On 22nd Jan’19, Lincoln University students went on a tour of the Salesforce headquarter in San Francisco led by senior software engineer Partrick Manrahoe. Q&A WITH PATRICK MANRAHOE : Excluisve Interview By Gibu George Welcome to our university. Please introduce yourself and tell us about your current position at Salesforce. My name is Patrick Manrahoe. I work as a software engineer at Salesforce as a part of team called Industries. Basically, I work with financial ser

On the 14th of February, a loaded day, two Lincoln University students decided to attend a session at the LinkedIn headquarters in San Francisco for a LinkedIn Marketing Lab session. With a marketing major, Gibu knew exactly what he was heading for. With smart casuals and fancy Apple products, he was ready to grasp it all. On the other hand, I, a human resources person wasn’t too sure what I would gain from it. In theory I knew that it helped not only businesses but also indi

One of America’s most successful businessmen, Howard Schultz, has given us not just great Italian-style coffee, but also unconventional business initiatives that boost employee culture. From providing health insurance and free college tuition, even for part-time baristas, to controversial initiatives about race and refugees, Schultz challenges the status quo of businesses in today’s society. He had his epiphany when he first stepped into Starbucks and realized its potential a

We are concerned with new forces affecting world trade: trade tensions between China and the Western world; supply chain movement from China to elsewhere; and America’s turn to protectionism, among others. We understand that these trends will affect the globalization era we have become accustomed to since the 1990s, but how? After significantly increasing the cross-border flow of money, technology, ideas, and people for the last three decades, the pace of globalization has no

I was privileged to join one of technology’s most preeminent leaders, Tom Siebel, in an insightful conversation on AI. For more than four decades, Tom Siebel has been one of Silicon Valley’s most successful gurus and distinguished entrepreneurs. The former executive of Oracle went on to be founder and CEO of two distinguished brands, C3 and Siebel Systems. On November 1, 2018, at the SF Commonwealth Club event, “The Social Implications of AI”, Siebel discussed the societal an

"Trends in the digital economy always follow new innovations." A throwback memory to a live talk event with Cisco’s Alex Goryachev and Maciej Kranz about “Innovation in the Digital Economy” conducted by The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on March 20, 2018. I was so enthusiastic to participate in a live talk event, so I signed up for the Commonwealth Club speaking engagement organized by our Lincoln University library team. Plus, it is really fun to travel with friends t