countries rewrite their own history first in school and then elsewhere. It's hard to deny the influence Harvard has on US foreign and internal policy. You don't even need to influence many people to have…
When has that ever happened in history?
Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
#15That's...weird. Of all the boards Cook could serve on, or not on, he chooses to join a random Chinese business school? It's hard not to think there's a quid pro quo going on because it seems completely unnecessary otherwise. Would be great to see Apple make further progress on manufacturing elsewhere.
> Tim Cook will work closely with Chinese government officials to promote Tsinghua University's economics and management school Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard.
It's their MIT. Peking University is their Harvard.
Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Tim Cook will work closely with Chinese government officials to promote Tsinghua University's economics and management school Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard.
> Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard. But it's still not Harvard. The question is, "Why not Harvard? Or any other top school in the US?"
> Anything that's the "something" of the "something" isn't really the "anything" of "anything".
-Lisa Simpson
Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
#17A selection of other members of this university board:
http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/aboutsem/advMem.html
Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Chairman, Paulson Institute Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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
Michael L. Corbat CEO, Citigroup Inc.
Michael Dell Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies
Jamie Dimon Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Laurence D. Fink Chairman and CEO, BlackRock, Inc.
Doug McMillon President and CEO, Walmart Inc.
Elon Musk CEO, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) CEO, Tesla, Inc.
Satya Nadella CEO, Microsoft
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
Mark Zuckerberg Founder and CEO, Facebook
Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
#18I’m as diehard an Apple fanboy as they come but I might be in the market for a new ecosystem...
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Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
#19That's...weird. Of all the boards Cook could serve on, or not on, he chooses to join a random Chinese business school? It's hard not to think there's a quid pro quo going on because it seems completely unnecessary otherwise. Would be great to see Apple make further progress on manufacturing elsewhere.
>It's hard not to think there's a quid pro quo going on
"The day before the advisory board meeting, Cook met with Xiao Ya-qing (肖亞慶), director of China’s State Administration for Market Regulation in Beijing. According to the bureau’s official website, "The two sides have conducted in-depth exchanges on expanding investment and business development in China, protecting consumer rights and fulfilling corporate social responsibility."
Re: Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
#20A selection of other members of this university board: http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/aboutsem/advMem.html Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Chairman, Paulson Institute Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 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 M…
This is the only post that matters here. Thanks for providing the proper context to this (non) news.