Digital Technology

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Abbott’s John Capek discusses health care device regulation, transparency, and the critical relationship between physicians and their patients.
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice discusses political power in Russia, social stability in China, the “essence of democracy,” and “the most surprising place in the world.”
Stanford Report -
05.24.12
At Stanford, Turkey's President Gül praises innovation's link to freedom.
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Stanford GSB lecturer and philanthropist John P. Morgridge will be the third alumni speaker at the school’s June 16 graduation ceremony. As head of Cisco Systems, he established a culture of innovation, empowerment, and giving back that reflects the school’s mission to inspire transformational business leaders.
The New England Journal of Medicine -
05.03.12
In the New England Journal of Medicine, the Stanford GSB's Chip Heath and the School of Medicine's Charles G. Prober make the case for online medical school instruction in addition to classroom interaction. Their goal: "education that wrings more value out of the unyielding asset of time."
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A talk with a Stanford dermatologist and entrepreneur who cofounded an internet alternative to the doctors’ office.
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Given the pervasiveness of social media, should the board of directors pay closer attention to the information exchanged on these sites?  Can this information be used to improve oversight and risk management?
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Stanford students and faculty partner with Kenyan organizations to test ways to reduce urban poverty through novel applications of mobile phone technology.
At the GSB’s 2012 Conference on Entrepreneurship, executives from three startups explore the rise of big data, the size of the opportunity, and the economic value of personal data.
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Kleiner Perkins’ Chi-Hua Chien discusses Facebook, the future of mobile, and the one-and-only reason to start a new company. 

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photo of MRI
Abbott’s John Capek discusses health care device regulation, transparency, and the critical relationship between physicians and their patients.
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice discusses political power in Russia, social stability in China, the “essence of democracy,” and “the most surprising place in the world.”
John Morgridge photo
Stanford GSB lecturer and philanthropist John P. Morgridge will be the third alumni speaker at the school’s June 16 graduation ceremony. As head of Cisco Systems, he established a culture of innovation, empowerment, and giving back that reflects the school’s mission to inspire transformational business leaders.
Remote diagnostics image
A talk with a Stanford dermatologist and entrepreneur who cofounded an internet alternative to the doctors’ office.
Joshua Cohen photo
Stanford students and faculty partner with Kenyan organizations to test ways to reduce urban poverty through novel applications of mobile phone technology.
At the GSB’s 2012 Conference on Entrepreneurship, executives from three startups explore the rise of big data, the size of the opportunity, and the economic value of personal data.
Chi-Hua Chien photo
Kleiner Perkins’ Chi-Hua Chien discusses Facebook, the future of mobile, and the one-and-only reason to start a new company. 
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Online technology challenges citizens to build better societies, not just revolt against bad ones, Google Ideas leader Jared Cohen says.
Egon Durban
The U.S. economy is still sluggish, but venture capitalists who spoke at Stanford said the outlook for investing is bullish.
Guy Kawasaki
Ignore self-appointed experts bearing bad news, particularly those who say it can't be done or it won't work. This was one of many lessons learned from late Apple founder Steve Jobs, says venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki who addressed a Stanford Graduate School of Business audience.

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David Larcker photo
Given the pervasiveness of social media, should the board of directors pay closer attention to the information exchanged on these sites?  Can this information be used to improve oversight and risk management?
Harikesh S. Nair
To increase revenue, social networking sites need to give their most active users reason to post more information and make more friends, according to Harikesh Nair of the Graduate School of Business and his co-researchers.
Observers of Silicon Valley have always assumed that the most successful companies get their competitive edge by paying their star employees more than the competition to fuel innovation. Now research, co-authored by Professor Kathryn Shaw, and using the academic field of insider econometrics, has been able to prove that this assumption is indeed true.
In the 1990s IBM appeared headed for extinction. Today it is again a leading technology competitor. In an award-winning paper, Charles O'Reilly of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his coauthors tracked how, by being ambidextrous, Big Blue avoided going the way of the dodo bird.
Rock groups can lose as much as 40% of their potential sales because consumers don’t know enough about them, says the Stanford Business School’s Alan Sorensen. There are lots of crowded markets out there where lack of information skews sales.
Open source software has become a major and fast-growing presence in the computer industry in recent years. Professor Tunay Tunca of Stanford Graduate School of Business and his co-authors argue that the key factor in whether to create open source software is the strength of the market for support, integration, and related services for such programs.

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