By Ou Zicheng (IMBA Student Assistant)
On the evening of May 8th, 2012, Sean Maloney, Chairman of Intel China delivered a speech and intimately interacted with almost 100 students from Tsinghua-INSEAD EMBA (TIEMBA) Program and Tsinghua-MIT International (IMBA) Program in Shunde Building, School of Economics and Management (SEM), Tsinghua University.
Tsinghua-MIT International MBA (IMBA) program is a collaborative program between Tsinghua SEM and MIT Sloan School of Management. IMBA not only guaranteed its students the opportunity to interact with their industry advisors, but also share resource and platform with other advanced programs, such as TIEMBA, providing IMBA students with frequent opportunities to have face to face communication with prominent business leaders. 30 IMBA current students and 7 prospective IMBA students were invited were invited to the event.
In the beginning, Sean Maloney talked about the origin of “Sean-Tsinghua” relationship. “My grandfather in-law, graduated from Tsinghua University in the year 1927. As a result, purple and white are popular color in my family.”
As the principal part of the speech, he casted his mind back to when he was attacked by stroke and found himself unable to speak 2 years ago. “Frankly it’s the most difficult thing I’ve done. Running an organization of 10,000 is nothing in comparison.” However, just as the key word of his speech tonight “never give in”, Sean Maloney wasn’t kayoed and instead he began the arduous process of having right-side brain in charge of language. He even quote Mencius’s saying that one must first suffer from mental and physical pain so that he could be firm in mind, then would be capable of what he previously could not handle.
At the end of the speech, he expressed his view on the importance of Chinese market. “Any company that does not have a strategy for China does not have a strategy in the 21st century.”
In the Q&A session, IMBA students raised questions such as how to view the smart phone chip market, how to survive in the fierce competition in China market, and how would he describe his leadership style. Sean Maloney share his opinions with IMBA and TIEMBA students based on his life and 30-year working experience in Intel. Finally, he encouraged further discussion on these topics in the days to come.
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