When you see Sloans dancing on the table in usually low-key Stanford Coho cafe, you know this party is a riot. This is the TGIF that ends all other TGIFs. This is The-Moment-Of-The-Year for Sloan Fellow Class of 2013 of Stanford Graduate Business School.
This article marks an exception to my website, which contains entirely original content created by me. It's an important piece that unlocks part of our family's history and sets the record straight.
In February 2013, DreamWorks Animation, the maker of highly successful franchises of "Shrek" and "Madagascar", laid off 350 of its 2,200 employees. The shocking news begs the question: what's wrong with DreamWorks Animation Studio, or what's wrong with animation film business in general?
The honor of the soundtrack for this article goes to the iconic and haunting monologue by Ewan McGregor in "Trainspotting"(1996) that defined the 90s, together with that "You Never Can Tell" dance in "Pulp Fiction"(1994). The full "choose life ... " monologue starts at 02:38.
My presentation to the incoming Class of 2014 at the Stanfor Sloan Orientation.
In descending order of importance, Complete your Linkedin profile. Linkedin has been used extensively by business schools, head hunters, and HR recruitment officers of many companies in US. It's gone mainstream and become a must-have in Stanford GSB.
It was a very pleasant surprise when I read the back page of 2013 Spring Issue of Stanford Business Magazine. Surprise #1, this was actually a very accurate quote from me, though I have no idea how the magazine got it.
As I was burning midnight oil on my final assignment/personal essay for S353, I finally could not help but laying out my entire career transitions, in the past, present, and future, on a diagram - something I've been thinking about doing for a long time but never got the chance to complete.
In my last post on this subject, I compared some similarities and differences between S353 (Entrepreneurship: Formation of New Business) and G566 (Real-Life Ethics), two of my favorite GSB courses.
On February 8, 2013, I emceed Sloan's Chinese New Year Party, which made history by becoming the most attended self-organized Sloan event with roughly 180 people (120 adults + 60 kids), in true Chinese fashion.