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The case of China’s vanishing chairmen - The Economist

“We have lost contact with our chairman,” is an awkward disclosure from the board of a listed company to its investors. It can lead to a collapse in the share price. In China the resulting confusion can persist for months, casting a shadow over the company’s future. Such announcements have become so common this year that a state-owned newspaper, Securities Times, has offered advice to directors dealing with a disappearance. “Don’t be coy when it comes to disclosing these matters,” the paper said in November. It reminded firms that they have a responsibility to keep investors informed of any major incidents affecting their operations. This includes an inexplicably uncontactable chairman or chief executive.

Two separate listed Chinese companies—a children’s-fitness firm and an agricultural one—warned investors on November 29th that their chairmen had vanished without a trace. The fitness company, My Gym Education, said that it “tried communicating via phone and WeChat messaging but could not reach Wang Hongying”, its chairwoman. “After communicating with her family, the company has been unable to determine the reason for the loss of contact with her.”

These latest incidents followed two other freak disappearances at a live-streaming company and a drugmaker earlier that month. All told, at least 11 listed Chinese companies have been forced to put out disclosures this year, alerting investors to the disappearance of executives or board members. A review of corporate disclosures and Chinese media reports indicates that this odd phenomenon has become more common in 2023.

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A startup founder who trains women engineers in Gaza has a message for Silicon Valley - Fortune

Good morning, Broadsheet readers! UPenn and Harvard presidents are in damage control mode after a Congressional hearing, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner explains why Sam Altman was fired, and a startup founder supports women engineers in Palestine. Have a restful weekend.

– Women in tech. In the fall of 2013, Iliana Montauk was in Gaza for the first time. She heard sonic booms overhead from warplanes and watched contractors install film on windows in case of bombings. Meanwhile, 60 startup founders pitched her their ideas. “Please don’t get distracted by that,” she remembers them telling her. “We’re used to that—it happens here all the time.”

The activity she heard outside turned out to be the leadup to the 2014 Gaza war. Over the next two years, Montauk went on to facilitate some of the first investments in Gaza startups as the director of the organization Gaza Sky Geeks.

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How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business School’s Christensen teaches aspiring MBAs how to apply management and innovation theories to build stronger companies. But he also believes that these models can help people lead better lives. In this article, he explains how, exploring questions everyone needs to ask: How can I be happy in my career? How can I be sure that my relationship with my family is an enduring source of happiness? And how can I live my life with integrity?

The answer to the first question comes from Frederick Herzberg’s assertion that the most powerful motivator isn’t money; it’s the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute, and be recognized. That’s why management, if practiced well, can be the noblest of occupations; no others offer as many ways to help people find those opportunities. It isn’t about buying, selling, and investing in companies, as many think.

The principles of resource allocation can help people attain happiness at home. If not managed masterfully, what emerges from a firm’s resource allocation process can be very different from the strategy management intended to follow. That’s true in life too: If you’re not guided by a clear sense of purpose, you’re likely to fritter away your time and energy on obtaining the most tangible, short-term signs of achievement, not what’s really important to you.

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The Creepiest Moment Onscreen This Year Occurred in a Comedy -

“The Curse” has been described as cringe, but look closely and you’ll see it plays with the classic tropes of horror like jump scares.

There’s telling a bad joke. There’s bombing. And then there’s what happens to Nathan Fielder’s character, Asher Siegel, at the end of the fourth episode of “The Curse,” near the halfway point of a series that goes to disorienting extremes.

Siegel and his wife, Whitney (Emma Stone, in a remarkable comic performance), are making an HGTV show about eco-friendly renovations. After a focus group takes issue with Asher’s sense of humor in the show’s pilot, he finds himself in a comedy class where an instructor assigns an exercise: Get laughs without saying a word.

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