Entrepreneurship

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The head of the Permanante Federation says innovation is critical to improving U.S. health care.
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Jeffrey Ball, at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, says it’s time for the world’s approach to renewables to “grow up.”
Bill Frist
A conversation on health care innovation with former Senate majority leader and surgeon Bill Frist.
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Gayle Lemmon discusses how entrepreneurs conduct business in some of the world’s most difficult and dangerous environments.
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A talk with a Stanford dermatologist and entrepreneur who cofounded an internet alternative to the doctors’ office.
Foreign Affairs -
04.25.12
In Foreign Affairs, Jeffrey Ball of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance argues "it is time to push harder for renewable power, but to push in a smarter way."
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GSB Marketing Professor Jennifer Aaker says social media can help  for-profits, nonprofits,  and government organizations  address a deficit of trust in our current culture.
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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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YouTube tutor Salman Khan tells how his commitment to help a cousin with a difficult math lesson led not just to a successful, free, online tutoring service but to an organization whose educational mission attracts highly-productive workers without exorbitant pay packages. 
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After leaving an internet company he cofounded here, Eric Baker took the business concept to other countries.

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photo of patient and mri machine
The head of the Permanante Federation says innovation is critical to improving U.S. health care.
Bill Frist
A conversation on health care innovation with former Senate majority leader and surgeon Bill Frist.
photo of solar panel installer
Jeffrey Ball, at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, says it’s time for the world’s approach to renewables to “grow up.”
photo of Middle East entrepreneurs
Gayle Lemmon discusses how entrepreneurs conduct business in some of the world’s most difficult and dangerous environments.
Remote diagnostics image
A talk with a Stanford dermatologist and entrepreneur who cofounded an internet alternative to the doctors’ office.
Jennifer Aaker photo
GSB Marketing Professor Jennifer Aaker says social media can help  for-profits, nonprofits,  and government organizations  address a deficit of trust in our current culture.
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. 
Sal Khan photo
YouTube tutor Salman Khan tells how his commitment to help a cousin with a difficult math lesson led not just to a successful, free, online tutoring service but to an organization whose educational mission attracts highly-productive workers without exorbitant pay packages. 
Eric Baker photo
After leaving an internet company he cofounded here, Eric Baker took the business concept to other countries.
The African Leadership Academy, co-founded by Chris Bradford (MBA '06, Siebel Scholar '05) and Fred Swaniker (MBA '04), has been honored with the inaugural Siebel Scholars Impact Award which carries a $250,000 grant from the Siebel Scholars Foundation. The ALA identifies 100 of Africa's most promising young leaders each year and prepares them for higher education at preeminent universities, and...

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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.
Policy makers need to understand how early-stage companies in their own area work, rather than try to create another Silicon Valley, says Stanford management professor George Foster. He is coauthor of a new report published by the World Economic Forum.
Young companies that adopt structured systems to run their operations in their early years grow three times faster than competitors and have a lower rate of CEO turnover, according to an award-winning research paper.
The United States will see a slow move toward electric car adoption in the next 5-to-10 years while China will see only a small market for cars but big opportunities to manufacture and export batteries. A Stanford MBA student class study doubts either nation will move quickly to adopt clean coal technology.
Why do some geographic areas — such as California’s Silicon Valley — produce so many entrepreneurial companies? The answer may be workplace peers. Working with former entrepreneurs makes individuals more likely to start their own businesses, says Professor Jesper Sørensen of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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