MARCH 2005

CEO Pay Doesn't Always Match Ability
A high salary doesn't necessarily mean that a CEO is more competent than his or her peers, say researchers. And the pattern of job effectiveness not matching pay levels seems to affect more CEOs of large firms than small ones. [Details]

Lack of Health Services, Lots of Red Tape Hamper AIDS/HIV Battle
Understaffed and inadequate internal health-care systems and rampant red tape are major roadblocks to fighting the spread of AIDS/HIV in developing countries, speakers told a conference on international development. [Details]

Taking the Risk Out of Supply Chains
Doing business in today's turbulent world means that companies both downstream and upstream in the supply chain need a good solid plan B to ward off problems that can close a factory or fill a warehouse with useless parts. [Details]

Smart Startups Don't Wait to Set Up Accounting Systems
A new study finds young companies that acted quickly to institute formal accounting systems had higher growth rates than their peers in terms of revenues and head count. [Details]

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Universal's Ron Meyer Passed Up Titanic and Survived [Details]

Good Entrepreneurs Are Missionaries, Says John Doerr
Successful entrepreneurs are passionate about what they do, they're in it for the long haul, and they build noisy places where the best ideas stand a good chance of making it to the top, says John Doerr, the venture capitalist who spotted infant firms like Sun, Intel, and Google. [Details]

Market Builds to Organize the Minutiae of the Electronic Age
Photos, messages, electronic files, music—all those bits of information that make up today's communications—can be a time-consuming headache to organize and access. The holy grail of this microcontent is finding some way to organize it once and access it from any device. [Details]

Simply Reducing Waste Is Not Good Enough
Green design advocate Michael Braungart calls on manufacturers to eliminate environmentally harmful materials altogether. "Less bad is no good," he says. [Details]

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Legal Workshop for Entrepreneurs
April 7, 2005 [Details]

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The Fairchild Chronicles
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources has released a three-hour digital video documentary about Fairchild Semiconductor, the first company to mass-produce the computer chips that enabled personal computers and the Internet. [Details]

War of Ideas
Mainstream and liberal foundations outspend conservative foundations in the war of ideas, yet conservative foundations have been far more successful in influencing public policy and mass media. How are the grantmaking strategies of some foundations hampering their own cause? (From Stanford Social Innovation Review) [Details ]

A Primer on Writing Business Plans
The Business School's Center for Entrepreneurial Studies has compiled a list of resources for achieving this critical first step. [Details]

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