Leadership
"Any entrepreneur who actually thinks he could build a $30 billion company when he starts out needs to be institutionalized," joked Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, whose dreams for his young company did come true.
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—The business plan was hatched by a brainy computer...
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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — The Stanford Graduate School of Business formally broke ground on its new business school campus September 10. Designed to fulfill the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — “Up to now, you have been evaluated almost exclusively on what you know and on your potential,” said Robert L. Joss, dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, addressing the graduates of the School’s 83rd Commencement. “From now on, it will be on...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Are we running out of water? No. But we are depleting some important water sources necessary for growing food and sustaining fisheries.
That is the message Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, gave to Stanford Graduate School of Business students...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —The meeting started with smiles and handshakes around a conference table, as the newly-installed CEO and president of a troubled manufacturing firm met for the first time with the company’s four existing vice presidents.
Then, the fireworks began.
During the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Calling education "the most important problem that we have to solve in this country," an official of the U.S. Department of Education warned that other nations are doing a better job than the United States of educating their young people.
Too often American...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Stanford Graduate School of Business students who came to the Schwab Center on Jan.19 to learn about the perils facing today?s economy got a sobering history lesson.
At the end of World War II, the United States had accumulated substantial debt. But our...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- Auto firms, household appliance makers, and others are busy developing products designed to save energy and reduce global warming. But the most effective strategy to save the planet from rampant consumption might simply be soundly scolding people who insist...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Since a devastating earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11, the leadership abilities of many Japanese business executives are being tested. Among them are graduates of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. About 650 GSB alums...
STANFORD—Hours after Goldman Sachs executives endured a grilling by angry U.S. Senators on Capitol Hill April 27, two senior Stanford faculty members explained to a standing-room-only crowd the intricacies of the synthetic CDO market and measured the strengths and weaknesses of the Securities and...