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Dutch Adopt Enthoven’s Plan of Managed Competition in Health Care
The Netherlands has become the first nation to inaugurate a system of universal health insurance based extensively on a plan first proposed in 1978 by Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Alain Enthoven, who coined the term “managed competition.” (November 2006) [Details]

Conference Asks: What Drives Innovation?
The impact of the internet on industry and society is still unfolding, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the Roads to Innovation Conference, and it offers huge opportunities. (November 2006) [Details]
Video File, 42:42 minutes

Stanford Business School’s Offspring in Peru Spreads Worldwide
More than 40 years after he served as its founding dean, Alan B. Coleman, PhD ’60, has been honored by ESAN, the graduate management program he helped the Business School create in Lima, Peru. (November 2006) [Details]

View from the Top: SanDisk’s Harari: Expensive Mistakes Become Pearls of Wisdom
Focusing on one thing and doing it well was an important lesson for Eli Harari, a founder of SanDisk, and the man who helped to usher in flash memory technology. (October 2006) [Details]
Video File, 53:03 minutes

View from the Top: Failure Is Important, Says Indian Tech Leader
Failure is an essential part of the innovative process, says Azim Premji, chairman of the Indian outsourcing giant Wipro Technologies: “It is impossible to generate a few good ideas without a lot of bad ideas. Failure should be forgiven and forgotten quickly.” (October 2006) [Details]
Video File, 47:22 minutes

Why Send 30 MBA Students Halfway Around the World at Christmas?
A study trip to Israel included meetings with leaders of business, government, and Nobel Laureate Shimon Peres. It also included some moments of clear insight for the 30 MBA students. This piece was written by y Myra H. Strober, Professor of Economics at the Business School, and Professor of Education in the School of Education. (October 2006) [Details]

2006 Alumni Weekend: Run as Fast as You Can: The Red Queen of Competition Improves Organizational Performance
Organizations that don’t keep changing eventually become punished for being really good at what used to be rewarded, according to Professor William Barnett. Like the Red Queen of Alice in Wonderland, businesses have to move fast to keep even with the competition. (October 2006) [Details]

Alumni Weekend Honors for Volunteers, Faculty
Four alumni—Larry O’Rourke, MBA ’61; Cherrie Nanninga, MBA ’76; Martin Urrutia, MBA ’86; and Ellen Wood, MBA ’86—and faculty member Garth Saloner were honored during Alumni Weekend for their support of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association.  (October 2006) [Details]

Sloans Honor Hyler, Wong
The annual distinguished Alumni Service Awards from the Sloan Management Program were presented to Sheryl Root Hyler, MS ’93, and Stephen Wong, MS ’99, for their ongoing service and support.  (October 2006) [Details]

Women in Management: Carly Fiorina Didn’t Want To Be Just a Female Boss
Carly Fiorina shared highlights of her career, including stories of human nature—and hairstyles—in the boardroom, during a speech sponsored by the Women in Management club. (October 2006) [Details]
Video File, 56:31 minutes

New Research Center Named for Srinivasan
India’s Great Lakes Institute of Management has created the Kotler-Srinivasan Centre for Research in Marketing, honoring the Business School’s Professor V. Seenu Srinivasan and Philip Kotler of the Kellogg School. (October 2006) [Details]

2006 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Yunus Describes His Work
2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, an economist who founded Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, was a participant in the Global Poverty Conference sponsored by the Business School’s Center for Global Business and the Economy. At the 2004 conference Yunus described the work of Grameen Bank, a pioneer in micro lending that makes money available to those living in extreme poverty, especially women, so that they can launch their own businesses. [Details]

View from the Top: Ken Mehlman Changed the Way Republicans Target Voters
The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman took a page from major credit card companies and other marketers in changing the way his party targeted voters in the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. (October 2006) [Details]
Video File, 25:45 minutes

The Stanford Challenge Program Addresses Global Problems, Leadership, Academic Excellence
Stanford University has launched an ambitious university-wide program to seek solutions to the century's most pressing global challenges, enhance the education of future leaders and strengthen its academic excellence. To enable that effort, the university is launching "The Stanford Challenge," a five-year, $4.3 billion fundraising campaign. (October 2006) [Details]

Nonprofit Interns Celebrate SMIF’s 25th Anniversary
The Stanford Management Internship Fund has been supporting MBAs in summer jobs in the nonprofit sector for 25 years. Brian Kelley, MBA ’82, one of the group’s founders, recalls it supported seven interns the first year. There were 27 in the summer of 2006. (October 2006) [Details]

Summer Program Offers Grad Students a Mini-MBA
The Business School’s new Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship draws on interdisciplinary strengths to give graduate students the basics of management education plus lessons in entrepreneurship and business growth. (October 2006) [Details]

View from the Top: Do What You Love, Not What Pays the Most, Says Google's Kordestani
Pursue what inspires you; don’t follow the money, Omid Kordestani told a Business School audience. He took his own advice when he became the 12th employee of a startup firm called Google to pursue his passion for growing small businesses. (September 2006) [Details]
Video File, 48:55 minutes

Baby Boomers Find Second Careers Working for Social Change
Increasingly older workers are choosing to spend their later working years doing things that matter to them, providing a “wellspring of innovation” by either working for or volunteering with nonprofits, government programs, or foundations. That’s good since estimates are nonprofits will need 640,000 new executives over the next decade. (September 2006) [Details]

Stanford Social Innovation Review Receives $1 Million Gift
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Draper has made a gift of $1 million to the Stanford Graduate School of Business to support the School’s Stanford Social Innovation Review.  (September 2006) [Details]

Six New Faculty Arrive
Six newcomers to the Business School faculty this year include three in organizational behavior, and one each in accounting, leadership, and international business. (August 2006) [Details]

Nike Founder Phil Knight to Give $105 Million to Stanford Business School
NIKE Inc. founder and chairman Philip H. Knight, MBA ’62, will give $105 million to Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. It is believed to be the largest gift ever given to a business school. (August 2006) [Details]

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