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OCTOBER 2005

Smart Usage of Auctions Can Save Industrial Buyers Millions
Buyers for major corporations may shave time and substantial costs from purchasing goods and services by using procurement auctions wisely and in some cases by mixing auctions with negotiations. [Details]

Detecting Medicare Abuse
Through improved targeting of fraud-and-abuse law enforcement, Medicare could reduce hospital expenditures without harming patients’ health outcomes, according to research by Prof. Daniel Kessler and others. [Details]

Social Class Differences May Erect Barriers
Subtle differences among social classes lead to major misunderstandings in the classroom, the workplace, and in many nonprofit settings. Understanding these attitudes may ease tensions and promote equality. [Details]

Mounting Economic Effects of Women's Work
The work of women on the job and in the home has been a key to increasing productivity growth in the United States. From the Regional Review). [Details]

The Good and Bad of Underground Markets
For billions around the world, shadowy underground markets provide food, services, and income that makes daily life possible. Growing out of poverty requires changing the rules of the game to shift these markets above ground says professor John McMillan. [Details]

Capital One's Fairbank Describes Success
Richard Fairbank, MBA ’81, says leadership skills and an ability to understand market forces and roll with the punches are key to the success of any entrepreneurial pursuit. [Details]

Don't Wait for Disaster to Strike
The time to help is before a disaster strikes, focusing on planning, building partnerships, and using the same techniques that supply chains focus on to keep factories running, said speakers at a seminar on Effective Disruption Management. [Details]

It’s Not All About You
The minute you move from being a task-oriented professional to managing people, says Dean Robert Joss, your focus stops being about your individual talents and successes, and starts being all about coaching, motivating, removing roadblocks, and finding resources for your employees. Leadership is about celebrating their victories. [Details]

IBIS World Industry Snapshot Reports
The website provides a snapshot of industries in the US Economy. [Details]

World Bank Report on Asia Alternative Energy Program [Details]

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
October 30-November 4 [Details]

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Handspring and Palm Inc.
A Corporate Drama in Five Acts
The case follows Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and, later, Ed Colligan from the founding of Palm, Inc., through the founding of Handspring, to the point that Handspring and Palm began considering a merger. [Details]

The Economic Costs of Disasters
Jackson Library offers a collection of recent articles assessing the long term effects. [Details]

Slouching Toward Broadband
While Americans waited at their desks for dial-up internet connections, many other countries were making broadband penetration a national priority, and their citizens were fast becoming more wired than those in the United States. What were the forces involved in broadband in the United States and how did they influence its deployment? [Details]

Setting the CEO’s Pay
Joining the ongoing debate over CEO pay, researchers use data drawn from two very different industries to demonstrate the linkages between the social forces present in the boardroom and executive pay outcomes. Generous pay awards, bearing only a weak connection to corporate performance, are explained in the context of the social psychology of the boardroom. [Details]

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Stanford Business magazine [Details]

Executive Education Programs
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Stanford Social Innovation Review [Details]

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