Management
His first doctoral student, Barnett Parker, calls him a “guru,” and the Pfeffer University professor doesn’t use the term lightly. Indeed, for Seenu Srinivasan, the Indian-born professor who has become a legend and a beloved mentor in the field of marketing science, the much-overused Sanskrit...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- "A Whole Foods store, in some respects, is like John Mackey's mind turned inside out," a New Yorker magazine writer says in a 2010 profile. Mackey, CEO of the upscale, environmentally conscious Whole Foods Market chain, gave MBA students a glimpse into that...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—When Anne Mulcahy was named CEO of Xerox Corp. in 2001, many people were surprised—but no one was more surprised than Mulcahy herself. "I took on this position feeling equal parts excitement and dread," she recalled. On the day that her appointment to CEO was...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Passion differentiates people who successfully develop new companies, says Steve Wozniak who cofounded Apple Computer in 1976 and went on to revolutionize the computer industry.
”You are not going to be too successful unless it’s in your heart and is your...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Michelle Clayman, MBA '79, founded a New York asset management firm that now invests $6 billion. Not bad for a girl whose grandmother said her education would be wasted, that it would make her "eyeballs spin around in her head," Clayman recalled.
Later, after...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Their numbers have grown in business schools and throughout the corporate world. But women still have a long way to go before they become a significant presence in top-level business jobs, according to Deborah Zoullas, MBA ’78.
The New York resident and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—I spoke informally at the WIM banquet about the paucity of tenure-line faculty who focus primarily on gender research, and about the shortage of gender-related material in the new core curriculum. Members of our GSB Organizational Behavior (OB) faculty (male as...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Wal-Mart had $375 billion in sales last year and $12.8 billion in earnings. It has 1.9 million employees in more than 7,200 stores around the world. These big numbers have made it a lightning rod for criticism, which sometimes can be an advantage.
Speaking to...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- James Wolfensohn is all about balance. The former World Bank president introduced himself to a student audience Jan. 11 by talking about how he is grateful at this point in his life to devote time and money to a "balance between business and nonbusiness...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Meg Whitman's first look at eBay's website did not inspire visions of a multinational company that sells $1,608 of merchandise per second. The site had an online auction section where people sold collectibles, such as Beanie Babies, but it also prominently...