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math teacher Mia Shaw
A startup helps school-based instructors of math and English team up with digital teachers.
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The man who brought Perrier to America on how to keep the fizz in your business.
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Five MBA students selected for academic achievement and demonstrated leadership.
Airline customers waiting at the airport
Hayagreeva Rao explains why innovation is about more than just new technology.
Call center employee
A new study finds good middle managers add to workplace productivity.
Brenden Millstein
How Brenden Millstein's Carbon Lighthouse helps businesses conserve more energy.
Students set up their donated laptop computers on the first day of school at Joplin High School in Joplin
How to make digital learning in public schools a reality.
Jessica Herrin
The founder of Stella & Dot discusses leadership, emotional intelligence, and an "angel in a cowboy hat."
James Gutierrez
James Gutierrez, MBA '05, discusses how he built Progreso Financiero, where he gets his best ideas, and the best advice he's ever received. 
Guy accessing information
New research by Ilan Guttman explores how information disclosure can affect financial panics.

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YouTube tutor Salman Khan tells how his commitment to help a cousin with a difficult math lesson led not just to a successful, free, online tutoring service but to an organization whose educational mission attracts highly-productive workers without exorbitant pay packages. 
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Media Entrepreneurs Discuss Speed, Subscription Models, and the Wall Between Advertising and Editorial
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Stick to your core beliefs when confronted with unanticipated moments of crisis, and build a team that can help you effectively confront difficult challenges, advised former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe. 
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Steven A. Denning, MBA '78, who has been a member of the board since 2004, served as co-chair of The Stanford Challenge, the recently concluded campaign that raised $6.2 billion.
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A research paper coauthored by finance faculty member Anat Admati has been recognized by the Financial Times and International Centre for Financial Regulation  (ICFR) in their jointly-sponsored third annual essay contest on financial regulation.  
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After leaving an internet company he cofounded here, Eric Baker took the business concept to other countries.
Darrell Duffie
Europe’s banks also need to shore up their capital, not just borrow liquidity, say three experts on international finance.
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In a new book, economics Professor Robert Flanagan explains why symphony orchestras need multiple strategies to keep their finances from ballooning out of control. 
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Tokyo Electric’s manager of nuclear power cites the value of cross-border sharing of crisis management knowledge. 
Justin Finnegan, MBA '09
Mountain Hazelnuts of Bhutan has set its sights on a triple bottom line: financial gain for investors, alleviating poverty among farm families, and restoration of an eroded, hilly landscape.

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Voters' decisions to support incumbents are influenced by irrelevant events such as football scores that have nothing to do with the candidates' competence or effectiveness, according to new research by Stanford Graduate School of Business scholars. It's something politicians have already figured out.
Consumer and environmental groups, angry over the spreading oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, are calling for a boycott of BP, the oil giant that owns the well gushing oil onto beaches and marshes. According to research by Phillip Leslie and Larry Chavis, boycotts do in fact work and they're something businesses should be concerned about.
The United States will see a slow move toward electric car adoption in the next 5-to-10 years while China will see only a small market for cars but big opportunities to manufacture and export batteries. A Stanford MBA student class study doubts either nation will move quickly to adopt clean coal technology.

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