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Guitar Innovator

Exec Ed Learning Applied to Pills for Pets

Fellowships Support India's Future Leaders

Course Penetrates the Bamboo Ceiling

Stories from Super School Volunteers

Education Divide Challenges Nation

New Course Sampler Includes Tulip Crash

Books from Nightstands

Solar-Powered Lamp Finds Place in History

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features

How to Tell Your Story in 40 mins
Business school communication lecturer JD Schramm helps alumni develop the art and science of tight story-telling for social impact.

Where Will New U.S. Jobs Come From? For the first time, American jobs don't automatically follow economic growth.

Joe Chen Beat Facebook to Stock Market
GSB classmates helped launch this engineer's entrepreneurial career.

China 2.0 Conference Draws Overflow Crowd
Jack Ma of Alibaba was a keynote speaker for the China 2.0 conference, organized by the business school's newest global entrepreneurial program.

Serial Innovator Extraordinaire
At 92, the holder of 44 patents still is CEO and chief lobbyist for his latest invention, a boat being used to battle drug smugglers in the Caribbean.

faculty research

Investor Flows Were Behind the 2008 Oil Price Wild Ride
The 2008 turmoil in world oil prices was not caused by an imbalance of supply and demand, argues Professor Kenneth Singleton.

When They Are Wrong, Analysts May Dig in Their Heels
When they are wrong about quarterly earnings forecasts, analysts may stubbornly stick to their erroneous views, a tendency that might contribute to market bubbles and busts, according to research coauthored by John Beshears.

Too Much Information Clouds Negotiators'Judgments
Recent research warns that knowing our negotiation partners too well or having the wrong kind of information about them can actually produce less successful negotiating results than having no information.

faculty news

From the Global Stage to the MBA Classroom
If you want to be a business leader, you've got to understand politics and political risk.

Finance Scholar William F. Sharpe Honored for Excellence in Financial Writing
Nobel Laureate and emeritus faculty member William F. Sharpe has been honored for the fifth time with the Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence.

Charles T. Horngren, Management Accounting Pioneer: 1926-2011
Charles Horngren, credited with pioneering modern-day management accounting, was not only a well-loved member of the Stanford community, he was also regarded with the same admiration by his professional peers beyond the university.

Aaker Honored for Alumni Work
Professor Jennifer Aaker is the 2011 recipient of the Jaedicke Silver Apple Award, in recognition of her participation in alumni programs

Rice Publishes Policy Memoir
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice provides a behind- the-scenes view of international policy making in her latest book, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington.

Kenneth Singleton Named Editor of Journal of Finance
Kenneth J. Singleton, the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, has been named editor of the prestigious Journal of Finance.

Scholars Confer on Finance Research
Nearly 100 academics from the United States and abroad took part in discussions of academic research in the areas of corporate finance, asset pricing, and behavioral finance.

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