Leadership
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Those who work in the most complex manufacturing environments have the most to gain from the use of problem-solving teams, according to a recently published study. As the United States concentrates its manufacturing base, workers are more likely to be...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—How can a business compete with a free product? It’s not easy, and it’s more than just a theoretical question. U.S. newspapers are finding it difficult to compete with free news and the commentary of bloggers and other internet sources. And in the software...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—It may not be as poetic as Hamlet's famous line, but "to build or to buy" is a question that becomes more crucial for manufacturing executives every day. Should your company keep control of its supply chain and manufacturing facilities when it needs to expand—...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—From email to groupware and the wireless Web, advances in information technology make it easier to disseminate information within an enterprise and make it possible for far-flung employees to work together efficiently. Organizations now can form teams with...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Venture capitalists and other investors routinely gamble on which start-up companies warrant their investment. Complex models and detailed algorithms can be used to evaluate an organization's financial position, market potential, and level of quantifiable risk...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Brenda C. Barnes never set out to be the poster child for women chucking business careers to have children when she stepped away from a high-powered job heading up North America for PepsiCo in 1997. But she broke the stereotype when she returned to the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Capital Research and Management Co. Chairman Emeritus R. Michael Shanahan, who helped his firm blossom into one of the three largest U.S. mutual fund companies and nurtured such startups as Advanced Micro Devices and Sequoia Capital, was presented with the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Finance services industry leader and public servant Herb Allison will be the alumni speaker at the June 11, 2011 graduation ceremony of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In recent years Allison's career has been devoted to solving some of the most...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Some of this spring’s Business School graduates are embarking on a nontraditional job search. A four-member team with a dream class project drew up plans to launch a no-frills airline in Colombia. And just to make it really interesting, they intend to promote...
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - When she started her research into the psychology of aging as a young graduate student, Laura Carstensen assumed that older people were socially isolated, depressed, and lonely.
Much to the contrary, Carstensen discovered there's a silver lining to growing old - the elderly...