February 2005

Organizing for Performance
Modern firms improve the interplay between strategy and organization. BP offers a useful example. [Details]

Poet at Work
Jell-O Jigglers may seem worlds apart from sculpture, paintings, and poetry, but Dana Gioia, MBA ’77, brings a business background and love of poetry to the National Endowment for the Arts. [Details]

Career Development
There are ways to make feedback a less touchy workplace subject, according to Myra Strober and Jay Jackman.  [Details]

Global Sourcing
A collection of views from School speakers on global labor force issues. [Details]

Risky Disclosures
Attacks by Godzilla and King Kong might not be in the fine print of SEC filings and prospectuses, but just about every other possible threat is. [Details]

February cover
Illustration by
Dan Page

On the road with poet-businessman Dana Gioia [Details]
Illustration by
Monica Hellström

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		Growing Hope from Darkness Join the GSB Community in Donating to the Red Cross Tsunami Relief Fund Stanford Business School students are raising money for the tsunami relief effort in honor of James Hsu, an MBA student who was lost in the Dec. 26 earthquake tsunami in Thailand. [Details]

Examining Worker Productivity
Economics professor Kathryn Shaw burrows into steel mills and high-tech companies to see how human resource practices can improve productivity. [Details]

Toting Up Stock Options
As prominent shareholders and high-tech managers battle over how to account for employee stock options, researchers examine the results of past accounting. [Details]