Entrepreneurship
Spring 2012
With their long history and passion for promoting services and education in the developing world through various organizations, Robert, MBA ’74, and Elizabeth Jeffe were motivated to bring that focus to bear at the business school. Previously, one of their key personal philanthropic...
Spring 2012
This past December, Stanford University concluded an unprecedented five-year campaign that positioned the school to address a range of challenges in today’s global economy. The success of The Stanford Challenge, which was made possible with the extensive support of GSB alumni and...
More than a billion people live on less than $1.25 a day,” says Robert King, MBA ’60. “That’s just not right.” With that in mind, he and wife Dottie have committed $150 million to create the Stanford Institute on Innovation in Developing Economies, housed at the Graduate School of Business....
Over the years, as governments and investors have spent big money on renewable power, they have slashed the cost of many renewable technologies. But they have failed to fundamentally change the global energy mix.
Now, with technologies such as wind and solar power having matured, it's time for the...
The current entrepreneurial enthusiasm for innovation in health care is likely to continue regardless of the political fate of the Affordable Care Act, one of the nation's top doctors told a Stanford audience recently.
Jack Cochran, the executive director of the Permanente Federation, the umbrella...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — As a medical resident three decades ago, Bill Frist came to the Stanford Medical Center to work with famed heart-transplant surgeon Norman Shumway because Frist’s superiors at Massachusetts General felt transplanting hearts was too expensive. Today,...
The 80s and 90s ushered in the downfall of communism and the Berlin Wall. Now the world watches Arab Spring uprisings from citizens demanding democracy across the Middle East. Gayle Lemmon, Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — For as long as people have been talking about the World Wide Web, they've been talking about telemedicine, or using internet technologies to connect doctors with patients who are in remote areas or confined to their homes. But despite all the talk, little has...
Spring 2008
Roy Gilbert started understanding how important alumni gifts are to the School even before he received his MBA degree in 2002. As co-chairman of his class gift committee, Gilbert got a clear picture of how much the GSB depends on its graduates whose donations create opportunities for...