Finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, Li Jiaming completed the doctoral admission procedures in advance and prepared to give himself a long vacation. Originally, Li Jiaming wanted to wait for the company to release the improved iPod2, return to China for a good year, and then return to the United States to continue to work for a doctorate.

It's a pity that as soon as he finished the formalities on his front foot, Professor Spencer sent someone to call him away on his back foot.

Studying for a PhD in the United States is not like studying for a master's degree, and a master's degree in the United States is very easy to study, except for an MBA, the United States hardly regards a master's degree as a serious degree. PhDs are completely different, and the biggest risk is that they can't read it.

Just like Li Jiaming's PhD in economics is divided into two stages, the first stage is mainly to study. After one to two years, students study courses related to their future research directions, followed by qualification examinations, and are also reviewed by a committee of supervisors and other professors. Students who fail to pass the qualifying examination will be eliminated and those who pass will be awarded a master's degree.

The main tasks of the second stage are to do research, establish a topic under the guidance of the supervisor, conduct cutting-edge research in a specific field, publish academic papers in journals with high influence in the industry, report their research results at various academic conferences, and finally defend their doctoral dissertation.

These two stages add up, the short is four to five years, and the long is eight to nine years, which can be described as the youth of investment, and the harvest is not necessarily success, it is likely to be disappointment. Because education in the United States is wide and strict, as long as you don't meet the academic level requirements of the degree committee, no matter how diligent you are, it won't help. For example, Stanford, where Li Jiaming studied, excluding those students who gave up halfway, even if they persevered to the end, there were still 20-30% of students who could not write a thesis that satisfied the degree committee and failed the final thesis defense.

Fortunately, Li Jiaming has an unknown advantage, that is, he has a general impression of the economic development trend in the next ten or twenty years. It is many times easier to use a given future to find the basis for its generation and development from reality than to find future trends from complicated phenomena.

For Li Jiaming, a special student, Professor Spencer also gave special treatment - academic freedom, that is, he did not specify his specific research topic, and he was free to play, provided that he perfected his master's thesis "On the Emotional Economy in the Internet Age".

In fact, there is no need for a mentor to guide him, Li Jiaming also knows the doorway, and some people have studied the decentralization and de-authoritativeization of the Internet, but the emotional economy was proposed by him before everyone. If he can once again refine the theoretical foundations of this new economy before anyone else, he will become an authority in the field and plant a flag in academic circles.

Don't look at this flag is planted on the top of the mentor's mountain, but as a flag bearer, he will also be richly rewarded. For example, the Richard/Stone Award, which was not selected this year, is likely to fall on his head as long as his research results are innovative, coupled with the influence of his supervisor and his status as a doctoral student.

After winning the Richard/Stone Award, his Ph.D. will not be a problem, and he can also be like the fourth brother, the day of graduation is the day of tenure. Tenure is a powerful stepping stone for a successful person like himself, because the United States is a commercial society, and even the relationship between teachers and students can be summed up in business behavior. He discovered a new type of economy, created the theory of this new type of economy, and coupled with the status of a super-rich person, the students who took the courses he taught would be like a carp crossing the river, and he would quickly be crowned a full professor by those students.

Promising!

As his supervisor, Professor Spencer also became more and more excited, as he himself said, this is a society where all achievements need to be quantified, and if his doctoral students can build a new economic theory, his reputation as a mentor will also rise.

Why do so many economists who have won the Nobel Prize still be enthusiastic about teaching and teaching PhDs? It is because of the achievements of students that they can directly increase the honor of their mentors. Why did Professor Thomas embarrass Li Jiaming in the master's cultural defense? Seeing that an economic genius cannot be used by him, he must give up his students to others out of professionalism.

There are many mountains in the academic circle, which person who is the owner of the mountain does not pull talents in his arms?

"Ming, the premise is that you have to hurry up and get ahead of everyone, understand?"

Fight!

This time, Li Jiaming did not bow down, and his waist was straight: "Yes/sir".

"Your dissertation is of a very high standard, and I expect to be shortlisted for the Richard/Stone Award next year, but I want to see you do even better!"

“Yes/sir!”

It is not easy to expand a paper into a new economic type. In order to snatch this honor, Professor Spencer, who served as the dean of the business school, did not hesitate to use his position to give Li Jiaming a promise. If he does well enough, he will be allowed to set up his own research group at the right time, and allow him to pick two assistants in the business school.

It's a right to understand, and with their own subject and good results, Lee and his team will be able to get a Ph.D., and maybe even a teaching position to teach this new economic theory in a business school. Stanford's faculty position is the dream of countless PhDs and postdocs!

Out of the dean's office, the excited Li Jiaming went straight back to the company, and just wanted to think about the outline, he brought Kyle, who was preparing for the iPod3 launch conference and negotiating the draft agreement with the representatives of the record company.

Originally, according to Marisa's opinion, the company made improvements to the shape and function of the iPod2, and was ready to launch an improved version of the iPod2 in October to squeeze the last bit of value of the iPod2, but unfortunately it was 9.11, so I had to give up.

The upcoming iPod3 is different from the previous two generations, except for Sanyo's breakthrough in lithium batteries, which increases the battery life to 14 hours, and replaces the black and white screen with a 101×80-pixel, 256-color STN color screen.

The so-called no bright spots, that's the opinion of professionals, Kyle doesn't think so, he thinks that it is completely possible to use marketing means to add humanistic highlights to this mediocre iPod3. But this involves fame and fortune, and he doesn't want to bypass Li Jiaming to call the shots, although he is the CEO of the company.

Although HH is an American-funded company and has a CEO, it implements the chairman's responsibility system, and YLE, the CEO, is more like the chairman's assistant and executor. Last year, Li Jiaming cut his face in front of the employees, which was to remind him who was the boss of this company.

Kyle has worked at IBM for 15 years and worked in China for nearly 5 years, so how would he know where Li Jiaming's bottom line is?

"Let Marissa preside?"

Li Jiaming, who was distracted, came back to his senses, pondered for a moment, and agreed: "No problem, YLE, as long as it doesn't involve strategy and major decisions in the future, don't ask me for these small things, okay?"

The Li family clearly dares to delegate power and is willing to delegate power, but Kyle, who understands East Asian culture, also knows how to get along with him.

"Ming, that's not what I said, it's better to sell a product than to tell a story. You are already a representative of the American dream, then you must use it wisely, and you can't let a mediocre product weaken your aura. Now that the shadow of 9/11 is not gone, the war on terror has not yet begun, and the media needs a new hero to boost morale, I feel that Marisa's experience can interest the media."

Sycophant, even if it makes some sense, is also sycophant, but this is an expression of an attitude.