It also provides a credible, tangible and authoritative tool to increase their profile as it becomes the basis for presentations, speaking engagements, guest posts and articles.
Students are asked about access to internships and study-abroad opportunities, the extent of their social life, how often they make a presentation, speak up in class or talk to a faculty member outside the classroom.
Then, at appropriate moments during your presentation, speak about those connections.
Their skirmishes about who gets to control Valerie's story and presentation speak to a larger battle about the soul of Hollywood and whether women get to have a seat at that male-dominated table.
The presentation spoke of "intelligence" that had been gathered regarding contact between board members and reporters.
Bezos, who is normally seen in jeans and a formal blazer, spent as much of the 90-minute presentation speaking about the success of Amazon Prime as he did on the new phone.
John Sterman, the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at MIT Sloan, gave the final presentation, speaking in broad terms about the need for the world's wealthy to reduce consumption so as to lessen greenhouse-gas emissions.
Speaking before a frequently cheering crowd of 3,500 Macintosh faithful at the opening of the twice-yearly Macworld exhibition, Mr. Jobs, Apple's 47-year-old chairman and co-founder, spent 94 minutes of his 129-minute presentation speaking about Apple software before introducing the two new portable computers.
"He saw our presentation, spoke with [5-Tiles founder] Michal Kubacki and got very excited about the potential.
More charitable commentary about the presentation spoke of a lack of key details (such as what the machine looked like, or the price) but with always-optimistic caution.
