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Creighton's Grant Gibbs, Doug McDermott and Avery Dingman

What March Madness Tells Us About Forecasting

Stanford's Amy Zegart argues in Foreign Policy that the prediction business is getting easier.
Mana RUTF package

The Tough Math Behind Humanitarian Aid

A new study finds that a different approach to food-relief efforts in the developing world could save more lives.
The Financial Times -
02.13.13

Cold, Hard Facts About Climate Change

Dean Garth Saloner and Stanford MBA students travel to Antarctica to investigate the business issues surrounding climate change.
grapes on the vine

A Fine Wine: Do Labels Make a Difference?

Research from Stanford's Michael Hannan examines how consumers perceive the value of organic and biodynamic Alsatian wines.

In Defense of 'Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction'

Research on derivatives concludes they can add to a company’s leverage and market value.
Slate.com -
11.29.12

Clean Coal Ambition

Jeff Ball, a Stanford scholar-in-residence, explores why U.S. entrepreneurs are looking to China for coal-burning technology.
European Central Bank President Draghi

Why Europe Needs a New Narrative

Can the eurozone fix itself in the absence of a catastrophe?
children rescued from an embroidery factory

Slavery in Supply Chains

An MBA student urges consumers, NGOs, and companies to end slavery in supply chains of everyday products.
Stanford GSB -
11.05.12

The Future of the Euro

Some of the world's best-known economists and bankers discuss where Europe goes from here.
Guys on a moped with birds overhead

How Growth Can Be Green

A Stanford GSB student looks at the value of renewable energy in the developing world.

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children rescued from an embroidery factory

Slavery in Supply Chains

An MBA student urges consumers, NGOs, and companies to end slavery in supply chains of everyday products.
Beth Cross

"You Cannot Delegate Vision"

The founder of boot and apparel maker Ariat International says entrepreneurs should visualize "massive success from day one."
Guys on a moped with birds overhead

How Growth Can Be Green

A Stanford GSB student looks at the value of renewable energy in the developing world.
China's flag

What's Next for China

Investors in China discuss "me-too technologies" and what's hot in the VC world.
Janet Yang

Where Hollywood Meets Beijing

One of the most powerful women in the U.S. film industry discusses her work in China.
Men yelling in protest.

Why Peace Can Pay

An economist shows how financial innovation can help reduce ethnic violence.
Kwabena Amporful

Bridging the Teaching Gap

Kwabena Amporful looks to improve education in his native Ghana, and beyond.

Entrepreneurs Learn to Scale Business

Tralance Addy Named SEED Executive Director
Tainan, Taiwan, sunset

Greening Taiwan’s Cities

A key player in creating Taiwan's semiconductor industry explains the role of technology in improving energy efficiency.
China Shale Gas Line

Changing the Balance of Power

Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry joins the head of the U.S-China Energy Forum to explain why shale gas “has the potential to change everything.”

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Why The Bank Dividends Are a Bad Idea

In a Reuters oped, Professor Anat Admati argues that bank dividend payouts to shareholders expose "the economy to unnecessary risks without valid justification."
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More Bank Equity Serves Us All Better

A letter by Anat R. Admati and Neil M. Barofsky published by the Financial Times, March 8, 2012
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The Role of "Repo" in the Financial Crisis

After analyzing repurchase agreements by money-market funds and security lenders, these researchers believe that banks off-balance-sheet collateralization of commercial paper is more likely to have prompted the run on short-term debt financing in the recent financial crisis.
Darrell Duffie

Stanford Finance Expert: Federal Interpretation of Volcker Rule Would Lead to Constraints on U.S. Economic Growth and Recovery

Finance professor Darrell Duffie of the Stanford Graduate School of Business proposes alternative capital requirements for banks to eliminate potential unintended consequences of financial reform.
Kenneth Singleton

Investor Flows Were Behind the 2008 Oil Price Wild Ride

The 2008 turmoil in world oil prices was not caused by an imbalance of supply and demand, argues Professor Kenneth Singleton of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Instead there was an "economically and statistically significant effect of investor flows on futures prices."

Global "Level-Playing-Field" Arguments are Invalid

Understand Young Companies in Your Own Backyard, Report Urges Global Leaders

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.

Force Banks to Put America's Needs First

Force Banks to Put America's Needs First

Text of Op-Ed Published in Financial Times

Healthy Banking System is the Goal, not Profitable Banks

Text of Letter Published in Financial Times

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