Leadership
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- Zoe Cruz, once one of the most powerful and highly paid women on Wall Street before her sudden ouster from investment bank Morgan Stanley in 2007, has a whole new agenda these days.
Following two years on hiatus from the business world, Cruz has resumed her...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Niklas Zennström, the man who "shrank the world" by creating free internet voice communications firm Skype in Luxembourg in 2003, is now at the helm of his own venture capital firm that's searching for the next billion-dollar technology blockbuster.
His...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Tony Hsieh, CEO of fast-growing online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos.com, takes happiness seriously. There's surprise free overnight shipping upgrades for VIP customers, and a corporate face so friendly that lonely people are known to telephone Zappos'...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — “Companies still thinking about the environment as a social responsibility rather than a business imperative are living in the dark ages,” said Carter Roberts, President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Roberts delivered the annual von Gugelberg...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - United and Continental Airlines merged last year to form the world's largest carrier, an aviation colossus with $30 billion in revenue that ferries 144 million passengers to 371 cities in 59 countries annually, oversees a fleet of 1,200 aircraft, and employs...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—If you want to run a business, forget about what’s in your wallet. The chief executive of Capital One Financial Corp. wants to know what’s in your heart.
Successful CEOs have passion for what they’re doing and the courage to be bold, Richard Fairbank told a...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Assuming the top spot at NYSE Euronext in late 2007, Duncan L. Niederauer knew that he and his top executives would need a big outreach effort to employees to convey his vision for the company. "We communicated, communicated, and then we communicated some more...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —The Walt Disney Co. is known worldwide for its movie hits including The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast. But Robert Iger, the company's president and chief executive officer, rather wishes you'd forget Mars Needs Moms and Cop Rock....
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — When asked what makes a great entrepreneur, venture capitalist John Doerr points to ambition and a thirst for knowledge.
"The best entrepreneurs are the ones who really go the distance with their companies, who are always learning," said Doerr, a partner in...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Ford Motor Company President and CEO Alan Mulally recently gave Stanford Graduate School of Business students an offer they couldn't refuse - putting themselves into the driver's seat of the second-largest car company in the United States.
Before his...