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FEBRUARY 2005

Stanford's Managed Competition Health Plan Working Well
Stanford University is saving nearly $44 million per year on the cost of employee health benefits by using a managed competition system, says health care expert Alain Enthoven. [Details]

Discredited “Mozart Effect” Remains Music to American Ears
There is no scientific proof that listening to classical music enhances intelligence. Professor Chip Heath has tracked this legend and finds it has grown because problems attract solutions and Americans are obsessed with their children’s education. [Details]

Generalists Succeed as Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are most likely to be generalists, people who have had a variety of different experience in their work careers and who took the most varied classes while earning their MBA degrees, according to research by Edward Lazear. [Details]

How BP Remade Itself
In the past decade many firms have learned how to organize themselves to deliver exceptional performance. A new book by Professor John Roberts includes a study of how energy giant BP made dramatic changes. (From Stanford Business magazine) [Details]

Citigroup's Stanley Fischer [Details]

Revamping the FDA and Clinical Trials
Bad news about blockbuster drugs has rocked the FDA and eroded public trust in government and the pharmaceutical industry. "We have no reliable system in the U.S. for detecting adverse drug reactions," says former FDA secretary Donald Kennedy. [Details]

Factory Simulation Teaches Valuable Lesson
A sophisticated online program simulating factory operations, developed at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is teaching students at over 40 colleges and universities some important lessons about production processes. [Details]

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Websites of Interest

Tax History Project includes tax returns of FDR, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush. [Details]

Wellspring traces the 1,200 Silicon Valley companies founded in the past several decades by members of the Stanford University community. [Details]

Breakfast Briefings
A monthly speakers series [Details]

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Google and Library Digitalization
As part of its effort to make offline information searchable online, Google is working with five libraries to digitally scan books from their collections. What are the issues for digital libraries in general? [Details]

Top Down: Why Hierarchies Are Here to Stay and How to Manage Them More Effectively
Pundits have been forecasting the demise of the hierarchical corporation for decades. Professor Harold J. Leavitt argues that hierarchy remains the foundational shape of every large human organization and leaders can reshape them to enable employees to thrive. [Details]

The Real Salary Scandal
It Isn't that CEOs of nonprofits are paid too much, it's that most nonprofit employees are paid too little (From the Stanford Social Innovation Review) [Details ]

EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS

Credit Risk: Pricing and Risk Management
April 17-22 [Details]

OTHER GSB RESOURCES

Stanford Business magazine [Details]

Executive Education Programs [Details]

Stanford Social Innovation Review [Details]