Stanford Business

FEBRUARY 2007

FEATURES

Work-Life Integration
A collision between the aspirations of Stanford MBAs to high-powered jobs and to a rich family life frames a debate for women MBAs and their managers. Do reasonable alternatives exist? [Details]

When Women at the GSB Were Few
Essays looking back at the School by its first female professor and a student from the seventies. [Details]

Why Some Ideas Stick: It's Simple
Getting to the core of an idea is one of the best ways to make it stick, say GSB Professor Chip Heath and his brother Dan, a corporate education consultant, in their new book, Made to Stick. [Details]

Boomers Transplant to Nonprofits
An overview and two profiles of baby boomers—John Tammen, MBA ’79, and Barry Thomas, MBA ’68, who “retired” from for-profit work to managing nonprofits. [Details]

Father-Daughter Team Tilts with Quixote
A quixotic outlook learned from a GSB course helps this dad deal with the reality of parenting a child with Down syndrome. [Details]

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To integrate family life and work, Catherine King, MBA ’82, shares a senior vice presidency with Ken Weiss at Oppeheimer. [Details]


Professor Chip Heath and his brother Dan give advice on how to make your ideas stick. [Details]

SPREADSHEET: WHAT'S UP

The Rhythm of Leadership
MBA students hone their leadership skills by conducting a string quartet.

Guessing Game
How many GSB alumni have dyed their hair? How many have been laid off or fired at least once?

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Moments of Joy
Esther Koch, MBA ’79, finds joy in caring for her elderly mother. [Details]

Rising to the Stanford Challenge
Stanford’s campaign calls for cross-campus collaboration, a new home for the GSB, and a reinvention of management education. [Details]

NEXT ISSUE

Corporate Social Responsibility
How do faculty, alumni, and students define social responsibility in for-profit companies?

Tackling World Poverty with Venture Philanthropy
Jacqueline Novogratz’s five-year-old Acumen Fund begins with the needs of the utter poor and designs businesses such as a locally owned malaria net factory in Tanzania that just paid off a $320 million loan.



COLUMNS

Kathleen O'Toole, Editor
Robert Joss, Dean

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