May 2003

Preparing Students via the Web
Professor Paul Romer has launched Aplia, a company that provides Web-based teaching tools that allow students to more thoroughly prepare for class via the Internet. [Details]

Meeting in Seoul? Be There in Five
As global virtual teams become more of a reality, so do the corresponding logistic and cultural barriers. Managers are tackling these challenges out of necessity. [Details]

Bridging Valleys with Technology and Heart
Bridging rivers in Nepal becomes much more than an engineering challenge for David Sowerwine, MBA '72. [Details]

Up for the Challenge
Akiko Jackson, MBA '93, currently juggles two-year-old twins, a long-distance marriage, and the challenge of helping rebuild a foreign-owned Japanese bank. [Details]

New Courses on Financial Reporting
New Executive Education, MBA courses on corporate board oversight, financial reporting. [Details]

Don Quixote's Lessons for Leadership
Jim March makes a film about Don Quixote's passion and discipline to spur discussion of leadership values. [Details]

May issue cover

Prof. Paul Romer's company might revolutionize higher education instruction. [Details]
Photograph by
Peter Stember

		In Our Next Issue Human Rights in China The Class of ’93 has mounted a campaign to free classmate Jude Shao who was imprisoned in Shanghai on what he says are trumped up charges because he refused to pay a bribe. Strategies for Activists and Targeted Companies Activists seeking social reforms must carefully choose targets and companies who are targeted must carefully respond, says Business School Professor David Baron in an excerpt from the new Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Center for Social Innovation
With the involvement of many Business School and Stanford faculty, a new organization searches for solutions to some of today’s most pressing social problems. [Details]

Lessons for Business from Olympics Judging
Forcing decision makers to agree can encourage bias and vote trading, says a researcher who studied Olympic sport judging. [Details]